Matsuo Kunihiko is a multimedia artist based in Tokyo and specializes in interactive technology,audio-visual design and contemporary dance. He is a founder of CMprocess. Also he is a core member of Nest, a multimedia performance group in Japan.
1969 born in Mito Japan
1992 B.A. in chinese literature at Waseda University Tokyo.
1992 participated in [intermedia performance unit nest] as dancer/conceptual designer /sound designer.
1998 began a project [CMprocess]-technologies for generative performance.
2003 [CMprocess] won DiVA2003 prize in DiVA(Digital, Interactive and Visual Arts) exhibition in Tokyo.
2004 [Breathing Braunschweig] won first prize in the international ideas competition "The Presence of Time - City Architecture Art for Braunschweig"
Contact
E-mail : matsuo@cmprocess.com
Recent works
[selected performance works]
1997.01 [Nest] Presented performance "Syntax Error" (at BALLROOM DAIKANYAMA / Tokyo)
1997.03 [Nest] performance "UT" in Ljubljana (at MLADINSKO THEATER)
1998.01 [Nest] Presented performance "Circulation Module" invited to NEXT DANCE FESTIVAL 97 (at PARK TOWER HALL / Tokyo)
1999.03 [Nest] Presented "SINE WAVE FILTER" invited to The 21st Century Arts Series (at LAFORET MUSEUM ROPPONGI / Tokyo)
2000.03 [Nest] performance "Circulation Module" in Munich invited to festival "dance 2000" (at Muffathalle / Munich)
2000.07 [Nest] Presented performance "LinkAge" - collaboration work with Dancegroep Kristina de Chatel invited to "Julidans" festival (at Paradiso / Amsterdam)
2001.03 [Nest] performance "[pm01:00-pm05:00]" collaboration work with Tsuyoshi Ozawa in Kawasaki (at Taro Okamoto Musium / Kawasaki)
2001.10 [Nest] performance "Circulation Module" in Helsinki invited to festival"ARS01" (at KIASMA theater / Helsinki)
2002.03 [Nest] performance "LinkAge" in Wellington invited to "new zealand festival" (at SHED 6 / Wellington)
2002.08 [Nest] Presented performance "zbb" invited to festival "JADE 2002" (at WOMB / Tokyo)
2003.03 [Nest] Presented installation "[coded:decoded]" (at foo, Goethe Institute Tokyo, SPIRAL etc.)
2003.06 [Sal Vanilla] Realtime Video Rendering for "[lap top orchestra]/[inter/action]" (at roppongi hills arena / Tokyo)
2003.10 [Sal Vanilla] Realtime Video Rendering for "[inter/action]" (at Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay / Singapore)
2003.10 [cell/66b] Realtime Video Rendering for "test patches"(at Hoam Art Hall / Seoul)
2004.12 Presented performance "Shiteki Kaibou Jikken2.2+" - collaboration work with Natsuko Teduka (at UPLINK GALLERY / Tokyo)
2004.02 Presented performance "REFLECTIONS" - collaboration work with Attakkalari/Jayachandran Palazhy (at st johns auditrium / Bangalore)
2004.02 Realtime Video Rendering for performance "Man Dance" - collaboration work with Chris Lechner ,Lior Lev,Thomas Mettler,Christos Strinopoulos (at st johns auditrium / Bangalore)
2004.07 Presented performance "[coded:decoded]" - collaboration work with Alessio Silvestrin, Ludovic Xasdera, mjuc,Electroacoustic Jazz Trio (at ICC /Tokyo)
2004.07 Presented performance "amplified" - collaboration work with Josef Hyde, Kazuyasu Kochi, Giga Hidume, Ao, Kenji Kikuchi (at Spiral Hall / Tokyo ,at YCAM / Yamaguchi)
2004.10 [Sal Vanilla] Presented performance "amplified - Sal Vanilla version" (at HK cultural centre / Hong Kong)
2005.10 [Nest] Presented performance "Vanishing Points30" invited to festival "Dance Selection" (at Oribe hall / Tokyo)
2006.01 [Nest] Realtime Video Rendering for performance "Color Schemed Shadow" (at BankArt Yokohama / Yokohama)
2006.02 Presented performance "Purushartha" - collaboration work with Attakkalari center for movement arts (at Attakkalari studio / Bangalore)
2006.09 Presented performance "[c-e]" - collaboration work with Miki Sato - invited to festival "Dance Exhibition 2006" (at New National Theatre / Tokyo)
selected workshops of CMprocess/Nest
2000.02 Conversation Program at Kyozon / Tokyo
2000.03 Conversation Program in Lincoln U.S.
2000.08 Conversation Program in『WORLD DANCE 2000 TOKYO』
2001.07 Conversation Program at Morishita Studio / Tokyo
2001.10 recture & demonstration at Kunst-Werke / Berlin
2004. 01 recture & demonstration in [FACETS2004] / Bangalore
2004.05 Max/MSP Jitter media workshop at UPLINK GALLERY / Tokyo
2004.08 participated in "Dance and Media Japan 2004 Joseph Hyde's media workshop" as workshop leader (Tokyo / Yamaguchi / Kyoto)
2004.08-10 Max/MSP Jitter media workshop at UPLINK GALLERY / Tokyo
2005. 11 invited from DIGITAL CULTURES LAB. in Nottingham Nottingham Trent Univ. (Nottingham / UK)
2006. 01 recture & demonstration in [FACETS2006] / Bangalore
