December 18, 2006

Profile of Director : Tomohiro OKADA

Tomohiro OKADA at an old hotel in Syria

Director OKADA Tomohiro

OKADA Tomohiro (Japan), was born in 1971. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with an M.A. in information studies, and has been the director of the Cool States Communications Laboratories of Tokyo.
He has been interested in social innovation as a result of cultures using communication technology and new media.
He has worked on pre-production investigations and project start-up activities and developing for ICT and design/art/contents field in Japan such as Japan Media Arts Festival (Agency of Cultural Affair), Industrial Cluster of Tokyo Metroporitan Area (Ministry of Econimics and Trade and Industry), Multimedia Allience Fukuoka (Fukuoka Prefectural Government), Canon Didital Creators Contest (Canon -worldwide- and Dentsu) also he is the director of Creative Cluster, non profit new media culture and social development nation wide initiative of Japan and curating and consulting high level new media art exhibition such as Electrical Fantasista, Evolution Cafe and Groval Media -OTAKU-.

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