Toshio iwai biography sample

Japanese artist (born 1962)

Toshio Iwai (岩井 俊雄, Iwai Toshio, born 1962) is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games.

Toshio iwai biography sample

In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.

Education and early work

Iwai was born in 1962 in Kira, Aichi, Japan. As a child, he spent time creating flip book-style animations in the corner of text books and making motor-driven mechanical toys, since these were the only technologies available to him.^[1] In 1981 Iwai matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media.^[2] Influenced by the work of Norman McLaren,^[3] he began producing installation art that combined pre-cinema animation techniques (the phenakistoscope and the zoetrope) with modern methods of image capture and creation (photocopiers, video cameras and computer