After two years as the city's best source for museum and gallery listings, Tokyo Art Beat (TAB, www.tokyoartbeat.com) is now getting involved in the production of exhibitions. In conjunction with Mozilla, creators of the popular Firefox browser, TAB and their associate entity Gadago are organizing a series of "open-source" art events based on creative commons public licenses.
The first manifestation of the new, so-called DIVVY/dual scheme is "Project #1 Type-Trace." This includes the release of a new bilingual word-processing software program and a five-day installation allowing people to experiment with the software in a gallery environment.
The exhibition is being held at Space Kobo & Tomo, a spot scarcely 3 meters across and about twice as deep. The installation itself is straightforward -- three seats, three keyboards, three video projectors. Visitors can sit down and experiment with the software, watching as the results are projected onto the wall in front of them.