NHK Television created their first Digital Arts Festival in Odaiba, Tokyo and everything went very smoothly. The festival was organized very well and had some great works by other artists like my friends Golan Levin and Zacharius Lieberman, my former teacher Greg Shakar, Julien Marre, and one of the godfathers of media art, Toshio Iwaii. I was very honored to exhibit my work with them in this festival.

Included in the festival program were performances by Zach, Golan, and Greg, doing their interactive video projection sound works. Using a combination of projectors and video capture they are able to capture their shadow interference with the projector, use a computer program to alter their shadow and make sounds with it, and throw that back up into the screen at the same time. It was great to see their work in person as I had only been able to see it in magazines.

Performing at the same festival was Julien Marre, who is currently doing an art residency in Kyoto. His featured work "demi-pas" used a computer controlled slide projector. Julien would create these very tiny scenes on actual slides using tiny motors and physical objects. He would then place these slides into the projector and have the objects actually move around inside the machine, and he would tell a story with them. It was great.

Also this week Kanae, Greg, and Golan had the chance to head out to Hara Museum to see the Olafur Eliasson exhibition. It was really amazing. His understanding of light creates very poetic works that are simple, yet so organic and effective. His works exploit spectrum, shadows, camera obscura, and other manipulations of light without relying on circuitry. Great!