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Ryota Kuwakubo (born 1971) is a Japanese multimedia artist. Kuwakubo was born in

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. 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

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. A 2011

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piece of his, The Tenth Sentiment, was displayed at the "Ways of Worldmaking" exhibit at the

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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

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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, 2001

Bibliography

Major exhibitions

*Cocosocoasoco (2006) together with Reico Yamaguchi under the name Perfektron, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland *Cyber Arts Japan (2010),

*Ways of Worldmaking (2011),

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

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References

External links

Artist's homepage
(Japanese) Japanese artists 1971 births Living people Artists from Tochigi Prefecture {{Japan-artist-stub