“Art is a catalyst for shaping a better future society.”
Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT) is a creative catalyst, artist, educator, curator and researcher in the field of art, technology, and society. He is currently a Co Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab as well as a Director of Ars Electronica Japan.
His special research focus is Art Thinking and he has conducted many innovation projects in Art and Science, Art and Industries and Art and Society. In addition to the artistic innovation research, he has realized international projects for festivals, export programs like Ars Electronica in the Knowledge Capital, School of the Future with Tokyo Midtown and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz.
He is also a representative and artistic director of the media artist group h.o. He seeks witty new ideas in response to the current social context and creates artistic expressions that keep pace with the speed of technological advancement.
Key Works
Consulting program to incorporate the method of Art Thinking into the management and R&D of companies, research institutions, and government organizations in Japan.
Artistic performance with a swarm of 39 ground robots with hexagonal LED displays at the Japanese National Museum for Emerging Science and Innovation Miraikan.
Social participation project focusing on “character” in the age of networks, resulting in a huge galaxy of personalized characters to communicate and take social actions.
Experimental series of classes that discusses artistic journalism through online lectures, online guided tours, and dialogues with the Ars Electronica Center.
Additional Information
Publications
Tell me your story, robot: introducing an android as fiction character leads to higher perceived usefulness and adoption intention. Martina Mara, Markus Appel, Hideaki Ogawa, Christopher Lindinger, Emiko Ogawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Kohei Ogawa. HRI ’13: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction. Publisher: IEEE Press. March 2013
Participatory art cards & archive system for public exhibition: a case study through ars wild card. Hideaki Ogawa, Emiko Ogawa, Manuela Naveau, Christopher Lindinger, Roland Haring, Matthew Gardiner, Martina Mara, Horst Hörtner. MM ’12: Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia, Publisher: ACM. October 2012
Shadowgram: a case study for social fabrication through interactive fabrication in public spaces. Hideaki Ogawa, Martina Mara, Christopher Lindinger, Matthew Gardiner, Roland Haring, David Stolarsky, Emiko Ogawa, Horst Hörtner. TEI ’12: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Publisher: ACM. February 2012
SWITCH: case study of an edutainment kit for experience design in everyday life. Matthew Gardiner, Hideaki Ogawa, Christopher Lindinger, Roland Haring, Emiko Ogawa, My Trinh Gardiner,Martina Mara, Horst Hörtner. TEI ’12: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. Publisher: ACM. February 2012
Social brainstorming via interactive fabrication. Matthew Gardiner, Christopher Lindinger, Roland Haring, Horst Hörtner, Hideaki Ogawa, Emiko Ogawa. ACE ’11: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. Publisher: ACM. November 2011
The city at hand: media installations as urban information systems. Roland Haring, Hideaki Ogawa, Christopher Lindinger, Horst Hörtner, Shervin Afshar, David Stolarsky. NordiCHI ’10: Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries. Publisher: ACM. October 2010
Introducing the FabLab as interactive exhibition space. Irene Posch, Hideaki Ogawa, Christopher Lindinger, Roland Haring, Horst Hörtner. IDC ’10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Publisher: ACM. June 2010
TextDraw: a prototype for gestural typesetting. Travis Kirton, Pamela L. Jennings, Hideaki Ogawa. TEI ’10: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. Publisher: ACM. January 2010
Social bits: toward artistic expression powered by small information generated by daily lives of people. Hideaki Ogawa, Jayme Cochrane, Mahir M. Yavuz, Emiko Ogawa, Junichi Yura, Taizo Zushi. TEI ’11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. Publisher: ACM. January 2010
PINS: a prototype model towards thedefinition of surface games. Travis Kirton, Hideaki Ogawa, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau. October 2008 MM ’08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia. Publisher: ACM
Making new learning environment in zoo by adopting mobile devices. Yutaro Ohashi, Hideaki Ogawa, Makoto Arisawa. MobileHCI ’08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. Publisher: ACM. September 2008
objSampler: A Ubiquitous Logging Tool for Recording Encounters with Real World Objects Jun’ichi Yura, Hideaki Ogawa, Taizo Zushi, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda. RTCSA ’06: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications. Publisher: IEEE Computer Society. August 2006
SmallConnection: designing of tangible communication media over networks. Hideaki Ogawa, Noriaki Ando, Satoshi Onodera. MULTIMEDIA ’05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, Publisher: ACM. November 2005