Watch Me! is an experimental installation dedicated to documenting social bind (defined below) by intervening in a public space. It observes the behaviour of people's "eyes" using a robot bear as an unusual event.

Hidenori Watanave is researching the arts in the 3D internet (for example, Second Life) and the 3DGIS (for example, Google Earth). He is interested in collaborative work in the realms of architecture and environmental design in tele-existence in the 3D ...

This reproduction of the handscroll of Poems of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets over Design of Cranes is a rolled up scroll of paper. But the paper is blank. When the media device is engaged, the projected image of the Crane Scroll appears on blank paper.

Kazuma Morino has received many awards in international competitions including SIGGRAPH and Ars Electronica. In his Build, exhibited in the SIGGRAPH 2003 Art Gallery, many of the built structures in our contemporary urban landscapes are concatenations ...

In my creative process, I begin with a numerical formula as a universal language and then develop it into various media. As a result, I spend a great deal of time constituting the system. However, at this stage, there is hardly anything visual apart ...

A video presentation of an interactive artwork in which participants experience the artistic spirit of the ancient calligraphy masters and how breathing was reflected in creating famous pieces of Chinese calligraphy.

In 1739, Western perspective drawing reached Japan via China. Before then, Japanese drawing, known as Yamato-e, had depicted architectural space through parallel projection. This was true for the ukiyo-e compositions that were popular among the general ...

NHK has developed a new style of content creation for a puppet show. The performers operate the actual puppets in a CG environment called "Uncompleted Contents," and the complete contents are produced with them in real time. This production style ...

In the Alison installation, different plot elements are presented based on the viewer's movement within a physical space. The space works as both a form of interaction and another method of presenting story elements.

Ghost Interruption combines animation, contemporary dance choreography, and computer engineering to create an installation-type performance in which real-time interaction among animation, dancers, and viewers becomes a central part of the progression of ...

The Orb bridges the gap between the art object and functional information display, advancing desires for more sophisticated digital representations, while simultaneously establishing a dialogue between the new technology and the symbolic content of the ...

This work comprises a video sequence shot from my sixth-floor apartment window to the sidewalk below and composed inside a digital-game environment. The intention is to empty the video of narrative and reduce it to an image string. Exploring the space, ...

Liuliu Pangpang is an interactive optical illusion. A projected floor dynamically tilts like a see-saw in different directions when people interact with it. Balls on the floor move according to natural physical laws. The floor's directions and angles ...

Optical Tone is an installation that proposes and proves a technique for interactive, real-time, 3D colour composition in accordance with human perception of colour consistency.

This simulation of a natural landscape is a tactile artwork that interactively expresses images and movements of clouds. Images and tactile sensations incorporating the soft movements of clouds interact simultaneously to create a tactile display that ...

Can we "see" the world without eyes? Can we "feel" the beauty of visual information, such as type and images, with our hands? Visual communication is the most powerful means by which human beings see, feel, think, and behave in a certain way. For those ...

Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a US $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny parts of the bill with no knowledge of the overall task. ...

A set of daily objects that combine physical and ubiquitous computing to allow users to live their daily lives playfully. Amagatana, an umbrella, makes clashing sword noises when swung around, and Fula, a muffler, flutters and billows by itself in ...

Our impression of a scene changes depending on the aspect. theRelativity is an interactive art work that seamlessly reflects a third-person view of a structure into a first-person view.

[un]wired is a live-processing installation that responds to interactions from personal radio-frequency devices such as mobile phones, WiFi signals, Bluetooth signals, and car-key fobs. It tracks real-time statistical information from wireless "mesh" ...