Chiaki Watanabe is a video artist and designer based in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 and New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, known for her minimal abstract visual music

Visual music

Visual music, sometimes called "colour music," refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. It also refers to methods or devices which can translate sounds or music into a related visual presentation...

. She works in live visual, video, video installation, motion graphic, music, theater and performance. She studied at School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...

, New York USA.
Her works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States, including Film Society of Lincoln Center

Film Society of Lincoln Center

The Film Society of Lincoln Center based in New York City, United States, is one of the world's most prominent film presentation organizations. Founded in 1969 by three Lincoln Center executives - William F. May, Martin E. Segal and Schuyler G...

, New York, Bergen Kunsthall http://www.kunsthall.no, Norway, Institute of Contemporary Arts

Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...

, London UK, Stuttgart Film festival http://www.itfs.de/, European Media Art Festival http://www.emaf.de, Germany and Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen Denmark. She is a recipient of New York Experimental Television Center's Funds for New Media and Intermedia Performance (2006 & 2007).

External links

• Chiaki Watanabe's official site

New York Experimental Television Center http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/search/search.php3?id=879&base=bios

iOta Center - abstract film archive http://www.iotacenter.org/databasetry?name=WatanabeChiaki

Austin Museum of Digital Art http://www.amoda.org/artists/artist.php?ArtistID=331

Punto y Raya Festival Retrospective http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/1_edicion/retrospectiva07.html