Born in the USA in 1974

Takeshi Murata creates digital pieces that re-figure the experience of animation. A video, installation and electronic music artist, Murata engages in demanding manipulations of the flaws, defects and glitches of digital video technology. Using film footage appropriated from B-movies and vintage horror films, Murata evokes digital turbulence from broken-code DVD and poor video compression. Pushing the boundaries between abstraction and recognition, Murata’s synesthetic experiments seem seductively organic and fully digital at the same time.

Murata was born in 1974 in Chicago and lives in Saugerties, New York. His work has been shown at the New Museum and MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; Peres Projects, Los Angeles; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool; and Deitch Projects, New York, among others. In 2007, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, organised a solo exhibition for him entitled Black Box: Takeshi Murata.