The third Bonn Videonale, to be held in september, will feature a special Japan program. Japan, the Land of Video or is it Alfred Birnbaum, video artist and editor of this year's Tokyo edition of...
Alfred Birnbaum's survey of Japan Video Art. These are parts 2 and 3 of the article he started in Mediamatic 2/4
Surely everyone by now is well acquainted with the I-told-you-not-to-call-me-here cellular phone and instant-erase electronic personal organiser and other wonders of postindustrial living. You might...
The cadavre exquis finds an interesting parallel in the ancient Japanese poetical genre of renga or ‘linked verse’. An exactingly disciplined aesthetic exercise that was the height of aristocratic...
Although Glenn O’Brien’s piece about ROB SCHOLTE’S business art was a fucking bootleg ripoff (but not an unappropriate one, see p.172), it found enthusiastic response. ALFRED BIRNBAUM, founding...
Alfred Birnbaum is an American telematic nomad and polyglot, who works as a writer, translator and artist. Most of the time he hovers around Asia.