Keiko Sei
Writer, curator and educator on media and media art. 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 investigate about independent use of media in the communist East. Currently lives in Bangkok. She regularly commutes to Rangoon/Myanmar, where she is one of the founding members of the Rangoon Film and Video School. From 1998 to 2002 she was teaching at the Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio of the Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic. She has written for Umelec (Artist) magazine and Respekt in the Czech Republic and numerous Japanese publications. She has worked as curator on such seminal Eastern European media exhibitions as The Media Are With Us (Budapest, 1990), Ostranenie (Dessau, 1993), Ex Oriente Lux (Bucharest, 1994), Orbis Fictus (Prague, 1995), and has lectured in Kazakhstan (1999). Her video archive with tapes that have been collected during the period of between 1988 and 1999 were shown to larger public at translocation_new media/art Vienna; Generali Foundation, Austria (1999).
- Books
- Konečná krajina, One Woman Press, 2004 (Czech). [[1]]
- 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]
http://solaris.hfg-karlsruhe.de/hfg/inhalt/de/Lehrende/10001
http://web.archive.org/web/20071201130655/http://www.labinary.org/media.art.theory.week/Keiko-CV-more.txt
