Sachiko Kodama

Who is Sachiko Kodama?

Sachiko Kodama is a Japanese artist. She is best known for her artwork using ferrofluid, a dark colloidal suspension of magnetic nano-particles dispersed in solution. It remains strongly magnetic in its fluid. By controlling this black fluid with magnetic field, it can be shaped to create complex 3-dimensional forms. The shape will never be the same. People say Kodama's works are "liquid sculpture".

Kodama started her ferrofluid art project “ Protrude,Flow” in 2000. Her first interactive art work “Protrude,Flow” using ferrofluid was created in collaboration with Minako Takeno in 2001." "Protrude, Flow" was exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 2001 Art Gallery and it was one of the most populer work at the conference. The same piece was exhibited at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and also at the Mood River exhibition held at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.

In 2010 Kodama exhibited “Morpho Tower” and “Breathing Chaos” at Cyber Arts Japan, a media art exhibition hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Matthew Larking described her work as "Sachiko Kodama's small yet powerful piece "Morpho Tower" displays a seemingly organic life form, which is actually ferrofluid dynamically sculpted by electromagnets."