is a Japanese visual artist and robotics designer whose works span several genres, including painting, sculpture (reliefs and constructions), as well as landscape design and architecture.
Career
Many of Okazaki's visual works have been featured in public collections throughout Japan and in various exhibitions around the world. In 2002, Okazaki participated in the
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
as the director of the Japanese pavilion of the
8th International Architecture Exhibition. His recent works include a collaborative dance performance "I love my robots" with the choreographer
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her dancer ...
which premiered in early 2007.
He is active as a theoretician and critic and is the author or co-author of several books, including ''Renaissance: Condition of Experience'' (Chikuma, 2001), featuring his analysis of
Filippo Brunelleschi; ''Ready for Painting!'' (Asahi Press, 2005), a dialogue with the artist Hisao Matsuura; and ''Articulation of Arts: technological analyses'' (FilmArt, 2007). He has also created
picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...
s in collaboration with Japanese poets, including ''Little Lellolello'' with Kyong-Mi Park (Shogakukan Inc. 2004), and ''Popahpe Popipappu'' with
Shuntaro Tanikawa (Crayon House, 2004).
Okazaki has also designed robots for studies into topics such as
natural computing
Natural computing,G.Rozenberg, T.Back, J.Kok, Editors, Handbook of Natural Computing, Springer Verlag, 2012A.Brabazon, M.O'Neill, S.McGarraghyNatural Computing Algorithms Springer Verlag, 2015 also called natural computation, is a terminology intro ...
and perception.
References
Texts by Kenjiro Okazaki
A Place to Bury Names'(about
Isamu Noguchi
was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and severa ...
and
Shirai Seiichi)
LIVING BETWEEN DIVERSITY OF TIME'(about OWN WORKS)
The lucid, unclouded fog―the movement of bright and swinging water particles.'(about
FUJIKO NAKAYA
is a Japanese artist, a member of Experiments in Art and Technology, and a promoter, supporter, and practitioner of Japanese video art. She is best known for her fog sculptures.
Early life and education
Nakaya was born in Sapporo in 1933, whe ...
)
''Abstract Art as Impact'
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External links
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Abstract Art as Impact:Exhibition official site
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Japanese artists
1955 births
Living people