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Geek Love Project 2018

  • Organization : Geek Love Project
  • Section : Project for improvements in the creative environment
  • Type of Grant Program : Single
  • Art Forms : Interdisciplinary

Outline

Under the slogan “ART x Science = Dialogue,” this project invites scientists, researchers and artists of the same era to the Tokyo Tech Museum, Centennial Hall, designed by architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006), to deepen their consideration of the exhibition’s theme of “Out of the box thinking” with the public.

In addition to simply displaying the works, we build a platform where the artists and the viewer can share the same space and feeling creating a new model of communication art through the reality born from this platform.

《Exhibited Works》
・About Soft Robot
School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Prof.KOICHI SUZUMORI
Associate Prof.GEN ENDO
School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Special Researcher NOBUHIRO TAKAHASHI
・About Tokyo Tech Museum,Centennial Hall(1987)
Tokyo Institute of Techbology
Professor Emeritus KAZUO SHINOHARA (1925-2006)
School of Environment and Society
Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Techbology
Prof.SHIN-ICHI OKUMURA
Associate Prof.TAISHIN SHIOZAKI
=ART WORKS=
NORIKO OKAKU
YUKI KOBAYASHI
ZON SAKAI
MASAHARU SATO
KO NAKAJIMA
FHOTOGRAPHOR HAAL
NAOKO FUJIMOTO

《Event: Lecture,Cross talk with citizens》
①「Value Change and “EIKAGEN” in Soft Robots」
By Prof.KOICHI SUZUMORI
②「The challenger, Professor-Architect Kazuo Shinohara
About the misconception of aphorism, “Housing is an art”」
By Associate Prof.TAISHIN SHIOZAKI

《Event: Performance show》
①Soft Robotics with YUKI KOBAYASHI & NOBUHIRO TAKAHASHI
②ZON SAKAI meets Soft Robotics

Profile

Geek Love Project
Based on the concept “ART × science = dialogue,” this collective works on art creation with performative physicality and haptic sensitivities. The collective aims to create a new model for socially engaged art through interactive dialog between time and place/the viewer and what is seen.
The name “Geek Love Project” comes from the American novel “Geek Love”, dubbed the modern version of “Hundred Years of Solitude.”
The aim of this project is the attempt of the novel to raise questions about the sense of unease and the existing values of modern society from a minority perspective, giving a professional name in art to the speciality of the geek.
Formed in 2017 by members from the Royal College of Art in the UK.

Contact

Naoko Fujimoto
Director
Geek Love Project
geekloveproject.tokyo@gmail.com

Venues

Tokyo Tech Museum, Centennial Hall, Meguro City, Tokyo