ARTIST PROFILE
NEW YORK
CHiKA is a New York-based, Japanese-born artist who works in light sculptures, audiovisual performances, and technology. As an educator, she am the founder of a projection mapping and LED pixel mapping workshop, Mappathon™, which teaches students projection mapping techniques from conceptualizing to finalizing the installation. CHiKA has collaborated as a real-time visual artist as a VJ with experimental sound composers, 8-bit musicians, and club DJs, experimenting with improvisational communication with audience in real-time. This work influences her light installations that evolved from photography, graphic design, VJing, projection-mapping, to light sculpture. Her installations are deeply inspired by minimalistic, simple geometric beauty, Japanese philosophy, Zen, and sound. They contain complicated mechanisms that interact with CHiKA’s desire to allow the public to have experiences in time and space.
CHiKA has participated in artist residencies at School of Visual Arts, Mana Contemorary, Harvestworks, Elsewhere, the Bronx Museum, BRIC Media Arts, Triangle Workshop, Made in NY Media Center, Eyebeam, and Experimental TV Center. Her work has been shown in the US as well as numerous international venues and festivals. Some sites include the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Art and Design, New York Hall of Science, Bronx Museum, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, the Hammer Museum (San Francisco), San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco), Centre d ’Art Contempo rain (Geneva), Museo Regional de Guadalajara (Mexico), Matador Madrid (Madrid), International Biennial Contemporary Art ULA-2 (Venezuela), Mapping Festival (Geneva), Mute (Montreal), Dumbo Art Festival, World of Light (Los Angeles), and Arcadia Earth.