Art Harbour, Tokyo
Lehan Ramsay & Friends

Art Harbour evolves around an ever-changing group of collaborators and transforming projects in Hakodate since 2001. We've turned a warehouse into a <new world>, an empty building into a "no-menu" restaurant, made a film/performance in a film festival, and had an internet radio station playing ambient sound. This year, we're in Tokyo, contemplating about cities. Especially Shimokitazawa. What kind of a world is Shimokitazawa, and what do we want for it in the future? That's the question we will be asking ourselves. That will be the starting point of our project in the Typhoon, and this project will give us the seeds of the projects we do when we return to our homes and lives.

 

		Lehan Ramsay
		In 1991 I moved to Japan. Since then I've made artwork, worked on collaborative art projects, taught art, english and communication. I did my Masters of Contemporary Art with the University of Western Sydney in web-art. At Future University I've been involved in collaborative projects, In 2001 I co-produced ART HARBOUR with Okamoto Makoto, bringing in five artists to collaborate with students and Hakodate citizens on workshops and a three day art event.

		Michael Fowler
		Currently, Dr. Fowler is a Post-Doc Fellow at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT University in Melbourne. Here, he is pursuing research into electro-acoustic performance practices in the work of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, studies into the analysis and realization of graphic music, and through a recently awarded Australian Research Council Discovery grant: Japanese garden design as a possible model for spatial environments, multi-channel soundscapes, or new compositional processes in architecture and music.

		Alex Martinis Roe
		Alex Martinis Roe is an artist living and working in Melbourne Australia. She recently began a two year residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. She is completing her Masters Degree in Fine Art at Monash University. She is interested in producing challenging innovative artworks in collaboration with Japanese Artists.

		Akina Mikami
		Akina Mikami is a permanent city-hopper/traveller(Tokyo-Ohio-London-Kyoto-Melbourne) and temporarily studying Media and Communications and French at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

		Yuta Miyawaki
		my name is yuta miyawaki 1981 04 26 is my birth day i like musiQ......... i'm monmon.DJ and my work is graphic design.

		Sarah-Jane Norman
		Sarah-Jane Norman is an emerging writer/performer from Sydney, with interests in alternative community, cultural intervention in in the practices of everyday life, and the psycho-dynamics of urban space. She is currently completing undergraduate study at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Dartington College of the Arts, UK.

		Hiroyuki Oki
		Oki Hiroyuki trained as an architect before deciding to become a filmmaker. He describes himself as an "experimental documentarist", expressing social experience through film and architecture. His film Heaven-6Box (1995) was winner of the NETPAC Prize at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival. He has produced many films, exhibited his artwork widely, and also produces writing, drawing, and performances.

		Matthew Perkins
		Matthew Perkins' main area of research is an exploration of performative works utilizing electronic media such video, audio, and digital prints. These works are predominantly concerned with performance, the body and how particular medias such as video, sound and print can mediate such private events or actions. As an extension to this research he has undertaken various curatorial activities that explore these concerns. Currently on tour in Australia is Anxious Bodies (international video works) and Unsharp_Unconscious (Australian digital prints). Matthew has recently been involved in the Spatial Research Group (SRG) at Monash University's Faculty of Art & Design where he is a lecturer and studio co-ordinator in photomedia.

		Akiko Sameshima
		Working as a photographer for Japanese local newspaper. Taking photos of schizophrenia people for about 10 years leads me to think about how to live in a community.

		Asami Sasaki
		Sasaki Asami is a designer in a interface design company. She graduated from Future University-Hakodate in 2004, one of the first graduates of the university. She has been a part of all the Art Harbours, even after she left Hakodate. She and Miyawaki Yuta are the designers of the Art Harbour book.

		Markuz Wernli
		Swiss-born Markuz Wernli Saito realizes participatory art projects which employ visual media, public facilities, and social dynamics to render systems of everyday life visible. His dialogical art examines the structures that govern the public domain, the roles we play in them, and the influence they sustain in the construction of identity and community.

		Shinya Yamamoto
		1968 born in kyoto live painter, painting improvisor, His painting sounds like free jazz that's impossible to save it

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		Rachelle Su Zhitian
		I'm a 3rd year Architecture student at National University of Singapore. I love the fact that being a designer allows me to stay in touch with culture. Customising my own clothes/accessories and discovering new bands are my mood aids. Peppermint tea is my choice of afternoon drink. My current obsessions are kitschy sunnies and late night me-time.

		Chao-Ming James Teng (jamesT)
		Chao-Ming James Teng (jamesT) is studying media arts and design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has experiences in designing large scale interactive experiences, media arts, product design, and public art for urban intervention. Currently he is doing research on responsive materials for design and architecture, and a future bus stop design project for Venice Biennale on Architecture 2006. He is chosen as one of the Siggraph Artists 2006.

		Sarah-Jane Norman
		Australia

		Mariko Kurosaka
		Mariko majors sociology and Asian area studies in International Christian University in Tokyo and will be graduated on this June. During an 10 month exchange program to University of the Philippines in Manila, she visited some local NGOs and studied on community development. Born and raised in Shinmo-kitazawa since 2 years old, and ,since September 2005, she participates in "Save the Shimokitazawa"(STSK), a local civil movement that calls for reexamination of construction of Road 54(Hojyo 54 Gousen). She works on translation of English homepage and public communication in STSK.

		Yuya Sasaki
		Born in Japan , 20/10/1983 Now,studying architecture at Meiji University. With this workshop,I'd like to know many other thoughts from other countries. Let's Enjoy!!