Senseless Drawing Bot
So Kanno & Takahiro Yamaguchi, Senseless Drawing Bot, 2011.
Installation view.
Image courtesy © So Kanno & Takahiro Yamaguchi
Senseless Drawing Bot
So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi
So Kanno
b. 1984, Japan
Lives and work in Berlin
Trained at the Musashino Art University, as well as, the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Japan, So Kanno has developed an art practice that challenges, often with a touch of irony, some aspects related to technology today, such us the relation between signal and noise, error and glitch. His work has been the subject of multiple presentations including the Japan Media Art Festival Sukagawa in Fukushima, the Ars Electronica in Linz, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Nemo International Biennial of Digital Arts in Paris, at Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence and at the YCAM in Yamaguchi. He is the recipient of many prizes and special mentions such as the Japan Media Art, Ars Electronica, among the others. He is also lecturer at the Zokei University Media Design and the Polytechnic University both in Tokyo.
Takahiro Yamaguchi
Born in Chigasaki, Kanagawa. Graduated from Graduate School of Art and Design, Tama Art University in 2009. Making artworks using digital media as medium. And those works having keywords such as public nature and character representation as concept. Got the new face award in Japan Media Art Festival 2012. Recently participate in Mediacity Seoul 2012 (Seoul, Korea) and many national/international festivals