Mika Tajima

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Negative Entropy Digital Ocean NYC3

Sun Capital Office

Mika Tajima was born 1975 in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in NY.

 Tajima’s Negative Entropy textile works are made from audio field recordings that are digitally transmuted into images and then physically interpreted by a weaving designer.  The textiles are woven on an industrial Jacquard loom, considered a predecessor to mass automated technology and a prototype for computers.

 Portraits of human mediators within the landscape of production thus appear as subtle pattern irregularities woven into an abstract created of cotton, polyester, and rayon: a systems engineer in a data center server room, a weaving designer at a 3D Jacquard loom textile mill, and a language translator at her desk.

 

Exhibitions include

  • Centre Pompidou, Paris

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

  • South London Gallery

  • Whitney Museum of American Art

  • Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

  • CCS Bard Galleries and the Hessel Museum of Art

  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • The Seattle Art Museum, WA

  •  Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm

  •  Sculpture Center, NY

  • Protocinema (solo, 2016)