Takuji Kogo

organizes the *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS and is presently the director of Kitakyushu Biennial.
Kogo has produced a large body of work both as a solo artist and in collaborations under the *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS.
His ongoing solo project titled "NON_SITES" is a series of photo-sculptures, digital kaleidoscopes made by looped and mirrored sequence shots taken from moments of standardized every day life environments, such as views of fast food restaurants or street views with people of various races, public spaces or shopping malls. Kogo has applied the same format to his many collaborative projects for *CANDY FACTORY as well.
Kogo's artworks has been presented at Media Scope-MoMA/The Museum of Modern Art New York, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Media City Seoul, Singapore Art museum, Arles photo festival, MediaLab Madrid, MAAP Multimedia Art Asian Pacific in Beijing, Walker Art Centre Minneapolis, Yokohama Triennale, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, ARGOS centre for art and media Brussels, CCP Melbourne, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Takuji Kogo lives in Fukuoka, Japan.
A selection of web-based projects can be explored at:
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YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

is yhchang.com. Its C.E.O., Young-hae Chang (Korea), and its C.I.O., Marc Voge (USA) are based in Seoul.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES have been working with *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS since 2001. The first collaboration "Halbeath" is a promotional video clip online for a shutdown microchip plant at Halbeath Scotland, a failed joint venture between Hyundai and Motorola set together with the traditional Korean song Arirang. A recent project "STATEMENTS" made by HEAVY INDUSTRIES uses their initial style of text animations for flash movie, but on this project they produced the animation literally following spoken words using found audio online taken from historical or politIcal statements to a pop star's counter statement for a supposed scandal.
The most recent collaborative piece for Candy Factory Projects "DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUS TOUR WITH BULGOGI LUNCH" is based on material taken from an interview by a tourist office official for a bus tour of the North and South Korean border.
YHCHI have produced work in 16 different languages and have presented their text based work at: Tate, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Whitney Museum, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Venice Biennial, the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, the São Paulo Biennial, the Kitakyushu Biennial and at the Istanbul Biennial.

Sean Snyder

is a Berlin based American Conceptual artist working primarily with photography, video and text that question urban space and its representations in media. Snyder uses original and reprocessed archival materials.
Sean Snyder and Takuji Kogo have been collaborating and researching US Military Bases in Japan and South Korea since 2001 also the DMZ border between south and north Korea producing both solo projects or collaborations.
Snyder participated Candy Factory Projects show Boogie Woogie Wonderland at Yamaguchi Japan 2003 exhibiting a research project on Okinawa. UNTITLED : TAKUJI KOGO + SEAN SNYDER mimics a real time streaming project for the view of Iwakuni US Military Air Base, Japan broadcasted by Yamaguchi cable Television for 2005 and has been shown at Hiroshima Museum for contemporary art 2006.
They have also screened the North Korean spy film NAMELESS HEROES, AKA UNSUNG HEROES, DPRK TV SERIES for Gwangju Biennial 2006 Korea and remixed the same material published as RE:WATCH RECORD REWIND/NAMELESS HEROES, AKA UNSUNG HEROES, DPRK TV SERIES for the Kitakyushu Biennial 2007.
His works have been presented at ICA London, Artists space NY, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Tirana Biennale Wiener Secession, Vienna, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Lisson Gallery, London; Galerie Neu, Berlin and Kitakyushu Biennial.

John Miller

is an artist based in New York and Berlin. His work includes painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, music and writing. Miller was the first guest ar tist for Candy Factory's original gallery space in Yokohama in 1998. Since then he collaborated with Takuji Kogo on various works under the rubric Candy Factory Projects. Their virtual band“Robot” produces songs whose lyrics derive from personal ads found online or in newspapers.
Miller s artwork has been presented at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Kunsthalle Zürich; Magasin-Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; P.S. 1, New York; Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva; Gwangju Biennale, Korea and the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. M iller is represented by Metro Pictures, New York; Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne; Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck and Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles.
Collections of Miller s critical writings are available in English and German: The Ruin of Exchange (JRP-Ringer), The Price Club (JRP-Ringier and the Consortium) and When Down Is Up (Revolver Verlag). Ar tforum, October and Texte zur Kunst have published his texts as well.
John Miller is a Professor of Professional Practice the Art History Department at Barnard College, Columbia University.
http://www.lownoon.com/
Robot
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Mike Bode

is a visual artist engaged in collaborative practices together with theorists, curators, film makers and other artists. He works both on large scale research based visual/architectural interventions and with the incorporation of photography into research driven explorative projects. Mike Bode has been a *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS collaborator since 2000 and include collaborations with Takuji Kogo such as the "Nunotani Building" made for Yokohama Triennale and the Korean Web Ar t Festival 2001 about the process of transformation and dereliction of post-modern architecture in Tokyo and included the publication "LOST IN SPACE" from Akiyoshidai International Ar t Village Japan.
"HOMI / TOYOTA" a project made for the 2009 Kitakyushu Biennale about a public housing estate built around Toyota city where many Japanese descendants from south America live, and "Blueberr y land" a recent project about Thai migrants blueberry pickers in Sweden set side by side with scenes from the sex tourism at a beach resort in Thailand, made for the Kitakyushu Biennale 2011.
In 2008 Mike Bode received a PhD in fine ar t at Gothenburg University. He has presented work and exhibited at Kunst Werke in Berlin, The Rooseum in Malmö The Center of Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania, The Yokohama Triennial, The Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Secession in Vienna and the Kitakyushu Biennial, Japan.
Mike Bode is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.mikebode.se

Federico Baronello

is an artist and a documentary photographer (still and motion pictures). Essentially concerned with the sociopolitical implications inherent to the aesthetic of vision, his ongoing research focuses on the effects of globalization in the Mediterranean area.
Federico Baronello has been a member of the Candy Factory Projects since 1999 and produced-"Librino New Town Project" a re-mix and Japanese dubbing of a TV documentary about squatters in abandoned public housing project in Scilia designed by the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. "How to reach Lampedusa" a promotional video clip for the holiday resort on the border of Italy next to an african asylum seeker's detention center.
"Vittoria" is a project about large scale Sicilian cherr y tomato production backed by Romanian and Tunisian migrants.
Federico Baronello is based in Catania, Italy
Recent exhibitions include : PPS (People and Landscapes from Sicily) at Riso contemporary art museum, Palermo; Transient Spaces at NGBK, Berlin; A Philosophical Enquiry at the galleria gentili, Prato; Portopalo, solo show at the galleria gianluca collica, Catania. His works are part of public ar t collections at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München; Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania; the Ar t Institute Kitakyushhu, Japan.

Second Planet 

Keiichi Miyagawa and Hisao Sotoda, the artists group based in Kitakyushu Japan.
Their works are presented at Fukuoka city Museum for Arts, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Arts, Tokyo, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Hiroshima City Museumof Contemporary Art.
Keiichi Miyagawa is the director of the Art Institute Kitakyushu. He also has been running Gallery Soap since 1998 and organizes many curatorial projects in Kitakyushu in Japan inviting film makers, sociologists, Journalists. He also organizes music events and runs the independent music label Soap land Records.

Keiichi Miyagawa and Takuji Kogo organized and curated the following projects : CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTS at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art 2004, Hyper-links for dead links #Vol. 01 at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art 2006 and co curated the Kitakyushu Biennial since 2007.
Gallery Soap http://g-soap.jp/

Ola Pehrson

is a Swedish artist. His work includes painting, sculpture, installation, video and musical performance projects. Pehrson participated Candy Factory Projects show Boogie Woogie Wonderland at Yamaguchi Japan 2003 organizing his musical performanse project "Nasdaq vocal index". He also curated the exhibition "SCREAM" at Fargfabriken Stockholm in 2004 in collaboration with Takuji Kogo. They have been working on various collaborative projects until he died in 2006.
Person's artwork has been presented at Malmö Konstmuseum, Moderna Museet, Sweden, The National Public Art Council Sweden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, P.S.1, New York, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27th São Paulo Biennial" São Paulo, Brazil, 9th International Istanbul biennial", Istanbul, Turkey.
**Collaborations with Ola Pehrson by Takuji Kogo

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