The Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts has been designed as a place within the university that enfolds the latest information media and fabrication equipment and materials, as well as excels in them; where instructors from within and outside of the university lead various lectures and workshops; where cutting-edge technology meets art, research, and people. The event, “Not Necessarily a Device,” offers an overview of the center’s evolution and change over more than 20 years, while providing a future-focused direction to the potential of new art within a rapidly changing society and broadcasting it through the activities, research, and works of the students, instructors, re- searchers, and artists who gather here.
This exhibition takes “devices” as its keyword and presents practice and re- search that construct and propose new relationships between “devices” and us. Which way are our bodies, thoughts, and art heading towards among the AI-enabled devices, computers, and information technology that pervade our lives do they use opportunities for the birth of new art? Through this exhibition, we want to think about both the present and the future of media, technology, and art as they expand in indeterminate forms.

Organized by: Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
In corporation with: GEIDAI FRIENDS
Supported by: Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Froebel-Kan Co.,Ltd, Startbahn, Inc., Dell Inc., Nakagawa Chemical Inc., MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Center for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Properties, Tokyo University of the Arts, GEIDAI FACTORY LAB