Music I listen to: Tego Calderon, Conejo, Eazy-E, Biggie Smalls, Ivy Queen, Cafe Tacuba, Daft Punk, Zebda / Movies I like: The Remains of the Day, Natural Born Killers, Killing Zoe, Magnoria, Babel, Dumb and Dumber,The Apostle, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tony Takitani, Clockwork Orange and Kung Pow:Enter the Fist! / TV shows I like:Extras, The Office (original), The Wire and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List / Things I really really hate:Swallowtail Larva
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, don't like "Kung Pow:Enter the Fist", please email me at motomichi_nakamura@yahoo.com.
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Selected Exhibitions
2007
Platform Animation Film Festival, Animated Installation, Portland, U.S.
2007
Grizzly Proof, Flux Factory, New York, U.S.
2007
Fantasy Island 3, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2007
Faith Exposure, Monte Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007
FILE Rio 2007, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007
Scope New York, New York, U.S.
2006
Rembrandt Screen, Rembrandt Screen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
FILE 2006, SESI gallery, São Paulo City, Brazil
2006
Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Flux Factory Auction & Gala 2006, Lennon, Weinberg gallery, New York, U.S.
2005
Rhizome Artbase 101, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.
2005
wellROUNDED, Spring3D Gallery, New York, U.S.
2005
DIGIT NO DIGIT, AC/APA/CPP Galerie, Bordeaux, France
2005
FILE 2005 : the Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo,Brazil
2005
new media: what, Neuberger Museum of Art,
New York, U.S. - Curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff
2005
Post Notes, ICA, Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London, U.K. - Curated by Adam Carr in collaboration
with ICA Exhibitions
2004
Pictoplasma: Permanent Loops in Videolounge,
Berlin, Germany. - Curated by Pictoplasma
2003
Kids are us - I Bambini Siamo Noi, Galleria
Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy - Curated by Maurizio
Sciaccaluga
2003
Ctrl_0 Exposition Collective, La Ink,
Toulouse, France
2003
File 2003, Sala Cultura Inglesa do Centro Brasileiro
Británico, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002
Parole, parole, parole, Galleria Civica di
Arte Contemporanea; Trento, Italy
2001
Rendez-Vous Electronique, Beaubourg Contemporary
Art Center, Paris, France
2001
Korea Web Art Festival 2001, Seoul, South Korea
- curated by Heavy Industries
2001
The Art Directors Club 80th Traveling Exhibition,
U.S., Europe, Asia, South America
Online:
2004
The Violence of Tone, w139 Gallery, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
2001
Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
Live Performances
2007
Visuelt ’07, Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway
2006
Festival della Creatvità, Fortezza da Basso di Firenze, Florence, Italy
2006
Sound and Motions, Monkey Town, New York,
U.S.
2005
MOMA Family Event, Modern Museum of Art, New York, U.S.
2005
Audio Visual Performance, The Neuberger Museum of Art,
New York, U.S.
2004
MOMA Family Event, Modern Museum of Art, New York, U.S.
2004
Cartoombria 2005, Perugia, Italy
2004
Reel Asian 2004, Toronto, Canada
Selected Screenings / Festivals
2007
Visuelt ’07, Oslo, Norway
2007
53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2007
Best of 2006 Stash DVD, The Museum of the Moving Image, New York, U.S.
2006
Res Fest 10, U.S., Europe, Asia, South America
2006
Holland Animation FIlm Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2006
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, England
2006
Onedotzero 10, London, England
2005
Sónar CINEMA 2005, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004
Pictoplasma design and animation screening program
2004
Res Screening Series 2, Hollywood
2004
Sundance Online Film Festival, Park City
2004
New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center Plaza,
New York
2004
GenArt Ignite, New York
2004
Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004, Bilbao, Spain
2003
Viper International Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2002
Darklight Digital Film Festival 4, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Sundance Online Film Festival, Park City
2002
Cinegrafias Encontro Internacional de Animaçao
Digital e Media Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
2002
MFA Film Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2001
Sundance Online Film Festival, Park City
Permanent Collection
Digitalcraft, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt,
Germany
Selected Publications / Published DVDs
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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
Selected Bibliography
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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
