Creative Japan

Nick Luscombe meets the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Kyoto photography festival Kyotographie, Lucille Reyboz + Yusuke Nakanishi.

This episode was recorded in November 2023 at Delta, Kytographie’s permanent exhibition space that opened in Autumn 2020 in Demachi Masugata Shopping Arcade in Kyoto.
The 12th edition of Kyotographie takes place from April 13th to May 12th 2024.
For more information please go to https://www.kyotographie.jp

Thanks to the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for their support of this podcast series. http://www.gbsf.org.uk

Nick Luscombe meets the philiosopher and pioneering arts editor, Seigo Matsuoka.

Mr Matsuoka is Director of the Editorial Engineering Laboratory. Born in Kyoto in 1944, Matsuoka graduated from Waseda University School of Letters. He founded the publishing house Kosakusha and began publishing Object Magazine in 1971. As Japan's first editorial director, Matsuoka's genre-transcending editing and trailblazing graphism exerted great influence in the worlds of art, ideas and media. Matsuoka later became independent, founding the Editorial Engineering Laboratory in 1987. Applying research findings from fields as diverse as Japanese culture, economic culture, storytelling, design, textual culture, iconography and the natural sciences to the development of information culture techniques, he has produced, overseen and directed numerous plans and development projects. In recent years, Matsuoka has been formulating the ISIS (Interacting System of Inter Scores) project, which will link knowledge and information from all ages and cultures in an enormous "city of books" over a digital network. Proactive in searching for applications for the educational methods of editorial engineering, he has also developed educational support software appropriate for elementary through university students and founded the world's first Internet-based school, the ISIS Editorial School.

The programme is a mix of Japanese and English. Thanks to Ken Nishikawa for his work translating the interview.

https://1000ya.isis.ne.jp
https://es.isis.ne.jp

Thanks to the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for their support of this podcast series.
http://www.gbsf.org.uk

Nick Luscombe meets Rei Maeda, the Director of Art Front Gallery and Deputy Director of Ichihara Lakeside Museum.

Rei details her early career working throughout Japan on the Art Against Apardheid touring exhibtion in the 1980s, her meeting with the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the pioneering work of her colleague, Fram Kitagawa, through to more recent examples at the interface of art and community via large-scale projects such as the The Setouchi International Art Triennale.

https://www.artfrontgallery.com/
https://lsm-ichihara.jp/en/

Thanks to the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for their support of this podcast series.
http://www.gbsf.org.uk

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