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ビジネス文書実務検定試験

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公益財団法人

全国商業高等学校協会主催・文部科学省後援

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ビジネス文書実務検定試験【速度部門 英語問題】（26. 2. 1）

Ten years ago, when a new cultural facility opened in the western

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Japan city of Yamaguchi, its founders sought to fulfill a role quite

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different from those museums in the countryside.

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Unlike many public institutions in rural Japan that function as

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touring venues for exhibitions that have already shown in the major

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cities, or which feature well known artists familiar to a local

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audience, this museum was designed to be a place where artists from449

various genres could be invited to create and showcase new and512

original artwork.

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And not just any artwork, but pieces that are loosely

associated with a fast-changing, definition-defying form of creativity

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that often utilizes media technologies such as computer graphics,722

animation and the Internet, and is known as media art.

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At the grand opening of the facility, located on the site of a841

former school some 50 minutes by bus from airport, the center's staff

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collaborated with award winning electronic artist to create a huge

978installation artwork using 20 powerful searchlights able to illuminate

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places as far as 15 km away.

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For that artwork, titled people were encouraged to send and1139

exchange text messages via their phones, Web sites and special terminals

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set up at 28 art centers around the world.

Those text messages were1281

converted into light signals displayed through searchlights placed on

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the curved roof of the museum building and in the adjacent park, which

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would flash and move around, sending a giant, intricately tangled mesh1493

of light into the sky.

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The deputy director of the museum, who has served as chief curator

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from its opening recalls that until then, media technology was something1657

only huge industries and research institutes could use.

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He thinks

the project was symbolic in that we showed how such technologies can be1796

accessed and used by anyone, even children.

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公益財団法人

全国商業高等学校協会主催・文部科学省後援

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ビジネス文書実務検定試験【速度部門 英語問題】（26. 2. 1）

Ten years later, it seems this museum has consolidated its position1909

as one of the very few breeding grounds in Japan for cutting-edge

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media art, and some of the works born there have toured across the2042

country and overseas.

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Despite the edgy, experimental and often abstract

nature of many of the exhibitions, the project has been well-received

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in Yamaguchi, a city of some 195,000 people, noting that more than2252

700,000 people visit this facility (an arts theater, a film theater, an2324

exhibition space and a public library), every year.

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One reason this museum has remained relevant to local residents is2444

that it has made education one of its key undertakings such as

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developing and offering experiential, interactive workshops, with the2577

ultimate aim of bringing the media and media art closer to people.

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Among them, for example, is a workshop titled "Pasta Architecture,"

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where participants work in a group of six to create buildings using

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pieces of uncooked spaghetti.

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the group members:

Different roles are assigned to each offor example, one person can only build horizontally,

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another person only vertically.
In another workshop, "Sensory Athletics," participants learn the3023

feature of their own body and understand the connection between space3093

and movement by walking through a maze of elastic strings, placed in a3164

grid pattern from the floors to the ceiling.

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What also sets this museum apart from many other arts centers inJapan is a division called InterLab.

It's a tech-savvy R&D division

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that's made up of multinational staff versed in computer programming and3417

networking technologies who help artists give form to their ideas by3486

designing the necessary computer systems and software, developing

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electronic devices and planning sound, light and video systems.

3617"We broke away from the collections-based museum model," thedeputy director says.

They have instead offered an infrastructure for2

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公益財団法人

全国商業高等学校協会主催・文部科学省後援

第50回

ビジネス文書実務検定試験【速度部門 英語問題】（26. 2. 1）

various artists, designers and computer programmers to come in and3816

collaborate.

Such forms of creation were rare, especially when they

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started, because it was before the Internet was available to everyone

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and before the concepts of Creative Commons and open source gained

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currency.

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In a sense they had foreseen such concepts.

He thinks they

set the example of sending a new cultural message from a rural area.

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What the chief curator says is that media art is not clearly

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defined as an artistic genre, but because of that, it's free from4290

a traditional mind-set and traditional analytical history.

Media and4360

media technologies are essential to people and society, like water and4431

air.

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And they are not something handed out to you by someone

from above.

Everyone needs to have some say in how (media technologies)

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evolve and develop, through such creative expressions as art, design,

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architecture and civil engineering.

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出典 「The Japan Times」 発行

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