Art May 13, 2018
Twenty-five years in the company of Maywa Denki
by Mio Yamada
Maywa Denki, Japan's "parallel-world electric company" celebrates quarter of a century of wacky art performances, peculiar gadgets and lots of humor.
Style & Design | ON: DESIGN Apr 30, 2017
Japan fares well at Salone del Mobile
by Mio Yamada
Once again, Salone del Mobile Milano, the world's largest furniture and interiors trade fair, provides a platform for some of Japan's most innovative ideas on both practical and conceptual design.
Digital | ON: TECH Aug 15, 2015
by Chiho Komoriya
The Olympus Air AO1 goes retro in a futuristic way The Olympus Air A01 was designed to turn any smart phone into a high-quality camera, and its advantage over other digital cameras is its small size — basically it looks like a lens. If you're ...
Style & Design Dec 6, 2014
Code + culture: new media art from Japan
by Verena Dauerer
Domestic media artists have been using programming code in recent years to create some astonishing works of art. We look back at how this scene developed over the years and examine four contemporary artists who have defined the way the genre has evolved.
Music Oct 28, 2014
OK Go shares a love of Japan with fans
by Mio Yamada
"Sharing" used to be a dirty word in the music industry, but OK Go have been instrumental in changing that.
Art / Openings In Tokyo Aug 21, 2014
'Playing with Sound: Yuri Suzuki'
by Daisuke Kikuchi
All of designer-artist Yuri Suzuki's works involve an element of play and focus on our relationship with sound, noises, music and electronics. As his first major solo exhibition in Japan, "Playing with Sound" is an interactive show that offers visitors unusual aural experiences and ...
Art Feb 12, 2010
The magical mystery tour of 'media artist' Yuri Suzuki
by Mark Thompson
The youngest artist showing at "Cyber Arts Japan," 29-year-old Yuri Suzuki, is among the generation that grew up immersed in the culture that informs so much of new media art today. He has received honorable mentions in Ars Electronica's interactive art division for two ...