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Image Forum Festival 2012

Tue, 8 May 2012 15:48:53 +0900

Kotaro Tanaka's latest work, "Bye Bye Alfred" will be screened at Image Forum Festival 2012.
It'll take place at Fukuoka on June 7th, at Nagoya on June 13th and at Kyoto on June 20th.

spring of love

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:25:32 +0900

spring of love

tanaka provided video piece for the event "spring of love" held at magazine club in Lille, France on April 13.
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featured by noovo

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:11:49 +0900

Kotaro Tanaka's work, "Varfix" has been featured by noovo.

KLEX and a workshop at MMU

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:48:44 +0900

SVP2 which Kotaro Tanaka is a member of joined Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival.
We curated the program called "3.11". 18 artists made a 3min 11sec video each.
Also Tanaka had a workshop at MultiMedia University. He dealed with the theme "unseen world" and the students made a still or an drawing each for the theme.

PROJECTION PRINTING

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:51:21 +0900

DENIAL SHIRT & Kotaro Tanaka had an installation at BASE STATION HARAJUKU FLAGSTORE on October 21.
A short video document of it has been uploaded on vimeo.

L'Étrange Festival

Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:09:07 +0900

Varfix will be shown at L'Étrange Festival in france on september 6.
it's included in the program 2.

motion, fusion, reflection

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:34:07 +0900

atta presents "motion, fusion, reflection - a certain viewpoint of current film -" on september 3 in sapporo.
kotaro tanaka curates a program in which not only primitive films but progressive videos are included.
after screening keitaro oshima who is the host and tanaka will have a conversation.

Tension vs. Meditation

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:49:14 +0900

Varfix will be screened at CineCycle on august 5. the program, "Tension vs. Meditation" is presented by Tomonari Nishikawa.
the program is following:
Dahlia (Shiho KANO, 13.5 min., 2009, Japan)
Drained Time vol. 2 (Aliquot Light) (Kazuhiro GOSHIMA, 7 min., 2009, Japan)
Negai wo hiku (Drawing Wishes) (Aki NAKAZAWA, 5 min., 2006, Germany/Japan)
A Devotion (Yuta TAKEHIRO, 4.5 min., 2011, Japan)
Between Showers (Hirotoshi IWASAKI, 3 min., 2009, Japan)
Unconscious (Yusuke NAKAJIMA, 4 min., 2007, Japan)
How Can I Attack My Evil Heart? (Chikara MATSUMOTO, 6 min., 2010, Japan)
Varfix (Kotaro TANAKA, 8.5 min., 2010, Japan)

IFF in fukuoka and nagoya

Mon, 23 May 2011 16:15:34 +0900

"invain" will be screened at other venues of Image Forum Festival 2011.
in fukuoka it'll be shown on june 2, in nagoya on june 16.
more details (japanese)

VIS

Wed, 11 May 2011 22:01:02 +0900

Varfix will be shown at vienna independent shorts. the festival will take place from from may 26 to june 1.

Image Forum Festival 2011

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:46:40 +0900

tanaka's latest work, "invain" will be screened at Image Forum Festival 2011.
in tokyo it'll be shown on may 2 & 5, in kyoto on june 8. the festival will travel throughout japan.
more details (japanese)

EMAF 11

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:35:58 +0900

Varfix will be screened at Europian Media Art Festival Osnabrueck.
the program including my work is "into the dark". the entire program is here.
the festival will be held from april 27 to may 1.

moves 11

Mon, 7 Mar 2011 21:01:22 +0900

Varfix will be screened at international festival of movement on screen in uk. it'll be held from april 27 to may 1.

FLEXFEST

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:26:04 +0900

Varfix has been selected for inclusion in this year's competitive festival FLEX. it'll take place at florida, usa from february 17 to 20.

information about dotmov updated

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:29:11 +0900

more information of the screening of dotmov has been updated.

IFFR

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:32:26 +0900

tanaka's work, Varfix has been invited to participate in the 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam.
it'll take place from january 26 to february 6.

from the other side: contemporary Japanese videos

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:08:01 +0900

a screening curated by tomonari nishikawa has been finished. it was held at The State University of New York at Binghamton. the program is following; Guided by Voices (Stom Sogo, 1999, 11 min.) Lines in Space (Homare Ikeda, 2009, 9 min.) Landscape, semi-surround (Eriko Sonoda, 2009, 9 min.) Kaizer (Kotaro Tanaka, 2006, 10 min.) Iololol (Idora) (Masahiro Ohsuka, 2007, 3 min.) Electric Pinokio (Kenji Onishi, 2006, 13 min.) I am (NOT) seen (Takahiko Iimura, 2003, 5 min.)

VERTICALOPOLIS

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:07:38 +0900

lowave which is an independent dvd label in france presents verticalopolis at le festival de image ville.
kotaro tanaka's work, Deck will be screened there.

dotmov

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:19:17 +0900

Varfix will be shown at dotmov. the detail of SCHEDULE is following; 11/01 - 11/31__Sapporo, CAI02 11/01 - 12/03__Fukuoka, Gallery Artlier 11/03 - 11/07__Porto Alegre (Brazil), Arte.mov 2010 11/03 - 11/13__Kagawa, Tokiwa Art Gallery (Cinema Square 2010@TAG) 11/05 - 12/02__Tokyo, TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS 11/05 - 11/18__Kobe, Kobe Design University, Library 11/17 - 11/21__Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Arte.mov 2010 11/22 - 11/28__Kyoto, Cafe Independants 11/23 - 12/05__Kyoto, Dojidai Eizo Studio 1928 11/25 - 12/12__Osaka, digmeout ART&DINER 12/03 - 12/23__Sendai, TRUNK (occur2010) 12/06 - 12/12__Nagoya, Golden Child Cafe 12/24 - 12/28__São Paulo (Brazil), Arte.mov 2010 01/14 - 02/12__Shizuoka, CCC March 2011 (scheduled)__Kuala Lumpur, KLDW2011

info of new work updated

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:26:29 +0900

an information about new work, "In an aquarium" has been updated in filmo page.

KLEX 2010

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:16:22 +0900

tanaka's latest work, Varfix will be screened at Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival (KLEX).
it'll be held on between october 22 and 25.

MJVAX 2010

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:56:11 +0900

Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exchange (MJVAX) 2010 will be held in malaysia from july 20 to august 6.
MJVAX is a major project bringing together institutions, artists, videographers and multi-media experts
across malaysia and japan. it is anticipated to be a landmark event in VIDEO ART and NEW MEDIA linking both countries.
(excerpt from BSLN)
kotaro tanaka will perform live and lecture at some universities. also his works will be shown national gallery.
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screening in poland

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:25:23 +0900

kotaro tanaka's latest work, "Varfix" has been selected to animator 2010 in poland.
it'll take place between 12-17 july.

iff 2010 in fukuoka, nagoya & yokohama

Tue, 11 May 2010 10:08:51 +0900

following the screenings in tokyo & kyoto, "Mornin'" & "Varfix" will be screened at 24th image forum festival in fukuoka, nagoya & yokohama.
june 2 at fukuoka city public library
june 19 at aichi arts center
july 17 at yokohama museum of art

image forum festival 2010

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:13:10 +0900

kotaro tanaka's works, "Mornin'" & "Varfix" will be screened at 24th image forum festival. the program in which his works are included will be held on april 29, may 3 in tokyo and may 12 in kyoto.

Mornin' awarded with honorable mention

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:13:07 +0900

tanaka's work, "Mornin'" was awarded with honorable mention in the contest best 2009 video, minute planet.

filmography updated

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:19:20 +0900

filmography page has been updated. an information of kotaro tanaka's new work, "Varfix" is there. the movie itself and other informations of screening will come soon.

screening at annexinema

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:18:02 +0900

Kaizer has been invited for annexinema at nottingham, uk. it'll take place on march 6.

screening at 16:9 international film festival

Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:51:34 +0900

happy new year!! kotaro tanaka's work, "Kaizer" has been invited for 16:9 international film festival at mumbai, india. it'll be held on january 15&16.

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