Visiting Netherlands was an accident (no, I don't mean I didn't want
to visit, Joyce1!). I was at Schiphol
Airport with my colleague after leaving England from
Manchester Airport. We were on our
way to go to Japan. We had more than 4 hours before checking in for
the transfer flight. It would have been foolish of us if we had
stayed in the airport. So we left there and had a look at Amsterdam.
The picture, however, was taken back in the airport after our short-term excursion in Amsterdam. A man was playing the saxophone in front of a store in the airport.
This picture was taken at a construction site in Schiphol Airport.
If you look at this picture closely, you would notice that the LED
says "The future is stupid." This is one of Jenny Holzer's arts,
which I'm imitating in my Fortune Cookies at Café Psyché.
Jenny Holzer has been creating art works in which messages suddenly appear on LED screens such as in baseball stadiums. I first encountered her works in U.S. when a friend of mine sent me a copy of YMO's "Technodon" CD package, where some of her messages were featured. I had been practicing the methodology before I started the Fortune Cookies, first at Ryuichi Sakamoto's D & L Tour, where people could send messages through the Internet. I then used Swatch's contemporary art forum as the medium.
The name "Fortune Cookies" was given by a
net.hunter friend of mine, Chuck, who noticed
my messages in the art forum.
1 One of Kenji's net.hunt teammates is a Dutch.
The pictures in this page were originally taken with a SONY CCD-TR81
Hi8 camcorder and digitally captured later through DCTV on AMIGA 2000.
