Capsule Hotel: ‘Capsule Hotel’ is a participatory installation inspired by a ‘short stay’ businessman hotel in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo*. It /will/ function simultaneously as a short term living environment and as a web-based multi-user video- conference environment. Modeled…
There were communal meals and uniforms, bright orange Dickies work pants and grey work shirts silkscreened with logos by the Enger Brothers, Matt and Mark. There were various art projects: a gigantic RISK board by David Scher and Mike Ballou;…
Fakeshop – Twin Twin Capsule passageways: One passageway with a facsimile capsule hotel environment and video display of live signal generated from a built–in network of surveillance cameras. One passageway with video display of remote streamed signal from an actual…
Masahiko Noro, Managing Director Japan Foundation 152 West 57th Street, 39th floor New York, NY 10019 Dear Masahiko Noro: We are delighted that The Japan Foundation has approved our grant application to support the Capsule Hotel Project by the net-performance…
Background: Conceptual underpinnings of this project began in 1995 when I first stayed in a capsule hotel while in Tokyo collaborating with a Japanese dance company. I became fascinated with these modular sci-fi like spaces, and began to incorporate this…
This first ‘Capsule Hotel’ was equipped with a 76 channel closed circuit cable TV system. A camera and television in each capsule enabled every inhabitant to receive and/or transmit into any other capsule hooked up to the system as well…