Kazuhiko Hachiya
Media artist.
A native of Saga, he was born on April 18 (appropriately enough, Invention Day), 1966. After graduating from the Faculty for Visual Communication Design, Kyushu Institute of Design, he had worked for a consulting company, and started SMTV, a private TV station unit, as his art activity.
His works include the special communication tool series, with Inter Dis-communication Machine and Seeing Is Believing, and many with special functions such as AirBoard, a jet-powered skateboard, and OpenSky.
The developer of PostPet e-mail software, he is a representative director of PetWORKs, engaging in development and direction of PostPet-related software
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Born in 1966, Saga, Japan
1989 Graduated from Kyushu Institute of Design (currently Kyushu University, Faculty of Design), Department of Visual Communication Design
Professor at Tokyo University of Arts, Intermedia Art
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Selected solo show
- 2021
- “Shusui and M-02J”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2018
- “All about PetWORKs”
- Spiral Garden,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2013
- “OpenSky 3.0”
- 3331 Arts Chiyoda,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- “OpenSky in Kirishima”
- Kirishima Open-Air Museum,
- Kagoshima, Japan
- 2010
- “HACHIYA Kazuhiko ‘OpenSky’ Project”
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
- Ishikawa, Japan
- 2008
- “OpenSky RollOut”
- Spiral,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “It Could Be Magic”
- National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan),
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2006
- “HACHIYA Kazuhiko: OpenSky 2.0”
- NTT InterCommunication Center,
- Tokyo, Japan
Selected group show
- 2020
- “Kashiwa Airfield and Shusui ―Kashiwa-no-ha”
- KASHIWANOHA T-SITE,
- Chiba, Japan
- “Permeable dimension wall : Taiwan – Japan Comic Aesthetics & Contemporary Art”
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
- Taichung, Taiwan
- 2019
- “EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (Showcase and demonstration flight)”
- Wittman Airport,
- Oshkosh, WI, USA
- 2018
- “3 persons show - Forward Stroke -”
- Saga Prefectural Art Museum,
- Saga, Japan
- “Reincarnation of Media Art”
- Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM],
- Yamaguchi, Japan
- 2017
- “Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970”
- Centre Pompidou-Metz,
- Metz, France
- “Collection Exhibition 2 Undying Life”
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
- Ishikawa, Japan
- 2015
- “Inter Dis-Communication Machine - Workshop”
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
- Aichi, Japan
- 2014
- “Players - Art starts from plays”
- Arts Maebashi,
- Gunma, Japan
- “MOT COLLECTION Special Exhibition for the 20th Anniversary of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Chronicle 1995-”
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- “Trans-Cool TOKYO Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection”
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
- Taipei, Taiwan
- 2010
- “Trans-Cool TOKYO Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection”
- Singapore Art Museum (8Q),
- Singapore
- “Cyber Arts Japan - Ars Electronica 30 Years for Art and Media Technology”
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
- Tokyo, Japan
Public collection
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
- Japan
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
- Japan
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
- Japan
- Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
- Japan
- Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto,
- Japan