Ayako Kataoka is a sound and intermedia artist originally from Tokyo.

She has shared her work and crossed mediums at: Sound Forms Symposium in Copenhagen, The Stone in NYC, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano in Italy, Tokyo International Dance Film Festival, San Francisco International Arts Festival, High Zero Festival in Baltimore, Ftarri Suidobashi, among many others. 

She is a recipient of Frog Peak prize and holds an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, where she studied under the tutelage of Pauline Oliveros and Maggi Payne at the Center for the Contemporary Music (CCM).

She currently lives and works between Berlin, Tokyo, and PNW.

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。ベルリン在住。