Shiro Takatani

is a Japanese artist. He currently lives and works in Kyoto.
Co-founder and visual creator of the group Dumb Type since 1984, he also became artistic director of the group from 1995 and also started an active solo career in 1998.

Biography

Dumb Type

Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Shiro Takatani co-founded Dumb Type in 1984 with other students from different sections of the university, including Teiji Furuhashi, Toru Koyamada, Yukihiro Hozumi, Misako Yabuuchi and Hiromasa Tomari.

Dumb Type began touring around the world and got recognition with their multidisciplinary shows ''Pleasure Life'' (1988), and ''pH'' (1990–1995) and ''S/N'' (1992–1996)

After the death of the artistic director Teiji Furuhashi in 1995, some members left the company, while new ones joined it, as the composer Ryoji Ikeda. They continued working under Shiro Takatani's direction and created the performances ''OR'' (1997–1999), ''memorandum'' (1999–2003), ''Voyage'' (2002–2009), and the related installations ''OR'' (1997), ''Cascade'' (2000), ''Voyages'' (2002) and ''MEMORANDUM OR VOYAGE'' (2014).

Solo Projects

Alongside his activities within Dumb Type, Takatani has created a number of installations and performances under his own name.

Since his first installation ''frost frames'', created at Canon Artlab in 1998, Takatani has been invited by museums, festivals and theatres worldwide.

Among others, he was commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Latvia in Riga to create two video installations: ''Ice Core'' and ''Snow Crystal / fiber optic type'', for the group exhibition "Conversations with Snow and Ice", dedicated to Ukichiro Nakaya' scientific work on snow and ice, in 2005. This exhibition was one of the nominees for the Descartes Award for Excellence in the Explanation of Scientific phenomena in 2007)

The following year he was hosted in residence in Australia and presented the installation ''Chrono'' in Melbourne, as part of the Australia-Japan exchange program "Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan", commissioned by the Japan Foundation.

He also joined the three-week British expedition "Cape Farewell" (a cultural response to climate change) in the Arctic, with scientists, writers, journalists and other artists from different countries. The related group exhibition was presented at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, in 2008.

His more recent creations include the laser installation ''Silence'' (2012), commissioned by Radar, Loughborough University Arts, the fog installation ''Composition'' (2013) for the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates and one of the first animation artworks for the 3D WATER MATRIX, inaugurated at the exhibition "Robotic Art" at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris, in 2014.

Some of his installations are part of permanent collections of museums, for example ''Camera lucida'' (2004) and ''Toposcan / Ireland 2013'' at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and ''optical flat / fiber optic type'' (2000) at the National Museum of Art in Osaka.

In 2013, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography presented ''Camera lucida'', a dedicated exhibition with a wide range of the video and photographic artworks, he created both as solo artist and artistic director of Dumb Type

Another solo exhibition, held at the Kodama Gallery in Tokyo in 2014, featured his photographic series ''Topograph'' and ''frost frame Europe 1987''.

Takatani also created and directed three theatre/dance performances: ''La chambre claire'' (2008), referring to Roland Barthes's essay ''la camera lucida'', ''CHROMA'' (2012), inspired by Derek Jarman's ''Chroma: A Book of Color'', with original music by Simon Fisher Turner, and ''ST/LL'' (2015) in which he is exploring how to consider the micromeasure of time and whether "art or science can ever truly express this hourglass world".

Collaboration Projects

Shiro Takatani has collaborated with musicians, choreographers and other artists from many disciplines.

In 1990, he participated with Akira Asada in the art project ''Stadsmarkeringen Groningen - Marking the City Boundaries'', led by architect Daniel Libeskind for the 950th anniversary of the City of Groningen in the Netherlands.

In 1998, he was commissioned by Art Zoyd and the Lille National Orchestra to create video images for a piece of the first cycle of ''Dangerous Visions'', a project combining symphonic music, new musical technologies and images.

At this period, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto noticed Takatani's work and asked him to undertake the visual direction of his opera ''LIFE'', created in 1999. This marked the start of a fruitful collaboration between the two artists.
They co-created later, in 2007, the installation ''LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ...'' at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM(as well as an updated version in 2013), ''silent spins'' with sound designer Seigen Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo in 2012.
They also participated together in three performances directed by Moriaki Watanabe: ''Project Mallarmé I, II and III'', combining text, music, theatre and dance, at the Kyoto Performing Arts Center - Shunjuza, from 2010 to 2012.
During 2013–2014, they presented in Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, their performance ''LIFE WELL'' (with the participation of Noh actor Mansai Nomura), an installation with the same title and a new one: ''water state 1''.
Furthermore, Takatani was the visual director for Sakamoto's project ''Forest Symphony'' in 2013 and they collaborated again for a special version of ''LIFE-WELL'', commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Park Hyatt in Tokyo, in 2014.

Since his first collaboration with fog sculptor Fujiko Nakaya at the 1st International Biennial of Valencia in 2001, for the outdoor installation ''IRIS'' at the port of the city, Takatani co-signed two more large-scale installations with her: ''CLOUD FOREST'' (2010), inside and around the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM and a fog sculpture in the Asuka Historical National Park in Nara.

Among other collaborations, he contributed in the exhibition ''Kichizaemon X'' (2012–2013), consisting of images screened on potters made by Raku Kichizaemon XV at Sagawa Art Museum, and he co-signed the 4K video installation ''Mars'' with Xavier Barral, for the international festival of photography Kyotographie at the Museum of Kyoto.

He also co-created several performances with Noh actor Mansai Nomura: ''Sanbaso / Eclipse'' and ''Boléro'', both performed at the MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), and ''Aoi no ue'', ''The Double Shadow'', directed by Watanabe Moriaki, at the Kyoto Performing Arts Center - Syunjuza.

Takatani's works were presented, among others, at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Romaeuropa festival / MACRO in Rome, Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, GREC festival in Barcelona, Festival de Otoño in Madrid, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture, NTT InterCommunication Center - ICC, Tokyo, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM

In 2015, Takatani received the 65th Prize of Fine Arts (Art media) from the Ministry of Education of Japan.

Works

Installations

* ''Toposcan/Tokyo'' (2020), commissioned by Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
* ''Toposcan / Baden-Württemberg'' (2016), commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe
* ''MEMORANDUM OR VOYAGE'' - Dumb Type (2014), commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
* ''ST\LL'', a liquid animation for the 3D WATER MATRIX (2014)
* ''Toposcan/Morocco'' (2014)
* ''Toposcan/Ireland'' (2013)
* ''frost frame Europe 1987'' (2013)
* ''mirror type k2'' (2013)
* ''Composition'' (2013)
* ''silence'' (2012)
* ''photo-gene'' (2007)
* ''Chrono'' (2006), commissioned by the Japan Foundation as part of Australia-Japan exchange program "Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan"
* ''Ice Core'' (2005), commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Latvia, Riga, as part of "Conversations with Snow and Ice" exhibition
* ''Snow Crystal / fiber optic type'' (2005), commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Latvia, Riga, as part of "Conversations with Snow and Ice" exhibition
* ''Camera Lucida'' (2004), permanent collection of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
* ''optical flat / fiber optic type'' (2000), permanent collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka
* ''frost frames'' (1998)

Performances

* ''ST/LL'' (2015), co-produced by Le Volcan - Scène Nationale du Havre, France, Biwako Hall - Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga, Japan, and Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
* ''CHROMA'' - concert version (2013)
* ''CHROMA'' (2012), co-produced by Biwako Hall - Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga
* ''La chambre claire'' (2008), co-produced by Theater der Welt 2008

Collaboration works

* Fujiko Nakaya:''Fog x FLO'', fog installation (2018)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto: ''dis.play'', visual concert (2018)
* ''Glenn Gould Gathering'' (2017)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto: ''IS YOUR TIME'' exhibition (2017)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto: ''Artists Studio'', visual concert (2017)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto: ''async'' exhibition (2017)
* ''London Fog #03779'', fog installation with Fujiko Nakaya + Ryuichi Sakamoto + Min Tanaka at the Tate Modern London (2017)
* Sayuri Yoshinaga + Ryuichi Sakamoto: ''For Peace'', charity concert (2016)
* ''Toposcan/Mozuyaguro - Rokyo'' with Raku Kichizaemon XV + Chojiro (2016)
* ''Le Soulier de satin'' by Paul Claudel, directed by Moriaki Watanabe (2016)
* ''PLANKTON - A Drifting World at the Origine of Life'': installation with Christian Sardet and Ryuichi Sakamoto (2016)
* ''Aoi no ue'' / ''L'ombre double'' (2014), visual direction for the performance directed by Moriaki Watanabe (Kyoto Performing Arts Center - Syunjuza)
* ''LIFE-WELL Park Hyatt version'' (2014), fog and sound installation in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, at Park Hyatt Tokyo
* ''ST\LL'', First artwork for the 3D Water Matrix (2014), Merit CODAawards Winner 2015 - category "Institutional" in 2015
* ''Mars'' (2014), installation in collaboration with Xavier Barral
* ''Sanbaso / Eclipse'' (2014), with Mansai Nomura, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
* ''Boléro'' (2014), with Mansai Nomura, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
* ''LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ...'' (2013), ver.2, installation with Ryuichi Sakamoto, commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM* ''water state 1'' (2013), installation with Ryuichi Sakamoto
* ''LIFE-WELL'' (2013), installation with Ryuichi Sakamoto
* ''Forest Symphony'' (2013), visual direction for the project by Ryuichi Sakamoto
* ''LIFE-WELL'' (2013), Nô and Kyôgen performance in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mansai Nomura
* ''Mallarmé Project III'' (2012), visual direction for the performance by Moriaki Watanabe
* ''silence spins'' (2012), installation with Ryuichi Sakamoto + Seigen Ono
* ''collapsed'' (2012), installation with Ryuichi Sakamoto
* ''Kichizaemon X'' (2012), installation with Raku Kichizaemon XV
* Asuka Art Project (2011), lighting design for the fog installation by Fujiko Nakaya
* ''Mallarmé Project II - Igitur'' (2011), visual direction for the performance by Moriaki Watanabe
* ''Mallarmé Project'' (2010), visual direction for the performance by Moriaki Watanabe
* ''CLOUD FOREST'' (2010), installation with Fujiko Nakaya, commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM* ''This is how you will disappear'', video direction for the performance by Gisèle Vienne at Festival d'Avignon
* Keiichiro Shibuya playing piano solo, Shiro Takatani playing visuals'' (2009)
* ''LIFE-fluid, invisible, inaudible ...'' (2007), installation with Ryuichi Sakamoto, commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM* Live with Softpad (2007), special creation at Espace Sculfort in Maubeuge and Maison des Arts de Créteil
* Garden Live with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2007) at Daitokuji-temple, Kyoto
* Live with Rei Harakami (2006) at Liquidroom, Tokyo, Sonar Sound Tokyo
* Live with Rei Harakami (2005) at Kyoto University Seibu-Kodo Hall and SONAR, Barcelona
* Garden Live with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2005) at Honen-in, Kyoto
* Live with Rei Harakami (2004) at Namura Art Meeting, Osaka and Sonar Sound Tokyo 2004
* ''IRIS'' (2001), installation with Fujiko Nakaya, commissioned by the 1st Biennial of Valencia
* ''LIFE'' (1999), visual direction for the opera by Ryuichi Sakamoto
* ''Dangerous Visions'' (1998), visual creation for the project by Art Zoyd and Orchestre National de Lille

Exhibitions and Performances

Solo exhibitions

2019-2020
* ''Dumb Type : ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS'', MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
* ''Topograph/Toposcan'', Kodama Gallery Tokyo (JP)
2018
* ''Dumb Type : ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS'', Centre Pompidou-Metz
2014
* ''Topograph'' and ''frost frame Europe 1987'', Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
2013
* ''Camera Lucida'', Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
* ''LIFE-WELL installation'', Noda-jinja shrine (outdoor), Yamaguchi
2007
* ''photo-gene'', Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
2004
* ''Camera Lucida - experimental studies'', Kodama Gallery, Osaka
2001
* ''frost frames'', Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse
2000
* ''frost frames'', Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
* ''optical flat / fiber optic type'', Kodama Gallery, Osaka

Group exhibitions

2017
* ''Digitalife 8'', Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
* ''Reenacting History Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures'', National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
* ''Polar Patterns , Art and Antarctica'', RMIT Project Space Gallery, Melbourne
2016
* ''Digitalife 7'', Romaeuropa / MACRO Testaccio - La Pelanda, Rome
* ''Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux'' / Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
* ''GLOBALE: New Sensorium'' / ZKM, Karlsruhe
2015
* ''Open Space'' / NTT InterCommunication Center CC Tokyo
2014
* ''Seeking New Genealogies — Bodies / Leaps / Traces'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
* ''City and Nature'' / Sapporo International Art Festival, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
* ''Kyotographie - international photography festival'' / The Museum of Kyoto Annex
* ''Art Robotique'' / Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris
2013
* ''ART-ENVIRONMENT-LIFE'' - YCAM 10th Anniversary, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media CAM* '' Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography" - Sharjah Biennial 11 / Sharjah Art Foundation New Art Spaces, Sharjah
* ''Kichizaemon X'', special exhibition "teahouse of light" / Sagawa Art Museum, Shiga
* Kyotographie - international photography festival / Saigyo-an, Kyoto
2012
* ''AfterGold'' / Radar, Loughborough University
* ''Kichizaemon X: Takatani Shiro + the 15th Raku Kichizaemon'' / Sagawa Art Museum, Shiga
* ''Art & Music - Search for New Synesthesia'' / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2011
* ''Matière-Lumière'' / Le 360, Bethune
2010
* ''Digital Life'' / Romaeuropa, La Pelanda-MACRO, Rome
* Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2009
* ''Ecology and Art – Thinking About the Earth Through Art: From Nearby to Far Away'' / Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
* ''A Blow to the Everyday'' / Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
* ''Earth: Art of a changing world'' / Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008
* ''Cape Farewell'' / National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo
* ''Light InSight'' / NTT InterCommunication Center CC Tokyo
2007
* ''Vom Funken zum Pixel'' / Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2006
* ''Rapt! 20 contemporary artists from Japan'' / Westspace, Melbourne
2005
* ''Conversations with Snow and Ice'' / The Natural History Museum of Latvia, Riga
* ''Rising Sun, Melting Moon'' / The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2003
* ''Cyber Asia – media art in the near future'' / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
* Lille 2004 – European Capital of Culture, Lille
2001
* ''media messages: look thru language'' / Sendai mediatheque, Sendai
* ''AFTER-IMAGE'' / The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2000
* Musiques en Scène Festival / Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
* EXIT Festival / Maison des Arts de Créteil
* VIA Festival / Le Manège - Théâtre du Manège, Maubeuge
1998
* ARTLAB 4 / Spiral Garden, Tokyo
1990
* ''Stadsmarkering - Groningen / Marking the City Boundaries'' (master plan Daniel Libeskind), Groningen

Public collections

* ''optical flat / fiber optic type'' (2000), The National Museum of Art, Osaka
* ''Toposcan – Ireland'' (2013), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
* ''Camera Lucida'' (2004), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

Tours (performances)

2019
* ''ST/LL'', Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong
* ''ST/LL'', Singapore International Festival of Arts
2018
* ''ST/LL'', New National Theatre Tokyo
2017
* ''ST/LL'', National Performing Arts Center, National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei
* ''CHROMA'', One Dance Week Festival, Plovdiv
2016
* ''ST/LL'', Napoli Teatro Festival 2016 - Teatro Politeama, Naples
* ''CHROMA'', New National Theatre Tokyo
* ''ST/LL'', Biwako Hall - Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga
2015
* ''ST/LL'', Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels
* ''ST/LL'', Le Volcan - Scène Nationale du Havre, Le Havre
2014
* ''CHROMA'', SIAF - Sapporo International Art Festival
2013
* ''CHROMA'', Festival de Marseille
* ''CHROMA'' concert version, SonarSound Tokyo
2012
* ''CHROMA'', Biwako Hall - Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga
* ''La chambre claire'', New National Theatre, Tokyo
2010
* ''La Càmera Lúcida'', GREC Festival, Barcelone
* ''La chambre claire'', Festival de Marseille
* ''La chambre claire'', Biwako Hall - Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga
2009
* ''La Cámara Lúcida'', Festival de Otoño, Madrid
2008
* ''Die Helle Kammer'', Theater der Welt, Halle

Discography

* ''Teiji Furuhashi + Toru Yamanaka + Dumb Type - Works Vol. 01'' (Triple CD, 2005). Foil Records FR-008/3
* ''memorandum'' - Dumb Type (CD, 2000). CCI Recording CCI001
* ''OR'' - Dumb Type (CD, 1998). Foil Records DTOR
* ''S/N'' (CD, 1998). Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier C-DSA 54056
* ''Remix'' - Dumb Type (mini CD, 1997). Foil Records FS001
* ''teiji furuhashi / dumb type 1985–1994'' (CD, 1996). Foil Records ML8852008
* ''Hotel Pro Forma, Dumb Type, Diller-Scofidio - Monkey Business Class'' (CD, 1996). no label. Audio document of a collaboration between Hotel Pro Forma, Dumb Type, Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Willie Flindt.
* ''S/N'' - Dumb Type (CD, 1995). Newsic 30CE-N022

Videography

* ''memorandum'' (DVD, 2009). Dumb Type's performance recorded in 2000. Commmons RZBM46410
* ''OR'' (DVD, 2009). Dumb Type's performance recorded in 1998. Commmons RZBM46409
* ''LIFE-fluid, invisible, inaudible ...'' (DVD, 2008). Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani. Commmons RZBM-46410
* ''OR'' (VHS, 1998). Dumb Type's performance recorded in 1997. Euro Space ESV-034
* ''pH'' (VHS, 1992). Dumb Type performance recorded in 1991. Euro Space ESV-033

Awards

* "65th Prize of Fine Arts" (Art media) from the Ministry of Education of Japan (2015)
* "Merit CODAawards Winner 2015" (Institutional) for the 3D Water Matrix featuring Takatani's special artwork (2015)
* "Sole d'Ora" / TTVV Riccione (Italy) for Dumb Type video ''pH'' (1992)
* "Best Stage Recording / Studio Adaptation" / IMZ - Alter Oper, Dance Screen '92 Frankfurt (Germany) for Dumb Type video ''pH'' (1992)

Bibliography

Books

*
Beyond the Display, Phenomenal Art and Design in the 21st Century
', Mika Iwasaka (2015). hiro Takatani - ''CHROMA'', pp. 144–145, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani - ''water state 1'', pp. 174–175 Ed. BNN, inc.
* ''From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan, 1945–1989: Primary Documents'' (MoMa Primary Documents), Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Fumihiko Sumitomo, Kenji Kajiya (editors) (2012). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Ed. Duke University Press Books.
* ''LIFE -TXT, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani'' (2010). Ed. NTT Publishing.
* ''Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony'', Jane Blocker (2009). 'Machine Memory: Digital Witness in Dumb Type's memorandum'', pp. 61–84 Ed. The University of Minnesota Press.
* ''Art And Electronic Media'', Edward A. Shanken (2009). p. 148–149 Ed. Phaidon
* ''Performing Japan: Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity'' (2008). uji Sone, ''Internalizing Digital Phenomena: The performing' body at the intersection of Japanese culture and technology'', pp. 273–294 Ed. Global Oriental.
* ''Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation'', Steve Dixon (2007). p. 13, 60, 524, 661, 228–230, 547–548, 226–227, 60–61, 227–228 Ed. The MIT Press.
* ''Susan Sontag, Beyond the radical will'' (2006). 'Shiro Takatani x Ryuichi Sakamoto'', pp. 121–136 Ed. Kyoto University of Art and Design + Mitsumura Suiko Shoin.
* ''Dumb Type : OR'', flipbook (2004). Ed. Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture
* ''Anomalie_digital arts n°2 : Digital Performance'' (Dec 2001/Jan 2002). eiko Courdy, ''Dumb Type: Un corps interface entre signal et noise'', pp. 164–181 Ed. HYX.
* ''Icc Documents 1997–2000'' (2001). 'Dumb Type performance OR'', pp. 86–95 Ed. NTT Publishing.
* ''memorandum – teiji furuhashi'', Dumb Type (2000). Teiji Furuhashi's texts compiled by Dumb Type. Ed. Little More.
* ''Half a Century of Japanese Theater: 1990s Part 2'' (2000). Ed. Kinokuniya Company Ltd.
* ''Information Design, series 6'' (2000). oru Koyamada, ''Dumb Type'', pp. 58–69 Ed. Kadokawa Shoten Publishing.
* ''ICC Concept Book - Exploring the Future of the Imagination'' (1997). 'Dumb Type : installation OR'', pp. 84–89 Ed. NTT Publishing Co., Ltd. ASIN: B005QCKVW4
* ''Annual InterCommunication '95'', InterCommunication Center (1995). akaaki Kumakura, ''The Performance Art of Dumb Type'', pp. 48–55, Akira Asada ''Dying Pictures, Loving Pictures'' Ed. NTT Publishing Co., Ltd. ASIN: B00TH6Q7HS
* ''Dumb Type : pHase'' (1993). Ed. Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
* ''Stadsmarkering – Groningen, Marking the City Boundaries: The Books of Groningen'', Paul Hefting and Camiel van Winkel (1990). : Akira Asada & Shiro Takatani, pp. 91–107 Ed. Groningen: City Planning Department.
* ''Plan for Sleep'' (1986). Cassette book. Ed. Dumb Type
* ''Every Dog Has his Day'' (1985). Cassette book. Ed. Dumb Type

Catalogues of exhibitions

* ''18th Japan Media Arts Festival Award-Winning Works'' (2015). 'Art Division - What Are Media Arts (Media Geijutsu): Shiro Takatani''
* ''Art robotique'' (2014). Artistic curator Richard Castelli. Cité des sciences et de l'industrie / Art Book Magazine.
* ''17th Japan Media Arts Festival Award-Winning Works'' (2013). rt Division - ''In Pursuit of Art Piercing the Depths of Consciousness: Shiro Takatani''
* ''16th Japan Media Arts Festival Award-Winning Works'' (2013). rt Division - ''Media Art, Inseparable from Its Epoch: Shiro Takatani''
* ''Camera Lucida'', Takatani Shiro (2013). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
* ''Kyotographie - international photography festival'' (2014). 'Mars, a photographic exploration'', pp. 10–21
* ''Kyotographie - international photography festival'' (2013). p. 48–53
* ''Kichizaemon X'', Raku Kichizaemon + Takatani Shiro (2012). Sagawa Art Museum.
* ''Art & Music – Search for New Synesthesia'' (2012). General Advisor Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chief Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. 'Ono Seigen + Sakamoto Ryuichi + Takatani Shiro'', pp. 98–101 'Sakamoto Ryuichi + Takatani Shiro'', pp. 134–136 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
* ''Matière-Lumière'' (2011). Curator Richard Castelli. 'Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani'', pp. 118–127 Béthune 2011 Capitale Régionale de la Culture.
* ''Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2010: Searching Songs'', Keiko Okamura, Hiroko Tasaka, Masako Immaki, Jiro Iio (2010). Curator Keiko OKAMURA. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
* ''U-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change'', David Buckland, Chris Wainwright (2010). p. 92–95 Springer Wien New York.
* ''Ecology and Art - Thinking About the Earth Through Art: From Nearby to Far Away'' (2009). p. 20–21, 37 Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
* ''Vom Funken zum Pixel'' (2007). Curator Richard Castelli. Berliner Festspiele / Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin. hiro Takatani : ''Camera Lucida'', ''Chrono'' Nicolai.
* ''Body Media'' (2007). Curators Richard Castelli and Gong Yan. p. 136–145 O Art Center
* ''LIFE-fluid, invisible, inaudible ... , Sakamoto Ryuichi + Takatani Shiro'' (2007). NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.
*
Rapt! : 20 contemporary artists from Japan
' (2006). Curators Yukihiro Hirayoshi, Shihoko Iida, Fumihiko Sumitomo. 'Takatani Shiro in conversation with Philip Brophy'', pp. 130–133, 186–189 The Japan Foundation - Kokusai Koryu Kikin
* ''Conversations with Snow and Ice'' (2005). . 45 The Natural History Museum of Latvia
* ''Cinémas du Futur'' (2004). Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture. Curator Richard Castelli. umb Type: ''[ORinstallation'', pp. 28–29">R.html" ;"title="umb Type: ''[OR">umb Type: ''[ORinstallation'', pp. 28–29 [Shiro Takatani: ''frost frames'', pp. 78–79]. Lille2004.
* ''Cyber Asia – media art in the near future'' (2003). Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. [pp. 69–74].
* ''Dumb Type: Voyages'', Minoru Hatanaka, Yukiko Shikata, Akira Asada (2002). NTT InterCommunication Center CC NTT Publishing Co. Ltd.
* ''The 1st Valencia Biennial: Communication between the Arts'', Luigi Settembrini (editor) (2002). ujiko Nakaya + Shiro Takatani Charta.
* ''Gendai: Japanese Contemporary Art - Between the Body and Space'' (2000). The Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw and The Japan Foundation. p. 76–81* ''vision.ruhr Kunst Medien Interaktion auf der Zeche Zollern Dortmund'' (2000). Museen der Stadt Dortmund. p. 176–179* ''Stanze e segreti'' (2000). Skira, Geneva-Milan. p. 70–85* ''Musiques en Scène'' (2000) Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon. p. 8–15* ''Donai Yanen! Et maintenant ! La création contemporaine au Japon'' (1998). École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. p. 202–207* ''Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky'' (1994). Curator Alexandra Munroe. The Guggenheim Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Japan Foundation. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 305, 343, 358–359, 404* ''Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky'' (1994). Curator Alexandra Munroe. Yokohama Museum of Art. . 184* ''Binaera: 14 Interaktionen - Kunst und Technologie'' (1993), Kunsthalle Wien, 'Dumb Type'', pp. 57–65, 160–163* ''Dumb Type : pH catalogue'' (1993). Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
* ''L'ère binaire : nouvelles interactions - Musée communal d'Ixelles'', Charles Hirsch, Michel Baudson et Ludion (1992), Brussels. 'Dumb Type'' by Barbara London, pp. 57–65, 160–163 Ludion
* ''Mito Annual '93 Another World'' (1992). Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery 'Dumb Type'', pp. 86–89 'Yuko Hasegawa, Dumb Type'', pp. 117–119
* ''Zones of Love — Contemporary Art From Japan'' (1991). Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. p. 58–61* ''European Media Art Festival Osnabrück'' (1990) 'Playback: a documentary of the performance'' Pleasure Life, p. 72
* ''pH Catalogue''. 1990. Wacoal Art Center.
* ''Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties'' (1989). Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, the MIT List Visual Arts Center and The Japan Foundation. p. 50–51, 78, 85

Essays / Art Press

*
Shiro Takatani. The extension of visible: shapes of time, acoustic images & chromatic figures
'. Enrico Pitozzi. Digimag #82, (September 2013).
* ''BT: Monthly Art Magazine Bijutsu Techo'' - No. 886 (September 2006). hiro Takatani Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo. .
* ''Stadmenschen in Medienlandschaften''. Eiichiro Hirata. Theater der Zeit, Nr.9. (September 2006). p. 13–14* ''BT: Monthly Art Magazine Bijutsu Techo'' - No. 849 (May 2004). umb Type, Takayuki Fujimoto, Teiji Furuhashi, Ryoji Ikeda, Toru Koyamada, Shiro Takatani Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo..
* ''Meditations on Space and Time: The Performance Art of Japan's Dumb Type''. Dorinda Neave. Art Journal, Vol. 60 (Spring 2001). p. 84–93* ''Diatxt. 01'' (2000). hiro Takatani, Dumb type Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto.
* ''Dumb Type, Landmark Hall, Yokohama''. Judy Annear. ART + TEXT, Number 51 (1995). . 73

Audio / visual Documentaries

* ''Shiro Takatani, between nature and technology'' (2019). A 52-minute documentary film directed by Giulio Boato, in Japanese, French, English, with French subtitles, including interviews with Shiro Takatani, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda, Simon Fisher Turner. Production: Idéale Audience. World premiere at the FIFA competition - International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal.''Shiro Takatani, entre nature et technologie''
film-documentaire.fr ressources
* ''Event Documentation by AAA Hong Kong Staff: October 2009'' (2009). Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong.
* ''Musiques en scène, Trans/Formes'' (2000), radio documentary by Alexandre Castant. With James Giroudon, Pierre Alain Jaffrennou, Ulf Langheinrich (Granular-Synthesis), Micha Laury, Thierry Raspail, Shiro Takatani (Dumb Type). France Culture, Paris, 30 min.
*
Arte Video Night 2009
'. Thème 5 : Entendre. ''Memorandum'' by Dumb Type
* ''Cycle création contemporaine au Japon : Dumb Type'' (DVD, 1998), documentary by Gilles Coudert (16 min. / Japanese version with French/English subtitles). Copyright: Triac documentaire, cop. 1998. Arte / Metropolis. apres production, collection Kaleidoscope (2008)

References

External links

Official website - Shiro Takatani

Official website - Dumb Type



Cape Farewell - Shiro Takatani blog

Discogs - Dumb Type

Asia Art Archive - Shiro Takatani

Asia Art Archive - Dumb Type

{{DEFAULTSORT:Takatani, Shiro
Japanese contemporary artists
1963 births
Living people
People from Kyoto