Kentaro Takaoka

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Live in Kyoto, Japan

日本語 / English

Contact

takaoka@donotcopy.net

Method

Find what is interesting, look into it, connect it, turn it into another form, and hand it to people.

About me

Planning, editing, writing, publicity, supervision, copywriting, exhibition production, and more.

Twenty years in publishing and project work across art, music, design, technology and culture, where I have made a great many things. My speciality is giving structure to fields that have not yet been systematised.

Internet culture, bass music, pixel art, ambient labels — I go to where these under-surveyed fields actually happen, research them, connect them, and bring them into the world in whatever form fits, online or off.

I believe in value that lasts, rather than short-term trends and connections. I am looking for work that takes an unobvious situation, makes it legible, and increases the pleasure people take in it.