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Sputniko! (Hiro Ozaki)

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Artist based in Tokyo TED Fellow, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Guest Professor @tokyo_geidai
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Happy New Year! I would like to thank you for your support during the past year and extend my best wishes for the New Year. In 2021, I have participated in many exhibitions, including “Broken Nature” at MoMA in New York, “Fiction Life” at Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei, El Aleph Festival in Mexico City, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival and deTour Festival in Hong Kong, and ALTERNATIVE KYOTO in Kyoto. In particular, at the deTour Festival held in Hong Kong in December, I collaborated with the architectural firm Napp Studio & Architects to create a new large-scale installation "Red Silk of Fate - The Shrine" which was featured as the centerpiece of the exhibition. Details of the work can be found here (https://detour.hk/2021/en/exhibition/red-silk-of-fate-the-shrine/) (I also posted the video of the installation here) In October, the NFT of my work "Moonwalk Machine-Selena's Step" was sold for the highest price in Japan's first NFT auction held by SBI (/article/DGXZQOUD08AC70Y1A101C2000000/). I’m very interested in the potential of NFT and Web 3.0, and I’m planning to participate in many more NFT-related projects this year. In addition, I appeared as an interviewer for the NHK Special "2030: A Fork in the Road to the Future," which is a series of documentary shows looking at the futures of biotechnology and artificial intelligence, and the program was published as a book (/article/DGXKZO72119590R20C21A5TY5000/) in the Nikkei Newspaper and being involved in the activities of the D&I Foundation, which was launched by Shintaro Yamada, CEO of Mercari, to support female students to go on to higher education in the sciences. On a personal note, I gave birth to a baby daughter in mid-September. It’s been a wonderful experience for me and my husband. Most of our personal time is now spent on raising our child. Wishing you a joyous 2022! Sputniko!
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【New Exhibition / 展覧会のお知らせ】 Sputniko!’s “Drone in Search for a Four-Leaf Clover” will be featured in the exhibition “Utopia. The Right to Hope” at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg @kunstmuseumwolfsburg , opening tomorrow. Rather than proposing a single “grand design” for the future, this exhibition turns its gaze toward diverse micro-utopias—small-scale visions of hope—that together suggest new possibilities for building more equitable and fulfilling ways of life for all. Dates: September 27, 2025 – January 11, 2026 Venue: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 🔗 More details via the link in bio スプツニ子!の《Drone in Search for a Four-Leaf Clover》が、明日よりドイツ・ヴォルフスブルク美術館で開幕する展覧会 「Utopia. Recht auf Hoffnung(英題: Utopia. The Right to Hope)」 にて展示されます。 本展は、人類の未来を一つのグランドデザインで描くのではなく、さまざまな「ミクロユートピア」に焦点を当て、それらの重なりによってより良く、公平な生を可能にする希望のかたちを探ろうとするものです。 開催期間: 2025年9月27日 – 2026年1月11日 会場: ヴォルフスブルク美術館(ドイツ) 🔗 詳細はプロフィールのリンクからご覧ください
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【M+ Collection】 I am excited to share that my 2010 work, Menstruation Machine - Takashi’s Take has been acquired by the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, to become part of their permanent collection. M+, which opened in 2021, is Asia's leading contemporary art museum, comparable in size and collection scale to MoMA or the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The museum has an exceptionally talented team of curators from around the world, and I’m thrilled that my important piece has become part of M+’s collection. 私の2010年の作品『Menstruation Machine - Takashi’s Take (生理マシーン、タカシの場合)』が香港のM+ Museumに永久収蔵されました。M+は2021年にオープンしたアジアを代表する現代美術館ですが、その面積とコレクションの規模感はニューヨークMoMAやパリのポンピドューセンターに並び、世界から集まった非常に優秀なキュレーターのチームがいます。そんなM+のコレクションに、この大切な作品が加わったことをとても嬉しく思います。 Sputniko! @mplusmuseum #menstruation #design #gender #sputniko #スプツニ子
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📺 イベント開催のお知らせ 草野絵美〈Ornament Survival〉開催にあわせ ゲストを招いたトークイベントを開催いたします ぜひご参加ください! 展覧会期中 6月にもイベントを開催予定です 続報もお待ちください 参加のお申し込みは [email protected] まで 参加ご希望の回 お名前 お連れ様の人数をご連絡ください Gallery Tolk vol.1 〈Emi Kusano × Reiko Tsubaki〉 5/22 Fri. 6PM- Gallery Tolk vol.2 〈Emi Kusano × Sputniko!〉 5/29 Fri. 5PM- 会場:√K contemporary In conjunction with Emi Kusano's exhibition "Ornament Survival," we are pleased to announce a series of talk events featuring special guests. We look forward to your participation! Further events are also planned for June during the exhibition period. Please stay tuned for more details. RSVP: [email protected]
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【Group Exhibition in Brussels / 展覧会in ブリュッセルのお知らせ】My video installation "Drone in Search for a Four-Leaf Clover" will be exhibited at [Senne] (Brussels, Belgium) from April 23. 
 Exhibition "Waiting For The Light" reflects on the various anxieties and worries that collectively surround us on a daily basis, with works offering potential, or pessimistic, solutions. The exhibition focuses on a range of themes, from the extremes of digital worlds and the distortions of online temporality to questions surrounding authorship, control and what might be responsible for this escalating sense of global unease. Participating artists:
Cory Arcangel, Jimmy Baker, Michael Bell-Smith, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Jacob Ciocci, Alexander R. Galloway w/ Radical Software Group, Ben Grosser, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Keiu Maasik, Maya Man, Cezar Mocan, Antoni Muntadas, Motohiko Odani, Johannes P. Osterhoff, Dirk Paesmans, Dunne & Raby, Molly Soda, Subnet, Sputniko!, Nora Turato, El Último Grito, Ultralab and Angela Washko, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight @bobbicknellknight Dates: April 23 – May 3, 2026 Venue: [Senne] 🔗 More details via the link /

 映像インスタレーション作品「Drone in Search for a Four-Leaf Clover」が、ベルギー・ブリュッセルの[Senne]にて、4月23日より展示されます。 本展「Waiting For The Light」は、私たちの日常を取り巻くさまざまな不安や揺らぎに目を向け、それらに対する希望的、あるいは悲観的な応答の可能性を提示する作品群で構成されています。デジタル世界の極端さやオンラインにおける時間感覚の歪み、さらには作者性やコントロールの所在といった問いを手がかりに、世界的に高まりつつある不安の背景を多角的に探ります。 参加アーティスト: Cory Arcangel、Jimmy Baker、Michael Bell-Smith、Bob Bicknell-Knight、Jacob Ciocci、Alexander R. Galloway w/ Radical Software Group、Ben Grosser、Mike Kelley、Barbara Kruger、Keiu Maasik、Maya Man、Cezar Mocan、Antoni Muntadas、Motohiko Odani、Johannes P. Osterhoff、Dirk Paesmans、Dunne & Raby、Molly Soda、Subnet、Sputniko!、Nora Turato、El Último Grito、Ultralab、Angela Washko キュレーション:Bob Bicknell-Knight 会期:2026年4月23日〜5月3日 会場:[Senne] 🔗 詳細は以下のリンクをご覧ください: /
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【コラム連載公開|日経新聞『多様性 私の視点』】日本経済新聞で連載中の「多様性 私の視点」にて、新しいコラム「米リベラル派に『暮らし』重視の新潮流」が公開されました。 近年、アメリカのリベラルは、ジェンダーや人種といった「アイデンティティ」をめぐる議論から、「日々の暮らしをどう支えるか(アフォーダビリティ)」という、より生活に密着したテーマへと重心を移しつつあります。 その背景には、深刻な物価高や拡大する格差、そして多様性が前提となっている若い世代の存在があります。 では、日本はどうでしょうか。格差の水準は欧米ほどではないと言われながらも、その兆しは確実に広がりつつあります。「暮らし」をどう語るのか。そしてそれを、どのように希望として提示できるのか。 本コラムでは、アメリカの動向を手がかりに、日本における新しいリーダー像の可能性を考察しています。 URLはこちら(有料会員限定) /article/DGXZQOUD165QO0W6A310C2000000/ #nikkei
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【New Exhibition / 展示のお知らせ】My video installation “Tech Bro Debates Humanity" will be exhibited at META.MORF 2026 (Trondheim, Norway) from April 9. 

Participating artists: Pearla Pigao, Ayodele Arigbabu, Daniel Hygstedt Hansen, David Kim, Andreas Fortes, Andy Gracie, Syver Lauritz, Dani Ploeger, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Boris Eldagsen, Hege Tapio, Sputniko!, Kaelen Varga, Stanza, Yirrkala Dhunba 
 Dates: April 9 – May 31, 2026 
 Venue: KJØPMANNSGATA UNG KUNST META.MORF 2026: Future Manifestos is Scandinavia’s largest biennial dedicated to art and technology, held in Trondheim, Norway. The biennial presents projects at the intersection of art, science, and social transformation, with a strong emphasis on curatorial research and international collaboration. This year’s theme, Future Manifestos, asks not whether AI will shape the future, but how humans and AI will shape it together - and who, or what, will determine its direction. Drawing on the tradition of the “manifesto” as a tool long used by thinkers, the exhibition explores how artists might reclaim the agency to declare and articulate possible futures.
 🔗 For more details about the work, please see the link below /Tech-Bro-Debates-Humanity 映像作品 Tech Bro Debates Humanity を、ノルウェー・トロンハイムで開催される META.MORF 2026 にて、4月9日より展示します。 参加アーティスト:
Pearla Pigao, Ayodele Arigbabu, Daniel Hygstedt Hansen, David Kim, Andreas Fortes, Andy Gracie, Syver Lauritz, Dani Ploeger, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Boris Eldagsen, Hege Tapio, Sputniko!, Kaelen Varga, Stanza, Yirrkala Dhunba 会期: 2026年4月9日 – 5月31日
 会場: KJØPMANNSGATA UNG KUNST META.MORFは、アートとテクノロジーをテーマとするスカンジナビア最大規模のビエンナーレで、アート、サイエンス、社会変革の交差点に位置するプロジェクトを紹介しています。キュレーション・リサーチと国際的な協働に重きを置いているのが特徴です。 本年のテーマ「Future Manifestos」は、AIが未来を形づくるかどうかではなく、それがどのように、そして誰によって形づくられるのかを問いかけます。
マニフェストという思考とムーブメントのための形式に着目しながら、アーティストが未来を構想し、言語化する主体性をいかに取り戻しうるのかを探ります。 🔗 作品詳細はこちら /Tech-Bro-Debates-Humanity #metamorf_biennale #sputniko
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【Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 / アートバーゼル香港2026】From March 27 to 29, my video installation “Can I Believe in a Fortunate Tomorrow?” will be presented at the KOTARO NUKAGA (@kotaro_nukaga ) booth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026(@artbasel ) The work draws on saiun - iridescent clouds that appear near the sun and are often regarded in Asia as a symbol of good fortune. Using AI, moving images of clouds are analyzed and overlaid with prismatic light effects, generating continuous iterations of this phenomenon. Presented under the booth’s theme of “Light,” the work explores the dual nature of technology in shaping the future: as a source of hope, yet equally capable of producing illusion. As a simulated phenomenon, it reflects on the inherent ambiguity of the future itself - something to believe in, yet also something that may dissolve before our eyes. Event Details Event: Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 Dates: March 27–29, 2026 Venue: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Booth: 3E07 (KOTARO NUKAGA) 🔗 More details via the link /hong-kong

今週末、3月27日から29日まで開催されるArt Basel Hong Kong 2026にて、KOTARO NUKAGAのブースで映像作品「Can I Believe in a Fortunate Tomorrow?」を展示いたします。 本作は、太陽の近くで雲が虹色に輝く自然現象「彩雲」をモチーフに、AIが雲の動きを解析し、そこに虹色の光彩を重ね続けることで生成される映像作品です。 展示のテーマは「光」。アジアにおいて幸運の象徴とされる彩雲を、あえて人工的に増幅・反復させることで、この作品は、未来を形作るテクノロジーの二面性 - すなわち、希望としての輝きと、同時に幻影にもなり得る不確かさ - を浮かび上がらせます。 【開催概要】 ART BASEL Hong Kong 2026 開催期間: 2026年3月27日~2026年3月29日 会場: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre ブース No: 3E07 (KOTARO NUKAGA) 🔗 ART BASEL Hong Kong 2026の詳細 /hong-kong
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【Cartier’s International Women’s Day Panel / カルティエ国際女性デー登壇】 On March 6, ahead of International Women’s Day, I had the pleasure of joining the panel "CARTIER DIALOGUES – WOMEN LIGHTING THE PATH." I was honored to share the stage with Norika Fujiwara, Kodo Nishimura, and Hiroaki Miyata, with Keiko Kojima as our moderator. In the panel, we reflected on the event held at the Women’s Pavilion at Expo Osaka, centered on the theme of togetherness, and spoke about the importance of human connection in moving our cause forward. Thank you to the Cartier team and everyone who joined us✨❤️ 3月6日、国際女性デーに先駆け開催された「CARTIER DIALOGUES - WOMEN LIGHTING THE PATH」のパネルに参加しました。ご一緒したのは、藤原紀香さん、西村宏堂さん、宮田裕章さん、そしてMCに小島慶子さん。 「WOMEN LIGHTING THE PATH」というテーマのパネルでは、「ともに」というコンセプトを掲げた、大阪万博のウーマンズ パビリオンでのトークイベントの感想や、人との繋がりの大切さについてお話ししました。踏み出した一歩が光となり、共鳴する仲間との出会いが、やがて誰かを照らす声へとつながる「光の連鎖」についての対話、とても良い時間を過ごしました。CARTIERのチーム、そして参加してくださった皆様ありがとうございました!✨❤️ @cartier @cartierawards
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Artist Highlight: Sputniko! “For me, good art is art that changes ideas, changes perspectives or changes society even.” We came across @5putniko !’s work many years ago, at a moment when media art was beginning to openly collide with questions of gender, power, and technology. From the start, her practice stood out for its conceptual clarity, courage, and wit. It has been a real pleasure to work with her over time and to show her work, watching how consistently and fearlessly she pushes conversations forward. Sputniko! is a British/Japanese multimedia artist whose practice critically examines feminism, gender politics, and social power structures through technology-based art. Working across film, music, speculative design, and machine-driven installations, she uses irony and parody as precise tools - disarming viewers while exposing deeply embedded social norms. Her works don’t shout - they infiltrate, quietly changing how you see the world. She studied mathematics and computer science, where she became aware of the strong gender imbalance in tech culture. Growing up in Japan, where gender inequality remains high, further shaped her interest in how technology, institutions, and everyday systems reinforce inequality. Drawing on Japanese pop music and anime, she often adopts the format of music videos to reach audiences beyond the art world. In her earlier work, she focused on making invisible systems visible, especially where bodies, gender, access, and power intersect - later expanding toward nature, biotechnology, and questions of care, repair, and responsibility. More recently, she has increasingly worked with generative systems and AI, reflecting on time, growth, and the futures we collectively imagine. Alongside her artistic practice, she also occasionally speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos. On the cover: Nanohana Heels, 2012 #digitalart #newmediaarts #artisthighlight #collectingart #curatingart
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【New Exhibition / 金沢21世紀美術館コレクション展のお知らせ】Three works from my AI-avatar video series "Tech Bro Debates Humanity", acquired last year by 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa @21_kanazawa , will be presented as part of “Collection Exhibition 3: Déjà Vu”, on view from October 17, 2025 to May 10, 2026. This exhibition explores the uncanny sensation of déjà vu -an experience familiar to almost everyone, yet still largely unexplained -and uses it as a lens to question assumptions we often take for granted, including the reliability of memory and the continuity of the self. Participating artists: Francis Alÿs, Luna Islam, Naofumi Maruyama, Taro Izumi, Hiroyuki Okumura, Vik Muniz, Takashi Homma, Sputniko! Exhibition: Collection Exhibition 3: Déjà Vu Dates: October 17, 2025 – May 10, 2026 Venue: Galleries 1–6, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 🔗 More details via the link in bio 昨年、金沢21世紀美術館にコレクションとして収蔵された、AIアバターを用いた映像作品《Tech Bro Debates Humanity》シリーズの3作品が、「コレクション展3 デジャ・ヴュ」にて展示されます。会期は 2025年10月17日から2026年5月10日まで。 本展は、誰もが一度は体験したことのある「デジャ・ヴュ」という感覚—身近でありながら未だ解明されていないこの現象—を手がかりに、記憶の確かさや自己の連続性といった、私たちが当然視している前提を問い直します。 コレクション後、初のお披露目となる機会です。ぜひ金沢でご覧いただけたら幸いです。 参加アーティスト:フランシス・アリス、ルナ・イスラム、丸山直文、泉太郎、奥村浩之、ヴィック・ムニーズ、ホンマタカシ、スプツニ子! 展覧会名: コレクション展3 デジャ・ヴュ 開催期間: 2025年10月17日~2026年5月10日 会場: 金沢21世紀美術館 展示室1~6 🔗 詳細はプロフィール欄のリンクからご覧ください
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