New artworks created with AI, digital fabrication, and augmented realityCreatively transforming Tokyo to make new experiences through art, design, and technology
Beginning with the exciting new work by Tokolo Asao, Hiramoto Tomoki, and Iguchi Kota (all contributors to the much-discussed drone display at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games), exhibitions of projects by CCBT’s artist fellows will include Tomo Kihara and Playfool’s original game co-created by humans and artificial intelligence, and an augmented reality event held in the streets of Shibuya. The collective SIDE CORE will also present a new work in its video series about urban change.
Utilizing AI, digital fabrication, and AR, these exhibitions and works that appear in the city enable a wide range of experiences at the intersection of art and technology.
CCBT Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs and the largest artist fellowship in Japan, the Art Incubation Program aims to enable new artistic creativity and R&D that inspires the world with what Tokyo can do. CCBT’s artist fellows receive funding support for new projects, use of CCBT’s facilities, and expert advice as they develop their work and then present it in Tokyo. Alongside this, fellows give workshops and lectures at CCBT, share their creative process publicly, and serve as partners helping to build CCBT.
Deviation Game Ver 1.0
Tomo Kihara + Playfool
AI-generated images and text have recently attracted a lot of attention due to their high quality that is difficult to distinguish from what humans can create. This project, however, uses AI not to generate something new but as a device for identifying whether or not an image was made like that in the past, and then deviating from that. The data accumulated from participants over the course of six workshops is reflected into the works in the exhibition, helping to develop the AI. Through AI-human competition and co-creation, the project attempts to pioneer a whole new realm of expression that humans have yet to explore.
Deviation Game ver 1.0
Dates: March 4 (Sat) – 21 (Tue), 2023 1:00 pm -7:00 pm ※Closed on Mondays
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] STUDIO A
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Talk Event “The impact of the latest AI on games and art”
Capacity: 45 (First-come, first-served basis)
Date: March 5 (Sun), 2023 4:00pm -6:30pm
Speakers：Tomo Kihara + Playfool, Taniguchi Akihiko (Media Artist), Kunoh Kyoko (Artist, Ambassador of Ars Electronica)
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Workshop “Competing & Co-creating with AI”
Target: 4th grade elementary school students and up
Capacity: 10 people each (Pre-Registration Required / First-come, first-served basis)
Date: March 4 (Sat), 5 (Sun), 10 (Fri), 12 (Sun), 17 (Fri), 19 (Sun), 2023
( Friday: 5:00 pm -6:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 1:30 pm – 3:00pm）
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] Tech Lab and other
Tomo Kihara + Playfool
Deviation Game
Augmented Situation D
Asami Kazuhiko+God Scorpion+yoshidayamar
An augmented reality exhibition in the streets of Shibuya featuring eight Japanese and international artists
Augmented Situation D is an interactive exhibition in which visitors enjoy works on display at CCBT and the streets of Shibuya through their phones. When visitors use their phone to read the AR marker on the works at the venue and at locations around the city, art appears that fuses the real and the virtual. The exhibition explores the theme of festivals. Utilizing AR technology to conjure up a festive spirit in the urban space of Shibuya, the project pioneers a new kind of art festival held in the city as well as fresh possibilities for artistic expression through extended reality.
Augmented Situation D
Dates: March 10 (Fri) – 21 (Tue) 2023, 1:00 pm -7:00 pm ※Closed on Mondays
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] and other locations in Shibuya Ward
Official Website
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Supported by Goethe-Institut Tokyo
[Ended] Workshop “Chorus with AR! Musical Workshop”
Target: Elementary school students
Capacity: 20 (Pre-Registration Required / First-come, first-served basis)
Date: February 12 (Sun), 2023 11:00 am -2:00 pm
Venue：Shibuya 7thFLOOR
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Asami Kazuhiko + God Scorpion + yoshidayamar
AUGMENTED SITUATION D
rode work ver. under city
SIDE CORE
The highly anticipated latest entry in this series about urban change, a video installation exploring urban landscape and underground space
This is the latest entry in the rode work series of video works that view forms of urban change (post-disaster reconstruction, urban development, etc.) from the POV of a skateboard. Ongoing since 2017, the highly anticipated newest work deals with the underground parts of the city. Though rarely seen in our everyday lives, Tokyo’s subterranean spaces actually form the foundational infrastructure of the city and have continued to increase as the capital has developed. Presented both outdoors and underground in the city, this project takes us places that we don’t normally get to experience, offering fresh perspectives on Tokyo.
rode work ver. under city
Dates: March 18 (Sat) – 26 (Sun), 2023
Venue: Certain location in Tokyo ※TBA
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Related Event
Date: March 23 (Thu), 2023 7:00 pm- ※TBA
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
SIDE CORE
rode work 2022-2023 ver.Tokyo
Future Tokyo Sports Day
Inukai Hiroshi and Developlayers
Screening of documentary about the Future Tokyo Sports Day event that marked the opening of CCBT in October 2022
Future Tokyo Sports Day was held in October as CCBT’s opening event. Featuring two hundred people of all ages, participants co-created new types of sports competitions, tools, and game rules that proactively incorporated technology, culminating in a unique kind of sports day event in Tokyo. Following the project closely from the workshops through to the final event, this documentary will premiere at a special public screening at CCBT.
Future Tokyo Sports Day Movie Screening
Date: February 26 (Sun), 2023 2:00 pm -4:00 pm
Speakers: Inukai Hiroshi, Modoc Inc., Yamashiro Daisuke
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Inukai Hiroshi and Developlayers
Civic Creative Base Tokyo Opening Event: Future Tokyo Sports Day
FORMING SPHERES
Tokolo Asao, Hiramoto Tomoki, Iguchi Kota
CCBT artist fellows Tokolo Asao, Hiramoto Tomoki, and Iguchi Kota will present a new installation. The latest work by these three designers who contributed to the much-discussed drone display at the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, FORMING SPHERES uses 3D printers to reconfigure Tokolo’s kumi-ichimatsu-mon traditional checkered Japanese pattern from the Tokyo 2020 emblems as a spherical sculpture. When light is projected onto the sculpture, it transforms into an installation created through the interplay of light and shadow. Alongside the unveiling of the new work at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023, CCBT will hold an exhibition introducing how FORMING SPHERES was made.
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions2023 Off-Site Exhibit
Tokolo Asao, Hiramoto Tomoki, Iguchi Kota FORMING SPHERES
Dates: February 3 (Fri) -19 (Sun), 2023 10:00 am -8:00 pm
※Closed on February 6 (Mon), 13(Mon) , Close at 6:00 pm on February 19 (Sun)
Venue: Center Square of Yebisu Garden Place
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
[Ended] FORMING SPHERES prototype unveiled
Dates: February 7 (Tue) -16 (Thu), 2023 1:00 pm -7:00 pm ※Closed on Mondays
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Tokolo Asao, Hiramoto Tomoki, Iguchi Kota
FORMING SPHERES
2022 CCBT Artist Fellow Final Presentations
Ahead of the open call for the next fiscal year’s artist fellow, the 2022 fellows and production team members will appear at this event to give presentations about their projects and look back on their activities over the year.
Date: March 21 (Tue), 2023 3:00 pm -7:00 pm
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] ※No prior registration required
Presenters: Inukai Hiroshi (Future Tokyo Sports Day)、Hiramoto Tomoki (FORMING SPHERES), Tomo Kihara + Playfool (Deviation Game), Asami Kazuhiko+God Scorpion+yoshidayamar (Augmented Situation D), SIDE CORE (rode work ver. under city)
Mentors: Isu Taeko (art director, graphic designer), Iwaya Tamio (graphic designer), Saito Seiichi (Director, Panoramatiks), Hosokawa Asami (General Manager, Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee Secretariat) and others.