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New art exhibit hybridizes
the animal and the machine
Japanese art phenomenon Maywa Denki will he
on display this month at the Jordan Schnitzer
BY BRITTNIMCCLENAHAN
NEWS REPORTER
Maywa Denki is not your usual art
exhibit.
The machine-meets-fish “Non
sense Machines Naki” premiered Fri
day night at the Jordan Schnitzer Mu
seum of Art, kicking off the
month-long exhibit celebrating the
art produced by the Maywa Denki
factory in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibit
runs until Nov. 20 at the art museum.
The exhibition at the art museum
features innovative sculptures, musi
cal instruments, personal adorn
ments, tools, toys and audio and
video recordings produced by Maywa
Denki president, Nobumichi Tosa,
and his brother, Masamichi Tosa.
Viewing the 26 products in the
“Naki” series, viewers find pieces
such as “Ring Ring,” which looks like
a cyborg-inspired armband intended
to hit, slap, or bruise the wearer’s
arms with a non-permanent stamp
that looks like fish scales.
Also included in the collection is
“Rai-Rai-Ken,” a conceptual device
resembling a Mighty Morphin’ Pow
er Rangers’ sword that shoots a
sword into the sky when the rod is
struck by lightning.
Another piece, the “Uke-TEL,” is a
“fish cage” which looks like a bird
cage. Attached to a telephone line,
the “Uke-TEL” has many needles
suspended from the cage top that
drop into a fish pond below when a
user dials a telephone, endangering
the fish.
The Maywa Denki factory original
ly supplied vacuum-tube-era elec
tronic parts to large companies like
Matsushita and Toshiba until it went
bankrupt in 1979. More than a
decade later, the Tosas, sons of the
original founder, re-established May
wa Denki as an “art unit.” As a hy
brid electronics company (“denki”
means electrical machinery), the
Tosa brothers started building noise
machines that are part musical in
strument, part fish. They titled their
first product series “Naki,” which
loosely means fish tool.
“Maywa Denki is a wildly success
ful and completely unique Japanese
art phenomenon,” Kate Wagle, profes
sor of art and department head, said in
a press release. “We believe the excite
ment and spectacle of this exhibition
and live performance will interest a
broad audience of all ages. We suspect
that even those who may not yet con
sider themselves interested in ‘art’ will
find this event to be irresistibly innova
tive and exhilarating all at once.”
The Maywa Denki exhibition con
sists of three major events, including
a monthlong exhibition of “Nonsense
Machines Naki,” a public talk by an
artist and a reception at the art muse
um on Wednesday, November 16,
from 5:30-8 p.m.. The exhibition’s
third major event includes the first
live performance on the West Coast
featuring the group’s one-of-a-kind
musical instruments at the John G.
Shedd Institute for the Arts Jaqua
Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 18.
“The museum exhibition will run
concurrently with a showing of 18th
and 19th century Edo period Japan
ese prints providing museum visitors
with a uniquely contrasting explo
ration of Japanese art of the past and
present,” Lawrence Fong, associate
director of the art museum said in a
press release.
The Maywa Denki exhibition and
events are sponsored by the Paul G.
Allen Family Foundation and Yoko M.
McClain. Additional support comes
from the Department of Landscape Ar
chitecture Kyoto Study Program,
Lundquist College of Business and
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
Museum admission is free for
members and University students,
faculty and staff members with ID.
Children 13 and younger can also get
in for free.
Tickets for the Nov. 18 Maywa
Denki performance are available
through the Shedd Ticket Office by
calling 434-7000 or at 868 High St.
Tickets cost between $15 and $25.
Group and youth discounts are avail
able. The John G. Shedd Institute for
the Arts is located at the corner of
Broadway and High Street in down
town Eugene.
Contact the people, culture
and faith reporter at
b mcclenahan @ dailyemerald. com
University law professors
detail the effects of Measure 37
Tonight's Knight Law Center presentation aims to help
the community understand the land-use law
BY CHRIS HAGAN
NEWS REPORTER
University law professors will try
to explain what’s next for Measure 37
at a discussion tonight at the Knight
Law Center.
The discussion is in response to
the decision by Marion County Cir
cuit Judge Mary James, who on Oct.
14 found the land-use law unconsti
tutional. Measure 37 allowed
landowners to be compensated when
new land-use laws restricted their
ability to develop their land. Govern
ments could either pay landowners
or waive the law and allow them to
develop as they could when they ac
quired their property.
James found the law unconstitu
tional on multiple grounds, saying it
created two classes of land owners:
those who acquired their land before
the law went into effect and those
who acquired it afterward.
The ruling is expected to be
appealed.
With many of the issues surround
ing the law in limbo, speakers will
discuss the implications of the ruling
and where Measure 37 and land-use
planing in Oregon are headed.
The discussion is entitled “First
Thoughts on MacPherson — What’s
the Fate of Measure 37?” Hector
MacPherson, a former state senator,
was the lead plaintiff in the case.
The discussion is being put on by
the Sustainable Land Use Project, a
component of the University Law
School’s Environmental and Natural
Resources Program.
Jonathan Evans, a law student
and Sustainable Land Use Program
fellow, hopes the discussion will
help create a broader forum for the
community to discuss land-use
planning and will help educate peo
ple on the issue.
“Measure 37 is the pre-eminent
land-use topic in Oregon,” Evans
said. “We hope the discussion will
begin to create a public dialogue
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about solutions that will serve the in
terests of all Oregonians, not simply
a limited few.”
Evans thinks much of the current
debate has only fostered more
division.
“There’s a lot of rhetoric that has
been put forth from property rights
advocates and others that doesn’t try
to find solutions that are positive to
the whole community,” Evans said.
Planning for the discussion came
together quickly in the week after the
decision because of the students and
faculty’s devotion to the subject,
Evans said.
“We have a lot of very interested
and engaged students and faculty,”
Evans said.
Law professors Tom Lininger, Gar
ret Epps, Keith Aoki and Keith Hi
rokawa will speak. Speakers will give
their thoughts and then take ques
tions from the audience.
The discussion will be at 7:30 p.m.
in room 142 of the Knight Law Cen
ter and is free and open to the public.
Contact the city, state
and politics reporter at
chagan@ daily emerald, com
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