MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MIACA), CHAI WAN MEI
HITOMI HASEGAWA
Hitomi Hasegawa is a founder and director of Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art in
Japan (MIACA Japan) since 2006. Hasegawa is currently a visiting researcher of Asia Art Archive
in Hong Kong with the grant of Japanese Government Overseas Program. Since 2000,
Hasegawa curated several exhibitions in several venues such as the Mori Art Center Zone in
Tokyo, Kunstbuero in Vienna, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of the
Photography, Skulpturenshus in Stockholm, ZAIM Yokohama. As MIACA, Hasegawa organized
exhibitions and talks of unitednationsplaza, Cao Fei, Paul Chan and others. In 2009, she
appointed the assistant curator of CREAM, International festival for Arts and Media Yokohama.
Manager of the Japanese artist group The Group 1965 since 1997, member of Free Media
Research Lab (fmrl) and Free Art and Technology Tokyo (FAT Tokyo) since 2008. Writings,
contributions: BE Magazine of the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, :Publicness in Art How to Reorganize
Museums and Cultural Facilities in Japan?, Keio University Art Center, :Please Disturb! Catalogue
of Svenska Forum, Stockholm. Hasegawa studied at Konstfack in Stockholm and Keio University
in Tokyo, MA in Art Management.