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Yakushimaru Etsuko
Yakushimaru Etsuko is an artist, musician, producer, lyricist, composer, arranger, and singer. Broadly active, from pop music to experimental music and art. Consistently independent in her wide-ranging activities, which also include drawing, painting, installation art, media art, poetry and other literature, and recitation. Producing numerous projects and artists, including her band, SOUTAISEIRIRON. While appearing in the music charts with many hit songs, she has also created a project that involved the use of satellite, biological data and biotechnology, a song-generating robot powered by artificial intelligence and her own voice, an independently-developed VR system, and original electronic musical instruments.
Her work “I’m Humanity” won the Ars Electronica STARTS Grand Prize and has been exhibited around the world.
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Project:
Yakushimaru Etsuko & d.v.d
etc.
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Another name:
Tica Alpha
Yakushimaru Etsuko Metro Orchestra
Yakushimaru Experiment
Hirakushimaru
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Exhibitions:
2023 “I’m Humanity”
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum: ‘OF GENES AND HUMAN BEINGS’, Dresden
2022-2023 “I’m Humanity”
Chronus Art Center ‘Entangled: ‘bio/media’, Shanghai
2022-2023 “I’m Humanity”
‘Navigating the Digital Realm’, Brussel
2022 “I’m Humanity”
Palácio Sinel de Cordes ‘NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS’, Lisbon
2022 “I’m Humanity”
Biblioteca Salaborsa ‘NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS’, Bologna
2020 “I’m Humanity”
STATE Studio ‘NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS’, Berlin
2020 “I’m Humanity”
GYRE GALLERY ‘Histopolis — Extinction and Regeneration’, Tokyo
2019-2020 “I’m Humanity”
Mori Art Museum ‘Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow’, Tokyo
2019 “I’m Humanity”
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa ‘Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future’, Kanazawa
2018 “I’m Humanity”
National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo ‘I’m Humanity’, Tokyo
2017-2018 “I’m Humanity”
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa ‘Undying Life’, Kanazawa
2017 “I’m Humanity”
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
2017 “I’m Humanity”
Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, Brussel
2016-2017 “Tensei Jingle – Polyhedron”
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
2016-2017 “Like A Protein”
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
2016-2017 “I’m Humanity”
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
2016 “I’m Humanity”
KENPOKU ART 2016
2013 “LOVE+1+1”
Mori Art Museum ‘All You Need Is LOVE’, Tokyo
2013 “Λ Girl”
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art’ Antigravity’, Aichi
2012 “myodesopsia”
Solo Exhibition ‘myodesopsia’, Talion Gallery, Tokyo
etc.
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