News & Events

Another Sputniko! show with Shonen Knife!
I’ll be playing with Smallgang and my lovely sister Barguette Bardot! (a.k.a Toastgirl!) The last show’s tickets sold out so better get these ones quick.
June 29th 2009@Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes-Shonen Knife EXTRA London Show!
With Smallgang (London)/Sputniko!(London/Tokyo) & Damnably DJ’s and Special guests.
Doors 7.30pm
Bloomsbury bowling lanes,
Basement of Tavistock Hotel London,
WC1H 9EU
5mins Walk from Russell Square, Holburn & Euston tube stations
Tel: 0207 183 1979
£7.50 Advance Tickets via Wegottickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/51560 or £10 on the door.
SEE Tickets (real tickets posted to you)
http://www.seetickets.com/s.asp?a=shonen+knife&p=6792

June 4th 2009
Yuri and I just about gave a 20 x 20 super fast talk on Cybernetic Love at the Pechakucha in Berlin. There were so many people! Like, 400! Whoa!
Thank you dear lovely Nadine for inviting us.
More photos to follow!
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3 June 2009 - 7 June 2009
There will be a presentation of Cybernetic Love, a collaborative research project between Yuri Suzuki, Roger Ibars and Hiromi Ozaki (Sputniko!) at DMY International Design Festival Berlin.

The lecture will be at the DMY Symposium, on 6th June.
Below are the details:

13:10 / 20 min Lecture
Yuri Suzuki, Hiromi Ozaki (JP), Designers

The ‘Cybernetic Love: future sex project’. Kritische Designobjekte beschäftigen das Publikum mit den grundlegenden Themen unserer Gesellschaft. Dieses Projekt wirft einen kritischen Blick auf eine der faszinierendsten und stärksten Kräfte die Menschen antreibt: Liebe und Sex. In Kooperation mit Roger Ibars und TENGA.

yurisuzuki.com
hiromiozaki.com/
homepage.mac.com/rogeribars/smo/index.html

19 May 2009
Sushiborg Yukari was shown and performed as part of RCA show and tell at the Microsoft Research Institute in Cambridge. Very inspiring to talk some great minds.

Friday 15th May 2009 @ The Social Technology Summit, Manchester, UK
16:05 - 17:00
ENCODE:DECODE Presentation
Space 2

There will be a presentation of Cybernetic Love, a collaborative research project between Yuri Suzuki, Roger Ibars and Hiromi Ozaki (Sputniko!) at The Futuresonic Social Technology Summit. As part of the presentation projects OpenSource Boyfriends and Sushiborg Yukari will be presented.

Cybernetic Love
http://www.socialtechsummit.org/yuriSuzuki2
The idea image of the Japanese female is evolving into a manifestation of Japanese popular culture, notably comic book, animation characters. This is an idealisation mostly projected by males in their 20s and 30s. Animation and pornography are merging and Japanese female fashion is following this trend. Yuri’s presentation examines this fantacism.

2009 June 17 @ Brixton Windmill
Tickets!

Sputniko! will perform live with Japanese pop punk legend Shonen Knife! Come come!

SHONEN KNIFE (Osaka)
Legendary and influential, this all-female pop-punk trio started life apparently way back in 1981 but it was not until the likes of Somic Youth and Nirvana started championing heavily in the early 90s that they achieved recognition in the west.
Writing happy songs about creature comforts such as cookies, sushi, jelly beans, hot chocolate and banana chips, they mix up 60s girlgroup sounds with a love of The Ramones.
It’s been well over a decade since they hit Europe though throughout that time they have kept recording with their cult status fully intact.
They’ve a brand new album out called ‘Super Group’ and it sounds just as god as they always did - if you possess a classic pop sound there’s no need to mess around with it!
www.myspace.com/shonenknife
www.shonenknife.net