Taisuke MURAKAMI
Lives and works in Aichi and Kyoto, Japan.
1969 born in Kyoto, Japan.
After pursuing media art research at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences(IAMAS) and obtaining a Master of Media Arts, he created “Contact Water”—a piece that applies Augmented Reality —at Mixed Reality Systems Laboratory Inc., a joint investment company of the Japan Key Technology Center and Canon Inc., and received the 5th Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award. Thereafter, he researched media art and developmental disabilities in a doctoral course at the Kyoto City University of Arts, because of which, he created a device called the “Ear Ball for Empathy,” in which one can experience for themselves the auditory experience of developmental disabilities, and presented it at the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, etc. Currently, he is pursuing research that has media art and neurodiversity as its theme.
Education
1998 Media master, IAMAS（Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), Gifu, Japan.
2013 Doctor of Fine arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan.
Prize (selection)
2001 “Contact Water”, “5th Japan Media Arts Festival”, Excellence Award(Interactive Art Division), Japan.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2009 “ARBRE”, “ATELIERS SCOLAIRES AUTOUR DE L’OEUVRE ARBRE”Exhibition, Le CUBE, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
2007 “Seven-color crayon”,”Play with Media! Light, Color, and Form”,Nisshin City Kakuyama Welfare Hall, Aichi, Japan.
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2022 “Spectrum Reality Case:Baby”,”Expression of images in virtual space”Exhibition, Aichi University of the Arts, Aichi, Japan.
2017-18 “Ear Ball for Empathy”,”Are you talking to me ?” Exhibition,UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Enghien-les-Bains and Saint-Etienne, France.
2012 “Design for Empathy”, “Exhibition of the Works of Doctoral Students at KCUA”, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan.
2008 “Signal Castanets”,”Exotic – sensory: inbound/outbound” Exhibition,Aichi Children’s Center, Aichi, Japan.
2001 “Contact Water”, “N-SPACE” Exhibition, SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.