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KEIGO YAMAMOTO

Lives and works in Fukui City, Japan
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Starting with the 40th Nikatenin 1955 in which he exhibited his painting Also 1977 Documenta 6 (West Germany), The 4th Biennale of Sydney in 1982,
for Daikyusitsu [The Ninth Room where some avant-garde works were 1977 Documenta 8 as a member of the international selection committee of
exhibited together], Keigo Yamamoto has successively handled various a video section consisting of 10 members, the 3rd Bonn International Video
genres or media, such as sculpture, engraving, photography, artist books, Biennale in 1988, “Encounter Between Japanese Paper and Electronic Media”
performance, sound, video, CG, satellite art. Yet, having the same subject (The first communication linked picture exhibition in Japan), “France-Japan
matters and themes dealing with difference, “Ma” [Intervals, or time and Network Art”, an exhibition using a global ISDN for the first time in the world,
space], breath, and spiritual energy in relation to the inner life of man, is a “The International Mobile Electronic Café” in 1992 Documenta 9, participation
respect common to all his works. He did not intend to make a work out of each in The 45 Venice Biennale “Casino Container” project, and The 1st Kwangju
genre respectively, but tried to open up a new world beyond the framework Biennale in 1995. Over around 50 years he has been breaking ground for
by mixing and assimilating those genres and media by means of the same new genres, including “Network Sound Installation”, “Communication
subject matters. As one of his main activities, he started to create video Figurative Score”, “Communication Linked Picture”, “Panorama Linked
works in 1968 and began to make participatory video installations in 1971, Picture”, “Ubiquitous Art” using mobile phone capabilities. His articles
while entering into a search for the relation between communications and include “Winds of the Media from Asia: Human Beings and Art in the B-
media. In the 13th Sao Paulo Biennale that took place in 1975, he exhibited ISDN Era” in ‘Ars Electronica: Facing the Future: A Survey of Two Decades’,
a video game which was premised on the use of a communication satellite. published by MIT (The United States, 1999).

 NET GAME, WHITE STATION 1975
 SLIDING PAPER DOOR INSTRUMENT #8,
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT? 2001
 COMMUNICATION FIGURATIVE SCORE #5,
WORLD TRADE NETWORK ART, ASAHI BEER SUQUEA
HALL 1997
 STATION, ICA (INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ART) AND IMA (INSTITUTE OF MEDIA ART AND K-BIT
INSTITUTE. THE PERFORMERS 2001
6 FAMOUS
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS