[syndicate] collaboration: Performing Arts and Google Earth, GPS, Mapping System/urban typhoon

[Yukihiko YOSHIDA]

Dear list,

Hello from TOKYO.
I will hold workshop on Google Earth, Mapping System and Performing Arts.

Warmest Regards,
Yukihiko YOSHIDA 

Collaboration of Performance artist and Mapping system / Media Art Team
Un-simultaneous / Tokyo

Hidenori Watanabe (photon.co)
Yukihiko Yoshida (dance critic,digital community) Taro Nishimoto
(artist,director) Kazuho Kimura (editor, "Save the Shimokitazawa"

We are taking a lot of pictures of "Image of the city" and archiving them in
the web-space now. Moreover, We can plot them on the map of Google
Earth/Maps automatically or manually, by using "Mapping System".

Now, We can experience both of Bird's eye view/overall aspect and Looking
up/personal aspect with a familiar tool. A new interpretation to the city
will come to the consideration field when individual's aspect are overlapped
in the bird's-eye view.

But, it is necessary to set the theme "Of what do you take a picture?" to
derive a persuasive result of workshop.

The collaboration with the performance artists is planned in this workshop.
It is a collaboration of Artists who do the expression activity by a
personal body and "Mapping system", the tool of bird's-eye view.

Let's think about "Overlapping of city space and web space","New
interpretation method of city space", through walking in the town, taking a
picture, and mapping.

#Please prepare the camera phone with the GPS function or Digital camera and
GPS device if possible when you participate.

"Mapping system" is developed by Photon, Inc. Please refer to "Sakura
Mapping Project" project. (Green Photon + Executive committee of Earth Day
Tokyo). 
http://mapping.jp

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Urban Typhoon Workshop in Shimokitazawa
Tokyo, June 26-29,2006
http://www.urbantyphoon.com
info at urbantyphoon.com
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We invite creative spirits from Japan and abroad to brainstorm on the
present and future of Shimokitazawa, at a time when the government is
planning a 26 meter-wide road cutting through its culturally vibrant
streets.

The Urban Typhoon workshop is a global experiment in participatory design,
and includes architecture & design studios, art installations, political
cafe, oral history, graphic communication, video, etc.

The objective is to produce alternatives to the government's plan as well as
a multimedia testimony to the unique spirit of Shimokitazawa.
The workshop itself is a joyous and participatory takeover of the city.

* Registration deadline: June 15, 2006 / Fee: \10,000 yen (payable upon
arrival at workshop), discounted fee: \5,000 (Residents of Shimokitazawa,
Japanese participants who provide home stay for foreign participants, as
well as participants helping with the organization of the workshop, and
students registering in group (of at least three
people) can pay a discounted registration fee.)

* Urban Typhoon welcomes registration from students, architects, urbanists,
artists, designers, media & communication specialists, social scientists,
activists, creative people, dreamers, and idealists of all kinds. The number
of registrants is limited. Each unit has a small number of participants.

* There are a limited number of homestays available to foreign students,
free of charge.

* All workshops will be conducted in English and Japanese.


Workshop units:

* a|Um Studio: Carla Leitao (Columbia) / New York

* Koba. Arch. Lab.: Masami Kobayashi (Meiji) / Tokyo

* CAt: Kazuhiro Kojima & Kazuko Akamatsu / Tokyo

* Save the Shimokitazawa: Kazuho Kimura & Kenzo Kaneko / Tokyo

* Art Harbour: Lehan Ramsay (Future University) & friends / Tokyo

* Yehuda Safran (Columbia) / Paris, New York

* Studio SUMO: Yolande Daniels (Columbia) & Sunil Bald (Yale) / New York

* Supersudaca: Pablo Corvalan, Felix Madrazo (OMA), Manuel de Rivero /
Chile, Argentina, Peru

* Shimokita Oral History: Taro Taguchi (Waseda) / Tokyo

* Team Un-simultaneous: Hidenori Watanabe (Digital Hollywood) / Tokyo

* Alto Majo: Alejandro Jaimes, Tomo Takeda, Matias Echanove, Joanne Jakovich
/ Tokyo, Sydney

* Urban Haiku: Gilles Grassioulet & Jun Ofusa (NHK) / Switzerland, Tokyo

* Shimokitazawa Overhead: Torsten Blume (Bauhaus) & Akihito Hatayama /
Germany, Tokyo


Partners:

The University of Tokyo, Yoshimi Lab, Cultural Typhoon Symposium, Meiji
University, Future University-Hakodate, Save the ShimoKitazawa,
Shimokitazawa-Forum, Coelacanth and associates inc., Studio SUMO, a|Um
Studio, Supersudaca, Misatikoh, Sakura Mapping Project, Urbanology

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