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Selected performances

2018
Sound Performance Platform 2018, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
Tanin no Hikari(Fujita Yosuke + Horio Kanta), Ftarri, Tokyo
Tsonami Sound Art Festival, Ex Hotel Royal, Galería de Arte Municipal de Valparaíso, Teatro del Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

2017
Dark Electronics, (Kanta HORIO, John Richards), Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo
Re:Action, Mitsubishi Estate Artium, Fukuoka
FREQ2017, Kyushu University, Fukuoka

2016
TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2016, BankART Stduio NYK, Yokohama

2015
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Yebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo
Full of Noise Festival, Nan Tait Centre, Barrow in Furness, UK
Yo No Bi tour, cafe OTO, London, UK
Yo No Bi tour, The Tetley, Leeds, UK

2014
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN AOMORI, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
Project Glocal in Manila, First Unite Building, Manila, Phillipines

2013

DIY MUSIC: OUTRAGE, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Boombox-Mellotron Project (Junichi Matsuzaki, Kobayashi Radio, Kanta Horio, Takako Minekawa), Vacant, Tokyo

2012

PRETEXTING LEONARDO DA VINCI, Espace 400e Bell, Quebec City, Canada
Senju Flying Orchstra, Arakawa river, Tokyo
majikick no hi, Château Koganei, Tokyo

2011
ensembles2010 closing live, Art Tower Mito, Mito
related event of ‘Vibrations of Entities’, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
Kanta Horio + contactGonzo, Social Kitchen, Kyoto
OTOMO Yoshihide LIVE ENSEMBLES, Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo
maginary impedance, ccott ddang, Seoul, Korea
re:re:freq, COMMENT ALLEZ VOUS, Fukuoka

2010
A/V Festival, The Star And Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
stench, The Independent Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
interlace, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Otoasobinokai, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo
Japan Jew’s Harp Association, Enban, Tokyo
Improvised Music from Japan 2009 festival, loop-line, Tokyo
sun and escape again (Yuko Mohri + Tetsuya Umeda + Kanta Horio), Uplink Factory, Tokyo
Allnight Kaitai (Tetsuya Umeda + Kanta Horio), AD&A Gallery, Osaka

2009
Teiden EXPO (Black out EXPO) (Tetsuya UMEDA, Megumi KAMIMURA, contact Gonzo, Neji Pijin, Kanta HORIO), International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japan
ensembles 09 Rest-ful Musical Devices (Otomo Yoshihide + Kanta Horio + Atsuhiro Ito + Yuko Mohri + Sachiko M + Tetsuya Umeda + Fuyuki Yamakawa), 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Spark Festival, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

2008
Play. Cine en directo, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Open End, NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Tetsuya Umeda Solo Exhibition Mon, ARCUS Studio, Moriya, Japan
courtisane festival, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
Acte 5, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
Röhsska museet, Göteborg, Sweden
ZENSORS, RADIALSYSTEM V, Berlin, Germany
Experimentica Festival, with Paul Granjon, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, Wales

2007
Kill Your Timid Notion 2007, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
5daysoff, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aoba-Ennichi 2, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Time Based Art Festival 07, Wonder ballroom, Portland, USA
Vancouver New Music, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Some Cats From Japan, The Kitchen, New York, USA

2006
Zettai Antena Returns vol.1, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Rader5, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
The Self-made Instruments Parade, Uplink Factory, Tokyo, Japan
New Generation of Japanese Sound Artists, Zoobizarre, Montreal, Canada
Images Festival – Some Cats from Japan, Toronto, Canada
Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Leon, Leon, Mexico
Sonar 2006, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
TECHNOPORITAN MUSEUM, Nihonbashi, Osaka, Japan

2005
Off-ICMC, Metrònom, Barcelona, Spain
Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2005, Marunouchi Building Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Bend++, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Denshi Mansaku Cafe in Festival Beyond Innocence 2005, Bridge, Osaka, Japan
Zettai Anttena vol.35, offsite, Tokyo, Japan

2004
CEAIT festival, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angels, USA
live n_exit, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME’04), Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Shizuoka, Japan

2003
Digital Music Festival 2003, Xebec, Kobe, Japan
rhythm escape 3, Butterfly, Fukuoka, Japan
pimplepeople, gallery SOAP, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Selected solo exhibitions

2018
Design of the objective, Cortot hall, Shimonoseki, Japan

2013
Control of Light, ONE, Shanghai, China

2011
Kanta Horio Solo Exhibition, 20202, Tokyo

2009
Rest-ful Musical Devices (Otomo Yoshihide + Kanta Horio + Atsuhiro Ito + Yuko Mohri + Sachiko M + Tetsuya Umeda + Fuyuki Yamakawa), 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
5V&100V, Artspace Tetra, Fukuoka, Japan
spontaneous phenomenon (w/Paul Granjon), AD&A gallery, Osaka, Japan

Selected group exhibitions

2019
CTM Festival, Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany

2018
Tsonami Sound Art Festival, Galería de Arte Municipal de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

2017
Sapporo International Art Festival, AGS6-3 building and Moiwa Mt., Sapporo
Re:Action, Mitsubishi Estate Artium, Fukuoka

2016
Media Conscious, NTT InterCommucation Center, Tokyo

2015
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Yebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo
Full of Noise Festival, Cookes Studios, Barrow-in-Furness, UK
Yo No Bi tour, The Tetley, Leeds, UK

2014
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN, Bangkok Art&Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN AOMORI, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
Wonderfruit Festival, Pattaya, Thailand

2013
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN, Black Box – Map KL, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Boombox-Mellotron Project (Junichi Matsuzaki, Kobayashi Radio, Kanta Horio), Vacant, Tokyo

2012

hARTsuden, artist-run-space merdre, Tokyo
Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec , Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada
Natsuyasumi no Bonsaiten, Enban, Tokyo
Fantastic 2012, Porte de Roubaix, Lille, France
Art & Music -Search for New Synesthesia (Otomo Yoshihide, Horio Kanta, Sachiko M, Aoyama Yasutomo, Mohri Yuko), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Mikke Konohana, New Chidoribashi Bulding, Osaka

2010
VIA festival, Espace Sculfort, Maubeuge, France
EXIT fesival, Maison des Arts Creteil, Creteil, France
Dancing Machines, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
Vibrations of Entities, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
OTOMO Yoshihide “ENSEMBLES 2010:Resonance” (Otomo Yoshihide, Kikuchi Hirosihi, Horio Kanta, Aoyama Yasutomo, Nakazaki Tohru, Yaguchi Katsunobu, Gotou Hidekado, Mohri Yuko, Kondo Yoshiaki, Takada Masayoshi), Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito

2009
ICC Kids Program 2009 playful learning (MANABE Daito, ISHIBASHI Motoi, YANAGISAWA Tomoaki, HORIO Kanta), NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Spark Festival, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

2008
REALY (w/Tetsuya Umeda), AD&A gallery, Osaka, Japan
21:100:100, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia

2007
Aoba-Ennichi (w/Tetsuya Umeda), Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Sound Effects Seoul 2007, Songwon Artcenter, Seoul, Korea
OPENPOOL, Bridge, Osaka, Japan

2005
Sun and Escape, Osaka Harbor Red Brick Warehouse, Osaka, Japan

Selected video screenings

2008
Elektra 9, Usine C, Montréal, Canada

2007
Sonar 2007, MACBA Auditorium, Barcelona, Spain

2005
Sounding Image/Moving Sound, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Catalogs

2008
21:100:100 -One Hundred Sound Works by One Hundred Artists From the 21st Century, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Australia

2007
Aoba-Ennichi 2 -Bending Mind, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
Sound+Art -Between Music, Media Art and the Simple Act of Listening, Misul Munhwa, Korea

DVD/CD

2009
Improvised Music from Japan 2009, Improvised Music from Japan (CD)
Optofonica, 12k/LINE (DVD)

2004
Computer Music Journal vol.28, MIT Press (DVD)

Lectures/Workshops

2008
Eco Art Festa Osaka, Tenpozan Market Place, Osaka, Japan
Zensors workshop, RADIALSYSTEM V, Berlin, Germany

2005
Audio Visual School Tokyo with Taeji Sawai and Daito Manabe.

Organized Events

2005 – current
dorkbot tokyo with Kazuhiro JO and exonemo.
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottokyo/

2005
bend++, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan (with Keisuke Oki, Akihiro Kubota and Christophe Charles)

Education

  • 1997 – 2001 Undergraduate student at Department of Acoustics, Kyushu Institute of Design
  • 2001 – 2004 Graduate student at Department of Acoustics, Kyushu Institute of Design

Professional career

  • 2004 – 2007 Research assistant at Department of Media Art, Tokyo Polytechnic University
  • 2005 – 2007 Adjunct teacher at Department of Design, Tokyo Zokei University
  • 2007 – 2008 Research assistant at Department of Information Design, Tama Art University
  • 2008 – Freelance artist and electronic device engineer