Gamma_PRO conference will be held in St. Petersburg for the third time
In 2020 professional program of Gamma Festival – Gamma_PRO conference – will be held in St. Petersburg for the third time in a new one-day format.
On July 10, 2020, international participants of the conference will present and discuss global trends of the festival movement, as well as tendencies in contemporary culture, music production, science, technology and innovative business. More details about speakers will be revealed soon. The final accent of Gamma_PRO 2020 will be live AV performance “subassemblies” by Japanese artist and musician Ryoichi Kurokawa, world’s legend of the AV scene. In his new work, “subassemblies”, Ryoichi explores the relationship between the concepts of nature and human-made, also drawing the viewer’s attention to the transition of the phenomena of abstract and concrete. Audio and visual concordance is key in Kurokawa’s works, he is a true poet of the transformative visuality.
The performance of Ryoichi Kurokawa is supported by the Consulate General of Japan in St. Petersburg. The curator of Gamma_PRO conference is Natalia Fuchs (ARTYPICAL).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktaNefhRR0&feature=youtu.be
RYOICHI KUROKAWA (Japan, Osaka)
Japanese artist, born in 1978, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Kurokawa’s works take on multiple forms such as installation works, recordings, and concert pieces. He composes the time sculpture with the field recordings and the digital generated structures, and reconstructs architecturally the audiovisual phenomenon. In recent years, his works are shown across the world at international festivals and museums including TATE Modern[UK], Centre Pompidou[FR], Venice Biennale[IT] , Palais de Tokyo[FR], ARS Electronica[AT], Mutek[CA/MX/JP], Minsheng Art Museum[CN], YCAM[JP], EMPAC[US], National Centre for Contemporary Arts[RU], LABoral[ES], FACT[UK], Palais des Beaux-Arts[BE], Transmediale[DE], ACC[KR], Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton[FR] and Sonar[ES/UK/JP]. In 2010, he was awarded the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
– fluxes, K11, Wuhan, 2018
– al-jabr, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, 2018
– objectum, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2018
– unfold, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2018
– A la llum de les idee, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2016
– unfold, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, 2016
– Ordered Disorder, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, 2015
Selected Group Exhibitions
– Welcome! You Are Connected!, “ground”, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon, 2019
– Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, “ad/ab Atom”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019
– Coder le monde, “unfold.alt”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2018
– The Dream of Forms, “mol”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
– ACC_R, “node 5:5”, ACT/ACC (Asia Culture Center), Gwangju, 2016
– Adelaide Festival, “34º55’11”S 138º35’53”E”, Adelaide Festival Center, Adelaide, 2015
– BIAN, “rheo: 5 horizons”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, 2014
– Digitalife, “ground”, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Rome Testaccio, Roma, 2013
– Elastic Reality, “mol”, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, 2013
– Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, “rheo: 5 horizons Projection ver.”, BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Brussels, 2012
– Scopitone, “mol”, e Lieu Unique, Nantes, 2012
– Turbulences, “rheo: 5 horizons”, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2012
– Panorama, “mol”, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, 2012
– The 54th Venice Biennale – One of a thousand ways to defeat entropy, “Octfalls”, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, 2011
– EXIT, “ground”, Maison des Arts Créteil, Créteil, 2011
– ARS Electronica, “rheo: 5 horizons”, Tabakfabrik, Linz, 2010
– Eye of the City, “scentless”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, 2008
Selected Concerts
– MUTEK JP, “subassemblies”, Line Cube Shibuya, Tokyo, 2019
– ARS Electronica, “subassemblies”, Postcity, Linz, 2019
– ACT Festival, “syn_”, ACT/ACC, Gwangju, 2015
– RCVM, “syn_ “, HARPA, Reykjavik, 2014
– NEMO, “syn_ “, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, 2013
– MUTEK, “syn_”, Metropolis, Montreal, 2013
– EMPAC, “syn_” EMPAC, Troy, 2013
– TodaysArt, “syn_”, Lucent Danstheater, The Hague, 2012
– SonarSound Tokyo, “syn_”, ageHa | Studio Coast, Tokyo, 2012
– YCAM | sound tectonics, “Rheo”, YCAM, Yamaguchi, 2011
– Rencontres Internationales, “Rheo”, REINA SOFIA National Museum, Madrid, 2010
– Lexus. Hybrid Art”, “celeritas”, Vetoshny, Moscow, 2010
– National Theater Concert Hall, Theatre piece “celeritas”, National Theater Concert Hall, Taipei, 2009
– SONAR, “Parallel Head”, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 2009
– Transmediale/CTM, “Parallel Head”, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2009
– Sonic Acts, “Parallel Head”, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2008
– Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille”, “cm: av_c”, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, 2007
– synthesis, “cm: av_c”, TATE MODERN, London, 2007
– ARS Electronica, “cm: av_c”, Brucknerhaus, Linz, 2006
– MUTEK, “cm: av_c”, Ex-Centris, Montreal, 2006
Awards and Fellowships
– Director, Kinetic Media Lab/ACT, ACC (Asia Cultural Center), Gwangju, 2016
– Guset Professor/Invited Artist, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, 2011-12
– Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica, Digital Musics & Sound Art category, Linz, 2010
Tickets for Gamma festival and Gamma_PRO conference are available at https://gammafestival.ru/