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Ryota Kuwakubo (born 1971) is a Japanese multimedia artist. Kuwakubo was born in
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(Japanese) Japanese artists 1971 births Living people Artists from Tochigi Prefecture {{Japan-artist-stub
Ryota Kuwakubo (born 1971) is a Japanese multimedia artist. Kuwakubo was born in Tochigi Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Tochigi Prefecture has a population of 1,943,886 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,408 Square kilometre, km2 (2,474 Square mile, sq mi). Tochigi ...
. In 1998 he co-produced the project BITMAN with the art unit Maywa Denki. Kuwakubo works with varying mediums, most commonly utilizing digital or electronic aspects, and a typical theme his works center on is contrasting matter.
In 2010 Kuwakubo exhibited at Cyber Arts Japan, a special media art exhibition hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The is a contemporary art museum in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995.
Collections
*''Marilyn Monroe'' by Andy Warhol (1967)
*'' Girl with Hair Ribbon'' by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)
*''Honey-pop'' by ...
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A 2011 interactive art
Interactive art is a form of art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some interactive art installations achieve this by letting the observer walk through, over or around them; others ask the artist ...
piece of his, The Tenth Sentiment, was displayed at the "Ways of Worldmaking" exhibit at the National Museum of Art, Osaka
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. In The Tenth Sentiment the viewers walk around a room as a model train with an LED light maneuvers along a set of tracks, focusing a light at commonplace objects on the ground which subsequently cast large shadows on the walls of the room. These shadows change from crowds of people, to cityscapes, to tunnels as the piece continues. The Tenth Sentiment was awarded a prize of excellence at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival which described it as an "attractive work" which avoids the "cliché interactive art works that tend to depend too much on technology", and described by art critic for The Japan Times
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History
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, Matthew Larking, as "arguably the most attractive work" of the exhibit.
Education
* University of Tsukuba, Plastic Art and Mixed Media course 1993 * University of Tsukuba, M.A., Design (Plastic Art and Mixed Media Dept.) 1996, * International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, 2001Bibliography
Major exhibitions
*Cocosocoasoco (2006) together with Reico Yamaguchi under the name Perfektron, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland *Cyber Arts Japan (2010),Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The is a contemporary art museum in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995.
Collections
*''Marilyn Monroe'' by Andy Warhol (1967)
*'' Girl with Hair Ribbon'' by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)
*''Honey-pop'' by ...
*Ways of Worldmaking (2011), National Museum of Art, Osaka
is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka.
The official Japanese title of the museum transl ...
Major works
*Bit-hike (1999) *Vomoder(2000) *Heaven Seed(2000) *Duper/Looper(2001) *Video Bulb *PLX (2001) *ShiriFurin (2009) *Nikodama (2009) *The Tenth Sentiment (2011)Commercial collaborations
* Commercial video for Sony TabletAnnouncement opersonal website
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External links
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(Japanese) Japanese artists 1971 births Living people Artists from Tochigi Prefecture {{Japan-artist-stub