Social Technology Summit

Yuri Suzuki (JP)

Cybernetic Love

The idea image of the Japanese female is evolving into a manifestation of Japanese popular culture, notably comic book, animation characters. This is an idealisation mostly projected by males in their 20s and 30s Animation and pornography are merging and Japanese female fashion is following this trend. Yuri's presentation examines this fantacism.

Yuri Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. Between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art group Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. During this time worked for the designer Moritz Waldemeyer and after graduating in 2008 opened his own studio. He is currently showing work in Nowhere_Now Here (Laboral AICC in Asturias, Spain) and presenting his first solo exhibition, The Physical Value Of Sound (Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan).

Yuri is also running a Graffiti Radio workshop on Thursday afternoon. Link and appearing in the Arts Strand at the Cube Gallery. Link