AMIT2016 Presentation & Talk Session 2

Time of the event

Sunday, February 28, 2016
[Presentation] 14:15~14:45
[Talk Session 2] 15:00~16:30

Venue

Marunouchi Building 1F (Marunouchi 2-4 -1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

Sponsor

AMIT Executive Committee

co-sponsorship

Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

Born in Tokyo in 1987. Media artist, businessperson, researcher. Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba. Director of Ochiai Yoichi Laboratory (Digital Nature Laboratory).
He conducts research and works that combine applied physics, computer science, and art. "Colloid display," which applies ultrasonic waves to soap film, and "Pixie dust," which is an acoustic levitation technology using ultrasonic speakers, have created a world full of surprises connecting computers and the real world, and they are called "modern wizards".
He has received numerous awards in Japan and abroad, including the University of Tsukuba President's Award (2011). In addition to his work as a writer and researcher, he has participated in management and research at Jisekai Corporation, as well as serving as CEO of Pixie Dust Technologies.

Associate Professor, School of Environmental Informatics, Keio University, and President, Social Fabrication Laboratory, SFC Institute, Keio University. He was born in Hokkaido. Doctor of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He assumed his current position in 2008.
He is the founder in Japan of Fab Lab, an inclusive manufacturing facility for citizens. Research and practice the possibility of digital fabrication from both sides of "technology" and "society". He is chairperson of the Executive Committee of the 9th World Fab Lab Conference (Yokohama) (2013), project manager of the Frontier Makers Project at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2014), and chair of the Study Group on the Fundamental Design of a Fab Society at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (2015).

Artist. Based on digital media, he has created many works inspired by public expression such as graffiti and street art.
Since 2011, he has been working with Hajime Kanno to create an autonomous drawing machine. His SENSELESS DRAWING BOT won the Newcomer Award in the Art Division of the 15 Japan Media Arts Festival, and his machine learning-based drawing device SDM2 – Letters won the RGB Award at the Tokyo TDC Awards 2016. He has participated in many exhibitions in Japan and abroad.

フランス・ナント市のイル・ド・ナントの中心に位置する、市の産業遺産を象徴する文化施設ステレオリュクス（Stereolux）のメディアアート部門ディレクター、およびスコピトーン（Scopitone）・フェスティバルのアート・ディレクター。スコピトーン・フェスティバル（2002年～）とステレオリュクス（2011年～）の創設時から事業に携わる。
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Professor, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Environmental Design Area Laboratory). Artist, interactive media research, art archive display research.
Considering the body as an interactive media in a broad sense, he expresses the relationship between the self and the society unconsciously constructed by the body, and presents media art works using meridians such as "Separating Body" and "Interactive Chaos," paintings, installations, etc. In addition to research on AR display of historical sites using information media and digital fabrication, research on archive display of Rakuchu Rakugai zu, etiquette art, etc. After serving as a professor and president of the Graduate University of Information Science and Arts (IAMAS), he is currently in his current position.