[Collections & Exhibitions]
| 1981
| Began making experimental animation. While creating works by film videos, found new possibility of new visual expression in pre-cinematic toys such as flipbooks and zoetropes.
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| 1985
| "Time Stratum" won the Gold prize at High Technology Art Exhibition'85, which was held at Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo. Also, "Time Stratum II" was awarded Grand prize at 17th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo.
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| 1987
| Held Electro-Visual Evolution at INAX Gallery, Tokyo. Became interested in TV game as visual sound system, designed "OTOCKY", a family computer software, was put on the market by ASCII Corporation.
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| 1989
| Presented "VISM", a performance connecting sound and vision in
many ways, with IKIF, an animator, and Kensaku Tanikawa, a musician. (SEED Hall, Shibuya, and Kirin Plaza, Osaka)
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| 1990
| Held TOSHIO IWAI EXHIBITION- Machine for Trinity. (LaForet Museum ESPACE, Tokyo, Art Gallery ARTIUM, Fukuoka, and LOFT Forum, Osaka) Dealt with computer generated virtual sets for the science news show Einstein TV for Fuji TV.
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| 1991
| Went abroad, and as the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, started creating. "Music Insects" and "Well of Lights", which completed the following year, became its permanent collection.
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| 1992
| Exhibited at Science Art Exhibition, Japan Pavilion in Sevilla EXPO, Spain. Handled character designs and virtual sets for "UgoUgo Lhuga" for Fuji TV.
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| 1993
| At the time of EC Japan Fest, established "Another Time, Another Space", a Interactive Installation at Antwerp Central Station, Belgium.
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| 1994
| Became the Artist-in-Residence at ZKM/Institute for Image Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the same time, held a large-scale one person exhibition at ZKM Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Gallery OTSO, Espoo, Finland, and the Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam.
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| 1995
| Presented "Piano -as image media" at MultiMediale 4, ZKM, Karlsruhe. Later, was invited to exhibit at Biennale d' art contemporatin de Lyon 95, Musee d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France. This work won the Theater and Exhibition First Prize at Multimedia Grand Prix'95.
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| 1996
| Invited to exhibit at The Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York. Exhibited at Sculpture Garden at G7 summit, Musee d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France. Created "SIM TUNES" with Maxis, U.S.A., which went on sale as CD-ROM software for Windows in the United States and in Europe. Exhibited "Music Plays Images x Images Play Music", a collaboration performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto at ACM Theater, Art Tower Mito, Japan.
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| 1997
| Held a large-scale recollection exhibition "The Trace of Toshio Iwai's Media Art" at NTT Inter Communication Center, Hatsudai, Japan. Japanese version of "SIM TUNES" went on sale. Performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto won Prix Ars Electronica, Interactive art categoly Grand Prix. Was performed again in Linz, Austria. In December, "MPIXIPM", another performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto which is developed more, is scheduled to be shown at Ebisu Garden Hall.
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