Hiromi Marissa Ozaki (born 1 July 1985), better known by the pseudonym Sputniko!, is a British/Japanese artist and designer who specializes in the field of speculative and critical design. Sputniko! is known for her film and multi-media installation works inspired by how technology impacts society and people's values, in particular focusing on gender issues.
Ozaki was born in Tokyo. Her mother is English and her father is Japanese, both of whom are university mathematics research professors. Hiromi attended the Imperial College at the University of London, England. She graduated in 2006 earning a BCs Joint Mathematics and Computer Science with a First Class Honours. After doing various musical compositions in programming and song writing in London, she completed her master's program at Royal College of Arts (RCA) in 2010.
She has recently presented her works in exhibitions such as the 2019 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, 'Japanorama' in Pompidou Centre-Metz, Setouchi Art Trienniale (where she created a permanent art pavilion at the Benesse Art Site Naoshima on Teshima), New Sensorium at the ZKM Art Center in Germany (2016), The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum (2016), Collecting Future Japan – Neo Nipponica at the Victoria & Albert Museum (2016). From 2013 to 2017, Sputniko! was an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab[5] where she found and directed the Design Fiction research group. To date, she has had pieces included in the permanent collections of museums such as the V&A and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Currently, she resides as the associate professor of RCA-IIS Design Lab in the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo as well as associate professor of the Department of Design at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Sputniko! was featured in the exhibition Talk to Me at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has also exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Milan Design Triennial and the Third Art & Science International Exhibition in Beijing. Sputniko! has been published such as on ArtAsiaPacific and IDEO. In 2013, she was named one of Vogue Japan's Women of the Year and in 2019 was selected as one of twenty young researchers, artists and designers to become "TED Fellows."