Date: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm
Cost: FREE (with paid museum admission)
(Tickets are available the day of the event on a first-come, first-served basis. Limited seating available.)
Location: Morikami Theater
Join the curators of the exhibition AKIRA: The Architecture of Neo-Tokyo for an introduction to the production process of Japanese animation in general and to the details of the classic ground-breaking animated film AKIRA’s genesis. Hiroko Myokam will highlight the archiving situation of these important artifacts of a historic milestone in animation history in today’s industry. Stefan Riekeles will elaborate on the specific cultural value of AKIRA’s background artwork which continues to inspire artists and an audience alike to this day.
Meet Speakers
Hailing from Stuttgart, Germany, Stefan Riekeles is a graduate of Humboldt University, Berlin and the Technical University, Berlin. He is an animation historian and exhibition curator of several internationally touring exhibitions of original anime background art, most notably Proto Anime Cut (Berlin, Dortmund, Barcelona, Madrid, Tallinn, Basel, 2011-2013), Anime Architecture (Berlin, London, Sydney, Delray Beach, 2016-2019), AKIRA – The Architecture of Neo Tokyo (Berlin, Delray Beach, 2022 & 2024) and Cityscapes in Anime Background Art (Kanazawa, 2023). He founded Riekeles Gallery in 2021. His most recent publication is Anime Architecture – Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities (Thames & Hudson, 2020). https://www.riekeles.com/
Hiroko Kimura-Myokam is from Ishikawa, Japan and a graduate of the University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design, the Academy of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), and completed an MA in Media Art Histories at the University of Danube. After working as a curator at the SKIPCITY Museum of the Moving Image (2004-2007) and at the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC} (2007-2009), she was a visiting researcher at the Inter Media Art Institute (imai) Düsseldorf, Germany (2013-2018). In 2018, she co-founded the Eizo Workshop www.eizo.ws with Noriyuki Kimura to “uncover dormant cultural and artistic resources and connect them to next generation creativity.” She is currently a curatorial researcher of SIAF Lab 2022-2024, a director of the Toshio Iwai Archive & Research, and a part-time lecturer at the Kanazawa College of Art and at the Kyoto Seika University.