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netarts.org 2005
    grand prize

     

    ■ Akihiro Kubota
    ■ http://homepage2.nifty.com/~bota/
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    Akihiro Kubota (1960-) is a Tokyo-based artist/researcher in the age of post-digital era.

    His main interests include realtime AV performance, sound and software art and interface/interaction design by physical computing.

    He is now investigating the possibilities of computers as a material (digital materialism) and algorithmic audio-visual improvisation. His recent exhibitions are "so-ci-e-ty of al-go-rithm : translocal mutations" at ISEA2002, Nagoya, Japan (http://vision.mdg.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp/isea/, http://mxhz.org/ societyofalgoritm/) and "material AV" at Sounding Spaces - 9 Sound Installations at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan.(http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2003/Sounding_Spaces/index.html)

    His main publications (CD and books) are "Sonority #1" (Arret Arret Recording 2002,
    http://www.arret-arret.tk/), "Kieyuku Computer" (Vanishing Computer, Iwanami Shoten 1999),
    "Post-Techno(logy) Music" (Oomura Shoten 2001), "Design Language" (Keio University Press 2002) and others. Currently, he is working as a professor at Information Art Course, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan.

    He received his Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1989.

    Click the image to read the introduction
    Mark Amerika
    Susan Hazen
    Akihiro Kubota
    Rick Silva
    You Minowa