Sawako
Originally born in Nagoya, Japan, Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist currently based in Brooklyn USA. Once through the processor named Sawako, memories in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. She is interested in the soundscape, the signal scape and the media scape of digital era, and her activities are making bridge between virtual and actual world. She has 4 solo CD releases from Anticipate, 12k and and/OAR, has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Taylor Deupree, Andrew Deutsch, Kenneth Kirschner, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Chika, O.blaat, Ryan Francesconi and Jacob Kirkegaard, and has performed in Tonic, WFC, Armory Show, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Conflux Festival, Monkey Town (NYC); Send + Receive Festival, MUTEK (Canada), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), m12 (Berlin), db Festival (Seattle), Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC), UCLA Hammer Museum (LA), offsite, Apple Store Sinsaibashi (Japan); OFFF Festival (Lisbon), Glade Festival, Resonance FM, ICA London (UK); and other venues in the US, Europe and Japan. Sawako obtained a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
