Yamada Un × Ikegami Takashi Project

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

General Incorporated Association Co. Yamada Umm

subsidy category

Grant for Artistic City

Grant Type

single year

FY2022 Grant for Artistic City [Newly established in FY2022]

The new project "Wild Wordless World" by choriographer and dancer Unto Yamada, artificial life researcher Takashi Ikegami and Alternative Machine Inc. explores life in a world without words. Photo by HAL KUZUYA

You can dance with freely moving drones and robots, discuss with multiple GPT-3, and dance in a VR world. It explores the space between machines and humans through conversations between physically expressive dancers and physically disembodied AI. Photo by Yuri Manabe

The guest speakers are Yoichi Ochiai (media artist), Noboru Yasuda (Noh actor), Kazuya Kawasaki (fashion designer) and Kenichiro Motegi (brain scientist). Photo by HAL KUZUYA

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Business Overview

You can dance with freely moving drones and robots, discuss with multiple GPT-3, and dance in a VR world. It explores the space between machines and humans through conversations between physically expressive dancers and physically disembodied AI. All 4 valuable work-in progress & talks held in May 2023 were delivered on demand. Open ended forms of "Art & Science" will be revealed.

Period of Activity / Project

Friday, June 23, 2023 to Sunday, July 2

Venues

online distribution

Profile

[Yamada Ung]
Choriographer and dancer. 2002: Established the dance company Co. Yamada-un. He received many awards such as the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's New Artist Award and the Eguchi Takaya Award.

Takashi Ikegami
Doctor of Science (Physics), Professor, Department of System Science, University of Tokyo. He specializes in the science of complex systems and artificial life.