Tomoe Moriyama

DATE:       April, 22 nd 2008 11.00 am
PLACE:     Interface Culture Lab, Sonnensteinstr. 11-13, 2. floor
Lecturer:   Tomoe Moriyama
Title:         "Next Generation of Japanese Media Art: Current Situation and Student Works"

biography:
Tomoe Moriyama is a Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo MOT). Since 1989, she was mainly working for new-media art and the history of visual devices, at the Tokyo Metropolitan museum of Photography (TMMP). She teaches media arts as a Project Associate Professor of The University of Tokyo, as well as a lecturer of media art at the Waseda University in Tokyo, its postgraduate course and several collages of art. Also she is a jury member of Japan Media Arts Festival, and a councilor of the Virtual Reality Society Japan. she is a jury member of Prix Ars Electronica 2003/2004(interactive art) and 2005 (net vision), SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery and Student CG Contest, Japan. She is an invited researcher at ZKM (zentrum fur kunst und medientechnology, Karlsruhe) and MIT Media-Lab., Boston in 2003 and had several media art lectures at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Pratt Institute NY, UCLA in Los Angels around 2002-2006, visiting scholar at J. P. Getty Research Institute in 2007.She studied art history and received a M.A. degree at the University of Tsukuba. She participated in the Museum Preparation Office of Tokyo Metropolitan Government during the doctoral course. Since 1989, she has organized over 30 exhibitions on media art and pre-cinema history including ‘Re-Imagination’, ‘3D - beyond the stereography’ and ‘UK98: electronically yours’, ‘Mission: Frontier’, ‘Global Media 2005 / OTAKU: persona =space=city’, etc as a curator of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Also she wrote several books of media art, “Re-Imagination” in 2002, “Inter-media” also in 2003, “The Universe of Storyboards” in 2004, “Meta-Visual(French Edition)” in 2005, “Re-Imagination/Post-Digi-graphy” in 2006 and “Haptic Literature” in 2007-2008. In 2007, she also organized an original plan for the 10th anniversary commemorative exhibition, “The Power of Expression, Japan”, at The National Art Center, Tokyo. She is also a jury of Prix Ars Electronica 2008(interactive art), Digital Art Chair of ASIAGRAPH 2008 in Shanghai and Art Gallery/Emerging Technology Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in Singapore.