Kasumi is an experimental film maker, video artist, musician, and VJ. She has performed in venues worldwide: from Carnegie Hall as asoloist and Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to DJ/VJcollaborations with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky.
Her work - montages of hand-painted and figurative film performed live- has received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film atMontecacini, Italy; Director's and Program Staff Citation at the
Black Maria Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury
Award; IFP Chicago's Best Experimental Film award, First Prize for
Experimental Film at the Sapporo Int'l Short Film Festival and many
others.
She has created work for the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Instituto
Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina; videoart
for "Kinetic Shadows" performed at University of Southern California's
Bing Theater; the Seoul Film Festival and many others.
Her work has
been screened at festivals in Iran, the Slovak Republic, Turkey,
Japan, Korea, Romania, Italy, Germany, Holland, France, England, the
US and Canada, and at distinguished institutions including Muzeul
Florean, Romania; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; The Butler>
Institute of American Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Museu de Arte
Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; and Anthology Film
Archives.
Her film "The Free Speech Zone," cited in The Encyclopedia
of Underground Movies, was featured at the Nemo Festival at the Forum
des Images in Paris. Kasumi is honored to attend camp for the second
time.
_ artists:
_ masayuki akamatsu
_ ricardo caballero
_ fried dähn
_ friedrich förster
_ anja füsti
_ philpp geist
_ paul hubweber
_ kasumi
_ tobias kirstein
_ mark l. kysela
_ thomas maos
_ vj oxygen
_ solu
_ sabine weissinger
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