Aya Takano. The rain gear version.
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Another piece by Ryota Kuwakubo is called VideoBulb, which is now commercialized as an information appliance. Flash version […]
Heaven Seed is a smart plastic ball that senses its movement and generates various sound effects in real […]
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m@terials, developed by Jitsuro Mase, use an off-the-shelf LCD projector to display a “3D theater” on a table. […]
Shintaro Miyake In details.
Oto Kinoko is a “sound shop” in Kyoto, which was produced by Kazumichi Fujiwara, the sound artist from […]
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Ugo Ugo Lhuga, one of the most unforgettable Japanese kids TV show in the 1990’s, is rerun on […]
Delay Phone, by Ryota Kuwakubo, is a video phone system that allows users to intentionally increase or decrease […]
Another installation using “programmable shadows” was created by Azusa Saito. It’s called Itokageboushi, meaning something like a “string […]
R/V is an installation by Ryota Kuwakubo, which uses mobile robots equipped with LCD monitors, CCD cameras, microphones, […]
Henrin, developed by Masaru Tabei and Yuria Terada, is a collection of CD-Rs that contains the life of […]
TENORI-ON (sound on your palm) is a novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns. […]
KODAMA ( (echo in English) aims at demonstrating the existence of voice as a physical object and how […]
Maywa Denki is performing at Quartier d’ete Festival in Paris on July 21,22 and 23. This art unit, […]
Through the looking glass is a system that allows a person to play a game with her/himself in […]
moo-pong is a technology that allows people to capture, share and view video images using Tangible User Interface […]
Last year, I stumbled on a blog called RFID in Japan. I quickly learned that Japanese researchers were […]
The previous post reminded me of Inter Dis-Communication Machine I tried at last year’s Ars Electronica. Through this […]
I don’t understand a word of what is written here but this is the coolest blog on Earth. […]
In the Heaven’s Eye installation, you can move a monitor placed on the floor with its face and […]
We can’t feel the round Earth though we live on a globe and satellite photograph do not really […]
Toshio Iwai has created for Nintendo DS a new music game called Electroplankton. Electroplankton presents the player with […]
PLX, by Kuwakubo Ryota, is a battle game for two people sitting across from one another at a […]
The Globe-Jungle Project, by Yasuhiro Suzuki, is inspired by the “Globe-Jungle”, a round climbing structure that was very […]
Duper/looper, by Ryota Kuwakubo (the creator of Bitman and BlockJam among others), is a simple drum machine. You […]
Japanese artists Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa’s work, Gravity and Resistance – Gravicells is so far the most […]
Ototenji, by IAMAS student Mika Fukumori, is a device that allows people who can see to learn Braille […]
Moony, by Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata and Takehisa Mashimo from IAMAS in Japan, uses steam as both a […]
ICC, the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo, has opened an “ABC of media art” exhibition: Art meets Media :adventures […]
So you think that a fork is for eating, a comb for combing your hair, an alarm clock […]
“Streetscape“, by Japanese artist Iori Nakai, is a plastic map with the sounds of the city “attached” to […]
Karakuri (which means “automatic”) Block , by Natsu Kawakita, Nobuya Suzuki and Takahiro Hayakawa, is made of two […]
To represent her sensation that spoken words are somewhat tactile and occupy a certain space, Japanese artist Hisako […]
Tokyo-based architecture and design company nendo has an impressive portfolio. You wouldn’t tell by the look of the […]
Tokyo-based architect Masaki Endoh teamed up with Masahiro Ikeda to design a double apartment on a site at […]
Japanese media artist Noboru Tsubaki’s work Cochineal is a machine to patrol cyber-terrorism. The large fiberglass insect lures […]
“Computer-controlled chair objects”, by Noriyuki Fujimura (J) The Remote Furniture are two chairs have a tilt sensor and […]