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SHIKATA Yukiko

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Curator/critic. Director of Towada Art Center, 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 ” (2021), Forum “Spirits as Energy|Stone, Water, Forest and Human” (2021), “EIR (Energies in Rural)” (2021–2023), Maki Ohkojima + Yosuke Tsuji “CHIKATO” (2023), “Konton-ni-Ai! / Ai ‘Love / Encounter’ CHAOS – Digging Deep into Care by Sound & Media Art by connecting Europe and Tokyo” (2024), “Konton-ni-Ai! 2025@Cyprus – Cypriot-Japanese Arest (rest-unrest-forest mix) “(Cyprus University of Technology), “MIKAMI MEME 2025” (√k Contemporary, 2025), “Kunimatsu Kineta | Breathing in Ripples” (Towada Art Center, 2025–2026). The 11th La Nuit de la Philo – Agir pour le vivant “Ikimono to Tomoni” (Institut français Tokyo, 2025). Juror of many international competitions. President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan (2022–2025). Published “Ecosophic Art” in 2023, many co-publications.

[2026]

Exhibitions & Events

MIKAMI Seiko and Interactivity: From a posthuman perspective

Farewell event of MIKAMI Seiko ‘RE/membering MIKAMI Seiko’

Open Salon Events by exhibiting artists of “Open Space 2009”
Live voice.zero + After Talk with SHIKATA Yukiko (ICC)

Symposium “Mission G”

Symposium “Light InSight” [Session 2] “Art and Science: Regarding Light and Perception”

Symposium “Light InSight” [Session 1] “<Light> in Visual System and Perception”

Artists’ Act TADA Hitomi + After Talk with SHIKATA Yukiko

ICC 10th Anniversary Session Series Vol.1 Special Symposium “The Future of Media × Art” 2

ICC 10th Anniversary Session Series Vol.1 Special Symposium “The Future of Media × Art”

Gallery Tour

Symposium “Connecting Worlds”

Session 2: “Open Creation” Part 2: “The Future of Creation - Beyond Media Art”

Renewal Opening Symposium “Culture and Creation in a Networked Society”

Talk Event “Lib - LIVE! 002 : The Living Library”

Talk Event “Lib - LIVE! 000 : Lib-LIVE?”

Lib-LIVE! Student Consortium

Symposium “Media online”

Symposium “New Generation of Media Artists”

Symposium

“Media Art Research Center Fieldwork - Space and Body”

Frontiers of Communication

Symposium “art_bit_culture”

Opening Symposium “On Assembling the ‘art.bit collection’”

art.bit collection

“Expanding Media Environments and the Human Body”

HIVE