Mauro Arrighi - Art Director in Tokyo

Mauro Arrighi

I'm an art director in Tokyo, Japan

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About me

Since 2009, I have been living on&off in Japan, UK, Italy, Iceland and Finland, where I am pursuing my academic and artistic career as a sound designer, video maker, photographer and writer. Between 2001 and 2017, I have been lecturing Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, Bologna and Verona (Italy).

I have been featured at: Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), International Biennales of Art and Architecture (Venice, Italy), Victory Media Network (Dallas, United States), Pantaloon Art Gallery (Osaka, Japan), New Media Fest (Cologne, Germany), Pantheon Gallery (Nicosia, Cyprus), Kurye Video Org (Istanbul, Turkey), Video and New Media Art Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands)… and more.

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Johanna Naukkarinen
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My Creations

  1. Reality Bonsai

    27 August 2015

    "Reality Bonsai" is a project where
    the research, which I conduct between the UK at Solent Southampton and Japan, is expressed through a short-movie.
    https://vimeo.com/174483588

    One of the main ideas addressed is escapism
    Revising the theory of Anne Allison (Anne Allison, 2006 p. 84)* by which: “[...] everyday life is... continue reading (0, 0 images)

  2. Tokyo Multitude

    27 August 2015
    Tokyo Multitude

    “Tokyo Multitude”
    is part of a series of images which depict current Tokyoites lifestyle
    Tokyo Multitude is a photo-­video reportage occurred between December 2011 and April 2012 done in Tokyo as a field-based research for my PhD

    It has been exhibited:
    on 2014 at “#SeeMeTakeover”, Times Square, 46th St. and... continue reading (0, 1 image)

  3. Reality Bonsai (teaser)

    21 January 2016

    Title: Reality Bonsai
    Year of production: 2016
    Type: short movie (teaser)

    Description
    A love story in Tokyo between two individuals who will never meet.
    A Japanese man acting as a salary-man while being unemployed.
    An Office-Lady who hides a secret: the tattoo she has are actually 'bakemono' sleeping on her... continue reading (0, 0 images)

  4. my music on iTunes store

    13 July 2016
    my music on iTunes store

    https://itunes.apple.com/jp/artist/mauro-arrighi/id591240910
    here it is what I've released up to now; wishfully... there is more to come
    ヾ（〃＾∇＾）ﾉ♪

  5. The One Shiny Drop - EP by Kimono beaT

    14 July 2016
    The One Shiny Drop - EP by Kimono beaT

    The singer/songwriter Kumiko Mouri asked me to remix one of her new songs, as result: four different tracks (sang both in English and Japanese) have been published as an EP; I also did the cover-design.
    https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/the-one-shiny-drop-ep/id1112975624

  6. あなたの魂を夢見る cover design

    14 July 2016
    あなたの魂を夢見る cover design

    This is the cover design I made for the song I published in collaboration with the singer RIRE.
    https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/anatano-hunwo-meng-jianru/id1086098260

    ...my involvement ~ apart from composing and playing the song (⌒.−)＝★ ~ : concept, photo-shooting, editing, typography.