Hiroko Tasaka

Hiroko Tasaka is Curator, Department of Moving Image, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. She has co-curated Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions since 2009. She worked for Processart Inc., managing the artist Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures, designing and producing projects for reexamining art and science, and researching video art and 1960s and 1970s performance art. She has curated Spelling Dystopia (2012–13) and Shiro Takatani Camera Lucida (2013–14).

Contributions

The Archival Impulse: Collecting and Conserving the Moving Image in Asia

Since the 1950s, there has been an active production of experimental film, animation, and video art in Asia. Yet, much of this work has not been consistently conserved or shared with the public due to the lack of accessible archives or organized collections dedicated to its preservation and dissemination. The conference “The Archival Impulse: Collecting…