Yoichi
Sakamoto

Yoichi Sakamoto

Yoichi Sakamoto is a media artist, engineer, architect and researcher born in Tokyo.He started his career as an architect at construction office, and now he works in Rhizomatiks Research where he creates installations and stage performances with using new technology like a drone, AR, machine learning and mechanical technologies.
He also makes some personal art installations; his works have been exhibited in Inter-Communication Centre in Japan, Dutch Design Week 2018, Amsterdam Light Festival and so on. His work, CraftScape, is consist of only a LED, motors and a reflection plate which is razor cut special a pattern. In spite of the simple structure, it creates a rich and complexed projection image that evokes a waving water perspective. He expresses scientific phenomena such as optics and vision by using a simple mechanical structure that everyone can understand easily.

Past projects 

Works 

2008 blank   ICC / Tokyo Japan
2015  Dimensions Spiral / Tokyo Japan

Wacoal Kyoto / Kyoto Japan
2016  Stripes BANDO TECHNO FAIR / Kobe Japan
2017  craftscape Takaoka Craft Hackathon / Takaoka Japan
2018  craftscape,craftscape2 Douch design week / Eindhoven Dutch

Amsterdam light festival / Amsterdam Dutch
2018 light field theator ICC / Tokyo Japan

2019  optical walls Milan salone / Milan Italy