The long-awaited Dorkbot Tokyo took place today, in Yokohama. This must be the seventh dorkbot event in Japan. […]
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ICC in Tokyo is currently running an exhibition called OpenSky2.0, which showcases various artifacts relevant to Kazuhiko Hachiya‘s […]
I paid a short visit to this fascinating museum, which opened its doors to the public last weekend […]
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London-based interaction designer Crispin Jones has designed a PC for Poets — technically, it’s a UMPC (Ultra Mobie […]
I meant to visit Ssamzie Space when I was in Seoul a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I […]
I got a chance to pay a short visit to Art Center Nabi, a non-profit media art center […]
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The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan recently selected “Japan’s Media Art Top 100” based on the votes […]
The new exhibition at Tokyo’s NTT ICC is called Connecting Worlds, which just started this weekend and will […]
While regine might be enjoing the transatlantic fun, just a small update from Tokyo. A recent Digital Stadium […]
“Monalisa: shadow of your sound,” by Norihisa Nagano and Kazuhiro Jo, is an installation that allows one to […]
Kenji Yanobe, the creator of our favorite Giant Torayan, Postapocalyptic survival gear, Cinema in The Wood, to name […]
Ibuki, by Masaru Tabei and Yasuno Miyauchi, is a sound installation that allows visitors to hear the sound […]
Myriads of glowing dots wavering in the darkness — one might feel as if she could visually sense […]
In the entry titled “A state of mind of meat,” regine reported Makoto Ishiwata’s Vacuum Packing!, in which […]
This year, new facilities for promoting the anime and manga culture will open in Japan. Actually, one just […]
Shigureden is a newly-opened museum in Arashiyama, Kyoto, which showcases the game and the estetics of Ogura Hyakunin […]
Unreflective Mirror, by Masaki Fujihata, is a device that, in some sense, allows users to play with the […]
ThermoPainter, developed by Daisuke Iwai and other researchers at Osaka University, is a device that allows people to […]
Sherelog is a system that fetches data from Suica (an RFID train pass) and visualizes personal train-ride records […]
There were a couple of interesting symposiums at the Japan Media Arts Festival that took place on February […]
Just another example of an imaginary creature coming alive as a robot. Shachihoko is an imaginary creature, a […]
[ReplieeQ2. via MouRa] Hiroshi Ishiguro, who is the creator of the world’s most human-like robot named ReplieeQ2 (a […]
[dorkbot Tokyo #000004, the flyer] The 4th Dorkbot Tokyo (or TΩKYΩ) is taking place on March 8 (Open […]
(written by manekineko) Conscious Dome, by Takako Ikemoto, is an interactive installation to be shown at IAMAS graduation […]
(written by manekineko) I’ve been occasionally reading online articles on the Japanese geek subculture. For example, Washington Post […]
(written by manekineko) An interesting event about the intersection of art and technology is taking place at BankART […]
Proactive Desk II, developed by Shunsuke Yoshida, Haruo Noma and Kennichi Hosaka of ATR Media Information Science Labs, […]
Kento Miyaoku, a research engineer of NTT and a visiting researcher at the University of Columbia, developed a […]
Finally, someone posted a report on dorkbot #000002 tokyo (in Japanese). So, here’s a quick summary in English. […]
Masashi Toda, Junichi Akita, and their colleagues have developed TextileNet, a technology for cable-free wearable computing. [TextileNet. conceptual […]
Japanese personnel placement agency People Staff will soon start dispatching robots as well as humans. Robots may be […]
Gate Vision, by Kazuhiko Kobayashi, generates unrealistic circular moving pictures from real-world images. It’s based on his previous […]
Six String Sonics, The, by Gil Kuno, can be seen as a huge guitar played by six musicians, […]
My second post on Japan Media Art Festival is about Flipbook! by a Colombian artist Juan Carlos Ospina […]
While regine is away, I’m posting pieces about notable and award-winning works at Japan Media Art Festival. Some […]
Monokakushitono Hibi (Days with Monokakushi), by Kiyoko Ishida, is a student video project at Tama Art University, which […]
Marking Your Way, by Idumi Sakuma, is a visual information display for museums and exhibition spaces, which allows […]
Remember the news on Tmsuk‘s robot Kiyomori (engadget called it samuraibot)? I read some Japanese blog posts discussing […]
MorphoTower, by Sachiko Kodama, is a kind of a dynamic sclupture made of mysterious black fluid. It’s conceptualized […]
As some of you might know, this year’s DAF (Digital Art Festival) Tokyo took place from December 9th […]