Name
河口 洋一郎 かわぐち よういちろう KAWAGUCHI Yoichiro
Job Title
Artist and emeritus professor of the University of Tokyo.
Birth
April 01, 1952
Area
Tokyo
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Born on Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, Yoichiro Kawaguchi began research in creating designs using programming and computer graphics in 1976, just as the age of computer graphics was beginning, and went on to garner international attention with his unique works drawing on technological methods based on mathematical algorithms. From around year 2000, Kawaguchi’s research project exploring interactive art, “Gemotion,” became one of the pioneer projects that opened the way to the world of VR and AR application and projection mapping. He was a participating artist at the Japan Pavilion for the 1995 Venice Biennale, and has received a number of major awards in international contests since the 1980s, including a L’Oréal Art & Science Foundation Grand Prize, the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement at ACM Siggraph 2010, and a Prix D’Honneur at the festival Bains Numériques in France in 2018. In the same year he was also inducted into the Siggraph Academy. The awards he has received in Japan include the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize, and the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, both in 2013. He was a founder of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Japan Media Arts Festival and first chair of the overall judging panel, and currently holds positions as chairman of the Digital Content Association of Japan, director of the Kirishima Open-Air Museum, and chairs numerous judging panels for media-related contests, among other roles.
Source: ggg HP Exhibition Archive "Yoichiro Kawaguchi: THE INTELLIGENCE OF LIFE"
KAWAGUCHI Yoichiro
1952–
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