Internationally recognized multimedia artist Mariko Mori will be speaking and demonstrating her work at the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale on October 27. Japanese born artist Mariko Mori has risen to world prominence through her avant garde work with an eclectic assortment of media, much of it cutting edge. The materials, methods and technology she uses in her genre-defying art range from computer graphics, comic strips and virtual reality to clothing, performance and fragrance. We are freer now to express in art. I like to express using new methods.
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Educated through high school in the traditional Japanese custom, Mori went on to study design at Tokyo's Bunka Fashion College. During her time at college, she did part-time modeling, an experience that was to have a profound impact on her art. She moved to London in the late 1980s and in 1992 she took up residence in New York as an independent student at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1997, Mori was a prizewinner at the Venice Biennale. She lives and works in New York and Tokyo.