Mika Tajima: 37 Dimensions

Mika Tajima's practice materializes techniques that shape human physicality, productivity, and desire through sculptures, paintings, videos, and installations. Her work focuses on embodied experience within orthoarchitectonic control and computational life, operating between the immaterial and tangible. Tajima engages with architectural systems, ergonomic design, and psychographic data to create heightened sensory encounters that target viewer emotion while underlining dynamics of control and agency. In her 24 Hour Cosmos series, she employs photonics, optoelectronics, and machine learning alongside custom data analysis systems developed in collaboration with technicians and engineers. Each piece laser-etches diffracted data points onto photopolymer film—a process taking up to 200 hours per work—to transform global news cycles into clusters of light and color. Her practice demonstrates sustained inquiry into human regulatory structures, perception, and latent potential across traditional and technological media.