Tomohiro Okada is an interdisciplinary creative and innovation developer, resercher, and policy maker, Director of Creative Cluster. Since 1995 he nas been active in electronic media and creative innovation in Japan especially promoting young talent in new media art

New media art

New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...

, interaction design as a resercher, producer, curator, writer and organizer of numerous intercreative productions, and policy designs for government and institutions for economic and industry and culture affairs. He has maden veorious policy paper for art and creative and civil development of veorious local govaments and agencys, lectured and held positions at various universities, and participated in conferences and symposia, and has worked as a consultant.

As a curator and producre Tomohiro OKADA created Fantasista series (2005- Evolution Cafe, Electrical Fantasista, Creative Fantasista), the crucial independent new talent media art and innovative design exhibition, certification of "Emerging people in the field of Media Arts - 2010. Agency for Cultural Affairs

Agency for Cultural Affairs

The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education . It was set up in 1968 to promote Japanese arts and culture. As of April 2007, it is led by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs, Tamotsu Aoki....

 (JAPAN)", "Cultural Promotiong Project - 2010 (Fine art). Tokyo Metropolitan Government". Tokyo Art Beat magazine signed most wanted art show in Tokyo, 2008 summer, by online reader voting.

Biography

Tomohiro OKADA is graduated from The University of Tokyo  with M.A. in information studies, and Kyushu Institute of Design

Kyushu Institute of Design

Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan is one of Japan's prestigious national universities and was founded in April, 1968...

 with M.S. in visual art and design studies.

He has been the director of non profit new media culture and social development nation wide initiative, the Creative Cluster, NPO, in Japan, also the director of culture and ICT policy and planning consultancy company, Cool States Communications Laboratories of Tokyo.

He is also teaching Creative Economics and Creative and Art Management at Center of Creative City at Osaka City University

Osaka City University

, abbreviated to , is a public university in Japan. It is located in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka City.- History :OCU's predecessor was founded in 1880, as the Osaka Commercial Training Institute with donations by local merchants. It developed into Osaka Commercial School in 1885, then was municipalized in...

 as a researcher, Komazawa University and Atomi University (Tokyo) as a lecturer.

Projects

• 2001 Ars Electronica
  Ars Electronica
  Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...
  
   2001 takeover - A concept making for festival logo
• Global Media -OTAKU- (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  The is an art museum focused on photography. The museum was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is located in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo...
  
  ), a coordinator and researcher
• 2005 Evolution Cafe, Exhibition of emaging media art and design, held in Yokohama, Japan - Procucer and curator
• 2006, 2008 Electrical Fantasista, International exhibition of emaging media art and design, held in Yokohama, Japan - Procucer and curator
• 2007 Yokohama EIZONE, a creative festival by City of Yokohama - A curator for media art experiment "Digital Art Cool Summer"
• 2008 Y Innovation
• 2009 Media Arts in the World Mapping, Information mapping for 12th Japan Media Arts Festival
  Japan Media Arts Festival
  The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs since 1997. The festival for a nominal year was usually held during February or March next year, rather than at the end of the nominal year. For instance, the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival, where...
  
   Exhibition - A researcher and editor
• 2009 Creative Cafe OSAKA
• 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival, Sapporo Exhibition
• 2011 Creative Fantasista

External links

• Citation Information by NII (Japan)
• SMF Symposium - Success Strategy for "Sapporo Ideas City", Inter-x-cross Creative Center, Sapporo City Government