From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.

From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.

This February, as part of our Community of Images series and our Meander program, we are thrilled to present a feature on the screening collective Ground Level Cinema (グラウンドレベルシネマ). The group is comprised of members from both Japan and Taiwan, and the program features contributions from Johan Chang & Masa Kudo, Hsin-Yu Chen and Kenta Yamaguchi.

This January we present the second program in our series on image-processing in Japan and North America: a focus on the life of Ko Nakajima’s two commercial animation computers, the Animaker and the Aniputer, and their subsequent life among video artists in Canada. 

This December, we are proud to present the first in our series on image-processing on both sides of the Pacific: two works by Dan Sandin (and his collaborators), generously lent by the artist himself, alongside the 7-minute version of Nakajima's iconic Mt Fuji (1984).

From November 21 - December 5, we are delighted to present I have no memory of my direction (2005), a feature-length work from Japanese-Canadian filmmaker Midi Onodera, along with a series of shorts. At once narrative, essay film and experimental travelogue, this work explores the layered relationship of the artist to her grandmother’s birthplace of Japan.

This November, we present a fourth offering in our Community of Images series as part of our Meander program. In partnership with curator Elizabeth Jesse, we are thrilled to introduce the work of Kioto Aoki, an active Chicago-based artist, educator, and musician.

This October, we present our third program in the ongoing series, Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s - a selection of early works by the artist Keiji Uematsu, made during his period of residence in Düsseldorf, West Germany. The screening is accompanied by a partial translation of a 2016 interview with the artist conducted by the Japanese Oral Art History Archive.

This September, we present our second program in the ongoing series, Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s. This month’s screening features three more works from the CCJ Viewing Library: the productions of the members of Video Earth, a video collective begun in 1971 under the organization of Ko Nakajima.

For our August membership feature we are pleased to announce the first instalment of an ongoing season on CCJ: Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s. While our exhibition will focus on work created in the US or in collaboration with American artists and organisations, our August Members’ Viewing focuses on the thematics of “America” in the work of three artists, drawn from the CCJ Viewing Library.