"Akihabara TV" - an international video art show in Tokyo's famous electric town - is based on a very simple but unique idea; the changing of the ordinary view of Akihabara, through the showing of site specific video art on monitors and TV screens throughout the town.
Short video works by 34 artists from 12 different countries are shown on as many as possible of the thousands of monitors and televisions in the area for the installation.
We hope that Akihabara TV will act as an interface between the many people involved in the project and the shoppers and viewers who come to the area.

command N/Akihabara TV Project Team

＊Press Release

■March 16 Thu. - 29 Wed. 2000
■Support: Japan Arts Fund,The Japan Foundation, Australian Embassy,
The British Council,Embassy of Belgium-Flanders Representative Office,
Embassy of Spain,The French Embassy Cultural Service
■Back in: Royal Netherlands Embassy, GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO,
Royal Thai Embassy, TOKYO AMERICAN CENTER, Embassy of the Republic of Korea( Korean Culture Service)
■Sponsorship:　　　　　　　　　　　　　
■Sponsorship & Equipment: Sony Marketing(Japan) Inc. Matsushita Consumer Electronics 　　　
　Corporation Toshiba Chuo Life Style-Electronics Corporation 　Mitsubishi Denki Life Network
　SHARP Electronics Marketing Corporation Pioneer Corporation
　VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN,LIMITED
■Cooperation: SATO MUSEN, LAOX, ONODEN, ISHIMARU, NAKAURA, YAMAMOTO MUSEN, TSUKUMO,
　TAKARADA MUSEN, YOSHIBA MUSEN, EIHODO, NISHIKAWA MUSEN, MINAMI MUSEN DENKI,
　DAI-ICHI KADEN, SOFMAP, CSK・ELECTRONICS, MARUZEN MUSEN, ARCUS Project Pilot Program
　Administration Committee, ART BY XEROX TELEWORK Co.,Ltd. SANEI TV Tokyo Color Printing,
　Over DRIVE
■Organization & Curation: command N
■Operation: command N / Akihabara TV project team
■Masato Nakamura, Nami Aizawa, Noriko Iida, Atsushi Ito, Chiaki Sakaguchi, Myeong-eun Shin, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Seki,
　Kazunao Abe, Yukiko Shikata, Motoaki Hori and many volunteer staffs.
■This project was made possible with the kind support of
　the Akihabara Electric Town Promoting and Association and Chiyoda Urban Design NPO.
■Special thanks: Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc. ,Tomoko Aratani , Akiko Yamada,
　Peter Bellars, Yasunori Goto, Saori Nogami, Hidetoshi Chiba, Toshihiko Kawashima,
　Tsutomu Ota, Project 304, 200 Gertrude Street, WOHNMASCHINE,Saki Satom

■akihabara TV project teem
■command N
Masato Nakamura, Nami Aizawa, Noriko Iida, Atsushi Ito, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Seki,
Myeong-eun Shin, Kazunao Abe, Yukiko Shikata, Motoaki Hori, Chiaki Sakaguchi

■Staff
Saeko Kagawa, Yumiko Kakizaki, Kanako Kishi, Takehito Kinoshita, Nobuko Kusanagi, Takashi Kudo, Tomoko Kurahara, Chishino Kurumada, Yumiko Kotaki, Satoko Sai, Noriko Sato, Kazuyuki Shishido, Mana Nishida, Nobuhiro Shimizu, Yukiko Takemoto, Chieko Tanaka, Satoshi Chikaoka, Miwako Tsuji, Asako Hase, Naoko Hiraishi, Yoko Hiramaru, Nobuko Mizoguchi, Tomomi Yamazaki, Saori Yamamoto, Madoka Yamamoto, So Yokawa, Yuka Yokoyama, Misa Yoshizawa, Ryo Sugimura, Megumi Matsubara, Keiko Kokuryo, Kana Go, Makoto Nakai, Satoko Kimura, Sayaka Kuwata, Hiroi Ariyama, Miyuki Fujii

■Akihabara TV2 Program
Video program editing / Masato Nakamura
Opening title CG & Music/ Hotaka Koike + Yoshihiro Saito
Ending music/ Kazuhito Yamazaki
■Special support for DVD: Attain Corporation NEC Home Electronics,Ltd.

■Leafret:
Designed by Shingo Suzuki
Editorial staff: Chiaki Sakaguchi, Hiroko Seki, Noriko Iida, Nami Aizawa
DTP: Masato Nakamura, Shingo Suzuki
Printed by Tokyo Color Printing
Published by command N 2000

■Akihabara TV2 web design: Atsushi Ito

■The Second International City Video Installation Akihabara TV Document Book
Published by command N
Publisher: Masato Nakamura
Designer: Shingo Suzuki
Editorial staff: Chiaki Sakaguchi, Hiroko Seki, Noriko Iida, Nami Aizawa
DTP: Masato Nakamura, Shingo Suzuki, Noriko Iida
Editorial assistants: Asako Hase, Tomoko Kurahara, Takehito Kinoshita
Translation staff: Chiaki Sakaguchi, Mana Nishida, Satomi Kudo, Tomomi Yamazaki,
Miki Nishizawa
Photographer: Keizo Kioku
Cooperation: Myeong-eun Shin, Alasdair Duncan, Peter Bellars
Printing: Tokyo Color Printing
This publication was made possible through the generous support of The Japan Arts Fund, The Japan Foundation, The French Embassy Cultural Service, The Australian Embassy and The British Council, Embassy of Spain
Contributing Editor: Hibiki Tsuge

Published in 2000 August,30
Copyright command N 2000 All rights reserved.


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