Curator/critic. Artistic Director of “Forest for Dialogue and Creativity”. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University and Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and Kyoto University of the Arts. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on “Information flows”. In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Works in 2010s including SIAF 2014, KENPOKU ART 2016. Works since 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan, MMFS 2020, “Forking PiraGene” (C-Lab Taipei), the Forum “Information as a form of <capital> ” (2021), Forum “Spirits as Energy|Stone, Water, Forest and Human”(2021), “EIR (Energies in Rural) ” (2021-2023), Maki Ohkojima + Yosuke Tsuji “CHIKATO” (2023). Juror of many international competitions. Published “Ecosophic Art” in 2023, many co-publications. yukikoshikata.com
- 四方幸子 SHIKATA Yukiko