田中みゆきTANAKA Miyuki
Curator, Accessibility Researcher, Social Worker
Daniel WETZEL / TANAKA Miyuki / KOBAYASHI Keigo x UEMURA Haruka / HAGIWARA Shunya x N sketch “Who else if not you?” Photo: Masaya Yoshimura
AUDIO GAME CENTER＋ (Ginza Sony Park） Photo: Ryuichi Maruo
Exhibition “Ways of telling” (Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery) Photo: Keizo Kioku
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Exhibition “Rules_” (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT) Photo: Masaya Yoshimura
"Accessibility For Whom? Reflecting on the Experiences andCulture of People with Disabilities" Cover
Creating with sound. Playing with sound. A game center that inspires imagination and creativity “Audio Game Center + CCBT” (Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]) Photo: Ryuichi Maruo
Watching Dance with Creative Audio Descriptions Photo: Masaaki Nishino
Art Project “One day” Photo: Hajime Kato
Art Project “One day” Photo: Hajime Kato
Miyuki Tanaka / Ritsuko Nomura / Suge Syunichi “Rules?”
Upcoming
- Residence
- New York
- Stay Period
- October 2025
Project ThemeResearch on Non-Ableist Approaches to Technology
Accessibility and ableism are two sides of the same coin. In some cases, they can risk assimilating minorities into a society designed for the non-disabled, ultimately reinforcing dominant values. Technology, in many ways, has accelerated this tendency.
This research focuses on the relationship between technology and ableism, examining activist movements and social implementations led by marginalized communities that have been historically excluded from non-disabled, capitalist-centered values.
Profile
With the theme “Disability as a perspective for reinterpreting the world,” Miyuki Tanaka organizes projects that transcend categories, rethinking, with viewers, the ways we perceive and engage with expression. She was a visiting researcher at the Center for Disability Studies at New York University in 2022.
Her works include Rules? (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, 2021) and Creating with sound. Playing with sound. A game center that inspires imagination and creativity “Audio Game Center + CCBT” (Civic Creative Base Tokyo, 2024). Her publications include Who Is Accessibility For? (Little More) and Rule? Book: Design for Creative Living (co-authored, Film Art).
- Name
- TANAKA Miyuki
- Birth Year
- 1980
- Birth Place
- Osaka
- Based In
- Tokyo
- Website
- info@miyukitanaka.net
Education
- 2020– Enrolled in Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University
- 2008 Curating Contemporary Design MA, Kingston University
- 2004 Minor in International Relations, Department of English Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University
Selected Exhibitions
- 2025 Art Project One Day
- 2024 Creating with sound. Playing with sound. A game center that inspires imagination and creativity “Audio Game Center + CCBT”
- 2017–2022 Watching Dance with Sound: Work in Progress
- 2021 Exhibition Ways of Telling
- 2021 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Special Exhibition Rules? (co-direction)
- 2019 Film Night Cruising
Awards
- Mar 2018 Jury Selection, Art Division, 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival
- Apr 2022 Jury Selection, Art Division, 25th Japan Media Arts Festival
Residencies
- 2022 Kinosaki International Arts Center
Grants & Fellowships
- 2022 New York Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council
- 2018 Short-Term Program, Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs
- 2016 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Small Grants
Publications & Press
- 2024 Who Is Accessibility For? Thinking from the Experiences and Cultures of People with Disabilities
- 2024 Rule? Book: Design for Creative Living
Talks & Lectures
- 2024 Session 1 “Is Disability a Challenge to Be Overcome?” Accessibility Conference Fukuoka
- 2023 Technology Panelist at Breakout Session 3 “Is Technology Enabling or Disabling Us?” World Design Assembly