The largest artist fellowship in Japan, recruiting projects by artists to serve as CCBT partners
Open Call for
2024 CCBT Artist Fellows!
Mission
Artistic Expression, Exploration, and Action Changing Tokyo for the Better through Creativity and Technology
Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better.
Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
What CCBT Artist Fellows Do
- Develop and present new creative projects and research
Conduct creative activities and R&D while based at CCBT, and exhibit and present the results of those projects at CCBT and around the city - Make their creative activities and research processes public
Foster opportunities for members of the public to come into contact with the intersection of creativity and technology through creative endeavors and making these processes public as well as holding workshops, lectures, and other events - Collaborate and co-create with others
Lead collaboration with the various kinds of people who come together at CCBT (members of the public, artists, designers, engineers, etc.) and the organizations and groups in the CCBT network, and build a platform for co-creating the future
Application Guideline
*Check the details via the Application Guideline (PDF)
(Japanese only)
Categories
- Tools and platforms with a focus on future creativity, and artistic practices harnessing such tools and platforms
Projects developing tools and platforms to create with various kinds of collaborators through technology, and to engage with issues related to society and people’s lives. Activities related to art and design that harness such tools and platforms to present technology-driven creativity, necessary rule-making, and community design models.
Examples:
– Lectures and platforms illuminating various social challenges (climate change, environment issues, etc.)
– Tools and performances that aim to achieve new forms of physicality in the metaverse or non-virtual world
– Tools and exhibitions contributing to diversity, inclusion, and equality
– Original toolkits and platforms contributing to education for digital creatives
– Surveys and exhibitions harnessing newly developed toolkits that make use of AI and biotechnology - Inquiries and artistic research on future humanity, and artistic practices harnessing such research
Projects and artistic practices that explore, survey, and research how society, lifestyle, and future creativity are changing through technological progress from the perspectives of art, design, and publication participation. Projects that provide opportunities for creatively thinking with the public about the future of society and humanity that blockchains, DAOs, the metaverse, AI, and biotechnology will usher in.
Examples:
– Exhibitions of art engaging with physicality, future humanity, and attitudes toward life and death in terms of both the metaverse and non-virtual world
– Research and exhibitions exploring the relationship between AI and creative activities by humans
– Workshops and exhibitions that explore diversity in our planet’s environments through biotechnology
– Projects that engage with various social challenges (climate change, environment issues, etc.) through art and design
– Projects that search for future forms of humanity using AI and biotechnology
Support Available for Fellows
- Production Support
Financial and environmental support for fellows in the form of production costs of up to ¥10 million and facilities for working on the project and holding meetings, etc. - Leveling Up
Opportunities for advice and technical support from mentors and other experts to help realize the project - Promotion
Promotion via the CCBT website and social media channels, publicity in pamphlets and venue signage, and documentation and archiving of the work/project - Management
Help with procedures for using venues necessary for exhibiting work/project widely, venue operation, equipment use, artwork installation, etc.
Mentor
Ukawa Naohiro (Artist of “right now” / Artistic Director, DOMMUNE)
Shimizu Tomoko (Media researcher, Cultural theorist)
Tanaka Miyuki (Curator, Producer)
Mizuno Tasuku (Lawyer, Attorney)
Fellowships
August 1 (Thu), 2024 – March 31 (Mon), 2025
(Artist fellows conduct their core work* for a minimum of 20 days)
* “Core work” includes holding lectures, workshops, other events open to the public, and working at CCBT.
Application
Please register via the site below.
Application Period
April 25 (Thu) – May 26 (Sun), 2024 *due NLT
Inquiries
CCBT Art Incubation Program Office [c/o TASKO]
Email: contact@ccbt-art-incubation.jp
Archive
2023
Artist Fellows
TMPR (Iwasawa Brothers + Horikawa Junichiro + Miyama Yu + Nakata Kazue)
Tracing the Landscape That AI Beheld: An Artificial Intelligence Travelogue
Synflux
WORTH: Digital Fashion Platform
contact Gonzo
my binta, your binta// lol—roars from the skinland
SnoezeLab.
IISE「Immersive Inclusive Sensory Environment」
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!
Electromagnetic Generator Parade
Mentors
Isu Taeko (Art director, Graphic designer)
Ukawa Naohiro (Contemporary Artist, DOMMUNE CEO)
Kuze Shozo (Artist, Engineer)
Takekawa Junichi (Director / MUTEK Japan)
Tanaka Miyuki (Curator, Producer)
Hosokawa Asami (General Manager / Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee Secretariat)
Application Outline
Application Period
Thursday, May 11, 2023 – Sunday, Jun 4, 2023
Themes
- New artistic expression responding to artificial intelligence and other forms of technology
- Projects and artistic expression that engage with aspects of Web3 creativity like NFTs and XR
- Music and performing arts aiming to build a new scene for the digital age
- Projects accessible to both able-bodied and disabled people
- Platforms that are socially engaged or participatory for members of the public, such as hackathons and workshops
Application numbers
141
2022
Artist Fellows
Mentor
Ito Takayuki (R&D Director, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])
Seiichi Saito (Director, Panoramatiks)
Isu Taeko (Art director, Graphic designer)
Iwaya Tamio (Graphic Designer)
Takekawa Junichi (Director, MUTEK Japan)
Hosokawa Asami (General Manager, Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee Secretariat)
Application Outline
Application Period
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 – Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Themes
- New artworks using technology
- Performing arts and interactive art staged in the city
- Videos/films about Tokyo youth culture
Application numbers
70