YUKIKO SHIKATA - CURRICULUM VITA M

Curator / CriticDirector, Open Water Committee
Visiting Professor of Tama Art University / Tokyo Zokei University
Lecturer of Musashino Art University / IAMAS（Institute of Advanced MediaArts and Sciences)
Member of AICA(International Association of Art Critics) and AICA Japan
Jury member of Fukutake Foundation (Local Activation through Art)
Advisory Board member of Liminaria Festival, Italy
2019-2022 Curator-in-residence of Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, USA)Work History
1981-1984 Assistant Editor of “The Rotary-No-Tomo”, English magazine ofRotary Club Japan
1984-1986 Art Coordinator, VIVRE21 (Fashion Building, Harajuku, Tokyo)
1987 Started writing and curating activities
1990-2001Curator of Canon ARTLAB, cultural support program, Canon Inc.
1993-1998 Japan Coordinator of G+B Arts International publisher (Switzerland)
1997-2003 Software Program Committee Member of Yamaguchi Center for
Arts and Media[YCAM]
1998-2003 Guest Curator of Shiseido CyGnet (Cyber Gallery Network) byShiseido Co., Ltd.
2002-2004 Associate Curator of Mori Art Museum
2004-2010 Curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC]2014-2018 Director of media art festival AMIT (Art, Media and I, Tokyo）
2018- Director of Open Water Committee[Universities] *selectedLecturer: Tokyu University of the Arts, Osaka Seikei University, Musashino
Art University, Waseda University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Meiji
University / Visiting Professor: Kyoto University of Art and Design(currently Kyoto University of the Arts)[Jury] *selected
Asian Arts Council, METI Digital Contents Grand Prix (Advisory Board andJury), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), ISEA, Nam June Paik Award (Germany),
UNESCO Digi-Arts Award, ACM Multimedia (USA), Jury of several programsof Agency of Cultural Affairs Japan (Overseas AIR program, Media Arts Festival, Local Activating program), Student CG Contest, MEC Award, YouFabGlobal Creative Award, Kawasaki-city Art Festival, Digital Choc Award (InstitutFrancois), etc.

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1985
Art exhibitions and art competition R.A.P.(Radical Art Prize) at VIVRE21
1990
Ingo Gunther “Worlprofessor” Exhibition (Alternative Museum P3) *Coordinator
1991
ARTLAB (ARTLAB’s first commissioned exhibition) Artists: Complesso Plastico, Kodai Nakahara, Miran Fukuda (TEPIA, Tokyo)
Rolf Julius “wind” Exhibition (P3 Art & Environment) *Co-curated with
Nobushige Komatsu + Keitetsu Murai
1992
ARTLAB2 Artists: Gerald van der Kaap, Mission Invisible (New Pier Hall,Tokyo)
1993
ARTLAB Open Collaboration Exhibition “PSYCHOSCAPE” (Artists: Bulbous
Plants, DTI(Digital Therapy Institute), Hideaki Motoki (O Art Museum, Tokyo)
ARTLAB3 “Perceptual Arena” by Ulrike Gabriel (Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)
1994
ARTLAB4 “LOVERS” by Teiji Furuhashi (Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)
1995
ARTLAB-Prospect 1 Exhibition “TERRAIN” by Ulrike Gabriel (Tochoji Auditorium, Tokyo)
ARTLAB5 “Molecular Clinic 1.0 on the Internet” by Seiko Mikami (online)
1996
ARTLAB6 “Molecular Informatics - morphogenic substance via eye-tracking”
by Seiko Mikami (Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)“Atopic Site” Exhibition (Tokyo Big Site) *co-curated with Hiroshi Kashiwagi,Kenjiro Okazaki, Naoyuki Takashima, Akira Tatehata
1997"Maniacs of Disappearance” (The Japan Foundation, touring exhibition) *cocurated with Kazunao Abe
ARTLAB7 “IO_DENCIES - Questioning Urbanity” by Knowbotic Research(Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)
ARTLAB-Prospect2 Exhibition “Virtual Cage” by Christian Moeller (TochojiAuditorium, Tokyo)
Christian Moeller “Sound Garden” Exhibition (Co-organized by Wacoal Art
Center + Goethe Institut Tokyo @ Spiral, Tokyo) *co-curated with KazunaoAbe
1998
ARTLAB Special Exhibition “LOVERS (Teiji Furuhashi) / frost frames (ShiroTakatani)” (Spiral, Tokyo)
ARTLAB8 “SoundCreatures” by Kouichirou Eto (Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)
1998-2002
Guest Curator of Shiseido CyGnet (commissioned 5 works: EastEdge “Tyrell.Hungary”, exonemo “DISCODER”, Milica Tomic “i am milica tomic”, JODI“%wrongbrowser.co.jp", doubleNegatives “plaNet Former”
1999
ARTLAB-Prospect3 Exhibition “Ultima Ratio” by Daniela Alina Plewe (Spiral,Tokyo)
ARTLAB9 “Connecting Re-body” by Atsuhito Sekiguchi (Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)
Mischa Kuball “Power of Codes - Space for Speech” (Co-organized by Tokyo
National Museum+Goethe Institut Tokyo), Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo)*First contemporary art project in the oldest museum in Japan
1999-2001
Network member of artist initiative Command N (Co-curated “Akihabara TV2”,curated exonemo’s “DISCODER: Installation version”, talk events).
2000
ARTLAB-Prospect4 Exhibition “DRIVE” by Jordan Crandall (Spiral, Tokyo)“Protocollision - online collaboration of Dutch and Japanese net projects” *cocurated with Kazunao Abe + CELL Rotterdam
ARTLAB10 “polar” by Carsten Nicolai + Marko Peljhan (Hillside Plaza, Tokyo)
2001-2005“Kingdom of Piracy” (online + toured to Taipei, Linz, Rotterdam, Liverpool,Tokyo, San Francisco by adding new works) *co-curated with Shu Lea
Cheang, Armin Medosch
2002
Mori Art Museum pre-opening project “OPEN MMIND” (CD-extra + Live
Performance, Roppongi THINKZONE, Tokyo）
2003
YCAM Opening Project “Amodal Suspension” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer(Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]. Yamaguchi)“Homme et Robot” (Co-organized by the Japan Foundation + Maison de laCulture du Japon à Paris, Paris) *Exhibition Coordinator

2004
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov “Where is Our Place?” Exhibition (Mori Art Museum,Tokyo)
SONARSOUND EXTRA 2004 (Yebisu Garden Place 10th Anniversary Event),
Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo)“Yukiko Shikata Evening: EnigmaAnagma” (Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam)
2005“Open Nature” Exhibition (NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo)“MobLab - Japan Germany Media Camp” (“Germany in Japan 2005-06”)(Coorganized by MobLab Committee + Goethe Institut Tokyo) *Director
2006“Connecting Worlds” Exhibition (NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC],Tokyo)
2007
ICC 10th Anniversary Session Series Vol.1〜5 (Planning & Directing
Symposiums,Workshops, Lives, Demo-party)
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takataki “LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible…” Exhibition (NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo)
2008“Light [In]Sight” Exhibition (NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo)

2009-2010“Mission G: Sensing the Earth” Exhibition (NTT InterCommunication
Center[ICC], Tokyo)
2009
Coop Himmelb[l]au “FUTURE REVISITED” Exhibition (NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo)
2010
Media Art Festival “Interferenze Seeds Tokyo（IST）2010” (VACANT, Tokyo)*Director
Carsten Nicolai + Marko Peljhan “polar m[mirrored]” (YCAM, Yamaguchi) *cocurated with Kazunao Abe
Workshop Program at Incheon Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea) *co-curated with Art Center Nab
2011“Past/Present/Future of Plastics” Exhibition (100th Anniversary exhibition ofSumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.) (Science Museum, Tokyo)

2012Young Media Artists Joint Tag “Focus and Flows” (Mitsuru Tokisat Exhibition +Tai Doshita Exhibition) (art space kimura ASK? + ASK?P“Possible Water - Future as Commons” Exhibition (Goethe Institut Tokyo)
7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale “Media City Seoul 2012” (SeoulCity Museum, Korea) *co-curated
UBERMORGEN “KRAFT - School of Energy” Exhibition (3331 Arts Chiyoda,Tokyo)
Kenshu Shintsubo “＼Landscape+” Exhibition (Hillside Forum, Tokyo)
2013-2015“ATSUKOBAROUGH arts drinks talk” gallery (Opening Advisor, curated 7exhibitions)2013“Money after Money - Credit Game 2013” Exhibition (Organizer: MAM @ Eyeof GYRE, Tokyo)
2014
Media Art Festival “AMIT（Art, Media and I, Tokyo）2014” (Art Fair Tokyo)*Director
SIAF (Sapporo International Art Festival) 2014 *Associate Curator
2015
Media Art Festival “AMIT（Art, Media and I, Tokyo）2015” (Maru Cube inMaru Building, OAZO, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Nakadori Street, Tokyo)*Director
Nikolaus Gayrhalter’s Film “Homo Sapiens” *Japan Coordinator
2016
Media Art Festival “AMIT（Art, Media and I, Tokyo）2016” (Marunouchi Maru
Cube in Maru Building, Tokyo) *Director
Swiss Embassy’s “DADA 100th” project (Advisor, curator).
“DA DA * DA!: Hacking Art x Life” Exhibition (Goethe Institut Tokyo)“Synthetic Nature” Exhibition *co-curated (Organized by WRO Center,Wroclau, Poland)
Screening program “Meta Ecologies. The World inside Us” (Organized by
WRO Center, Wroclau, Poland)
KENPOKU ART 2016 (International Art Festival covering 5 cities and one
town of northern Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) *Curator
2017
Media Art Festival “AMIT（Art, Media and I, Tokyo）2017” (Marunouchi Maru
Cube in Maru Building, Tokyo) *Director
Solo Exhibition series “Critical Selfies” (Mitsuru Tomisato, Shota Yamauchi,Maaya Miki @ gallery to plus, Tokyo）
2018“Connecting Datascape” Exhibition (xLAB + AMIT2018, Miraikan, Tokyo)
Ibaraki Kenroku Art Village - Art Project *Curatorial Advisor
Planning Director of Tokyo Biennale 2020
“Open Water” research project *Director
Research of “Mecenat Archive Project of Media Art in Japan
1985-2005” (Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Supported byAgency of Cultural Affairs, Japan) *Researcher
2019
Research of “Mecenat Archive Project of Media Art in Japan” (Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Supported by Agency of Cultural Affairs,Japan) *Researcher
2020
AICA Japan 2020 Symposium “Culture/Earth/Transformation - The World toCome and The Emergence of New Art” (online @ DOMMUNE.COM)*Executive Committee Chairperson and moderator MMFS (Micro Media Festival Seeds) 2020 (DOMMUNE.COM) *Director"Open Water Committee" "Open Water" Trial Event｜Fuyuki Yamakawa Live
Performance "DOMBRA”, on water in Tokyo Harbor, November 29"Forking Piragene" in "Lab Kill Lab", C-Lab, Taipei *co-curated with Shu Lea
Cheang2021
Essay series「Ecosophic Future」（ongoing @HILLSLIFE.jp）
Online talk series "Pacific Art Network (PAN)" (February, March, April) *Cohosted with Tsubasa Kato, Goro Murayama"MINAMISANRIKU = HAGUE SPECIAL ART EXPERIMENT ZONE(SAEZ)" (Online + Minamisanriku Learning Center "Iriyado", Minamisanriku)*curator
Kick-off Forum "Imagination as a form of " (ALTERNATIVE KYOTO Festival)(The Museum of Kyoto + Online) *Co-planner and moderator

Next Ten Millennia Club "eKou (Art talk)" (5 times series): "Joseph Beuys andPublic Creation" (June) / "Fossa Maguna and Suwa & Southern Yatsugatake
Volcanic Group" (July) / "“Life and Spiritual World of Jomon Middle Age Research of Idojiri Archeological Museum” (August) / "World View based on
Nature Worship - including Mishakuji” (September) *Co-hosted with Keijiro
Niino (with guest speaker except June)"Energies in the Rural (EIR)", ACAC Aomori x Liminaria (South Italy) *Curator
Yoichi Kamimura + Elena Tutatchikova "Land and Beyond" Exhibition" (POLAMUSEUM ANNEX) *Curator
Akihide Saito Solo Exhibition "Tokyo Gravel" (Organizer: Open Water
Committee, venue: iwao gallery)
Forum “Energies as Spirit - Stones, Water, Forest, Human” ” Chino, Nagano
Prefecture *Planning Director“Sen to Rasen to, (Lines and Spirals)” @ 500m Museum, Sapporo *Co-curator

Notes:- ARTLAB exhibition was co-curated with Kazunao Abe.
- At ICC, co-curated: “Art meets Media - Adventures in Perception” Exhibition, Annual
Exhibition “Open Space” (2006-2009), emerging artists exhibition “emergencies!”(founder and curated 5 exhibitions: Naoko K. Yamakawa, Hitomi Tada, Satoru Higa,
Akihiko Taniguchi and voice.zero).
- At Mori Art Museum, worked for “HAPPINESS” (opening exhibition, 2003),“Roppongi Crossing” (2004), public screening at "TOHO CINEMAS xMAM” (monthly screening in 2 locations in cinema complex in Roppongi Hills,Tokyo, 2003-2004)