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KEiGo YAmAmoto

Master Profile

keigo Yamamoto is a mixed-media artist. In the
1960s, he created performance pieces and videos
utilizing fire and smoke, and in the ’70s, he began
to experiment with ”network art,” combining
video and communication. His communication- k-bit Institute 4th Studio

based games were featured in the 1975 São Paulo
Art Biennial, Documenta 6 in germany in 1977,
4th Biennale of Sydney in 1982, the 41th venice sliding paper Door Instrument No. 12

Biennale in 1984, Documenta 8 in 1987, the 3rd World Wide Network Art | 1998
Bonn International video Biennale in 1988. He
Japan  Uk Network Art
presented Japan’s first “Communication Linked Asahi Bell Squea Hall. Mars 1998
Picture” at “Encounter Between Japanese Paper
 pLAyINg WITh RopE (SLIDINg PAPER DOOR INSTRUMENT NO. 20). k-BIT INSTITUTE
and Electronic Media” in 1989, and “France=Japan ~THE CHINA MILLENNIUM MONUMENT. DIRECTOR: kEYgO TAMAMOTO AND XIAOBO LU.
Network Art” using international ISDN for the first SEPTEMBER 2005.
time in the world in 1990. He also participated
in “Documenta 9 in 1992, at the 45th venice

Biennale” in 1993, kwangju Biennale in 1995.
Other main careers include “what Do You want to
Do with It?” at ICA, London, and as many as 160
international exhibitions, such as “China = Japan
Network Art” at China Millennium Monument in

Beijing. He is still exploring new fields of art, such
as Network Sound Installations.

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