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Motomichi Nakamura was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York he moved to Ecuador where he started working as an artist. He returned to the U.S. in 2000 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
The subjects in his work often reflect a conflictive nature and can be frightening yet humorous, part human and part monsters. They can also appear at once childlike. The use of color in both his digital work and in his paintings is limited to black, red and white.
His digital animation work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC and has appeared in the Sundance and the Onedotzero film festivals. He has performed his live video/animation mix at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and at other recognized venues in the U.S. and Europe. Recent collaboration work includes music videos with Swedish band The Knife and with Otto von Schirach.
If you have any questions, comments about my work, please email me at motomichi_nakamura@yahoo.com.
Thanks!
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Platform Animation Film Festival, Animated Installation, Portland, U.S. |
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Grizzly Proof, Flux Factory, New York, U.S. |
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Fantasy Island 3, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada |
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Faith Exposure, Monte Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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FILE Rio 2007, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Scope New York, New York, U.S. |
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Rembrandt Screen, Rembrandt Screen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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FILE 2006, SESI gallery, São Paulo City, Brazil |
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Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Flux Factory Auction & Gala 2006, Lennon, Weinberg gallery, New York, U.S. |
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Rhizome Artbase 101, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, U.S. |
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wellROUNDED, Spring3D Gallery, New York, U.S. |
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DIGIT NO DIGIT, AC/APA/CPP Galerie, Bordeaux, France |
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FILE 2005 : the Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo,Brazil |
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new media: what, Neuberger Museum of Art,
New York, U.S. - Curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff |
| 2005 |
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Post Notes, ICA, Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London, U.K. - Curated by Adam Carr in collaboration
with ICA Exhibitions |
| 2004 |
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Pictoplasma: Permanent Loops in Videolounge,
Berlin, Germany. - Curated by Pictoplasma |
| 2003 |
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Kids are us - I Bambini Siamo Noi, Galleria
Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy - Curated by Maurizio
Sciaccaluga |
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Ctrl_0 Exposition Collective, La Ink,
Toulouse, France |
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File 2003, Sala Cultura Inglesa do Centro Brasileiro
Británico, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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Parole, parole, parole, Galleria Civica di
Arte Contemporanea; Trento, Italy |
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Rendez-Vous Electronique, Beaubourg Contemporary
Art Center, Paris, France |
| 2001 |
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Korea Web Art Festival 2001, Seoul, South Korea
- curated by Heavy Industries |
| 2001 |
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The Art Directors Club 80th Traveling Exhibition,
U.S., Europe, Asia, South America |
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The Violence of Tone, w139 Gallery, Amsterdam,
Netherlands |
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Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York |
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Visuelt ’07, Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway |
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Festival della Creatvità, Fortezza da Basso di Firenze, Florence, Italy |
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Sound and Motions, Monkey Town, New York,
U.S. |
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MOMA Family Event, Modern Museum of Art, New York, U.S. |
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Audio Visual Performance, The Neuberger Museum of Art,
New York, U.S. |
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MOMA Family Event, Modern Museum of Art, New York, U.S. |
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Cartoombria 2005, Perugia, Italy |
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Reel Asian 2004, Toronto, Canada |
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Visuelt ’07, Oslo, Norway |
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53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany |
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Best of 2006 Stash DVD, The Museum of the Moving Image, New York, U.S. |
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Res Fest 10, U.S., Europe, Asia, South America |
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Holland Animation FIlm Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, England |
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Onedotzero 10, London, England |
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Sónar CINEMA 2005, Barcelona, Spain |
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Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Pictoplasma design and animation screening program |
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Res Screening Series 2, Hollywood |
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Sundance Online Film Festival, Park City |
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New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center Plaza,
New York |
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GenArt Ignite, New York |
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Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004, Bilbao, Spain |
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Viper International Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland |
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Darklight Digital Film Festival 4, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2002 |
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Sundance Online Film Festival, Park City |
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Cinegrafias Encontro Internacional de Animaçao
Digital e Media Arte, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2002 |
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MFA Film Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| 2001 |
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Sundance Online Film Festival, Park City |
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| Digitalcraft, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt,
Germany |
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Pictoplasma 3 (Book), by Pictoplasma, Berlin, Germany, 2007 |
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Best Of Submarine (DVD), by Submarine Channel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007 |
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Monstruos & Maestros (Book), by Concrete hermit, London, UK, 2007 |
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Motion Blur2 (DVD), by Onedotzero, London, UK, 2007 |
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RELINE 2 (DVD), by Reline, San Francisco, U.S., 2006 |
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STASH vol.13 (DVD), by Stash Media, Vancouver, Canada, 2005 |
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Pictoplasma - Characters in Motion (DVD), by Pictoplasma, Berlin, Germany, 2005 |
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Internet Art, by Rachel Green, published by
Thames & Hudson, UK, 2004 |
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VJ Book, published by D-Fuse + Lumens / D7,
UK and San Francisco, 2004 - upcoming |
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Visual Niches - extraordinary music videos,
DVD compilation Series published by E-motions, Germany, 2003 |
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"Motomichi Nakamura", Submarine Channel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006 |
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"Monsters", Étapes Magazine, France, 2006 |
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"Motomichi Nakamura", Pixelsurgeon, U.S., 2005 |
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"Reboot", ATOMICA, U.S., 2005 |
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"Motomichi Nakamura: Japanese digital artist
in New York", DVJ Magazine, Japan, 2004 |
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"Motomichi Nakamura interview", Rhizome.org,
New York, 2004 |
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"Interview with Motomichi Nakamura", X-Funs,
Taiwan, 2004 |
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"Digital Stadium", NHK BS TV, Japan, 2004 |
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"Webslinky: Dark sites", BBC Art, UK, 2004 |
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"2004 Sundance Online Film Festival", Guardian
Online, UK, 2004 |
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"Da Cattelan a Murakami i bambini sono loro",
La Stampa, Italy, 2003 |
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"Instant Soup", TRAX Magazine, France, 2003 |
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"La nuit manga", Paris Première, France, 2003 |
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"Patchwork", Étapes Magazine, France, 2003 |
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"Feuilleton", Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung,
Germany, 2002 |
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"Flash short films", Arte-TV, Germany, 2002 |
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"Sundance Online Festival", Sundance Channel,
Park City, 2001 |
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"L' heur, du Qrime", Libération, France, 2001 |
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Lecturer, Visuelt '07, Oslo, Norway |
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Workshop Lecturer, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway |
| 2006 |
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Lecturer, Pictoplasma Conference, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 |
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Lecturer, Netart Initiative and Intelligent Agent, Jihui Salon, Parsons School of Design, NY, U.S. |
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Lecturer, Cartoombria 2004, Perugia, Italy |
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Interactive Design Professor, Pratt Institute, New York, U.S. |
| 2001 |
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Lecturer, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, U.S. |
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Platform International Animation Festival, Best Music Video, Portland, 2007 |
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Adobe Motion Award, Kuroda/Uchiyama Award, Tokyo, 2006 |
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The 80th Art Directors Annual, Distinctive Merit Award New Media, New York, 2001 |
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Finalist - Animation category - SXSW Interactive Festival, TX, 2002 |
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| MTV Networks, Sony Electronics Inc, VH1, Scifi Channel, NTT DoCoMo, Electric Arts, Vodafone, The Knife |
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