vitae-akio

Akio HIZUME

1960 Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
1987 Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Kyoto Technical and Textile University.
2008- Special lecturer of Musashino Art University.
2009- Visiting professor of Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Ryukoku University.
2015 Visiting professor of Institute of Construction Design, Cracow University of Technology, Poland.

Bibliography

- "Life and Architecture"(1990), published privately.
- "GOETHEANUM 3"(1993), HYPER SPACE vol. 2, No. 1.
- Thesis"STAR CAGE: New Dimension of the Penrose Lattice"(1994),FORMA,9,259-272
- Thesis"The Form of the Golden Music"(1994), Culture on Form Bulletin II, KO-SAKU-SHA.
- Thesis "HEXA-PLEXUS"(1995),The Quarterly of the International Study of Symmetry, vol.6, No.2, 241-244.
- "neuro-architecture"(1995),HYPER SPACE vol.4, No.2.
- Thesis"PLEIADES"(1996),HYPER SPACE vol.5, No.1.
- Thesis"MU-MAGARI No.4"(1998), IV－INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF SYMMETRY(ISIS-SYMMETRY), Haifa, Israel.
-Thesis "MU-MAGARI No.5"(1999), HYPER SPACE vol.8, No.2.
-Thesis "REAL SEQUENCE" MANIFOLD #04, 2002.
-Thesis "POLY-TWISTOR" MANIFOLD #04, 2002.
-Thesis "POLY-TWISTOR Triangular-Section " MANIFOLD #05, 2002.
-Thesis "Real Model of the POLY-TWISTOR Triangular-Section " MANIFOLD #06, 2003.
-Thesis "Star Nuts" MANIFOLD #06, 2003.
-Thesis "SUNFLOWER TOWER" MANIFOLD #07, 2003.
-Thesis "Air Plants' Hotel", Basketry News, No.61, 2003.
-Thesis "SUNFLOWER TOWER CATENARY", MANIFOLD #08, 2004.
-Thesis "Poetic Form based on the Fibonacci Lattice", MANIFOLD #09, 2004.
-Thesis "I dreamt I have dreamt.. ", MANIFOLD #10, 2005.
-Thesis "Development of the Sunflower Tower", MANIFOLD #11, 2005.
-Thesis "Democracy Steps to the Lonely Bay", MANIFOLD #11, 2005.
-Thesis "Architecture of Music", B# vol. 2, Osaka Seikei University Press, 2005.
-Thesis "The Fibonacci Tower for Tea Ceremony House",MANIFOLD #12, 2006.
-Thesis "Real Number Music", Kyushu University Press, 2006.
-Thesis "An illusion on the Phyllotaxy consist only of similar triangle", MANIFOLD #13, 2006.
-Thesis "Report of G4G7", MANIFOLD #13, 2006.
-Thesis "Contemporary Jomon Architecture: Fibonacci Tower」MANIFOLD #13, 2006.
-Thesis "Fibonacci Dragon",MANIFOLD #13, 2006.
-Thesis "Mathematical Form based on the Golden Mean", Jikkyo No.53, 54, Jikkyo Press, 2006.
-Thesis "internative-architecture OF music", Star Cage Publishing, 2007.
-Thesis "Nature Pensant", Intercommunication No. 60, NTT Publishing, 2007.
-Thesis "Fibonacci Tornado", 11th Bridges Proceedings, Bridges, 2008.
-Thesis "Quasi-Periodic Essays in Architectural and Musical Form", pp. 211-219, Mathematical Wizardry For A Gardner, A K Peter, 2009.
-Thesis "Real Tornado", coauthor: Yoshikazu Yamagishi, 12th Bridges Proceedings, Bridges, 2009.
-Thesis "Stripes on Penrose tilings", coauthor: Yoshikazu Yamagishi, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Issue 1, 2011)
etc.

Solo Exhibition /Self-Produce

- "Star Cage : Pentagonal Diversity"(1997), The Wilkes' Gallery, Ohio Univ. U.S.A.
- "Star Cage : Pentagonal Diversity"(1997), The Christine Price Gallery, Castleton College, Vermont, U.S.A.
- "STAR CAGE"(1999),Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.
- "Stern-Warte"(2001),Gallery MUKURI, Tokyo, Japan.
- "inter-native architecture OF music"(2004),art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo, Japan.
- "inter-native architecture OF music"(2004),space B, IRC, Osaka Seikei Univ.,Kyoto, Japan.
- "Fibonacci Dragon", art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo, Japan, 2006, 2/6-18
- "Golden Bell Tower", gallery G, Hiroshima,Japan, 2007, 5/12-17
- "Hoshi-Bokkuri-Saryo", Kyoto Art Center,Japan, 1-30 Aug. 2008.
- "The Form of the Golden Ratio", Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Japan, Jul.-Sep. 2010.

Group Exhibition

- "The World of Scientific Art"(1993), The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research: RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.
- "Eggs of Moebius"(1993),O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Cosmology of Light and Form"(1994), Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan.
- "Bucky Fuller Centennial Exhibit in New York"(1995), The Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
New York, U.S.A.
- "Building for the Future"(1996), Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Turkey.
- "Hyper Space"(1996), Aichi Art and Cultural Center, Nagoya, Japan.
- "Metamorphic Polyhedron"(1997), MU-SUN-SO Gallery, Nakano, Japan.
- "Virtual Architecture"(1998), CCB Cultural Center, Lisbon, Portugal.
- "MANDARA ONOMICHI MANDARA"(1998), Onomichi Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan.
-"Program seed"(2002), Kyoto,Japan.
-"BRIDGES over the MANIFOLD"(2003), Tokyo,Japan.
-"BIWAKO BIENNALE"(2004), Ohmi-Hachiman, Shiga,Japan.
-"Wonderland in Museum", Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshina, Nagano, Japan, 2006, 7/29-9/18.
-"Rudolf Steiner and Art", Gallery SATSU, Tokyo, Japan, 31 May-29 June 2008.
etc.

Public Sculpture

- "Bamboohenge"(1994),Yoshida, Saitama, Japan.
- "Democratic Stairway"(1995),Yoshida, Saitama, Japan.
- "Quasi-Crystal Bamboo Sculpture"(1995), Wattens, Austria.
- "Quasi-Crystal Bamboo Sculpture"(1995), Baden-Baden, Germany.
- "Bamboo Star Cage"(1997), Wright State Univ., Ohio, U.S.A..
- "Democracy Steps for Cedar Falls"(1997), Hocking Hills, Ohio, U.S.A..
- "Bamboo Star Cage."(1997), Castleton College, Vermont, U.S.A.
- "STAR CAGE"(1998), High School of Wil,Switzerland.
- "STAR CAGE" (1999), HAKONE GARDEN, Saratoga, California, U.S.A..
- "STAR CAGE" (1999), Kona, Hawaii, U.S.A..
- "STAR CAGE" (1999), Zilker Garden,Austin, Texas, U.S.A..
- "neuro-architecture TATEBAYASHI" (2001), Gumma, Japan.
- "STAR CAGE" (2003), Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich.
- "Sunflower Tower" (2003), Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, U.S.A..
- "Sunflower Tower Catenary" (2004), IRC, Osaka Seikei Univ. Kyoto, Japan.
- "neuro-architecture in IRC" (2004), Osaka Seikei Univ. Kyoto, Japan.
- "FIBONACCI TUNNEL" (2004), YO-KOKU-JI. Kyoto, Japan.
- "Democracy Steps to the Lonely Bay" (2005), Whitianga, Coromandel, New Zealand.
- "Fibonacci Tea Ceremony House", YOKOKU-JI, Kyoto, Japan, 2005.
- "Fibonacci Tea House for G4G7"(U.S.A.), 2006.
- "Fibonacci Tower", MARU-CUBE, Tokyo, 2006.
- "Sunflower Tower", Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, 2006.
- "Democracy Steps for G4G8"(U.S.A.), 2008.
- "Fibonacci Tea House for G4G8" (U.S.A.), 2008.
- "Star Cage in Leeuwarden", Netherlands, Aug. 2008.
- "FIBONACCI TUNNEL" (2008), Musashino Art University, Japan.
- "Bamboo City, Geometry, Music" (2009), Musashino Art University, Japan.
- "Giant Pleiades for G4G9" (U.S.A.), 2010.
- "MUMAGARI 600 for G4G9" (U.S.A.), 2010.
- "Bamboo Star Cage", Camphill, Ballytobin, Ireland, 2010.
- "Bamboo City, Geometry, Music", Musashino Art University, Japan, 2010.
- "Fibonacci Tower of Logs", Shizuoka, Japan, 2011.
etc.

Musical Works

- "FIBONACCI KECAK"(1995) presented at ISIS-SYMMETRY, Washington D.C.,Aug. 1995.
- "FIBONACCI KECAK AS ANY PLANET SYSTEM"(1999)
- "FIBONACCI KECAK for SHO"(1999) World Premiere was played by Tamami Tono on 20th Nov. 1999 at Chante, Gumma, Japan.
- "REAL KECAK"(1999)
- Composition, stage set design and direction "Star Drops"(2001), Gumma, Japan.
-Taking part in UBRTMAR.COM 's work "MACROMETASOMAKOSMOS" theoretically (2002).
- performance, ensemble starcage "TATAKE TAKE"(2004), Shu-Yu-Kan, Ohmi-Hachiman, Shiga, Japan(2004).
- "Installation with Sound and Light for Play written by Mishima",Ko-Yo-Sha, 2003, 2004.
- "Golden Bell Tower", 2006.
- "THE STAR FESTIVAL",Kyoto, Japan, 2009.
- "TANABATA FESTIVAL", Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan,2012.
- "TANABATA FESTIVAL", Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan,2013.

Workshops

- "Let's make Star Cage"(1993), The Workshop for the Coming Art, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Let's make Star Cage"(1993), Yokohama Civic Gallery, Japan.
- "Bamboohenge Project"(1994), Yoyogi, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Let's make Star Cage"(1994), Yoshida, Saitama, Japan.
- "Let's break up Star Cage"(1996), Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Let's make Star Cage"(1994), Tama Six Cities Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Let's make Star Cage"(1997), Wright State University, Ohio, U.S.A.
- "Let's make Star Cage"(1998), Liberty Science Center, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- "Let's make Star Cage"(1998), High School of Wil, Switzerland.
- "Scientific Design based on the Golden Mean－ from Music to Architecture"(1999), International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan.
- "Let's make STAR CAGE" Studio 5 Gallery, Kona, Hawaii, 1999.
- "Let's make STAR CAGE" (2000), TAISHI Civic Library, Hyogo, Japan.
- "Let's make Bamboo Pleiades" (2001), Gallery MUKURI, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Let's make STAR SEED" (2002), Kyoto Art Center, Japan.
- "Ensemble Star Cage" (2002), Kyoto Art Center, Japan.
-"Real Kecak System" (2002) Bridges, Towson, Maryland, U.S.A.
-"Let's make MUMAGARI consists of 270 rods" Texas Bamboo Society, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 2002, 8/25-26.
-"Geometry for Freedom" (2003), CAP HOUSE, Kobe, Japan.
-"Let's make Star Cage and Let's play Fibonacci Kecak" (2004), Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan.
-"Let's make Star Cage", Kobe Design University, 8 Oct. 2004.
-"Fibonacci Kecak", Kobe Design University, 7 Jul. 2004.
-"Fibonacci Kecak", Kyoto Seika University, 17 Jan. 2005.
-"Fibonacci tower", Kobe Design University, 24 Oct. 2005.
-"Katachi of Golden Mean" Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshina, Nagano, Japan, 17 Jan. 2005.
-"Let's make Star Cage", The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto, 17 Jan. 2005.
-"inter-native architecture OF music" Musashino Art University, Tokyo, 17 Jan. 2005.
-"Let's make Pleiades", Musashino Art University, Tokyo, 4 Jul. 2007.
-"Bamboo Geometry", Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Nov. 2008.
-"Bamboo Geometry", Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Nov. 2009.
-"Starcage Workshop", Camphill, Ballytobin, Ireland, 2010.
-"Fibonacci Kecak", Yawata High school, Kyoto, 8th Nov. 2010.
-"Bamboo Geometry", Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Nov. 2010.
-"Fibonacci Kecak", People Tree, Kawanehon, Shizuoka, 6th Mar. 2011.
-"Star Cage Workshop", Workshop On Geometric Pattern In Islamic Art, Istanbul, Turkey (Sept. 2014).
-"Star Cage Workshop", Konya Science Center, Konya, Turkey (Sept. 2014).
etc.

Presentations in Conference

- FOAMS EUROCONFERENCE(1994), Renveyle, Ireland.
- INTERNATIONAL KATACHI U SYMMETRY SYMPOSIUM(1994), Tsukuba, Japan.
- IV-International Bamboo Congress, Workshop and Festival(1995), Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
- Third Interdisciplinary Symmetry Congress and Exhibition of the ISIS-Symmetry(1995), Washington, D.C.,U.S.A.
- American Bamboo Society Annual Meeting in Orlando(1998),Frolida,U.S.A.
- American Bamboo Society Annual Meeting in Saratoga(1999),CA ,U.S.A.
-"Poly-Twistor" (2002), ISAMA, Freiburg, Germany.
-"Real Kecak System" (2002) Bridges, Towson, Maryland, U.S.A.
-"Hexa-Twistor Triangular Section" (2003) Bridges, Granada, Spain.
-"Quasi-Periodic Essays in Architectural and Musical Form", G4G7, Atlanta, U.S.A., Mar. 2006.
-"Music and Architecture based on the Golden Mean", G4G8, Atlanta, U.S.A., Mar. 2008.
-"Fibonacci Tornado" 11th Bridges Conference, Netherlands, 2008, 8/24-29.
-"Fibonacci Tornado, Fibonacci Tunnel, Fibonacci Music", G4G9, Atlanta, U.S.A., Mar. 2010.
-"My Recent Works", ISIS, Gmuend, Austria, 24th Aug. 2010.
-"Poly-Twistor by 3D Printer. Classification of 3D Tori",16th Bridges, Enschede, Netherlands, 2013.
-"Quasi periodic labyrinth based on the Golden Ratio", ISIS-Symmetry, Crete, Greece, 2013.
-"Voronoi Phyllotaxis Tiling on the Fermat Spiral",17th Bridges, Seoul, Korea, 2014.
-"Voronoi Phyllotaxis Tiling on the Fermat Spiral for Architecture", 2nd STAR conference Proceedings, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014.
etc.

Special Lectures

- "The Declaration of Neo-Pythagorean"(27 Feb.1993), ARS+, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Musical Form of the Golden Section"(18 Nov.1993), ARS+, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Musical Form of the Golden Section"(30 Nov.1993), Keio Gijuku University, Kanagawa, Japan.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(31 Aug.1996), Toyama University, Toyama, Japan.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(10 Jan.1997), Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan.
- "Ouroboros Engine"(26 Jan.1997), International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan.
- "STAR CAGE"(18 Sep. 1997), Rotary Club in Athens, Ohio, U.S.A.
-"STAR CAGE"(24 Sep. 1997) Ohio University, Lancaster, U.S.A.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(29,30 Sep.1997), Wright State University,Ohio, U.S.A.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(3 Oct.1997),Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(8 Oct.1997),Logan High School, Ohio,U.S.A.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(15 Oct.1997),Mathematics Dept. of Ohio State University, Ohio, U.S.A.
-"Mathematical Art on the Golden Section"(20 Oct.1997),Castleton State College, Vermont, U.S.A.
-"Pentagonal Diversity"(20 Nov. 1998), Special lecture for AHA 10th year anniversary, Zurich, Switzerland.
- "Musical Form of the Golden Section"(8 May 1999),Dept. of Music, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan.
- "Star Cage: Music from Architecture"(13 Dec. 1999), Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan.
- "STAR CAGE" American Bamboo Society Annual Meeting in California, 1999.10/15
- "REAL KECAK SYSTEM ：The Recursive Structure of Irrational Number and New Form of Music" Shingu Lab. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, 12 March 2002 .
- "Star Cage: Music from Architecture" The University of the Air, Shiga, 14 March 2002.
- "Mathematics for Freedom" (28 Nov. 2003), Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan.
- "Mathematical Art on the Golden Section" (26 May. 2004), Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan.
- "Star Cage" (3 Jul. 2004), Kobe Design University, Japan.
- "Real Number Music" (8 Oct. 2004), Kobe Design University, Hyogo, Japan.
- "The Magic of Power", PINC Conferences, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2, Dec. 2004).
- "Music and Architecture", Kyoto Seika University, 17 Jan. 2005.
- "JAPAN MEETS SAN FRANCISCO:Akio Hizume and Max Mathews", RX Gallery, San Francisco (22, Mar. 2006).
- "JAPAN MEETS BAY AREA AT 21 GRAND", 21 Grand, Oakland (25, Mar. 2006).
- "inter-native architecture OF music", Musashino Art University, 5 Dec. 2006.
- "Special Lecture" International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan. 2007. 5/11.
- "Mathematical Forms based on the Golden mean", Hiroshima-Gakuin, Hiroshima, 12 Jun. 2007.
- "Mathematical Art", Tokyo University, 16 Oct. 2008.
- "Special Lecture" International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan. 2009. 6/5..
- CHI-DELI in Apple Store "The World of Form - Function and Beauty of Structure", CSCD, Osaka, Japan, 2009. 3/1.
- "Music and Architecture based on the Golden Mean", Camphill, Ballytobin, Ireland, 6th Sep. 2010.
- "Music and Architecture based on the Golden Mean", Mermaid Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 9th Sep. , 2010.
- "Space Structure Based on the Golden ratio", Musashino Art University, 25 May. 2011.
- "inter-native architecture OF music" (21, 28 Nov. 2011), Kyoto Seika Univ, Kyoto, Japan.
- "inter-native architecture OF music" (24 Jun. 2012), Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan.
- "inter-native architecture OF music" (29 Jun. 2012), Tokyo Denki Univ, Saitama, Japan.
- "Special Lecture" Tokyo Art Univ, Toride, Japan. 5, Aug. 2012.
- "Quasi-Periodic Alabesque of Music and Architecture", Workshop On Geometric Pattern In Islamic Art, Istanbul, Turkey (Sept. 2014).
- "The Form of Cosmos", Musashino Art University, Oct. 2014.
- "Quasi-Periodic Alabesque of Music and Architecture", FATIH SULTAN MEHMED VAKIF UNIVERSITY ARTHITECTURE FIELD, Istanbul, Turkey (Nov. 2014).
- "Special Lecture", Krakow University of Technology, Krakow, Poland. 12-16, Jan. 2014.
etc.

Patent Pending

- Five-Fold 2D Complex(1990)
- Temperament on Golden Section(1992)
- Quasi-Periodic Instrument(1992)
- Six-Fold 3D Complex(1993)
- Pleiades(1996)

Prize

1998 THE JAPAN ARTS FOUNDATION-for Contemporary Artist(JAPAN)
1999 International Design Competition, Osaka, Silver Prize

Grant

1997 THE JAPAN FOUNDATION(JAPAN)
OHIO ARTS COUNCIL(U.S.A.)
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE FOR APPALACHIA(U.S.A.)
The Artist Organization(U.S.A.)
1999 THE JAPAN FOUNDATION(JAPAN)
2002 THE JAPAN FOUNDATION(JAPAN)
2005 Japan Society for Mercury Bay (New Zealand)
New Zealand/Japan Exchange Program (New Zealand)
THE NOMURA CULTURAL FOUNDATION (JAPAN)
2007 THE JAPAN FOUNDATION(JAPAN)
2010 THE JAPAN FOUNDATION(JAPAN)

Supports

1997 Edward and Betty Collings (Upper Arlington, Ohio, U.S.A.)
THE INN AT CEDAR FALLS(Hocking Hills, Ohio, U.S.A.)
1999 Carole Malone(Bamboo Branch, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)
1998-2001 Kakichi Sato(Tomioka, Gumma, Japan)

Article about my activity

* deui, 1995. 8, Indonesia.
* Badener Tagblatt, 1995. 9/29, Germany.
* THE SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL WORLDS, 1996, Austria.
* The Logan Daily News, 1997. 9/26, 10/9, U.S.A.
* The Sunday Messenger, 1997. 9/21, U.S.A.
* "Stairway to nature", The Columbus Dispatch, 1997, 10/7, U.S.A.
* "arquitectura virtual", architecti, 39. 1998, Portugal.
* Walter Arn "auf zu den Sternen", SVSF, 1999, Switzerland.
* Austin American Statesman,1999.10/30, U.S.A.
*"GROW YOUR OWN HOUSE" Vitra Design Museum, Germany, 2000.
* Gale Beth Goldberg "Bamboo Style"Gibbs Smith, U.S.A., 2002.
* Theoni Pappas "Math Stuff" Wide World Publishing/Tetra, U.S.A., 2002.

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