Tomoe Moriyama, media arts curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, discusses the current state of Japanese new media art, animation, comics, and game works—from international festivals to museums. She considers the influence of avant-garde art in postwar Japan on media artists today, and the change in their perceptions and future images during this period of post-bubble-economy. The primary question Moriyama addresses is, how did the Japanese get interested in avant-garde art in postwar Japan, why are we attracted to it, and what kinds of expressions are presented by young contemporary artists in Japan now? This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970.