What is the benefit of an online festival?
How we can utilize this unfortunate but unique opportunity?
TOKYO GARDEN will be a place where we exhibit current Japanese artists’ works, but, will also be a chance to trace the origin of Japanese Media Art through talks, interviews and a sharing archive.

KEY: Online, 2020, TOKYO, CONTEXT, ARCHIVE, LIVE, Map the new world.

TOKYO GARDEN is an online place where we all can explore the origin of Japanese Media Art.
As William Gibson describes in his novels, Tokyo is a city of cyber, high tech and a unique wired culture. Why? We will try to find an answer, tracing where, how and from whom our media artists’ roots originate. For this challenge, we are planning a variety of contents such as talks with different artists and curators, virtual studio tours, a sharing archive, and current artists’ work, including winners of the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival. Of course, we will also have many entertainment programs with DJs and artists.
We hope you can virtually visit Tokyo, enjoy and think together to find the future role of media art.

Director: SAITO Seiichi (Rhizomatiks Architecture Director)