Kurokawa Ryoichi was born in Osaka in 1978. Kurokawa lives and works in Berlin. He is a true poet of transformative cinema, lyrically transfiguring analogue representations of perceived nature into digital streams of vertiginous imagery and emotion. The architecturally crafted precision of his sensitively synched fragmentary images, placed side by side on our retinas, displaces the persistence of blurred memory under the effect of boundless luminosity. In recent years, his works have been displayed across the world at international festivals and museums, including TATE Modern (UK), Centre Pompidou (France), Venice Biennale, and the Minsheng Art Museum (China). In 2010, he was awarded the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) in the Digital Music and Sound Art category.