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- Title
Multimedia Environments and Security Operations: Expo '70 as a Laboratory of Governance.
- Authors
YURIKO FURUHATA
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of control rooms at the 1970 World Exposition held in Osaka, Japan. Topics discussed include the tension between art and governmental surveillance, the involvement of architect Kenzo Tange and his team in designing a future city displayed at the exposition, and use of technology by Japanese artists during this time in history. The historical backdrop of the Cold War and its impact on the exposition is also explored.
- Subjects
JAPAN; EXHIBITIONS; CONTROL rooms; MASS surveillance; TANGE, Kenzo, 1913-2005; VISIONARY architecture; ART &; technology; 20TH century Japanese art; COLD War, 1945-1991
- Publication
Grey Room, 2014, Vol 54, p55
- ISSN
1526-3819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/GREY_a_00132