Rhizomatiks presents PLAYING TOKYO Vol.09 “Special Edition”

“Staying TOKYO” originally started as “Flying TOKYO,” the talk and workshop event we have been holding since 2009 inviting some of the renowned international artists with whom Daito Manabe has a close relationship. Since the self-restraint advice by the Japanese government, the event has evolved as “Staying TOKYO” and has been running online every week. The first half of the event is a remote talk session with me, Seiichi Saito, inviting guests, and the second half is DJ/VJ session led by Daito Manabe and the engineers at Rhizomatiks introducing online experiments and tool development. Now that self-restrain advice is pull off, with the end of the emergency declaration, we changed the name to “PLAYING TOKYO” and shifted to a new phase to try to include the audience as much as possible in our expressive activities in real space. What can artists do now and what should they do in the field of entertainment? This is a “PLAYING TOKYO: Special Edition” by Rhizomatiks.

Talk
Fri. 11.9.2020, 14:00-15:00 (CEST), 21:00-22:00 (JST)
Seiichi Saito (JP), Carsten Nicolai (DE), Kazunao Abe (JP), Marko Peljhan (SI), Yukiko Shikata (JP)

DJ
Fri. 11.9.2020, 15:00-16:30 (CEST), 22:00-23:30 (JST)
Daito Manabe (JP), Rhizomatiks VJ

You can watch part of the show on Ars Electronica Voyages Channel. For the entire show please visit our website.