KAORU TANAKA: JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

This was part of an ongoing series of articles that released was digitally in May 2023. They were first published in the print edition of the Bright Moments Quarterly that was distributed at Bright Moments Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.

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Kaoru Tanaka is a generative artist based in Japan.

She creates installations and wall art using real-time rendering with TouchDesigner. She expresses herself based on the inspirations of her daily life, dreams, and fantasies that surround her in her daily experimentation and production.

Her work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach, Neues Museum Nürnberg, TODA in Dubai, Prada Extends TOKYO, as well as in the United States, France, Dubai, Germany and China.

田中薫は日本を拠点とするジェネラティブアーティストです。

TouchDesignerを用いたリアルタイムレンダリングで、インスタレーションやウォールアートなどを手掛けています。日々の実験や制作をする中で身の回りの生活や夢、空想などのインスピレーションをもとに表現しています。

田中薫の作品は Art Basel Miami Beach, Neues Museum Nürnberg, TODA in Dubai, Prada Extends TOKYOをはじめアメリカ、フランス、ドバイ、ドイツ、中国などの国で展示されています。

She created the collection ‘Inhabitants’ for Bright Moments Tokyo. ‘Inhabitants’ is a collection of creatures that once lived in my great-grandparents' house, created using TouchDesigner.

They resided in a wooden house built during the Edo period, which was moved intact without being dismantled, a process known as "hikiya."