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Hisao Ihara

Media artist. Hisao Ihara was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up with two brothers and three sisters. Recently, he has become interested in editing massive amounts of information people deal with everyday.

"Adapt, alter, amplify, analyze, annotate, arrange, assemble, assign, blip, censor, change, check, choose, compile, compose, compress, condence, correct, cut, delete, draft, emend, erase, excise, feature, modify, order, organize, prepare, prescribe, rearrange, reduct, reduce, refine, regulate, rephrase, report, revise, rewrite, selectus, shorten" are keywords that Hisao is thinking about these days. He likes to start learning cooking, Chinese language, and yoga.

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"Hisao Ihara." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/hisao-ihara.

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Media artist Hisao Ihara was born in Tokyo, Japan, and grew up with two brothers and three sisters; he has recently become interested in editing large amounts of information people deal with every day and a long quoted list of keywords is presented as current concerns. He has begun learning cooking, Chinese language and yoga.

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Last modified 18 June 2011

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