Arts and Media
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
: http://www.mocashanghai.org/
: MOCA Shanghai is the first contemporary art museum in Shanghai. Under the city's umbrella of influence, we hope to act as a catalyst in the arts arena, as well as an interpreter in the growing cultural dialogue between China and the world.
: China
: Award Winning Japanese Artist Samizu Matsuki
: Japanese artist who won the Gold Medal at the First New York International Art Show in 1970, the Grand Prix at the Locust Valley Art Show, Long Island, New York in 1971 and the Award of Excellence at the Abraham & Straus-Hempstead Art Show, "Long Island Art '74". Samizu is the first woman to be inducted into the prestigious Salmagundi Club.
: Oh, we do like Japan! There has been much controversy over this issue, but we proudly proclaim again that our criticisms come from a hope to see Japan protect its strengths and maximize its potential. We feel sorry for a conception of love hollowed out to command unambiguous and unconditional acceptance of the status quo. We certainly appreciate specific strengths of the Japanese system: excellent transportation, healthy food, public civility, product diversity, and visual proficiency. The question is whether these system outputs fully justify the less desirable elements running behind the scenes — monopoly, duopoly, oligopoly, organized crime, statism, patriarchy, feudalism, or worse. More importantly, are these dark forces integral to producing desired outputs or can they be cleanly removed like vestigial organs?
: http://altjapan.typepad.com/
: Born in Washington DC in 1973, Matt Alt is a translator, author, and squid jockey. He lives in Tokyo.
: Designer
: Ian Lynam Design is a multi-disciplinary creative studio specializing in unique solutions for international clients. The studio has been based in Tokyo since 2005, following 5 years of experience working at a number of internationally renowned design studios and advertising agencies.
: Jean Snow lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, and The Japan Times. He's also the founder and editor-in-chief of SNOW Magazine.
: No Sword
: No-sword is the personal website of Matt Treyvaud, a writer, translator and linguist who lives in a seaside town near Kamakura, Japan. His current major online projects are the web journal Néojaponisme and his own Japanese language/literature/culture blog, confusingly also called No-sword. His 30-evening speed translation of Natsume Sōseki's Botchan remains popular, while his ongoing translation of Higuchi Ichiyō's Takekurabe is proceeding at a much more leisurely pace. He also tries to keep this fairly complete list of his translations up to date. Other projects of Matt's that might interest you include his 8-bit renditions of two songs from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, an eerily familiar survival horror text adventure called DotQuest, and Ranyōshū, the random waka generator. Away from his computer, Matt speaks English and Japanese, can read ancient, medieval, classical and modern varieties of both (where applicable), and is working on his Korean, French and Ainu. He spends as much time as possible in second-hand bookstores. At home he plays second-tier stringed instruments, cooks scrambled eggs, and reads long-forgotten Edo bestsellers.
: An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla
: http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/
: Writer, editor, and Japanese pop culture aficionado PATRICK MACIAS was born in Sacramento, California in 1972. He is the co-owner of jaPRESS, a company that creates media content and performs consulting services for a variety of clients in the US and Japan including Viz Media, Chronicle Books, Last Gasp, Marui, Nippon TV, NHK-TV, and many others. Currently dividing his time between San Francisco and Tokyo, Patrick is the Editor-in-Chief of OTAKU USA magazine. His most recent book is JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL INFERNO: TOKYO TEEN FASHION SUBCULTURE HANDBOOK (co-written by Izumi Evers) published in spring 2007. Patrick is also the author of OTAKU IN USA, published in Japan by Ohta Shuppan. Other titles to his credit include TOKYOSCOPE: THE JAPANESE CULT FILM COMPANION (Cadence Books, 2001) and CRUISING THE ANIME CITY: AN OTAKU GUIDE TO NEO-TOKYO (Stone Bridge Press, 2004). He also contributed to books JAPAN EDGE and FRESH PULP (both Cadence Books, 1999). Macias' work as a freelance journalist has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, the Bay Guardian, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Wired magazine. He has also written DVD liner notes for such companies as The Criterion Collection, Home Vision Entertainment, and BCI/Eclipse. He currently writes regular columns for print media in Japan including the Japan Times, Figure Oh, ASCII Weekly, and STUDIO VOICE. Patrick has been the subject of profiles in magazines such as CUT, Hanako, and both the Tokyo Shimbun and the Daily Yomiuri newspapers. He has been featured as a guest on NHK-TV's "Tokyo Eye", "Eigo de Shabera Night," ASAHI-TV's "Tamori Club," TBS-TV, TBS Radio's "Stream," and Bunka Hoso Radio.
: HD Asian Art Ltd sources unique, affordable, 'museum quality' sculptures, paintings and lacquerware from artisans throughout Southeast Asia. Providing both 'home decoration' and 'architectural' pieces we work with Interior Designers, Architects, Retail buyers and individual art buyers to promote high quality, reproduction and antique art, from southeast Asia, to a wider audience. Through these efforts the company strives to improve the livelihood of artisans throughout southeast Asia providing affordable, high quality Asian art through sustainable long term relationships with both our customers and artisans.
: Asia
