Ayako Kataoka is a Berlin/Tokyo-based artist whose practice attends to sound, material, and movement. Informed by Japanese spatial aesthetics, she unfolds resonance as lived, conceptual, and physical experience in her intermedia works.

She has presented her installations, performances, sculptures, sound art, and videos at High Zero Festival (Baltimore, USA), KM28 (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano (Bolzano, Italy), SF International Arts Festival (San Francisco, USA), Sound Forms Symposium (Copenhagen, Denmark), The Stone (New York, USA), and Tokyo International Dance Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan), among many others.

Kataoka has lectured at Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Tama Art University, and University of Maryland. She is a recipient of the Frog Peak Prize and holds an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, where she was mentored by Pauline Oliveros and Maggi Payne at the Center for Contemporary Music.

片岡彩子：アーティスト。ミルズ・カレッジ電子音楽学科芸術修士課程修了。ポーリン・オリヴェロス、マギー・ペインに師事。音、空間、身体をコンセプトに、サウンド・インスタレーション、空間演出、舞台パフォーマンス、即興演奏（エレクトロニクス、ターンテーブル、コンピュータ）等の作品を制作、欧米各地で活動。