Hachiya Kazuhiko

I started my artistic career with "SMTV", a unit for a pirate TV station. My works: "Inter Dis Communication Machine", "Seeing is believing" and "PostPet"are specific communication tool series. "Over the Rainbow" --an abstract CG production machine using the swings-- and "Air Board" series,-- hover skateboards with a jet engine--, are the tools to against the gravity. These works are based on the technology and usually I am making inventible devices. "PostPet", a very popular e-mail software and I am a Representative Director for "PetWORKs Co.", which deals with Software development and direction for all works of PostPet. (source: www.petworks.co.jp)

2002 Finalist of The Hugo Boss Prize
1998 Award of Distinction of The Prix Ars Electronica, Linz / in the .net category for PostPet
1998 Philip Morris Art Award / for the Air Board Project
1997 Honorary Mention of the Prix Ars Electronica, Linz / category Interactive art for Seeing is Believing
1996 Honorary Mention of the Prix Ars Electronica, Linz / category Interactive Art for Inter Dis-Communication Machine
1989 Graduated from Kyushu Institute of Design,