Creative
Aliens
#002
The Necessary Unnecessary 2021/3/25 Thu 18:00-21:30 @YouTube Live
About
Creative Aliens
is an event that updates the way we think and create through talks and
discussions with creators, artists and researchers who are changing the
conventional wisdom of creativity.
The theme of the second session is "The Necessary Unnecessary.”
Win or lose, gain or loss, necessary or unnecessary? We live in an age where speed is required in communication and "understandability" is highly valued. In a confrontational structure, people are forced to choose between two extremes, "for" or "against". We are living in an age of polarization, where such choices lead to further division.
However, our daily lives are filled with ambiguous things that are difficult to understand at first glance. Rather than pursuing clarity, we should see the world as it is, as a gradation, and find value in it. We believe that this will be a guidepost to change society into a diverse and comfortable place.
The participants in this event are creators who are engaged in creative activities that will teach us how to enjoy the world. Why don't we find out together what is "necessary and unnecessary" for us?
The theme of the second session is "The Necessary Unnecessary.”
Win or lose, gain or loss, necessary or unnecessary? We live in an age where speed is required in communication and "understandability" is highly valued. In a confrontational structure, people are forced to choose between two extremes, "for" or "against". We are living in an age of polarization, where such choices lead to further division.
However, our daily lives are filled with ambiguous things that are difficult to understand at first glance. Rather than pursuing clarity, we should see the world as it is, as a gradation, and find value in it. We believe that this will be a guidepost to change society into a diverse and comfortable place.
The participants in this event are creators who are engaged in creative activities that will teach us how to enjoy the world. Why don't we find out together what is "necessary and unnecessary" for us?
Speakers
photo: Nonoko Kameyama
Masumi Endo
Stage director / Performer
After graduating from the International Dance School, Endo
moved from Tokyo to the U.K. in 2016, where she performed in
a wide range of media and arts festivals, including Levi's®
commercials, the London Jazz Festival, and the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, while organizing UK jazz dance
workshops.
She is currently back in Japan, choreographing music videos and giving lectures at Kyushu University. She has held workshops and sessions for people of all ages, from infants to the elderly, connecting people and places such as the sea, forests, libraries, and schools through performing arts.
Based in her hometown, Itoshima City, Fukuoka Prefecture, she is currently researching activities that allow people to feel diversity and warm connections through dance, whether locally, globally, or remotely. https://www.masumiendo.com/
She is currently back in Japan, choreographing music videos and giving lectures at Kyushu University. She has held workshops and sessions for people of all ages, from infants to the elderly, connecting people and places such as the sea, forests, libraries, and schools through performing arts.
Based in her hometown, Itoshima City, Fukuoka Prefecture, she is currently researching activities that allow people to feel diversity and warm connections through dance, whether locally, globally, or remotely. https://www.masumiendo.com/
photo courtesy: The Japan Foundation
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Artist
Born in Shizuoka in 1979 and graduated from Tokyo Zokei
University in 2001. Yasuhiro Suzuki’s works add new
dimensions to already existing and familiar objects as he
continually asks questions about how we see things and how
we perceive the world. His representative works are
“Blinking Leaves”, “Ship of the Zipper”, “Aerial Being” and
more. He has held solo exhibitions at Art Tower Mito in 2014
and at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 2017. He also exhibited
at the 4th Moscow Biennale and was the representative artist
from Japan at the 1st London Design Biennale in 2016. In
2020, his public art piece "SHIBUYA HACHI COMPASS" was
permanently installed in the renovated Miyashita Park. He is
currently exhibiting his outdoor sculpture "The Beginning
Fruit" at the Towada Art Center. His art books are "Blinking
and Flapping" and "Neighborhood Globe" (both from Seigensha
Art Publishing). He is an associate professor at Musashino
Art University and a visiting researcher at the University
of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and
Technology. http://www.mabataki.com/
Zach Lieberman
Artist / Researcher / Educator
Zachary Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator
with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. In his work, he
creates performances and installations that take human
gesture as input and amplify them in different ways --
making drawings come to life, imagining what the voice might
look like if we could see it, transforming people’s
silhouettes into music.
He’s been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People and his projects have won the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, Interactive Design of the Year from Design Museum London as well as listed in Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year. He creates artwork through writing software and is a co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding and helped co-found and teaches at the School for Poetic Computation, a school examining the lyrical possibilities of code. He’s also a professor at MIT’s Media Lab, where he runs the Future Sketches group. http://zach.li/
He’s been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People and his projects have won the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, Interactive Design of the Year from Design Museum London as well as listed in Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year. He creates artwork through writing software and is a co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding and helped co-found and teaches at the School for Poetic Computation, a school examining the lyrical possibilities of code. He’s also a professor at MIT’s Media Lab, where he runs the Future Sketches group. http://zach.li/
Graphic Recorder
Junko Shimizu
Design researcher / Graphic recorder
Born in 1986, Shimizu graduated from Tama Art University
with a degree in Information Design in 2009 and became a
designer. She started working in WATER DESIGN in 2012 and
got involved in business design in order to create
cross-sectional projects beyond genres. She started her
career at Tokyo Graphic Recorder in 2013. In the same year,
she joined Yahoo! Japan as a UX designer. She completed her
master's degree in design at Tokyo University of the Arts in
2019. She is currently a full-time lecturer at Tama Art
University's Department of Information Design, where she is
in charge of media design. She is currently researching
"Reborder," a state in which existing boundaries can be
redefined in places where diverse people gather. She is the
author of "Graphic Recorder - A Textbook of Graphic
Recording for Visualizing Arguments". https://4mimimizu.net/
Moderator
Arina Tsukada
Curator / Editor
Arina Tsukada is an explorer in new fields of Art &
Science. Founder of The Whole Universe Association since
2018. With a diverse professional background, she is known
for her participation as the director of the Sound Art
project “See by your ears”, led by a sound artist Evala, as
well as for being the editor in chief of the Art & Science
online magazine “Bound Baw” since 2016. She continues to
explore new worlds of possibilities through an
interdisciplinary approach. Using art and science, and her
multidisciplinary background, she has organized multiple
conferences, exhibitions, media-productions, and the other
spectacular events. She is also the author of the books “Art
Science is (2018)”, co-author “Information Umwelt -
Guidebook for playing between AI and human body(2019).” http://boundbaw.com/
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Presentations except Talk 3 will be held in Japanese.
Presentations except Talk 3 will be held in Japanese.