Ogata Atsushi

born in 1962

media artist, videographer, visual artist, actor, director, producer

Media artist working in Tokyo, New York, and Amsterdam. He has created numerous single-channel and collaborative installation works which capture moments of unconscious connections with the environment. His works have been presented at the Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the German Federal Museum Bonn, The Venice Biennale Xenografia “93, ICC Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, as well as numerous festivals world-wide, and have been awarded in Locarno, Oberhausen, and Osnabrueck.

His most recent solo shows include “WHITE”, a DVD exhibition at Ishizaka Art in Tokyo, “LUMINA” (collaboration with C.M. Judge) at the Musee Chateau, Annecy, France, as well as commissioned video installations on the Sea of Japan for Art Front Gallery, Tokyo. Other recent commissions include “Ground Zero”, a 3-channel video installation for the World-Wide Video Festival / Melkweg, Amsterdam, and “The Dutch Touch” (with Ingeborg Houwen), a comic performance video, for De Badcuyp, Amsterdam.

Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Sponsorships/Commissions
Commission for ‘Sea of Dreams’, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo. 2002.
Commission for ‘The Dutch Touch’, De Badcuyp, Amsterdam. 2001.
Commission for 'WIPE OUT', Art Front Gallery, Tokyo. 2001.
Commission for 'GROUND ZERO', Melkweg & World-Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2000.
Commission for 'Built Space', Jan van Huizen, Leiden/ Den Haag, Netherlands. '99.
Special Mention for 'by the way', Locarno Video Festival, Switzerland. '99.
Script Development Grant, ZDF German Public TV, Germany. '97-'99.
Script Development Grant, FilmBüro NordRhein-Westfalia, Germany. '95-'96.
Commission for FOREST OF THE SPIRITS by Art Front Gallery/Japan Housing & Dev. Co, '94-'95.
Commission for KANAL 4 Anniversary Video Event, Köln, Germany. '93.
Harmony Prize for fuyu no tawamure, 39th Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany. '93.
Festival Prize (shared), IV Bienal de Video, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia. '92.
Japan Foundation Exhibition Grant for hikari, Videonale Bonn 5, Bonn, Germany. '92.
Grand Prize (shared) for timeless scent, 13th Locarno Video Festival, Switzerland. '92.
Prize for the Best German Video for timeless scent, European Media Art Festival, Germany. '92.
Fellowship Stipendium from the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln in the Dept. of Media Arts. '91-'92.
Video Communication Prize for karan koron, JVC Tokyo Video Festival. '91.
Sponsorship for IRO-IRO, by Fujitsu LImited and the Arttransition Conference at MIT. '90
Commission for KODO, by Fujitsu and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry. '90
Fujitsu Research Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. '88-'89.
TV Picture Prize for kagen, 10th Locarno Video Festival, Switzerland. '89.
Council for the Arts at MIT Project Grants, MIT, Cambridge, MA. '87, '88, '89.
Installations in collaboration with C.M. Judge
LUMINA, ImagesPassages, Museum Chateau, Annecy, France. 2000.
DEEP BREATHER, Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France. 2000.
FLUVIA, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA. '99.
FLUVIA, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, USA. '97-'98.
FLUVIA, Z Gallery, SoHo, New York. '96.
FLUVIAL DREAMS, the UMASS Lowell Gallery, Lowell, MA, USA. '96.
BENEATH THE STREAM -tokeai, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. '96.
FLUVIA, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. '96.
FLUVIA, Colonial Theater, Keene, New Hampshire, USA. '96.
FLUVIAL DREAMS -remnants of a liquid past, MonteVideo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. '95.
TRANSVAAL, World Wide Video Festival, Kijkhuis, Den Haag, the Netherlands. '93.
hikari, Videonale Bonn 5, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany. '92
IRO-IRO, Computer Museum, Boston, MA, USA. '90.
KODO, Second HARP Exhibition, TEPIA Plaza, Tokyo, Japan. '90.
hikari, MOBIUS Performance Space, Boston, MA, USA. '88-89.
Transovum, Wiesner Building, Cambridge, MA, USA. '88.
Installation in collaboration with Anna Davis
Should I go or should I stay?, Media Art LAB 7, Ujazdowski Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. '99.
Should I go or should I stay?, ICC (NTT Intercommunication Center), Tokyo. '98.
Should I go or should I stay?, International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia. '98.

Selected Video Screenings/Presentations/Exhibitions
WHITE, Ishizaka Art, Tokyo, 2002.
Toronto International Video Art Biennial, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2001.
World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum/Melkweg, Amsterdam/Den Haag. '92, '93, '95, '97, 2000.
8eme festival internatinal d'art video de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco 2001.
Instants Video Manosque, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Nice, Nice, France. 2000.
Videochroniques, Marseilles, France. 2000.
Festival Video Estavar-Llivia, Llivia, France. 2000.
Image Forum Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan. '92,'93,'94,'97, 2000, 2001,2002
VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France. '92, '97, 2000.
Microwave Festival, Hong Kong. 2000.
Global Multimedia Interface, Leicester Square, London. '99.
Media Non-Grata Festival, Tallinn, Estonia. '99.
VIPER Video Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland. '90, '92, '99.
International Festival of New Film and Video, Split, Croatia. '96,'97,'98,'99.
Locarno Video Festival, Switzerland. '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '99.
Videoarte en Holanda, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. '98.
Art Video, Le Musée Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium. '98.
tsuru no mai, Museum of Modern Art (Rockefeller Center Video Wall), New York. '97.
Animalities, MonteVideo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. '97.
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. '92, '93, '97.
International Video Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh. '97.
Goethe-Institute Video Art Tour (60 cities Europe, North/South America, Asia, Oceania)'94-96.
Electra '96, Henie Onstad, Oslo, Norway. '96.
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany. '93, '94, '95.
TV Art Channel, Kyoto International Cultural Center, Kyoto, Japan. '94.
Ars longa Video brevis, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany. '94.
German Video Art 1992-1994, Glaskasten Museum of Sculpture, Marl, Germany. '94.
Mutations de l'Image, Videotheque de Paris, Paris, France. '94.
Open-Air Video Presentation, Faret Tachikawa, Tachikawa, Japan. '94.
Intermedia 2010 Forum für Video-Kunst, Münster, Germany. '94.
Medienkunsttage Mainz, Kulturzentrum Mainz, Germany. '94.
tsuru no mai, SVT International, Swedish Television, Sweden. '94.
London Film Festival, London, United Kingdom. '93.
Xenografia, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. '93.
Festival International de Video "Cidade de Vigo", Vigo, Spain. '93, '94.
Szenen und Dokumente, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. '93.
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. '89, '90, '91, '92, '93.
Deutscher Videokunstpreis, Südwestfunk 3 Broadcast, Germany. '92,.'93.
Films for Art Festival, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. '93.
Monitor '93, Frölunda kulturhus-Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Frölunda, Sweden. '93.
Premiere Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montreal , Canada. '93.
Artec 93 Nagoya Bienale, Nagoya, Japan. '93.
AFI Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles. '91, '93.
OpenAir-Videokunstfest im Documenta-Stadtprogramm, Kassel, Germany. '92, '93.
Festival de Video de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain. '93.
WRO Sound and Image Festival, Wroclaw, Poland. '93.
Het Sinema Festival, Eldorado Centrum voor Beeldcultuur, Antwerp, Belgium. '93.
Muestra de Video Joven, Sevilla, Spain. '93.
Festival Internatzionale di Cinema e Video Indipendente, Catania, Italy. '93.
International Audio Video Experimental Festival, Arnhem, Holland. '93.
Video Art Plastique, Herouville St. Claire, France. '93.
Festival de Video de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. '93.
3eme Mondial de la Video, Bruxelles, Belgium. '93.
Mediawave International Film and Video Art Festival, Györ, Hungary. '91, '92, '93.
Fringe Film & Video Festival, Scotland, United Kingdom. '93.
Gen Lock, Geneva, Switzerland. '92.
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland. '92.
VideoEspacios, Buenos Aires, Argentina. '92.
Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland. '92
Muestra International de Video Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain. '92.
Off-Stream Festival, Rialto Cinema, Amsterdam, Holland. '92.
Atsushi Ogata/Bill Viola, Stuc, Leuven, Belgium. '92.
Zeitzeichen, Telekom-Laden, Köln, Germany. '92
Bonn Videonale, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany. '90, '92.
IV Bienal de Video, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia. '92.
VIPER Video Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland. '90, '92.
Documenta IX "Electronic Cafe", Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. '92.
The Australian International Video Festival, Sydney, Australia. '90, '91, '92.
Noc Cykad, Channel 2, Polish Television, Poland. '92.
New Visions International Festival of Film and Video, Scotland, United Kingdom. '92.
Japan '92 Video and TV Festival, Spiral Hall, Tokyo. '92.
Video Art 9, Hokkaido Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan. '91.
Im Kasten, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. '91.
Art Spot, Seibu Department Store, Funabashi-shi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. '91.
Videonale, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria. '91.
Contemporary Art Tsurugi '91, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. '91
Image Forum Cinematheque, Tokyo, Japan. '91.
Video Art Special Showing, The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Tokyo. '91.
Skicen Blok, Belgrade Independent Radio B-92, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. '91.
Boundaries, New Hampshire Experimental Works, Goffstown, New Hampshire. '91.
Mill Valley Film Festival/Videofest, Mill Valley, California. '89, '90.
Das Regime der Bilder, Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, Germany. '90.
Festival International de Cinema, TV, & Video do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil. '89.
MEDIUM RARE, Video in the Arts, Brookline Community Cable, MA. '88, '89.
New Angle International Video Festival, the Collective for the Living Cinema, New York. '89.
Archival Collection
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Fonds cantonal de decoration et d'art visuel, Geneva, Switzerland.
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Mediathek, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland.