Toshio Iwai has won fans with each of his particular specialties in art, computer game design, and invention. In addition to acclaim for his discreet endeavors, he’s managed to synthesize these areas of expertise into a well-formed, comprehensive practice. While many new media artists attempt to developt a working practice that may be applied to different, and sometimes disparate, platforms Iwai has been particularly successful. This is no doubt due in part to his success in collaboration and willingness to embrace modes of art-making that may be undervalued by other artists in his field. (more…)

Takeshi Murata is probably best known as a media and video artist, but after seeing “Untitled (Pink Dot)” (2007), I suspected his aims and interests, if not his practice, may intersect with my own. While I have been told that my own work resembles film in some ways, in many cases I find the similaries end with the aesthetic. In Murata’s work I find the opposite: While the aesthetics may not be at all similar, he has a series of works in which I find the mechanisms familiar. (more…)