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Home   About DigiArts   Media arts   Music using technology   Regional networking   Training   UNESCO Digital Arts Award   Young Digital Creators		KUBOTA     Shigeko KUBOTA Niigata (Japan), 1937. Lives in New York (US). Video, Performance, Installation. Bio     Kubota trained as a sculptor at Tokyo University and later at New York University and at the New School of Social Research in New York, and her first works in the seventies included videos, performances and videosculptures. One of Kubota’s significant performances was her “Vagina Painting” (1965), presented as part of the “Perpetual Fluxus Festival”, at the New York Cinemateque.Kubota’s early videos reflect on the relations between East and West through audiovisual construction in the form of diaries. The first in the series was “Europe on 1/2 inch a day” (1972), a very personal view of Europe in the seventies. She was an active participant in the Fluxus Movement in the seventies, and was influenced above all by the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, to whom she dedicated the video “Marcel Duchamp and John Cage” (1972) and the videosculpture “Duchampiana: Nude Descending a Staircase” (1976).In addition, like other video artists in the seventies she became interested in the manipulation of electronic images using synthesizers as in, for example, the video “Video girls and video songs for Navajo sky” (1973). In 1972, together with artists Charlotte Moorman, Susan Milano and Steina Vasulka, among others, she has participated in the first female video festival at The Kitchen in New York. Kubota’s work has been shown at various international festivals and samples, such as Documenta 6 and 8 in Kassel and the 1990 Venice Biennial.http://www.eai.org   -Kubota trained as a sculptor.	Culture All Unesco Advanced Search Resources
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