BIOGRAPHY

Yutaka Makino was born in Tochigi, Japan in 1976. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Fukuoka, Japan. On the basis of research into areas such as psychiatry, psychoacoustics, neuroscience, linguistics and history of science, Makino probes the processes of perception in experimental setups. His performances and installations provide acoustically and visually conditioned environments that make processes of perception tangible to the perceivers and provoke reflection on the acts of perception and the perceivers’ behavioral responses to the environment.

His works have been exhibited and performed in numerous institutions and festivals: Akademie der Künste, daadgalerie and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Japan Society New York, Donaueschinger Musiktage, MärzMusik, CTM Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Sónar, Sonic Acts, among others. He has received prizes, fellowships and residencies, such as Prix Ton Bruynèl, the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin Program, Villa Aurora Los Angeles, McDowell Colony, Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs, Pola Art Foundation among others. He is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Design at Kyushu University, Japan.

Selected Exhibitions / Performances

2023

The 2023 Conference on Artificial Life - Ghost in the Machine
Sapporo, Hokkaido
Japan

2022

Sppoky Actions
Kunsthaus Erfurt
Erfurt, Germany

2021

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany

2020

KANÔN, QĀNŪN, CANON
Online

Sensory Orders
LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art
Gdańsk, Poland

2019

Musica Sanae
Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge
Berlin, Germany

UNArt Center
Shanghai, China

Teatro Goldoni
Venice, Italy

Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Germany

Concertgebouw Brugge
Brugge, Belgium

2018

Kunstverein Arnsberg 
Arnsberg, Germany

puntWG 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bernstein Conference
TU Berlin 
Berlin, Germany

2017

Festival Archipel
Geneva, Switzerland

Studio Ernest Ansermet
Geneva, Switzerland

SPEKTRUM
Berlin, Germany

daadgalerie
Berlin, Germany

2016

Donaueschinger Musiktage
Donaueschingen, Germany

sonADA Festival
Aberdeen, UK

2015

Villa Autora 20th Anniversary Exhibition
BOLD
Los Angeles, CA, USA

daadgalerie
Berlin, Germany

Cafe OTO
London, UK

Wayward Geometry
Ambika P3, University of Westminster 
London, UK

2014

Festival of Future Nows
Neue Nationalgalerie
Berlin, Germany

Graduale 14
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin, Germany

EMS 50th Anniversary Concert
Theater and Music Museum
Stockholm, Sweden

Jahresgaben
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof
Hamburg, Germany

2013

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 50th Anniversary
Jubiläumsfestival
Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Germany

Salon of Aesthetic Experiments
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin, Germany

move - align - avoid
On the Swarm as Principle & Phenomenon
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof
Hamburg, Germany

Acht Brücken Festival
Film Museum
Cologne, Germany

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, SAR

2012

DAAD Gallery
Berlin, Germany

Berlin Biennale
Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

Sonar
MACBA
Barcelona, Spain

Fabra i Coats
Barcelona, Spain

An-archives of sound
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

2011

DAAD Gallery
Berlin, Germany

Kontraste
Minoritenkirche
Krems, Austria

ZKM
Karlsruhe, Germany

MaerzMusik
Berghain
Berlin, Germany

CTM Festival
TU Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Utrecht, The Netherlands

2010

Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetic of Space
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Japan Society
New York, NY

Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Germany

Inventionen 2010
Berlin, Germany

STRP Festival
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2009

Issue Project Room
New York, NY, USA

Machine Project
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Loop Gallery
Seoul, South Korea

Divus Gallery
London, UK

Worm
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

International Generative Art Exhibition
Machine Dreams
Seoul, South Korea

2008

Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Night of the Unexpected
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007

Seoul International Computer Music Festival
Seoul, South Korea

MusikTriennale Köln
Köln, Germany

Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sonorities Contemporary Music Festival
Belfast, UK

2006

Transmediale
Berlin, Germany

STRP Festival
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Publications

2015

Relational Conditions
Monographic Catalog
Kehrer Verlag

2014

Differential Relations
Book
Berlin University of Arts Publications

2013

Procedural Formation
Book with Sound Files
Berlin University of Arts Publications

2010

Lee Gamble / Yutaka Makino - SPLIT
Cassette Tape
Entr'acte

2009

BLACK
CD
Strukto

2006

STRP1 - Reactions To The Music Of Dick Raaijmakers
CD
Basta Records

Audile(with Takuro Mizuta Lippit)
7" Vinyl
33.99 Records

Commissions

2024

singuhr - projekte
Berlin, Germany

2016

Donaueschinger Musiktage
Donaueschingen, Germany

2013

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Berlin, Germany

2011

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Berlin, Germany

2010

STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008

Foundation Ton Bruynel
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

STRP Festival
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Selected Awards / Grants / Residencies

2019

Residency
Shimojo Psychophysics Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA

2018

Residency
Center for Sensorimotor Research
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Klinikum Großhadern
Munich, Germany

Arbeitsstipendien für Neue Musik und Klangkunst
Kulturverwaltung des Berliner Senats
Berlin, Germany

2017

Project Grant "On Display – An Artistic View on Computational Neuroscience"
Ernst Schering Foundation / Bernstein Association for Computational Neuroscience
Berlin / Freiburg, Germany

2016

Grants in Support of Art-Related International Exchange
Pola Art Foundation
Tokyo, Japan

2015

Residency
Villa Aurora
Los Angeles, CA, USA

BS Projects
Braunschweig University of Arts
Braunschweig, Germany

Arbeits- und Recherchestipendien für Neue Musik und Klangkunst
Kulturverwaltung des Berliner Senats
Berlin, Germany

2014

Residency
EMS
Stockholm, Sweden

Fellow
Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences
University of the Arts
Berlin, Germany

2013

Fellow
Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences
University of the Arts
Berlin, Germany

2012

Fellow
Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences
University of the Arts
Berlin, Germany

Music Grant
Nomura Foundation
Tokyo, Japan

2011

Residency
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, Germany

Visual Arts Grant
Nomura Foundation
Tokyo, Japan

2010

Residency
DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm 2010 - 2011
Berlin, Germany

2009

Residency
MacDowell Colony
Peterborough, NH USA

2008

Residency
Visby International Center for Composers
Visby, Sweden

2007

Winner
Prix Ton Bruynèl 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Residency
STEIM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists
Pola Art Foundation
Tokyo, Japan

Residency
Electronic Music Studio, TU Berlin
Berlin, Germany

2005

Japanese Government Fellowship for Emerging Artists
Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs
Tokyo, Japan

Selected Talks / Guest Critics / Teachings

2021

Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Graduate School of Media and Governance
Keio University
Kanagawa, Japan

Bauhaus.Module.
Bauhaus University
Weimar, German

2020

Summer University
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

HFBK
Hamburg, Germany

2019

Summer University
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Potsdam, Germany

Parallax Lab
University of Arts / TU Berlin
Berlin, Germany

2018

Department of Communication Design Science 
Kyushu University
Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

Bernstein Conference
TU Berlin 
Berlin, Germany

Summer University
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

2016

Studium General
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

2015

Fine Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist
California Institute of Arts
Valencia, CA, USA

2014

Studium General
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

2013

Institute for Spatial Experiments
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, SAR

2012

Art and Media
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

Institute for Spatial Experiments
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

2011

Institute for Spatial Experiments
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

ZKM
Karlsruhe, Germany

Clubtransmediale
Berlin, Germany

2010

Japan Society
New York, NY

Sound Studies
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ArtScience
Royal Academy of Art
The Hague, The Netherlands

Clubtransmediale
Berlin, Germany

2009

Sound Department
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL USA

Art and Media
University of Arts
Berlin, Germany

Culture Lab
Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK

Art Media Center
Tokyo University of the Arts
Tokyo, Japan

International Generative Art Symposium
Seoul, South Korea

2008

Institute of Sonology
Royal Conservatory
The Hague, The Netherlands

2007

Department of Art
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA USA

The Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of Arts
Valencia, CA USA

MuzikTriennale Köln 2007
Computer.Music.Instrument
Köln, Germany

Education

Degrees

2005

M. Music
ArtScience
Royal Academy of Art / Royal Conservatory
The Hague, The Netherlands

2003

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio
Art and Technology Studies
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

2000

B. Science in Earth Science
School of Education
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan

Non-degrees

2007

Center for the Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX)
Romainville, France

2005

Institute of Sonology
The Royal Conservatory
The Hague, The Netherlands