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NAOHIRO UKAWA (DOMMUNE) 宇川 直宏
“GODFATHER against The Difficult language”
Born in 1968 in Kagawa Prefecture. A contemporary artist active since the late 1980s across various fields including video art, graphic design, VJing, writing, and university teaching. Since participating in exhibitions such as "Buzz Club: News from Japan" (MoMA PS1, New York) and "JAM: Tokyo-London" (Barbican Art Gallery, London) in 2001, he has presented works at numerous exhibitions both in Japan and internationally.
In 2010, he independently launched Japan’s first live streaming studio and channel, "DOMMUNE." The platform quickly gained attention domestically and abroad for its record-breaking viewer numbers. In 2011, it was selected as a recommended work at the Japan Media Arts Festival. He considers the acts of filming, streaming, and recording daily programs produced at DOMMUNE studio as his own “contemporary art works.”
In 2016, he established a satellite studio called "DOMMUNE LINZ!" at the Ars Electronica Festival’s Train Hall in Linz, Austria, with a stage width of 500 meters. In 2019, he opened another satellite studio, "DOMMUNE SETOUCHI," at the Setouchi Triennale, which also attracted considerable attention.
DOMMUNE has participated in numerous international contemporary art exhibitions and has created satellite studios worldwide—in London, Dortmund, Stockholm, Paris, Mumbai, Linz, Fukushima, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Akita, Sapporo, Sado Island, and more—continuing to explore the meanings of ubiquity (here and now) and omnipresence (anytime, anywhere).
Over ten years, DOMMUNE has broadcast approximately 5,000 programs totaling about 7,000 hours and over 150 terabytes, with a total viewership exceeding 100 million people.
In 2019, the studio relocated to the renovated Shibuya PARCO 9F and evolved into “SUPER DOMMUNE,” updating its operations with cutting-edge technology for the post-5G era.
In 2021, he was awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award at the 71st Japan Arts Festival.
