If you have time this week it is worth visiting the Eco & Art Award 2009 exhibition at the Konica Minolta Gallery in Shinjuku, in Tokyo. Sponsored by PEN Magazine the show features art works which make us think of the environment, ways to protect it, and the abuses of it.

There are many good exhibits, but (and I’m biased here…) none more so than ‘Energy Othello’ (pic below) by Yuko Hirono of Tokyo-based designers ‘cabin8design’. ‘Energy Othello’ is an original adaptation of the famous Othello game of Japan, sometimes known as ‘Reversi’. On the white side of the ‘Energy Othello’ counters there are renewable energies and positive green/eco messages, and on the black side there is nuclear power, fossil fuels and the risks that using them brings. The outcome of the game determines which power sources will win, and therefore save or damn the world.

All exhibits are contending for awards which are given out this Sunday, and there is the chance for the public to vote also for their favourite exhibits.
The show runs until Monday March 23rd.