softpad
Formed in 1999 by artist/graphic designer Takuya Minami and programmer Tomohiro Ueshiba, then joined by graphic designer Teruyasu Okumura in 2000 and artists Hajime Takeuchi, Hiromasa Tomari and Ichiro Awazu in 2006, the creative team Softpad works mainly in sound and image multimedia, with projects across such diverse genres of expression as audiovisual live events, museum/gallery installations and graphic design.
softpad:
上芝智裕 Tomohiro Ueshiba
南 琢也 Takuya Minami
奥村輝康 Teruyasu Okumura
竹内 創 Hajime Takeuchi
泊 博雅 Hiromasa Tomari (dumb type)
粟津一郎Ichiro Awazu (dumb type)
1999
Live / “Reference”
Goethe Institut, Kyoto Japan
Live/ “How They Get the Way They Are”
(collaborated withToru Yamanaka) ...........softpad official
“STILL ECHO”, club Metro, Kyoto Japan/“fancy dance-Contemporary Japanese Art After 1990”, Artsonje Center, Seoul Korea/“Nuits Savoureuses”, CICV, Belfort France
/Local Access, Paris France
2000
Live / club Metro, Kyoto Japan
Live / “UV”
club Metro, Kyoto Japan
Live / “How They Get the Way They Are ver.2”
(collaborated withToru Yamanaka)
“STILL ECHO”, club Metro, Kyoto Japan
Live / “CLUB GARDEN-An Experience of Electro Music”
Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto Japan
Internet Broadcasting “Radiomodule”
Open: http://www.radiomodule.com
Live / “In the House”
“interactive media art 2000@wakayama”, Wakayama citizens hall, Wakayama, Japan
Live / “Out of the Radio”
club Metro, Kyoto Japan
2001
Live / “ADAM”
club Metro, Kyoto Japan
Installation / “in the house”
Bienal de Valencia “Body and Sin”, Valencia, Spain
Installation/ Video “Recording”
“Le Tribú dell’Arte”, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma Italy
Live / “DJ mix”
Istanbul Biennial “egofugal”opening event / club ROXY / Istanbul Turky
Installation / “in the house”
Voice Gallery, Kyoto Japan
Installation / “form and color”
“Stay with Art”, HOTEL T' point, Osaka Japan
2002
Live / “Out of the Radio”
club Metro, Kyoto Japan
Installation / “information”
Voice Gallery, Kyoto Japan
Installation/ “Eau Rouge”
(collaborated with Hajime Takeuchi)
“SON/IMAGE”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto Japan
Performance/ “sans titre”
(collaborated with Hajime Takeuchi and Yukio Fujimoto)
Workroom, Osaka, Japan
Installation / “information”
ISEA, Nagoya Japan
2003
Performance / “Infra-mince”
(collaborated with Hajime Takeuchi and Yukio Fujimoto)
Workroom, Osaka, Japan
Installation / “Sfera Sound Scape”
(collaborated with Hajime Takeuchi)
Sfera Exhibition, Kyoto Japan
Exhibition / “Mark Rothko Interactive2”
Hirakata City Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2004
Installation / “Refined Colors Installation”
Nagoya University, Nagoya Japan
DJ style Live / “Namura Art Meeting vol.00”
Creative Center Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Installation/ “PlayTime”
(collaborated with Rina Okazawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Hiromasa Tomari and intext)
Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto Japan
2005
DJ style Live / “Namura Art Meeting vol.01”
Creative Center Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Live / Meme art festival concert "Heaven,Earth, and Man : All is vanity"
EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN, Seto Area, Nagoya Noh Theater, Nagoya Japan
2006
Exhibition / “Sensibilia”
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Live / “presentation8”
(collaborated withToru Yamanaka)
Shin-bi, Kyoto, Japan
Live / “BCN1.0”
Sonar 2006, Barcelona, Spain
Live / “BCN1.1”
Koyto University ROHM Plaza, Kyoto, Japan
Live / “geogram” ...........softpad official
Sonarsound Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Media City Seoul 2006 "Dual Realities" / Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
“patchware on demand”, club Metro, Kyoto, Japan
EXIT Festival, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France
VIA Festival, Le Manege, Maubeuge, France
