11-13 July.

Introducing the festival, a programme note explains that first the mechatronic revolution and then the digital one have made Japan one of the nations with the highest level of technological innovation in the world. It explains that this productive and cultural force has deeply modified the social and economic fabric of the nation, with radical transformations that have never ignored the most ancestral and archaic traditions of Japanese culture. On one hand the celebration of a remote historical memory and on the other extreme experimentation have given life to what is seen in the West as a continuous interweaving of