Keiko Sei

Writer, curator, and advocate of independent media. After working as a video curator in Japan since the early 1980s, running an organization for videoart and independent video, she has moved to Eastern Europe in 1988 to research the communist bloc media scene. Since 2002 she has been based in Bangkok to continue her research on independent media in Southeast Asia, especially Burma where she founded the Myanmar Moving Image Center in 2003.

She has initiated and worked as curator on various projects, including The Media Are With Us - The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution (Budapest, 1990); video program The Age of Nikola Tesla (Osnabrück, 1991); Ostranenie (Dessau, 1993), Ex Oriente Lux - Romanian Video Week (Bucharest, 1993); Orbis Fictus exhibition (Prague, 1995) and exhibition POLITIK-UM/New Engamement, (Prague, 2002); and as editor of documenta 12 magazines project (2006–2007).

She has taught and given lectures on media art, independent media, and media activism at numerous institutions, including Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio of the Technical University of Brno (1998-2002); Kazakhstan (1999); and the University of Media Art and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG) where she currently teaches as a guest professor.

Her video archive, which has been collected in transition across different continents (1988-1999), was exhibited to the public at translocation_new media/art, Generali Foundation, in Vienna in 1999, and the German media described it as "the biggest collection of revolutionary videos in private hand."

She has written for Umelec magazine and Respekt in the Czech Republic and numerous publications worldwide, with the overall focus of her essays being society in transition.

Books

• Konečná krajina, Prague: One Woman Press, 2004 (Czech). Edited by Vladimír Havlík. Translated by Jakub Geisler, Pavla Niklová, Lucie Simerová and Vladan Šír. 267 pages. ISBN 80-86356-28-0. [1] review (Czech)
• Keiko Sei (ed.), Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie. Rumänien im Fernsehen. Beiträge von Paolino Accolla, László Beke, Magda Cârneci, Mihaela Cristea, Serge Daney, Jean-Paul Fargier, Vilém Flusser, Ingo Günther, Veijo Hietala, Ari Honka-Hallila, Erkki Huhtamo, Derrick de Kerckhove, Richard Kriesche, Geert Lovink, Margaret Morse, Morgan Russel, Jeffrey Shaw, Tjebbe van Tijen, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel. Perspektiven der Technokultur. Hrg. von Peter Weibel, Institut für Neue Medien an der Städelschule, Frankfurt/M. Übers. von B. Ollrogge, M. Rauschenbach und A. Carstens. 166 Seiten. ISBN 3-88396-077-2 Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1990. [2]

Articles

• "Quick review of my days with video in Eastern Europe". [3]
• "Productive Unclarities. An interview with media artist Barbara Lattanzi". [4]
• "Malcolm X, McLuhan, Media Study. Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker Gerald O'Grady". [5]
• http://www.springerin.at/dyn/search_result.php?index_autorinnen=Sei%2C+Keiko
• "Hladký přechod. Umění, umění ve veřejném prostoru a reklama v post-komunistické východní Evropě" (Czech). [6]
• "The Need for Brother TV", 2006. In: Luksch, Patel (eds.), Ambient Information Systems, 2009. [7]
• "Living with Censorship", in: Metropolis M No 2, 2008 April/May. [8]
• "Troubled adults and the modernist experiments of transformation", 2008. [9]

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