Toshio Iwai's cv

........Toshio Iwai was born in Aichi prefecture, Japan, in 1962. As an interactive media artist, Iwai began making experimental animations in 1981, moved on to working with pre-cinematic 'toys' such as flipbooks and zoetropes, and since 1986 has been interested in the computer game as a 'visual music system'.
........In 1987 he graduated from the Plastic Art and Mixed Media master's course of the University of Tsukuba, Japan and in 1992 he finished the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. His pieces Well of Lights and Music Insects are now in the permanent collection of the Exploratorium.
........He became a cult figure in Japan with his computer generated virtual sets for the science news show Einstein TV(1990-91) and his virtual sets and characters for the immensely popular daily interactive children's show for Fuji Television, UgoUgo Lhuga(1992-94).
........He has had one-person exhibitions mounted in Tokyo, Osaka, Antwerp, Karlsruhe, Espoo and Amsterdam, and taken part in group exhibitions in Canada, Australia, the San Francisco Exploratorium and the Japan Pavilion at the Seville EXPO, Spain.
........In 1994-95, he was the Artist-in-Residence at ZKM / Institute for Image Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

One-person Exhibitions

1986..... Electro-Visual Evolution, INAX Gallery, Tokyo
1990..... Toshio Iwai Exhibition - Machine for Trinity, Laforet Museum ESPACE, Tokyo /
................................................................. Art Gallery ARTIUM, Fukuoka / LOFT Forum, Osaka

1993..... Another Time, Another Space, Antwerp Central Station, Belgium
............ Media Epoch Exhibition + Museum on the air, Itabashi Art Museum + Fuji Television, Tokyo
1994..... Toshio Iwai Exhibition, ZKM Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe /
...............................................Gallery Otso, Espoo, Finland / the Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam

Selected Group Exhibitions

1985..... High Technology Art Exhibition'85, Shibuya Seibu,Tokyo, awarded Gold prize
............ 17th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, awarded Grand prize
1986..... 6th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Comtemporary of Art, Tokyo
............ High Technology Art International Exhibition 1986, Sunshine City, Tokyo
1987..... Images du Futur'87, Montreal
............ Arts on Computer - Japanese Computer Graphic Art, O Art Museum, Tokyo
............ High Technology Art International Exhibition 1987, Shinjuku NS Building, Tokyo
1988..... Evolution Theory of Animation - Japanese Experimental Animation Today, O Art Museum, Tokyo
............ Expression of Movement, Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
............ Japanese High Technology Art Exhibition, Taiwan Art Museum
1989..... Image Forum Festival 1989, Seed Hall, Tokyo
............ Art Exciting, Queensland Art Museum, Queensland
............ ARTEC'89, in association with World Design Exposition, Nagoya
............ The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale, Phoenix Plaza, Fukui
............ Wonderland of Science Art - Invitation to Interactive Art, Kanagawa Science Park
1990..... Image Forum Festival 1990, Seed Hall, Tokyo
............ Tokyo Hyper-real Show, Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo
1991..... The Museum Inside The Telephone Network, NTT, Tokyo
............ High-Tech Art 1991, Ginza Matsuya, Tokyo
1992..... Science Art Exhibition, Japan Pavilion in Sevilla EXPO, Spain
............ Tracing Time, Exploratorium, San Francisco
1994..... Interactive Media Festival, Los Angels
1995..... Video Positive 95, Liverpool
............ MultiMediale 4, Karlsruhe
............ The Interaction '95, Ogaki, Japan

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