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About
About
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Photo by Juan David Cano
Otodojo (Maro Kariya, PhD) is an audiovisual artist who wishes to use multimedia to connect and motivate people towards changing systems that threaten environments.
They weave together sonic stories through field and object recordings, processed vocals, contact-micced materials, and layers of synthetic sounds inspired by the natural world and
imagined bio-cybernetic futures.
Their music has been released with labels such as The Bunker NY,
Acid Camp,
Mesma,
Perimeter Junk, Qeone, Unimatrix Zero, UFO Parfums, and others. Their album ‘Amphibious / Aural Spirits’ has been named one of the best albums of 2023 by MixMag.
They have displayed large-scale immersive audiovisual works through Leipzig Kunstkraftwerk (2023), Tokyo Tower (2022), and immersive visuals for Imbue Detroit (2022)
Interactive exhibits for Waste to Wonder (2024), Cranbrook Art Museum (2022), Mix Gallery in Ithaca (2023), Artists for Plants (2021), The Soil Factory (2021), and a digital community built with Ryu Goto, Otodojo Nodes (2022).
In 2018, they launched 'Microtones' (microtones.info), an electronic music collective in Ithaca, NY which aims to help community building through music.
They graduated from Cornell University with a doctoral degree in chemistry & chemical biology and discovered and characterized a series of novel sulfolipids.
As of late they have released a new album entitled 'The Sound of Stone' on Microtones, have been exploring spatial audio and interactivity, and have been providing interactive media and music production technique lessons and workshops.