Ren-Gei-Za (Network Art Theater)

last update: 1997/10/01
Welcome to Ren-Gei-Za (Network Art Theater)
Since: 14 June 1996

Ren-Gei-Za is a network art experimental theater,   
a collaboration of artists that meet on the net,    
new drama performed on the net, new works making    
free use of the net.                                
Ren-Gei-Za is a fun experience, a strange           
experience, a profound experience.                  
We look forward to your link, thoughts, comments... 
on Ren-Gei-Za.

Producers:

ANZAI Toshihiro e-mail: unxi@ja2.so-net.ne.jp

NAKAMURA Rieko e-mail: rieko@tt.rim.or.jp

Translated/edited by: Pamela VIRGILIO
Special thanks to: HAGA Naoko, NAZUKA Noriko

GLOBAL
COLLABORATION
Renga1997
Japan Telecom/ITJ Merger Commemorative Session

    One of them is "Grobal Collaboration"which artists all over the world 
have collaborated on the Internet to create one full session of Renga.

Participants are Lee Ka-sing and Holly Le(HongKong),Barbara Nessim(USA), Pascal Schmitt
(Paris) and Andrea Zapp (Germany),Toshihiro Anzai and Rieko Nakamura(Japan).




Presented by: Japan Telecom Co., Ltd.("Japan Telecom")
With the cooperation of: SO-OH Co., Ltd
Planning :Rieko Nakamura & Toshihiro Anzai
Coordination: Yumi Yaginuma

Now showing:

Ren-Gei-Za Talk
01 October 1996

Interview and text: NAKAMURA Rieko

Home pages are arenas for expression on the net. Ren-Gei-Za Talk is based on a series of chats with artists about their challenges in ever-evolving Cyberspace; what their home pages are about, where they want to take them.

On permanent exhibit:

Beijing Renga
26 June 1996
GAO Xia
NAKAMURA Rieko
ANZAI Toshihiro
An analog/digital dialogue between
a contemporary Chinese calligrapher and two Japanese CG artists.
(*Preview: Chinese )

In session:

The Dream Pot is HOT!

Dream Pot is a grand search party for links in a myriad of dreams. Dreams documented as text are thrown into the pot, and relocated, after undergoing Dream Notation, Dream Carpentry and/or Dream ReVision, to an uncanny time and space.

A Dream Tree
(undated 97/05/18)
You can get the overall idea of Collabolation "Dream Pot".
Up to now, there are 185 "DreamPak". Magnificent!

Dream Notation/ COCO's Dream Links
Since: August 1996

COCO, the master of gathering and linking dreams, invites you to time/place hop via the common images in the text of different dreams.
COCO; (TAKIYA Maki)

On permanent exhibit:

Dream Carpentry/Rujirushi
21 August - 30 October1996

Ruji is the master of turning people's dreams into pictures. Fragments from dreams are recycled as the elements that form an altogether different dreamworld. (On Shockwave)

Now showing:
*Artists performing Dream ReVision*

Dream ReVision 1/Coppice
Since: October 1996

Coppice is the master of removing people's dreamworld a step farther from this world. Enjoy curious single-frame montages composed from notations of multiple dreams.

Now showing:
Dream ReVision 2/MATSUMOTO Judy & Tsuneo
(Web Design: Rey.HORI)
Since: October 1996

MONO - Roving Aluminum /Artist group GONZALEZ
Since: July 1996

MONO (object) is a page in which information leading people to physically retrieve the object MONO at a specified location, is continually revised as MONO roves.

MONO in Paris

MONO in Tokyo(Japanese only)

New Cyber Chinatown
Since: 08 January 1997

New Cyber Chinatown: the place to meet Chinese artists

Energetic coverage of young Chinese artists active in Peking captures the warmth of the Chinese heart.
A trip to the town where China's new wave can be felt.

In session:
(Japanese only)

Doggie Hole / MOTO SAKAKIBARA
Since: July 1996

Doggie Hole is a cactus still/video camera through which you can peep into the life of net dog "Doggie." (on Netscape Navigator)

In session:
(Japanese only)

Digital Thomason
/navigators： YOSHINO Shinobu + MIYASHITA Yukiko
Since: December 1996

"Thomasons"are useless objects discovered around town; white elephants. Rengei-Za opened Digital Thomason in conjunction with the CD-ROM publication of avante-garde artist, AKASEGAWA Genpei's "The Adventures of Super Artist Thomason." (Thomason was a highly acclaimed American baseball player, comissioned by the Tokyo Giants, who was injured preseason and left Japan having never played a game.)