- From <Time> to <See you>, Takahiko Iimura Bibliography
From to , Takahiko Iimura. Contents: Between two straight perallel Lines: The film and video works of Takahiko Iimura by Bruno Di Marino, I saw my first Iimura film in 1964 at Knokke-Le-Zoute by Jonas Mekas, The Films of Takahiko Iimura by Scott MacDonald, On "Reflected Cinema" (A Note on the Progra…
- Electronic Linguistics Bibliography
Taka Iimura, a Japanese film and video artist, investigates perception of time and duration in film; his videotapes probing television's basic vocabulary were screened at the Long Beach Post-Production Studio. He uses a closed-circuit, self-referential video system—routing a VTR camera image through a monitor—and a VTR unit routed through a switcher with two cameras and two monitors to examine structural relationships of language. Beginning in 1976 he adopted a linguistic model where the subject/camera (I) can see the object/monitor (you); LA video artist Norman Yonemoto described the work as educational lessons in a visual language.
- An Interview with Taka Iimura Interview
Edited transcript of an interview with video artist Taka Iimura conducted at a screening of his tapes at Arton's Calgary in Toronto on April 16, 1978; interviewer identified as Centerfold. Iimura outlines his Observer/Observed series (Camera, Monitor, Frame, 1976; Observer/Observed, 1975; Observer/Observed/Observer, 1976), describes pre-production diagrams and shooting-script procedures, and details the closed-circuit video system components (camera, monitor, videorecorder) and technical distinctions from film. He discusses synchronization of magnetic sound and image, the monitor as object, role-switching of observer and observed, use of English versus Japanese language logic, and political implications, citing Godard's A Letter to Jane.
- The Video Art of Takahiko Iimura Bibliography
Takahiko Iimura, a leading non-commercial Japanese film artist since the early 1960s, moved toward conceptual film in the early 1970s with works including Film Strips (1969), Film Strips II (1969), Counting, 1 to 100 or Xs (Models, Reel 2, 1972) and 24 Frames Per Second (1978). He began video work in 1970 and developed syntactical and closed-circuit pieces—Camera, monitor, Frame (1976), the Observer/Observed series (1975–76), I=YOU=HE/SHE (1979), TV FOR TV/TV Confrontation (1983), Self-Introduction (1982) and other tapes and installations—using portapaks and later formats (Betcams, VHS, Video8) with cameras, monitors, switchers and headphones; writings and exhibition documentation cited include Art & Cinema (1978), Asahi Shimbun (1976), the Whitney Museum catalog (1979) and The Soho Weekly News (1979).
- Taka Iimura Interview Interview
Taka Iimura, a Japanese film and video artist who spent more than ten years in the United States, discusses his practice and the independent film/video scene in Japan; his early work includes Junk (Standard 8, 1962) and later pieces include Line A,B,C,D,E (1972, revised 1980), Talking in New York and Talking Picture, and he screened work at gallery 360 in December 1982. The interview addresses influences (Dada/Surrealism, Western underground film), exhibition infrastructure (Image Forum, Seibu studio 200), lack of government subsidies, technical approaches (photographed image, sync sound, direct address) and political activity (demonstrations against the American military treaty).
- meta media Takahiko Iimura - film, video, CD-ROM installations - Bibliography
meta media Takahiko Iimura - film, video, CD-ROM installations. Text in Japonese. Section headings follow: Film Installation (1 SEC and Infinity at the Instituto Giapponese di Cultura, Roma, 1997), Video Installation (As I See You See Me, Insituto Giapponese di Cultura, Roma, 1997), CD-ROM (CD-ROM "…