The Tenth Sentiment
2010

Ryota KUWAKUBO

Media Artist. Born in 1971. After studying contemporary art and media art, he co-produced "BITMAN" with Maywa Denki in 1998 and started to release art works using electronics. He developed his original style called as "Device Art" by the artworks featuring themes include the relations between contrasting matters, such as analog and digital, human and machine, sender and receiver of information, and more. After releasing the installation "The Tenth Sentiment", he is embarking on the works that viewers weave their own internal experiences. His major works include "Video Bulb", "PLX", "Block Jam" (participated in the development at Sony CSL) and "Nicodama", among others.

1993: University of Tsukuba, Plastic Art and Mixed Media course
1996: University of Tsukuba, M.A., Design (Plastic Art and Mixed Media Dept.)
2001: International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012: "Light-Space Laboratory*" NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo
2011: "The Tenth Sentiment" Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne; "LOST#4", Art House Asobara no Tani, Chiba
2010: "Gave: 1 The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas" AD&A gallery, Osaka
2009: "The Smiley Transistors" National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, [Miraikan], Tokyo
2006: "coco soco asoco*" Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
2005: "R/V", Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]; "Studies for the Consumption*" Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne; *in the name of Perfektron

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013: "The Innovationists" Museum od Contemporary Art, Taipei; "Design Ah! *" 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
2012: "Japan Media Arts Festival" Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum; "Media Geijutsu - Bright" Eye of Gyre, Tokyo; "EXIT Festival 2012" Maison des Arts de Créteil; "Playtime - Videogame Mythologies" Maison d'Ailleurs, Yverdon transmutaiton; "transmutation", Highline Lost / Input Output Gallery, NY; "]interstice[07" école supérieure d'arts & médias de Caen; "Awabi and Children Museum" Awaji Art University, Awaji Island; "Impuls und Bewegung" Automobil Forum Unter den Linden Volkswagen AG, Berlin; "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012" Kinare, Tokamachi; "Mediacity Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art; "Rokko Meets Art" Rokko-san, Kobe; "Waiting for the First Train" Tokyo Station Gallery; "Fantastic 2012" Tripostal, Lille; "Cinekid Festival 2012" Cinekid, Amsterdam; "Namura Art Meeting Vol.4 *1" Creative Center Osaka; "Aosando Art Fair 2012" Portofino, Tokyo; "Smart Illumination Yokohama *2" Kishamichi Promenade, Yokohama
2011: "Japan Media Arts Festival" The National Art Center, Tokyo; "Robotinity" Ars Electronica Center, Linz; "What Machines Dream of" Ars Electronica Center, Linz; "European Media Art Festival 2011" European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck; "Rokko Meets Art", Rokko-san, Kobe; "Japan Media Arts Festival in Dortmund" Dortmund U; "Ways of World Making" The National Museum of Art, Osaka; "Kasseler Dokumentarfilmund Videofest" stellwerk, Kasser; "Digital Art Festival Taipei" Bo-Pi Liao, Taipei; "Japan Media Arts Festival" Kyoto Art Center; "Kabukicho Art Site" Okubo Park, Tokyo
2010: "open space 2010" NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo; *listing only the recent group exhibitions; *1 in collaboration with Tetsuya Umeda; *2 in collaboration with Tama Art University, Department of Information Design

Nicodama
2009

extra!
2005

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