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Yoichi Ochiai

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Yoichi Ochiai

Media artist, born in 1987, started working as an artist around 2010. His work is based on the motifs of materialization, transformation, and the longing for physicality in the Digital Nature. Associate Professor at Tsukuba University and he has served as a producer of the theme project for Japan EXPO 2025 in Osaka and Kansai. His works include the photography collection Sehnsucht nach Masse (amana, 2019) and the NFT work Re-Digitalization of Waves (foundation, 2021).

2016 PrixArsElectronica Honor Award, STARTSPrize from the EU, 2019 SXSW Winner of the creativeExperienceARROWAwards, Apollo Magazine 40 UNDER 40 ART andTECH, Asia Digital Art Award for Excellence, and many works recommended by the Jury Committee of the Japan MediaArts Festival Art Division.

Major solo exhibitions include Im age and Matter (Malaysia, 2016), Reminiscence of the Unknown (Shibuya Marui MODI, Tokyo, 2020), - Transformation of Material Things- (Hong Kong Arts Center, 2021), Kusakabe Folk Craft Museum Special Exhibition (Gifu, 2021-2025), Resonance of the Null: Interconnected Emptiness in Digital Nature (Kiyoharu Art Colony Museum of the Light, Yamanashi, 2023), Divine Duality: Sushi, Null, and the Eel Dragon in Edo’s Cyclical Time and Space (Brillia Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2024), etc.

Permanent exhibitions include Naturally Digital and Digitally Natural (Miraikan, Tokyo, 2019); other exhibitions include SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Ars Electronica Festival(Linz, Austria, 2015-2021), AI More Than Human (Barbican Center, UK, 2019), Osana Gokoro wo Kimi ni (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 2020), ART for SDGs: Kitakyushu Art Festival Imagining Our Future (KITAKYUSHU MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & HUMAN HISTORY, Fukuoka, Japan, 2021), Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (Osaka, Japan, 2022-2023), and many others.

Executive Director of The New Japan Islands 2019 to 2023, Director of Trilateral Arts Festival 2021, Director of the Yoichi Ochiai x Japan Philharmonic Project 2018 to 2022, and collaborator in many other fields.