Born in 1982 in Fukushima, Shimpei Takeda grew up in Chiba just outside Tokyo. The family made annual visits to grandparents in Sukagawa. The area happens to be forty miles east of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Takeda moved to New York in 2002. A regular at such experimental music venues as Issue Project Room and Roulette, he collaborated with composers and sound artists by working with video. At the same time, he focused on a series of conceptual photographs that were based on abstract aesthetics.