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Video Information Center (VIC)

Video Information Center (VIC)

The Video Information Center (VIC), an art collective that worked with video as their main media, was started in 1972 by students of the International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, as a sub-group of ICU shо̄gekijо̄ (little-theater), a student-run theater community. VIC was founded by six members—Yūsuke Itо̄, Yasuhiko Suga, Hisashi Noyama, Makoto Uchiki, Sо̄ichi Ishii, and led by Ichirо̄ Tezuka. The group’s activities may be sorted into the following five categories. “Creating a collection of  recorded  events, regardless of high-brow or low-brow,” “experimentation in communication via video technology,” “organizing video-related events,” “communication with artistic groups in and out of Japan,” and “creating a broad platform for video.”  Specifically the group’s activities began with their broadcasting in the ICU school cafeteria, and branched out into many fields. Their activities include a conceived proposal for a “soft museum (sofuto mūsiamu),” various video recording sessions of dance, theater, exhibitions, symposiums, concerts and other odd events such as activities of mother's volleyball club Also notably, based out of their residence, a small apartment complex, in Mitaka, Tokyo, the group experimented with cable television, calling the program Cable Paravision Ten. VIC worked closely and often in correspondence with other groups oriented toward video art such as Video Hiroba (hiroba refers to an open communal space such as a plaza or park) run by Fujiko Nakaya, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and others. VIC also had connections with overseas artistic groups and participated in the 1979 MoMA exhibition Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto (April 19–June 19) curated by Barbara London.

Hitosi Kubo

VIC(ビデオ・インフォメーション・センター)は、1972年、ICU(国際基督教大学)の演劇サークルであるICU小劇場を母胎として開始した。設立時のメンバーは6名で、伊藤裕介・菅靖彦・野山尚志・内木誠・石井宗一、そして手塚一郎が代表をつとめた。その活動は、「ハイ&ローを問わない網羅的なイベントの記録」「ビデオ・テクノロジーを用いたコミュニケーションの実験」「ビデオ関連イベントの企画」「国内外の芸術グループとのコミュニケーション」「ビデオの普及活動」の大きく5つに分類することができる。具体的には、ICUの学生食堂における放送から始まり、「ソフトミュージアム」構想、ダンス・演劇・展覧会・シンポジウム・ママさんバレー・コンサートなど多様なイベントの網羅的なビデオ記録、三鷹のアパートでのCATV実験である《Cable Paravision Ten》などを行った。VICは、中谷芙二子・山口勝弘をメンバーとする「ビデオひろば」など、同時代のビデオを巡る動向と連動しながら活動を行っていた。海外のグループとの交流もあり、1979年にはニューヨーク近代美術館(MoMA)で開催された展覧会「Video From Tokyo To Fukui andKyoto(ヴィデオ東京から福井と京都まで)」(1979年4月19日-6月19日)にも出品した。

久保仁志


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