So Kanno - workshop & sound performance

Thursday 14 January 2010, MMC KIBLA
6pm - workshop with japanese artist So Kanno
8pm - sound performance by So Kanno

Jamming Gear (2008-2009)
Jamming Gear is a concept gadget allowing you to control music through the tangible arrangement of gears. Each corresponding music loop is played in full with each complete rotation of a single gear.

So Kanno (1984) graduated Design Informatics of Musashino Art University. After that he completed Institute of Advanced Media Art and Science. At the moment he is a research stundent in IAMAS.

exhibitions:
2009 Device Art (Zagreb, Croatia)
2009 Hands on-Protoryping Prototypes (AXIS gallary Roppongi)
2009 ADAA Tokyo Exhibition (Midtown Design Hub Roppongi)
2009 IAMAS2009 Graduation Exhibition (Oogaki,JP)
2008 IamasGanguProject-Work In Progress (AXIS gallary,Roppongi,JP)
2008 Exotic:inbound/outbound Aichi,JP)
2007 Sound Vision vol.1 ZAIM, Yokohama, JP
2007 Musashino Art Univ. Selected Graduation works Exhibition (Musashino Art Univ.,JP) 2007 Musashino Art Univ. Graduation Exhibition (Musashino Art Univ.,JP)

prizes:
2009 Japan Media Art Festival Jury Recommended Works (Jamming Gear)
2009 Student CG contest interactive division Excellence prize (Jamming Gear)
2009 Ars electronica Digital Music Honorary Mention (Jamming Gear)
2008 Asia Digital Art Award Interactive Art Finalist Prize (Jamming Gear)
2006 Asia Digital Art Award Interactive Art Finalist Prize (turntable sequencer)
2006 Asia Digital Art Award Interactive Art Finalist Prize (bells in the water)

More about artist on: http://kannoso.org/jg.html

The event is part of X-OP project, supported by European Commission – Program Culture and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Maribor.