Emma Ota is a curator, art coordinator and researcher based in Tokyo, Japan. She is Director of the dislocate art project, which challenges the meaning of locality in globalised technology driven society. Ota is also engaged in long-term research on media art and artist-run spaces, particularly in Asia. She pursues art as a platform for the collision of ideas and debates surrounding the current conditions of society. She received a Master degree in Visual Imaging and Sciences from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, in 2011. During her Pisaot residency at Sa Sa Art Projects, Emma researched Cambodian art spaces and explored collaborations between children in Phnom Penh’s White Building and children in Tokyo through a series of media art workshops. www.dis-locate.net | www.eonsbetween.net | www.inter-play.com