Takuji Kogo

Takuji Kogo (b.1965, Japan). Takuji Kogo organizes *Candy Factory Projects, a platform for collaborative art projects since 1998.*Candy Factory Projects transforms fragments of text information such as propaganda, personal ads, posts on the online comment sections, demo slogans, reviews, transcripts of interviews or statements, etc. into music videos with vocal synthesizers. It also produces animated abstract street views of specific sites where slogans and messages in multiple languages coexist. *Candy Factory Projects is visual and musical, continuously relocating its activities, conducting site-specific research, producing exhibitions with multi channel video and sound installations, screening events, online projects and publications. *Candy Factory Projects is archived at: https://artonline.jp/