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Mission Statement
In the sense that communications theorist Marshall McLuhan postulated that "the medium is the message", we have an artistic aspiration to try to create mixed-media projects (Exhibitions, Media-Art/Films, Books, etc.) to promote and build new bridges so East meets West in more spiritual yet creative arenas.
The key would be to compile small personal chronicles or tales reflecting the originality and identity of each chronist's own "local/indigenous culture" in the on-going globalization, and try to link these in a form of human(e) network of sympathy and equivalence through art, media and communications.
This "Media Art League", would expand these individual chronicles on the multi-cultural and － hopefully － "omnilateral"* -- levels.
Perhaps we might be alble to apply the "mutual-aid principles" advocated by Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) which hold that evolution and human nature are essentially cooperative , rather than competitive; to contemporary contemporary society, in order to strive for equality out of diversity --- through the holistic convergence of the macro and the micro-perspective, as has already been taught in many ancient wisdoms.
Media Art League also intends to create a mind-forum with artists, creators, authors, media-specialists and cultural/ intellectual personages throughout Japan, Europe and the Americas.
For the sake of "better communication for mutual understanding", our media focuses on something healing and inspiring, yet passionate to share with each other, so the medium might be a massage for the soul , as well.
* Regarding "Omnilateralism", please refer to the manuscript: "Opening for Omnilateralism in the Long-Term" by Dr. Wolfgang Pape(European Commission).
- Establishing archives of Miro Ito's photographs portraying world heritage sites & paraphernalia in Japan
-Endowing museums, libraries, universities, and other academic institutions with visual/photographic works, publications, etc. pertaining to Japanese culture, as International Media & Art League Collection(s) .
- Planning and promoting milestone international projects that provide high degrees of civic and cultural contributions
- Research and educational activities, especially pertaining to world spiritual culture and Japanese culture and traditions
- Borderless media and communications services ( e.g. mass media /publishing projects ) and audio-visual planning/production
