Abstract
This paper is a practical report of art archives based on a survey of belongings left by media artist Katsuhiro Yamaguchi upon his death. From around 2011, we authors were directly tasked by Yamaguchi to support his creative activities. Since Yamaguchi’s death in 2018, we has been working on organizing and listing his belongings in response to the wishes of the bereaved family. The artwork of Shimei, a magazine of arts and culture discovered among these belongings, serves as an important pointer for the objective analysis of Yamaguchi’s artistic activities in his last years. In this study, 50 works published in the magazine were interpreted from a unique perspective, and a database was created while collating it with the original drawings as necessary. In addition, two online exhibitions were planned in order to feed these findings back to society. The process of dealing with this archive, from digitization to publication, also serves as an opportunity to discover creative seeds among this group of disparate belongings. In addition, the nature of web media transforms this body of work into a more accessible entity.
https://ror.org/051zns832 
