Kyoko Kunoh
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Memories for Futures
Participative Installation for Rural Life
Memories for Futures is a multi-modal media arts installation designed to foster care and discussion about rural life’s future. Local stories, places and impressions from the village of Azusakawachi in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga are linked here to provide insights into the lives of the inhabitants and their very personal history.
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Art for Transformation
Collective Creativity for Tokyo’s Future
Visitors were invited to a three-day series of activities in Tokyo in November 2024 under the motto Art for Transformation, highlighting the transformative potential of public engagement, creativity, and technological exploration.
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Future Teams
Communicative Robots for the Workplace
The Future Teams project aims to develop innovative technologies, spaces, and services that enhance team creativity and foster mutual care in the workplace. Prototypes include three buddy robots with communication skills aimed at enriching future teamwork.
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Art as Catalyst
Social Innovation Through Collaboration
The event Art as Catalyst, organized by the Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) in collaboration with Ars Electronica, explored the relationship between art and innovation at the end of 2023 – with workshops, inspiring art projects and panel discussions.
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Art Thinking Forum 2023
Creative Transformation in Business
The Art Thinking Forum in Tokyo is a community event to transform future business and economic activities creatively. In 2023, leading Japanese artists, innovators, businesspeople, and Ars Electronica members came together to discuss future visions and Art Thinking for society and corporate endeavors.
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Art Thinking School
Embedding Creativity in Japanese Companies
With the Art Thinking School at Hakuhodo’s University of Creativity, Ars Electronica artists and researchers presented Inspiration Talks as well as a new workshop concept for companies to create tangible visions of the future.
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Data Art & Science Project
Art Creates Meaning from Data
How can art create meaning from data? The Ars Electronica Futurelab, in collaboration with Toyota Coniq Alpha in Japan, is envisioning “Data Art & Science,” a new interdisciplinary field that incorporates artistic perspectives on future transformations based on data science.
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Future Mobility Lounge
Discovering Fresh Ideas with Robot Spot
The talk and workshop event Future Mobility Lounge in Yokohama, Japan, focused on future mobility and sustainability. Visitors from elementary school children to adults were invited to find inspiration with artistic and cultural input and conceptualize new mobility ideas involving Robot Spot.
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Circular Creativity
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2022
The Matsudo International Science Art Festival is a yearly celebration that takes place in the beautiful city of Matsudo in Japan. In 2022, the theme of the festival was “Circular Creativity”, exploring how we can all respectfully coexist with nature and people of different backgrounds on our one and only planet, Earth.
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Alchemists of the Future
25 years of Ars Electronica Futurelab
In 2021, the Ars Electronica Futurelab celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under the heading Alchemists of the Future, the Open Futurelab therefor presented a look back at the lab’s challenges and successes, but most importantly its latest ideas and glimpes into the future.
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OPEN CITY
Matsudo International Science Art Festival 2021
In 2021, the International Science Art Festival in Matsudo was dedicated to the theme “OPEN CITY – Inspirational City.” The festival aimed to create an ecosystem where people can connect and inspire each other to take on new challenges.
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Ars Electronica Tokyo Initiative
Since 2014, Hakuhodo and Ars Electronica have collaborated in its joint project Future Catalysts. To further expand its activities, the two institutions have launched a mission driven, innovation community named “ARS ELECTRONICA TOKYO Initiative (AETI).”