The curator and artist Fujiko Nakaya, director and founder of Japan’s Video Gallery SCAN, created the program using winning videos from the 14th Video Scan 90 Festival. The organization is Japan’s premier facility in producing, spreading and fostering video art production, having formed an entire generation of artists, virtually all of whom were launched via the contest held by the gallery, which also encourages exchange and sponsors trips by Japanese artists to other areas of the world, and trips by foreign artists to Japan.
artists
Works
- PostAkihiro Lhiguchi, 1989
- GaiaHajime Yamagishi, 1989
- Mechanic & AngelHiroshi Araki, 1990
- RangitotoKo Nakajima, 1989
- Yoji, What's Wrong With You?Mako Idemitsu, 1987
- Between Form and IllusionMasaki Fujihata, 1989
- Point of ViewNaoko Tosa, 1989
- Open Your EyesTsuyoshi Suzuki, 1990
- OriginYoichiro Kawaguchi, 1985
- TempterYoichiro Kawaguchi, 1989
Curator's text Fujiko Nakaya, 1990
Gallery Scan
Ever since its foundation in 1980, SCAN video gallery has been known for its pioneering efforts in the new field of videoart, revealing and promoting a new generation of artists, distributing videoart works to larger audiences in Japan and shaping the taste and understanding of this new form of art. SCAN has proposed and produced not only national and international exhibits but videoart catalogues as well which have proved a solid contribution to the development of this field in Japan.
Most of the young professional now working in the Japanese videoart field began their careers after the SCAN constest.
Since 1987, SCAN has been promoting the Video and TV International Festival that held in Tokyo every two years. Works showing criativity and good potencial in terms of video and TV manifestations are selected from a wide survey carried out in Japan and abroad. Several sponsor, mainly from the electronic filed, have helped to make this Festival feasible.
SCAN has started series of activities in cooperation with other organizations. Last years, a live media/videoart show broadcasted via satellite, called the Media Art Museum, was produced by NHK with the technical cooperation of SCAN, who acted as a critic, media and art consultant. By the beggining of next year, SCAN will produce a videoart show for the new commercial channel JSB (Japan Satellite Broadcast). SCAN is continously acting as a consultant to several Japanese museums in the field of videoart presentations.
Videoart works produced in Japan and abroad are sold and rented by SCAN mostly to museums, universities and other educational institutions. Among the Japanese videoartists whose works are sold by SCAN are Masahi Fujihata, Teini Furuhashi (Dumb type theatre), Mako Idemitsu, Miroya Sakurai, Nakurai Sakurai, and Radical TV. SCAN is the representative of Electronic Arts Intermix in Japan and is also the distributor for ART/NY, the video documentary magazine on contemporary art, produced by innertube Inc.
8th Fotoptica Internacional Video Festival. 09 a 15 de Novembro de 1990. p. 67.