Big Screen, Big Scream

Chiho Aoshima's 64-Foot-Long Animation Reinvigorates Japanese Neo-Popby Jen Graves{{ image: 1 }}There's a screaming in the galleries at Seattle Asian Art Museum. It's an alarm, bleeding panic through the rooms from a video that's screening in the back. Inside that dark room one afternoon last month, people sat, astounded.The video, a world premiere, depicts a tsunami slamming into a city, knocking down towers. It is a digital animation crawling with drawn detail: a byzantine cartoon. There is no