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<Biography>
Scenographer /media artist, Den Haag The Netherlands based, Born in Tokyo Japan 1980.
She holds an MA in ArtScience 2009 from the Royal Conservatoire, Den Haag and a BA in Architecture 2004 from Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
From early on in her architectural training and as well as her classic/contemporary ballet training, she began specializing in the creation of special installation for the performance context. Since moving to the EU in 2004, she has been concentrating on scenography and time-based art.
Her recent scenographic works are the set designs for Jiří Kylián’s "Mémoires d’Oubliettes"(2009) performed by the Nederland Dans Theater and for Pedro Gomes Goucha "DroceraCapensis"(2009) by Korzo productions. She has also worked with Daniel Schorno, Megumi Nakamura, Jérôme Meyer & Isabelle Chaffaud.
Her work combines digital material (video/photo) and textural material (fabrics/paper/elastics), processing these into her spatial installations. Under her 3d model study and Architectural investigation, her work leads to “processing space / work of touch for space”
Her recent work "Light work #6 : In Soil" has been exhibited in several exhibitions in the Netherlands, latest in March 2009 in SonicActs XIII at NIMk Amsterdam.
Her collaborative project “sentient architecture” together with Lyndsey Housden, creates transformative time-based space using a physical mapping system by flexible elastic material.
<Exhibition>
2010 Research project ‘a state of flux’ artist in residence at Scheltema (Apr - Jun, Leiden NL)
SonicActs XIII Exhibition "Light work #6 : In Soil"
(28 Feb - 2 May, Netherland Media Institute NIMk, Amsterdam NL)
Exhibition TransNatural by Multiplexart "Gardening" (19Feb – 19Mar, Trouw Amsterdam NL)
2009 Winter Wired Festival Installation "Drocera Capensis" (19 Dec, Den Haag NL)
E-pulse festival in Breda, Installation "Light work #6 : In Soil" (15 - 25 Oct, Breda NL)
Master Artscience Graduation Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art Den Haag
Installation "Light work #6 : In Soil" and Installation for Performance "transient landscapes"
(27 Jun - 4 July, KABK Den Haag NL)
Group exhibition 'Med!aphosis' (7 - 21 April, Belgrade, Serbia)
Artsience exhibition "AS IF MA" (3 - 7, February 2009, "ANNA" in Den Haag)
2003 - 2005
Graduation exhibition at Musashino Art University/Architecture dep. (Jan 2004, Tokyo JP)
Exhibition "Art site OJIYA" installation and performance (Aug 2003 Nigata JP)
Exhibition "Art site IWAMURO" installation (Mar 2003 Nigata JP)
<Production>
2010 Costume Design for dance by Syuto Yasuyuki and Megumi Nakamura
'Time Yard' Kanagawa Prefecture Art Hall
(7 Jan, Yokohama JP)
2009 Installation/scenography for Dance Performance "DroceraCapensis" by Pedro Gomes Goucha
Dance evening "Present of Past" Korzo production
(29 - 31 Oct, Den Haag NL)
Set design for ‘Mémoires d’Oubliettes’ by Jiří Kylián, The Nederland Dans Theater I
(Premièred 28, Den Haag NL)
2008 Space design for M.I.J.N. Festival in Korzo Theater in Den Haag NL (Premièred 8 May 2008)
Space design for dance production "Diable au corps" by Jérôme Meyer & Isabelle Chaffaud
(premiere 10 Jan 2008, Korzo theatre, Den Haag)
2007 Costume and set design for dance by a former NDT dancer Megumi Nakamura "Walz"
(Aug, dance campany NOISM, Nigata, Japan )
2006 space design "New Media Pocket Opera" ‘garden of dream/folie à deux ‘ by Daniel Schorno
(July, Forum Neues Musiktheater, Stuttgart, Germany)
<Education>
2007 – 2009 Artscience MA at the Royal Conservatoire, Interfaculty, Den Haag
2005 – 2006 Theatre and Film Design BA at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
2005 Short course "Introduction for Theater Design" at Central Saint Martin College, London
2000 – 2004 Architecture Design BA at Musashino Art University, Tokyo
1998 – 2000 Shinjuku Art School, Tokyo
1986 – 1998 Classic ballet, Tokyo
<Work shop>
2010 “How video images can transform space” Netherlands Media Art Institute (23 April)
Website :
www.yokoseyama.com
www.sentientarchitecture.com
Contact :
Yoko Seyama
mail (at) yokoseyama.com
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