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- ACCI BABA (Atsushi Baba, born in 1977 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese visual artist, contemporary artist, and filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. He creates works centered on time-based media using video, as well as installations. His practice is characterized by works that present new perspectives and provoke thought through worldviews in which “reality and fantasy” and “past and future” interweave. Influenced by his mother, a calligrapher, he was strongly drawn to the aesthetics of the East from an early age. While still in high school, a storyboard he created was selected in the MTV Station ID Contest, which inspired him to pursue a career in video. While attending university, he learned the fundamentals of artistic expression through stage visual direction for MEDIA DRIVE UNIT cell/66b, and expanded his practice across contemporary performance, advertising, music videos, and VJ work. In 2007, he relocated to Berlin and devoted himself fully to his artistic career. In addition to collaborating with artists from a wide range of fields, including Yui Kawaguchi, Helena Waldmann, Mohammad Mortezavi, and Michael Saup, he has presented numerous works through solo and group exhibitions. His recent works have received international acclaim as contemporary art, media art, and experimental film, and have been officially selected and exhibited in more than ten countries, including the Los Angeles Film Festival (2004), Japan Media Arts Festival (2010), Ars Electronica Festival (2015), European Media Arts Festival (2017), and The Lumen Prize (2017). Since April 2019, he has served as a Specially Appointed Professor at Keio University SFC.
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- [Awards and Honors | 正式出展・賞歴]– Official selection, Dhaka International Film Festival, Dhaka Bangladesh (2018)– Official selection, Tehran International Short Film Festival, Tehran Iran (2017)– Competition Finalist, The Lumen Prize / Shortlist, London U.K (2017)– Official selection, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück Germany (2017)– Special Jury Award, Short To The Point International Film Festival, Bucharest Romania (2017)– Official selection, VOID International Animation Festival, Copenhagen Denmark (2017)– Official selection, Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz Austria (2015)– Webby Honoree, 16th Webby Award – Netart category(2012)– 2D category, Winner Cut & Paste Berlin (2012)– Official jury recommendation, 13th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL (2009)– Official selection, Pocket Film Festival Japan (2007, 2008)– Official selection, Edinburgh International Film Festival , “Mirrorball : Made in Japan”(2007)– Official selection, RESFEST10, Tokyo Japan (2006)– Official selection, Shizuoka Contents Valley Festival (2006)– Official selection, Los Angeles Film Festival , Los Angeles U.S.A (2004)– Competition Finalist, Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht Holland (2004)– Competition Finalist, MTV Japan station I.D contest, Tokyo Japan (1995)[Exhibitions | 個展・グループ展・企画展]– International exhibition “Trans-robotics” Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taipei Taiwan (2018)– Group exhibition “MVP:London” Windsor Park Hall, Egham U.K (2018)– Group exhibition “Uncommon Natures” Brighton Digital Festival, Brighton U.K (2018)– Group exhibition “Cinema 2.0:Dark Mirrors” Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong China (2018)– Group exhibition “The Art of Simulation” ACC Galerie, Weimar Germany (2018)– Solo exhibition “ab aeterno” Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany (2018)– Solo exhibition “aevum-ii” Kablys, Vilnius,Lithuania (2017)– Solo exhibition “aevum” REFSHALEØEN, Copenhagen Denmark (2017)– Group exhibition “Dark Habitats Dark Ecology” SPEKTRUM, Berlin Germany (2017)– Group exhibition “Eis am Stiel” von Papen Galerie, Berlin Germany (2017)– Solo exhibition “aeon” Eisdiele Galerie, Nürnberg Germany (2015)– Group exhibition “Waterfalls” at Słodownia +1 , Poznan Poland(2012)– Solo exhibition “in between” at Uncle-Berlin (2012)– Group exhibition “Gaestezimmer”, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt Germany (2011)– Solo Exhibition “Zenga”, ZEN BISTRO, Warsaw, Poland. (2008)– Group exhibition, “NEXT02”, Tokyo metropolitan Museum of Photography (2002)– Group exhibition, “Real 3.0”, Tokyo (2001)– Group exhibition, “Real 2.0”, Tokyo (1998)[Publications and Lectures | 公表文献ならびに講演]Lecture at “International Conference : Digital Art Festival Taipei“(Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2018)“Kunst als Kommunikationsform zwischen den Kulturen“(Nürnberger Nachrichten | ニュルンベルク新聞, Germany Jul. 2015)“Galerie ACC zeigt “Die Kunst der Simulation”(MDR | 中部ドイツ放送, Germany Feb. 2018)“Die Weisheit eines Affens“(Nordsee Zeitung | ノードゼー新聞, Germany Jan. 2018)Speaker at “ASIA-BALTIC CREATIVE DAYS“(Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov. 2017)“Kunst als Kommunikationsform zwischen den Kulturen“(Nürnberger Nachrichten | ニュルンベルク新聞, Germany Jul. 2015)Speaker at "TEDxTOKYO yz"(Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 2010)“The beauty and the fragility of ACCI BABA’s visual images reminds us of Goya’s Caprichos.“(Süddeutsche Zeitung | 南ドイツ新聞, Germany Oct. 2009)
