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Ippei Ogura


 
1972 Born in Gunnma / Japan
1995 Bachelor of Arts, in Plastic Art and Mixed Media at the Tsukuba University, Ibaraki / Japan
1998 Completed applied education in the Art and Media Lab course at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu / Japan
Since 2000 Part-time lectureship for the Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
 
Creative activities
Since 1997 started the project with sound performance "assong for microphone inside the body" to amplify sounds of body and 'radiate' them to the listener (observer).
Since 1997 produces sounds for the project "Only white deep white". Composed for the installation "Only white deep white - between darkness and light", Trinitatischurch, Cologne / Germany1997, installation "Only white deep white - beyond the eye", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn / Germany, 1997-98 and CD-ROM "Only white deep white - Perceived space", 1998
 
Solo exhibitions / performance
1997 "assong for microphone inside the body" 1st performance, 'Festival Beyond Innocence', Zebec Hall,Kobe / Japan
1997 "assong for microphone inside the body" 2nd performance, 'U.S.A./Japan InterCollege Computer Music Festival' , NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC),Tokyo / Japan
1998 "assong for microphone inside the body" 3rd performance, at gallery Canolfan,Nagoya / Japan
2000 Installation "shadows of sounds", the exhibition "MA - 20 years on", The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,Tokyo / Japan
 
Group exhibitions,other activities
1996 Voice Performance on "Clear Stream Temple" by Zbigniew Karkowski in the CD 'Sonderangebot' Staalplaat / Discordia 12505
1996 Installation "Interdependent System"collaborated with Kyo Akabane, Akiko Tamai at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu / Japan
1997 Co-worked as the MIDI System Engineer on "Music Plays Images x Images Plays Music", by Toshio Iwai / Ryuichi Sakamoto at 'ARS Electronica', Linz, Austria
1998 Presented "assong for microphone inside the body"as co-performer on 'Tadasu Takamine Performance', Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima / Japan
 
Awards
1994 Awarded the Apple Computer Prize and Kodai Nakahara Prize in Sony Art Artist Audition as a member of the Tropical Sisters, Tokyo / Japan
1997 Awarded the DEP Passport Prize in Sony Digital Entertainment Program as a member of IAMAS Development 4th Division, Tokyo / Japan


Data :

<<assong for microphone inside the body>> , IAMAS, Gifu / Japan (mov, 4,874k)
<<assong for microphone inside the body>> , Gallery Conolfan, Nagoya / Japan (mov, 1,175k)
<<shadows of sounds>>,  "MA - 20 years on," The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (mp3, 336k)