Daniele Penna, aka Takehiko,
vj, videomaker, photographer, graphic designer, video art, creative director.

Graduated in technological communication, off-course architecture student, attended a master in creative animation at the IED in Turin.

Former teacher of an audiovisual multimedia artistic laboratory at the Liceo Artistico in Asti.
Lecturer in photography and video shooting and editing, AudioVideo systems at the Accademia Martesana di Gorgonzola, Milan.
Diploma in technological communication, former architecture student at the Polytechnic of Turin.
Specialization Master in Creative Animation at the IED in Turin.


Italian translator of Resolume
Author of online tutorial on mapping and Resolume with over 200 thousand visits from vjs from all over the world.
Teacher of numerous courses on visual and mapping.
Administrator of the Vjingit.com Forum, the official forum of Italian vjs.
Winner of the Viw 2011 Award as the best Italian vj

I have worked in more than 150 discos, theaters, festivals, cinemas, conventions over the last 9 years around Italy.

I really like playing with colors and pure shapes but also with images taken from films, documentaries, porn, videogames, short films, animations created ad hoc by me and anything that can help create emotions.