Kazuhiko Hachiya
Born in Saga, Japan on April 18th in 1966. Lives and works in Tokyo. Graduated from Kyushu Institute of Design, faculty for visual communication design in 1989.
He started his artistic career with "SMTV", a unit for a pirate TV station.
His works: "Inter Dis Communication Machine", "Seeing is believing" and "PostPet"are specific communication tool series.
"Over the Rainbow" --an abstract CG production machine using the swings-- and "Air Board" series,-- hover skateboards with a jet engine--, are the tools to against the gravity.
These works are based on the technology and usually I create inventive devices.
"PostPet", a very popular e-mail software and he is a Representative Director for "PetWORKs Co.", which deals with Software development and direction for all works of PostPet.

***Solo exhibitions
 2003 "Open Sky" (Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto)
 1999 "Air Board beta-- for the Jet Generation--" (art Soko TOKYO)
 1996 "PostPet"the Project to develop the artificial pet e-mail software (Direction)
 1996 "Seeing is believing" (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary art:Hiroshima)
 1996 "Love Doubler" (ARTIUM:Fukuoka)
 1995 "World System" (SPIRAL Garden:Tokyo)
 1994 "Over the Rainbow" (P3 art and environment:Tokyo)
 1993 "Inter Dis-communication" (One night exhibition: Retgen kunst institut:Tokyo)

***Prized
 2002 The Hugo Boss Prize 2002
 1998 The Prix Ars Electronica '98 AWARD OF DISTINCTION .net category (PostPet)
 1998 Philip Morris Art Award 1998 (Air Board Project)
 1997 " '97 Multi media grand Prix" Minister of International Trade and Industry's Award (PostPet)
 1997 The Prix Ars Electronica '97 Interactive Art category (Seeing is believing)
 1996 The Prix Ars Electronica '96 Interactive Art category (Inter Dis-communication Machine)
 1995 "4th Japan art Scholarship" Grandprix (World System)
 1995 ARTEC 95: Nagoya (Inter Dis-communication Machine)
 1993 " '93 Multi media grandprix" category of exhibition