Yukiko Shikata is an independent curator & critic based in Tokyo

She is working as an associate curator of Mori Art Museum (MAM), guest curator of Shiseido CyGnet and specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University. Her works include projects at Canon ARTLAB(co-curator till 2001), Mischa Kuball "Power of Codes - Space for Speech"(Tokyo National Museum, 1999), "art.bit collection"(NTT ICC, curatorial support, 2002), "Kingdom of Piracy"(co-curated, 2001-), "OPEN MIND" CD (MAM, 2002). She is curatorial committee member of eyebeam (NY) andinternational advisory board member of Transmediale (Berlin).