Ars Electronica Festival · 2010
Adapting for Distortion
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2010
Hiroaki Umeda's “Adapting for Distortion” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2010, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
Hiroaki Umeda has often highlighted the fact that his abstractly devised and highly anti-narrative works speak of the condition of contemporary man: it is therefore emblematic, even disturbing in a way, how in “Adapting for Distortion” the body of the performer seems to slowly fade away and go out of focus in those…
About Hiroaki Umeda
Hiroaki Umeda (JP) is a choreographer and dancer but is now recognized more as a visual artist and a mover. He also makes sound, visual image, lighting design for his own dance pieces, which have been highly acclaimed internationally and have been invited by…
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