Animation Evolution
Japanese Experimental Animation Today

Friday, National Holiday, April 29?Wednesday, May 25, 1988

Display:
IKIF, Tossio Iwai, Keita Kurosaka, Naoko Tosa Takun Furukawa, and Keiichi Minegishi.

Film showings:
�gPersonal Program�h IKIF, Nobuhiro Aihara, Yuko Asano, Takashi Ito, Yoji Kuri, Keita Kurosaka, Isao Kota, Keiichi Tanaami, Osamu Tezuka, Takun Furukawa, and Keiichi Minegishi.

�gTheme Program�h

Moving drawing 1
Moving drawing 2 --- Abstract, Plane, and Movements1
Dialogue with the Material
Animation on the Border 1 --- Films and Animations
Animation on the Border 2 --- Photographs and Animations
Daily Life in Animation: An experiment of Actuality films
The Pedigree of Experimental Animations
Computers and Animations

�œ�œSymposium
�gAnimation as a Medium and its Expressions - the present and the future of the Japanese animations�h
2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 8 by Toshio Matsumoto, Takun Furukawa, and Tossio Iwai, presided by Norio Nishijima.

�œ�œPerformance
�gPicture-card Show in Animation�h by Keiichi Minegishi
1:00 and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1

�œ�œAnimation Performance
�g+&-�h
3:30 and 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 15
Representation and Field: Naoko Tosa
Music: Hiromasa Morimoto
Performance: Sawako Hiraiwa

Today the animation world of Japan is placed in an autistic condition, which can be regarded as the cause of the crisis in expression through animation. The purpose of this exhibition is to have artists, who have been consciously tackling with the feature of animation as a medium, regardless of their specialty whether it is a cell animation or frame-by-frame animation, undermine the basis of animation as a medium in order to break its present autism. For that, we will have six groups or individual artists to recognize either the fusion or the disparity between animations and the other media, through some inter-media experiments with other fields such as sound, light, videos or performances, or by displaying �h installations�h. In the �gfilm showing�h, eleven representative artists will compose their own programs on their own, while in the �gtheme program�h, a special interest is focused on the 8mm animations of the 1980�fs. And these programs will give a wide glance at the present situation of the animation world that is spreading in many directions. By letting the animation cross the border into the other fields, or by letting them return to its original form, to clarify its own cause for existence, we hope that the animation world will find a new way for its extensive and rich expressions to recover its original energy.