Jikken Kōbō’s Fifth Presentation Introduces the Autoslide Works

As proto-video art, this exhibition was an important precursor to electronic art. It combined experimentally composed music with surrealistic visuals. As told by Jikken Kōbō co-founder, Yamaguchi Katsuhiro: “Asahigraph editor Izawa Tadasu introduced Kōbō to the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (later SONY), which had developed an “autoslide projector,” a slide projector with synchronized sound. The group established a relationship with the company, and the Kōbō members worked together to create an audiovisual piece for this device.”