yang02 has been creating works using technology since the early stage of his career, aiming to expose the political, social, and violent aspects concealed behind the rationality and spectacle of technology. In New York, he will research the activities and philosophies of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) as a cornerstone of today's media art origins, focusing on founding members Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver. He will investigate how they confronted the authority, politics, and violence inherent in technology at the time. Additionally, yang02 will engage with local artists, curators, and researchers based in New York, who address technological issues, visiting relevant cultural institutions to discuss and share awareness of these issues, aiming to form interdisciplinary networks and advance future research and creation.
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Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1984, yang02 graduated with a master’s degree in Information Design (Media Art) from Tama Art University in 2009. His works show how information technology can substitute human actions in the form of autonomous devices. Through digital media, his practice inquires into human physicality and the independence of one’s actions or expression. His works SENSELESS DRAWING BOT and Avatars, both created in collaboration with So Kanno, were awarded, respectively, the New Face Award at the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2012 and the Excellence Award at the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include _prayground (2019, rin art association, Gunma) and group exhibitions include 20th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow (2018, The National Art Center, Tokyo), Vanishing Mesh (2017, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]) and Aichi Triennale (2016, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art).
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