Sachiko Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in video and screen-based interactive media. Hayashi holds a BA in International & Cultural Studies with an award winning undergraduate thesis from Tsuda College, Tokyo, a MA with Merit in Digital Media from Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry University, UK, and completed additional postgraduate studies in Computer Arts at the Royal Univeristy College of Fine Arts in Stockholm as a special student for Prof. Max Book.

Hayashi's works exhibit unique blend of aesthetic and conceptual foundation with use of technology, as she consistently explores co-relation between image, sound, conceptualisation in art, and discourses in philosophy and other social disciplines.

She is best known for her net art that involves examination of human nature with high use of interactivity, in which not only the retrieved intricate picture of its subject becomes its focus but also our own reaction toward what is being revealed through interactivity. One of her net art work "Last Meal Requested" has been published by Rhizome, NY, as part of GROK, 2007, their first educational CD-ROM for the youth.

Her video works, an investigation of temporal composition in subjective imagery, often in combination with audio-visual experimentation, have won a wide recognition internationally over the years. Her latest video "Boop-oop-a-doop" has been shown at more than 20 different venues over the world and is compiled on DVD by Aspect Magazine, vol. 07 "Personas and Personalities" 2006, Boston, Mass., with commentary track by the artist/educator Nicholas Economos.

Her other merits include: Founder of internet network DIAN network. Since 2002 chief editor of Hz, a web journal by non-profit art organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Also founder and curator of virtual net gallery Hz Net Gallery. Artist in Residence at the Experimental Television Center in New York, 2003. Visiting artist/lecturer at the Department of Art History, the University of Copenhagen, 2003. Participation by invitation in workshop "Man Machine" led by Björn Norberg at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm, 2006. Guest lecturer at Humlab, Umeå University, 2006.

Exhibition/screening venues include: Transmediale, Berlin, Micro Museum, New York, The National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, ciber@rt, Bilbao, Boston CyberArts through 911 Gallery, Boston, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, NYC, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Japan. One of her computer graphics became part of the permanent collection of the Congress of the United States of America as part of "Reaction" by ExitArt, New York.

Originally from Tokyo and having lived in USA and UK, she is currently a resident of Sweden.

Her net art and other info are available at: www.e-garde.net

In LARM she participates with her interactive installation "Flurry". For info on "Flurry", please visit : flurry