Biography

1972 Born in Osaka, Japan.
1996 Graduate, University of Tokyo with B.A. (major in aesthetics)
1998 Release, short video works "Videoscape-Goat," Studio Guevara, Tokyo.
1999 Founder  "Video Artist Workshop" in Japan. (co-founders: Taki Kentaro, Hattori Katsuyuki)
2001 Founder  "VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo" in Japan. (co-founders: T. Kentaro, H. Katsuyuki)


Selected Individual Exhibitions

1997  "The Wall," Theatre Annee Folle, Tokyo.
1998  "Catacomb," Theatre Annee Folle, Tokyo.
"Capricornus,"Galery Le Deco, Tokyo.
1999  "Videologue," Striped House Museum of Art, Tokyo.
"Videologue Performance," Striped House Museum of Art, Tokyo.
"Videologue Performance," Workroom, Osaka.
2002  "Videologue Performance for Phaidros" Phaidros Cafe, Tokyo.
"Videoart Channel vol.15" art lab. GOLDENSHIT, Tokyo.
"Young Video Artists Initiative 06" THINK ZONE, Tokyo.
   

Selected Group Exhibitions / Festivals

1998  "Material Vanity Experiments" East Gallery, Tokyo.
"Scarabaeus" Bunka Forum, Tokyo.
1999   Bin Spark, Tokyo.
Galery Le Deco, Tokyo.
"Fukui Biennale 8" Fukui City Museum, Fukui.
2000  "2nd Video Marathon" Art in General, New York, USA
"Golden Hour" art lab. GOLDENSHIT, Tokyo.
Machiya-club House, Kyoto.
"Videoart Break-on-through vol.6" Victor Nippers GInza, Tokyo.
2001  "Personal Vision 2001" Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo.
"Videoart Session" Seminaire, Osaka.
"European Media Art Festival 2001" Osnabrueck, Germany.
"Internationales Bochumer Videofestival #11" Ruhr-Uni-Bochum, Germany. (Special Mention of the Jury)
"Videoart Channel vol.1~3,7,10" art lab. GOLDENSHIT, Tokyo.
"Young Perspective 2001" Image Forum, Tokyo.
"Videoart Break-on-through vol.7" Victor Nippers GInza, Tokyo.
"d>art 01 / 48th Sydney Film Festival" Sydney, Australia.
"Japanisch Festival" Shokoladen, Berlin, Germany.
"Buzz Club -News from Japan-" PS1, New York, USA
"Microwave Festival 2001" Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong
"Media Art Festival Friesland 2001" Friesland, The Netherlands
"15th Leeds International Film Festival" Leeds, UK
"Videoart Break-on-through vol.8" Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima
"Viper 21" Basel, Switzerland
"Cave Presents Witness" Cave, New York, USA
"Phaidros Cafe Opening Videoart Performance" Phaidros Cafe, Tokyo
"Batofar cherche Tokyo" Paris, France
"'L'Empire des Signifiants' returns from Batofar" Phaidros Cafe, Tokyo
2002  "4th Video Marathon" Art in General, New York, USA
"Video Cafe" Videotage, Hong Kong
"Rotterdam International Film Festival" Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Clermont-Ferrrand International Short Film Festival" Clermont-Ferrand, France
"VideoMixtape Volume One / L'Empire des Significants" Pond, San Francisco, USA
"Libre, pure et dure!" Cinematheque Francais, Paris, France
"Intercultural Videoart Exhibition" Videoart Center Tokyo, Tokyo
"Nippon Connection" Frankfurt a.M., Germany
"European Media Art Festival 2002" Osnabrueck, Germany
"Internationale Bochumer Videofestival #12" Ruhr-Uni-Bochum, Germany.
"Oberhausen International Shortfilm Festival" Oberhausen, Germany
(Special Mention of the Jury)
"Hamburg International Short Film Festival" Hamburg, Germany
"TELEPIDEMIC!" Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe
"the bandung video, film, and new media art forum" Bandung, Indonesia
"festival e-phos 2002" Athens, Greece
"AIT Exhibition" Shinbashi, Tokyo
"ETIUDA 2002 IX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL" Cracow, Poland
"Asian Contemporary Art Week" Queens Museum of Art, NY, USA
"Artist Night" Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
"4e Festival des Cinema Differents de Paris" Paris, France
"Phidros Cafe 1st Anniversary" Phaidros Cafe, Tokyo
"YVAI in Berlin" Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2003 "SEFOMA 2003" Seoul, South Korea
"Day of the Revolutionay: Clark in Context" Museum of Contemporary Art, Washinton, USA
"Festival Nemo" Forum des Image, Paris, France
"YVAI in Nippon Connection" Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Williamsburg Bridges Asia" New York, USA
"COURTisane short film festival" Gent, Belguim
"OK Video/Jakarta Video Festival" Jakarta, Indonesia
"Artist night vol.2" Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
"aisle.com video experimental e video arte" Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, Brasil
"Tokyo Designers' Week" Tokyo
"telepidemic! in Geneva" Geneva, Switzerland
"Hors limites" Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France