GAS AS INTERFACE is an independant collective of creators and designers regularly publishing zines and dvds internationally referanceing audio visual and graphical streams of practice. Aside from the more commercial works supported by the shift japan. GAS also run a gallery space in Minato-Ku called
CALM & PUNK
A visit to their studios found the crew working hard on a recent new exhibition of artworks from the London based artist . . Their Direcotor Riza Nakazawa gave me a really good welcome.

I presented my new works and we talked of possible collaborations that could happen in the future.
A really good collective doing so much wonderful stuff outside of government funding, proving it possible inna 2011. .








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Flea Maison was an impossible place to find. An independent gallery set up by the international media curator YUKIKO SHIKATA and YOKOTA TAKAO in Tabata.




Yukiko Shikata is an independent curator & critic based in Tokyo, she is working as an associate curator of Mori Art Museum (MAM), guest curator of Shiseido CyGnet and specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University. Her works include projects at Canon ARTLAB, Mischa Kuball "Power of Codes - Space for Speech"(Tokyo National Museum, 1999), "art.bit collection"(NTT ICC, curatorial support, 2002), "Kingdom of Piracy" and "OPEN MIND" CD (MAM, 2002). She is curatorial committee member of eyebeam (NY) and international advisory board member of Transmediale (Berlin). Her curatorial practice has recently been presented in an online interview available on the network of media arts site CRUMB - This was conducted by Sarah E Cook whom I recently met at my show in Dundee, whilst attending the MAPPING THE FUTURE Conference.






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Another decisive move towards a future Tokyo / Jaygo Bloom audience encounter. This time a meeting with the Arts complex 3331 Arts Chiyoda and GALLERY g3.

g³/ gallery is a project room combining an editorial school “Super School”, “Gallery” and editing studio, “Edit Room”. This facility is based upon the vision and skill of its director SHIGEO GOTO in the investigation of the potentials of editorial activity and will expand the work of “Super School”, which has been established for 14 years.



‘ It is our aim to amplify the transformation of foreign elements and to visualize this in response to the theme of “Tokyo”, a city which connects both the local and the global, presenting the here but not here, the not here but here’（Shigeo Goto）
The gallery Director is Shigeo Goto who runs the education program - A meeting with the gallery member Naoko Hatta proved really useful, the works on show where by the artist Takaaki Akaishi






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A recent encounter with MINORU HATANAKA, curator of a fantastic show and the ‘ Open Space 2010’ currently underway at the CENTRE FOR INTERCOMMUNICATION in TOKYO.
Listen up Britain!
Open Space includes a gallery, a library, a mini-theater, and a lounge. All are open to the public, free of charge, throughout the year. In line with the philosophy behind all ICC activities, we not only offer exhibitions that introduce ever more people to leading-edge artistic expression and the possibilities of a communication-rich culture, but also make available a wide variety of materials from past activities, including a video archive. A new "Kids' Lounge" for children has also been created, adding to the exhibits of media art works by prominent Japanese and overseas artists that explain in an easy-to-understand manner the relationship between "media technology and artistic culture," as well as a corner introducing emerging artists.

Minoru Hatanaka has been involved with the curation of Japanese Media Arts since its early beginnings, he has also developed a long standing position as one of Tokyos eminent electro acoustic performers.
The space he is now in charge of is very impressive as is the work shown. I managed to catch a mesmerising collection of KOSHIDA NAORIKO’S Video Works.


"The Story About the Crack in Reality" 2008 "Something in the Spiral World" 2009

I also had the opportunity of presenting Minhoru with a DVD of my current work.






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Taken out by the hosts to a 30th Floor restaurant for Sushi and Saki -
This Sushi is the most delicious I have ever tasted, just what do they put in it?







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We are in Tokyo for Five nights, performing at the grand club AGEHA on the outskirts of the city.

We have been put up in a really nice hotel on the 16th floor in the centre of Shibuya; Youth Culture Central, overlooking the magestic crossroads made famous by documentary filmers the world over including Wim Wenders. I have never seen a city that is brighter at night than it is by day. This must surely affect your midset if prolonged for any long duration of time? The nightclub hosts the best looking soundsystem I have ever seen and also has an outdoor pool, the drinks are gratis, the people are kind and we have been living on four hours a night sleep like the rest of them over here, and it all seems really really natural.













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Recently in Tokyo, and I am cueing along with the rest of the westerners for my provisions in the local am / pm corner store. I am living off a diet of meatballs on a stick, cream buns and sushi in an attempt to not break the bank in this city where the pound is worth pennies.








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PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEM Live at Concept, Ahoy Rotterdam! The home of HardCore Gabba and another banging AV performance for Luke and me, and boy! this crowd was hard!







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Decide to go to London with Becky, Glasgow's LOWSALT gallery co-director. Dinner at Hoxton square, see the sculpture by Damien Hirst in the middle of it, was never a big fan (always liked his restaurants the best) do like this, it's night so we can't see the actual White Cube show. Try to get pudding at Les Trois Garçons but fail, rice pudding from The Best Kebab Shop in London on Stoke Newington High Street instead. Past the inflated Paul McCarthy sculpture to see the stunning Olafur Eliasson installation that opened that week. More Tate Modern, a rather large photo installation by Zoe Leonard.
Next day at the Freeze Art Fair. I'm glad it is happening. Suprised that none of the Dutch galleries have a stand there. Impressed with the Milan stand. It's not opening night and its massive I need at least five hours to take it all in, still we meet the New York dealer Chris D'Amelio, Cokkie Snoei who is with a collector. Talk to Sadie Coles. We see another Zoe Leonard picture A bearded lady? in a bathtub. Lovely Collier Schorr pictures. Gary Rhodes fantastic synthetic sculptures. The Modern Institutes consists of an abashment of black astroid blocks which scatter the central forecourt. Modern British bangers and mash for lunch followed by a walk at the zoo.

Recently arrived back in the UK after a successful week of max/msp programming and general audio visual mayhem Oslo Style. 'Making Sense' was a week long project hosted by Peter Votava AKA DJ PURE and Erich Berger. I was part of a group of artists and musicians who had travelled from as far as Paris, Canada, Austria, Berlin and beyond to participate in the event.
Each artist had arrived with the intention to solve at least some of their intended project, ranging in content from a web activated dildo by audio acoustic duo Decker and Reiter, to an alcohol breathaliser kit / sound manipulator from pile artist
Ian Campbell



Everyday was spent in the muted grey windowless confines of ATELIER NORD sliding around in our socks whilst the minus eight degrees and blue skies saturated Oslo with health given ions. Each night with a numb head from too much on screen activity we checked out the nightlife. Our first stop for a drink at spasibar. where DJ Pure, Erich Berger, Decker and Reiter presented some live audiovisual manipulation.



This was enough to put a halt to the that disco loving friday feeling and left some of the locals with their fingers in their ears, especially to the nosebleeding shell sounds coming from Erich, who'd of thought it? too look at Erich appears quite a nice man really.

One more night out amongst similarly pleasant looking folk at an independantly run artschool that turned out to be infact a Death Metal Rocker Festival, had me ducking and diving from the pints of gozz the flying bottles and dead animals, under the pretense that there was going to be some interesting electronic wifi-beatery and visuals. Bands with names like 'the Darkside of the Force' 'Lydia laska' and 'Diary of a lustful Turkey' continued to insult the crowd, who apparently just couldn't get enough.

Went to a few art openings, all the work is pretty messed up, its no wonder really what with all that death rock.