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by Paul Schmelzer at 11:46 am 2006-02-17
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Here’s an interesting bit of art technology: Japanese Art Scene Monitor reports that one of Japan’s largest printing companies is releasing a slideshow of art by Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Homma, Kenji Yanobe, and others for viewing on iPods. The Artstar project comes on CD and includes on music track plus 175 images, from drawings to photographs. Or in some cases, meta-photographs: “[Takashi] Homma has taken photographs of his photographs, creating 167 deliberately low-fi images, perhaps in a humorous acknowledgement of the iPod’s limitations as a visual media.”

Above: works by Yoshitomo Nara. (Thanks, Lynn.)


 

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  1. Hello Paul ,

    I have seen the ARTSTAR project and I want to ask you if you know an e-mail address or something else where I can order this CDs ( especially the Nara CD )

    to sell it in my store here in Europe .

    Thank you very much

    and

    Have a nice day

    http://www.artmultipleart.de

    gerold swadzba

    Comment by gerold swadzba — March 7, 2006 @ 4:38 am

  2. Hi Gerold,

    You can buy the CD at through Apple Store in Japan. Unfortunately, the only links I can find are in Japanese. Good luck.

    paul

    Comment by Paul Schmelzer — March 7, 2006 @ 9:17 am

  3. HI Paul ,

    finally I am able to import some of the Nara CDs for the iPod .

    I will offer them next weeks in my shop !

    But i twas not possible to buy directly from ARTSTAR .

    They do not sell outside Japan . ( A lot of japanese companioes do not sell to foreign customers ! )

    Thank you very much

    gerold

    Comment by gerold swadzba — May 29, 2006 @ 2:41 am

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