Sputniko!

Hiromi Marissa Ozaki (born 1 July 1985), better known by the pseudonym Sputniko!, is a British/Japanese artist and designer who specializes in the field of speculative and critical design.[1][2] After majoring in BSc Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College, London, she went on to pursue a master's degree in design at the Royal College of Art. Sputniko! is known for her film and multi-media installation works inspired by how technology impacts society and people's values –  in particular focusing on gender issues.[3][4] She has recently presented her works in exhibitions such as the 2019 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, 'Japanorama' in Pompidou Centre-Metz, Setouchi Art Trienniale (where she created a permanent art pavilion at the Benesse Art Site Naoshima on Teshima), New Sensorium at the ZKM Art Center in Germany (2016), The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum (2016), Collecting Future Japan – Neo Nipponica at the Victoria & Albert Museum (2016). From 2013 to 2017, Sputniko! was an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab[5] where she found and directed the Design Fiction research group. To date, she has had pieces included in the permanent collections of museums such as the V&A and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Currently, she resides as the associate professor of RCA-IIS Design Lab in the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo as well as associate professor of the Department of Design at Tokyo University of the Arts.[6][7]

Sputniko!
Born	Hiromi Ozaki Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	Royal College of Art

Sputniko! was featured in the exhibition Talk to Me at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has also exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Milan Design Triennial and the Third Art & Science International Exhibition in Beijing. Sputniko! has been published such as on ArtAsiaPacific and IDEO.[8][9] In 2013, she was named one of Vogue Japan's Women of the Year and in 2019 was selected as one of twenty young researchers, artists and designers to become "TED Fellows."[10][11][12][13][14]

Biography

Hiromi Ozaki was born in Tokyo, 1985. Her mother is English and her father is Japanese, both of whom are university mathematics research professors. Hiromi attended the Imperial College at the University of London, England. She graduated in 2006 earning a BCs Joint Mathematics and Computer Science with a First Class Honours. After doing various musical compositions in programming and song writing in London, she completed her master's program at Royal College of Arts (RCA) in 2010.

She later became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab from 2013 to 2017 founding and directing the Design Fiction Group. In October 2017, she was appointed as an Associate Professor of RCA-IIS Design Lab in the Institute of Industrial Engineering at the University of Tokyo and, concurrently, as an associate professor at Tokyo University of the Arts's Design Department in Information and Design Laboratory in April 2019.

Activities/Work

2019

   •    Sputniko was chosen by TED as one of the twenty young researchers, activists, artists, and designers to become "TED Fellows".[12][13][14] She talked as a TED Fellow at the TED event the same year in Vancouver, Canada, April 2019.[15][16]

   •    She presented the Tokyo Medical University for Rejected Women at the 205 Hudson Gallery in New York.

   •    She participated in the Milan International Design Triennale Broken Nature.

2018

   •    Together with Masaya Kushino, Sputniko launched the art unit "Another Farm" and held a solo exhibition at LEXUS INTERSECT AOYAMA. The Cooper Hewitt Museum announced Sputniko to be a participant of the 2019 Design Triennial in New York.

   •    Sputniko won "Pomellato for Women", which was awarded to women bettering the world from Pomellato, Italy.

   •    She was a participant of Germany Marta Herford Museum's Creatures Made to Measure exhibition.

   •    She held a project REDCARPET TO ZA’ATARI to support the movie Lumière à Zaatari  theater in a Syrian refugee camp in Yoyogi Park.

2017

   •    Sputniko was selected as a Young Global Leaders Representative of the World Economic Forum (Davos Conference).

   •    Her work TRANCEFLORA is permanently owned by the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum collection.

   •    At the Shibuya Seibu Gallery, she held a solo exhibition bionic by Sputniko!.

   •    Co founded by the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Technology and the Royal College of Art (RCA), Sputniko was appointed as Associate Professor at RCA-IIS Design Lab and moves her practice to Tokyo.

   •    She participated in the group exhibition Japanorama held at Center Pompidou in Metz, France.

   •    She attended the Yokohama Triennial Island and Constellation and Galapagos as a member of the planning conference. In addition, she announced her research work Why are We? at the Yokohama Museum of Art.

2016

   •    At the Setouchi International Art Festival, she announced her new permanent facility in Teshima Teshima 8 Million Lab and showcased her video work Red Silk of Fate – Tamaki's Crush.

   •    She received the 11th "L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women Scientists in Japan Award".

   •    She became a member of the 2017 Yokohama International Triennial Initiative.

   •    Sputniko has a keynote speech and work exhibition COLLECTING FUTURE JAPAN at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum.

   •    She participated in the German ZKM Art Center's New Sensorium exhibition.

   •    She participated in the Oslo Architecture Triennial.

2015

   •    France Le Figaro magazine selected her as "30 talented women under the age of 30 in the world".

   •    Her first participation in the 3rd Setouchi International Art Festival was announced.

   •    She held a solo exhibition Tranceflora-Aimi's Shining Silk at GUCCI, Shinjuku.

   •    She was a participant of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa's Our Era: Art in the Post-Industrial Society exhibition and the Towada Museum of Contemporary Art's The World of Play in Jump Art exhibition.

   •    She participated in the 2nd Beijing International Photography Biennale.

   •    The work she made at the MIT Media Lab, Design Fiction Laboratory (Im)possible Baby (Love Hasegawa) received an award of excellence in art category of the Japan Media Arts Festival, which was later displayed at the National Museum of Modern Art.

2014

   •    She was selected by Nikkei Business as "100 people to create the next generation".

   •    She was elected in FORBES JAPAN as "10 Japanese women who create the future".

   •    At MOMA's Design & Violence exhibition, Sputniko spoke at a one-hour discussion event on her project Menstruation Machine – Takashi’s Take.[17]

   •    She participated in the Killer Heels exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.[18]

   •    She participated in the 2nd Istanbul International Design Biennale The Future Is Not What It Used To Be.[19]

   •    She was on the cover issue of AERA 22 December 2014.

2013

   •    She was a participant in the Tokyo Art Meeting Usagi Smash, a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.[20]

   •    After visiting and interviewing NHK General Television on “Earth Ichiban,” the event prompted her to apply to MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte and was appointed assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab in the fall of 2013.[21][22] At the institution, she established the Design Fiction group and moved her production base from Tokyo to Boston.

   •    She won VOGUE JAPAN's "Women of the Year 2013".

   •    Sputniko! published her first book Hamidasu Chikara.

   •    She performed on the television show “Jonetsu Tairiku.”

2012

   •    Sputniko! participated in a group exhibition at GYRE, Omotesando, How Do Architects/ Artists See the World After Chō Guntō–3.11?

   •    She was a participant in the group exhibition Chō Guntō-Light of Silence at the Aomori Prefecture Art Museum.[23]

   •    She participated in the group exhibition Anonymous Life at the NTT InterCommunication Center.[24]

   •    She was elected as a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos Meeting).

2011

   •    She was a part of the exhibition Talk to Me at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).[25][26]

   •    Sputniko! was selected as the "Most Creative 50 People 2011" by the US Advertising Age magazine.

   •    In The Rolling Stones Italy magazine, she was selected as one of the "20 creators that will most affect the next 10 years".

October 2010

   •    She participated in the Tokyo Art Meeting Transformation group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. At this time, she moves her production base from London to Tokyo.[27]

June 2010

   •    Her graduation thesis is presented at the London Royal College of Art. The works she presented Menstruation Machine – Takashi's Take (2010) and Crowbot Jenny (2011) had a viral reaction on the internet.[28][29][30]

2007~2010

   •    Sputniko! produced music, technology based devices, and video productions based in London. The works she presented used mediums of image, music, photography and installation to deal with the world changing with technology, such as robots that communicate with crows or machines that can simulate a woman's physiology.

Awards

•    2018 Newsweek Japan "100 Japanese people respected by the world"

   •    2018 Pomellato for Women Award winner

   •    2016 The 11th "L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women Scientists in Japan Award"

   •    2016 DSA Japan Space Design Silver Award

   •    2015 France Le Figaro magazine "30 talented women in how world under the age of 30"

   •    2014 FORBES JAPAN "10 Japanese women who create the future"

   •    2014 Digital Media Association 19th AMD Award Newcomer Award

   •    2014 Nikkei Business "The 100 Japan's Leading 100 People"

   •    2013 VOGUE JAPAN Woman of the Year 2013 Winner

   •    2013 Ars Electronica Hybrid Art "Honorary Mention" Winner 《Healing Fukushima Nanohana Heels》

   •    2012: Ars Electronica Interactive Art "Honorary Mention" Winner 《Menstruation Machine – Takashi's Case 》

   •    2011 US Advertising Age Magazine "The 50 Most Creative People of 2011"

   •    2011 Rolling Stone Italy magazine "20 designers who will most affect the next 10 years"

   •    2011 Singapore Art Museum [APBF Signature Art Prize] Nomination  《Menstruation Machine – Takashi's Case 》

   •    2010 YouTube Japan Video Award [Technology / Ride Category] Winner 《Menstruation Machine – Takashi's Case 》

   •    2010 The 14th Japan Media Agency Media Arts Festival [Jury's Recommended Works] Award 《Crowbot ☆ Jenny》

   •    2009 Ars Electronica "The Next Idea" Winner 《Open_sailing》

Exhibitions and Festivals

   •    2018 Gravité Zéro-Une exploration artistique de l'aventure spatiale les Abattoirs, Musee-FRAC Occitanie Toulouse (Toulouse, France)

   •    2017 Future Unknown Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (China)

   •    2017 Japanorama Pompidou Center Metz Pompidou Center Metz (Metz, France)

   •    2017 Perfect Bodies | Rebellious Machines Arte Alameda (Mexico City, Mexico)

   •    2017 bionic by sputniko! | (Solo exhibition) SEIBU Gallery (Tokyo)

   •    2017 Yokohama Triennale: Island and Constellation and Galapagos Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama)

   •    2017 Sputniko! X Lamborghini TOKYO ART FAIR (Tokyo)

   •    2017 VOYAGES H QUEEN (Hong Kong)

   •    2017 Japan: An Imaginary Guide Art Arsenal (Kiev, Ukraine)

   •    2017 MASCULINE ←→ FEMININE Beall Center Art + Technology (Irvine, California)

   •    2017 The Universe and Art ArtScience Museum (Singapore)

   •    2016 Adriane's Thread MILL 6 Foundation (Hong Kong)

   •    2016 Space and Art Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

   •    2016 After Belonging Oslo Architecture Triennial (Norway)

   •    2016 Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing Central Art Academy Museum of Art (China)

   •    2016 Collecting Future Japan Victoria & Albert Museum (London)

   •    2016 Lunar Attraction Essex Peabody Museum

   •    2016 Setouchi Art Triennial (Permanent Project) Teshima Island, Benesse Artsite Naoshima, Japan

   •    2016 GLOBALE: New Sensorium – Exiting from Failures of Modernization The ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

   •    2015 Anti-Adaptation Struggle (Solo Exhibition) Omotesando Gyre, Tokyo, Japan

   •    2015 Killer Heels The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA

   •    2015 Tranceflora – Amy’s Glowing Silk (Solo Exhibition) Gucci Gallery Shinjuku, Tokyo

   •    2015 In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

   •    2015 JUMP Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan

   •    2014 The Future is Not What It Used To Be 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul

   •    2014 The GREAT Small: Gender Design Exhibition Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

   •    2014 Killer Heels Brooklyn Museum, New York

   •    2013 Tokyo Art Meeting Bunny Smash Museum of Contemporary Art(MOT), Tokyo

   •    2013 Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual – Daydreams Takamatsu City Art Museum, Takamatsu, Japan

   •    2013 Foo Kunsthall Grenland, Norway

   •    2012 Otomachi Senju no En Art Access Adachi, Tokyo

   •    2012 Anonymous Life NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo

   •    2012 The 3rd Art & Science International Exhibition China Science and Technology Museum, Beijing

   •    2012 Daikanyama Art Street Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo

   •    2012 Sputniko! Loves London Seibu Department Store, Tokyo

   •    2012 Light of Silence Aomori Museum of Art, Japan

   •    2012 Hyper Archipelago Omotesando Gyre, Tokyo

   •    2011 Talk to Me Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

   •    2011 The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival The National Art Center, Tokyo

   •    2011 Tweet Me Love, Sputniko! (Solo) Omotesando Gyre, Tokyo

   •    2010 Tokyo Art Meeting Transformation Museum of Contemporary Art(MOT), Tokyo

   •    2009 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

Works

   •    Teshima 8 Million Lab (2016)

   •    Red Silk of Fate - Tamaki's Crush (2016)

   •    Tranceflora - Amy's Glowing Silk (2015)

   •    The Moonwalk Machine - Selena's Step (2013)

   •    Adachi Hiphop Project (2012)

   •    Crowbot Jenny (2011)

   •    Menstruation Machine – Takashi’s Take (2010)

   •    Sushiborg Yukari (2010)

References

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Links

Sputniko! official site

Sputniko! (@5putniko) – Twitter

Sputniko! – Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty Overview

Ozaki Marissa – Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

Sputniko!/ Ozaki Marissa – Bon Image Co., Ltd.

MIT Media Lab – Staff Introduction

Royal College of Art

DESIGN INTERACTIONS AT THE RCA

London Royal College of Art personal page – Introduction to the Menstruation Machine – Takashi’s Take, Sushiborg Yukari, and Crowbot Jenny. Archive as of 22 August 2013.