Takehito Etani creates work in such various media
as electronics, wearable technology, installations, sculpture,
performance, and video. His work often deals with the
body and its daily activities, as well as their relationships
to technology. Mundane reality is where he looks for the
possibility for self transmutation.
His
work has been shown internationally including at the ISEA
2006 (International Symposium of Electronic Art), VIPER
Basel Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Switzerland,
and the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media,
Germany, as well as at Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Kawasaki,
Japan, as a nominee for The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial
Award for Contemporary Art.
Etani
was born in Aichi, Japan. Beginning in 1997, he traveled
for two years throughout India, Nepal, Thailand and Israel,
and these experiences continue to inform his work.
He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2003, his
MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, and attended
the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the
summer of 2006.
