The largest artist fellowship in Japan, recruiting projects by artists to serve as CCBT partners
Open Call for
2025 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)
Theme
Future Commons
Based on the digital commons ushered in by technology and the global commons as a way of understanding the planet’s environment and ecosystems, we are seeking creative projects and practices that are inspired by and experiment with ideas, mindsets, and narratives exploring “future commons” for rethinking society and the individual in the years to come.
examples:
- Proposals and prototypes for future communities that use blockchain technologies
- Performing arts that transform physical sensation, perception, and how we see the world
- Moving image works that prompt us to think about environmental issues and climate change
- Proposals for ways to transform urban and public space into new forms of street culture
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.
Mentors
Shimizu Tomoko (Media researcher, Cultural theorist)
Hal Seki (Founder, Code for Japan)
Mizuno Tasuku (Lawyer, Attorney) and others.
Fellowships
July 1 (Tue), 2025 – March 31 (Tue), 2026
(Artist fellows conduct their core work* for around 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 1 (Tue) – April 20 (Sun), 2025 *due NLT
Inquiries
CCBT Art Incubation Program Office [c/o TASKO]
Email：contact@ccbt-art-incubation.jp
Fellows’ Activities
3月23日（日）まで開催中!!!
ついに明日3月22日（土）14:00〜
![【🍏開催まであと2日！🍏】
本年度CCBTアーティスト・フェロー5組が集合する活動報告会「CCBTスタジアム！」
開催までのカウントダウンとしてフェローを1組ずつ紹介🙋
🏠MVMNT「TOKYO [UN]REAL ESTATE」
東京で暮らす人々の生活空間のデータを募集・収集し、3Dスキャンで記録、東京の多様なライフスタイルをデジタルアーカイブとして構築するプロジェクト。等身大の人間らしさを記録・考察することで、現代社会の特質や変化を読み解く「考現学」に取り組みます。
🔽詳細
https://ccbt.rekibun.or.jp/events/finalpresentation2024
🗓️日時：2025年3月22日（土）14:00〜18:00
📍会場：CCBT
🚃渋谷駅から徒歩8分
⚡️配信もあり
https://www.youtube.com/live/5mPHVBX9A3Y?si=ESBRZswbnUcZHkSi
2024年度アーティスト・フェロー
🐐市原えつこ
🧫HUMAN AWESOME ERROR
🪲柴田祐輔＋Token Art Center
🏠MVMNT
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Archive
2024
Artist Fellows
Ichihara Etsuko
Dystopia Land
Shibata Yusuke + Token Art Center
Daitaiya Ⅱ
HUMAN AWESOME ERROR
Super Cells Infinite
Fuse Rintaro
Pavillion ZERO
MVMNT
Tokyo [Un]real Estate
Mentors
Ukawa Naohiro (Artist of “right now” / Artistic Director, DOMMUNE)
Shimizu Tomoko (Media researcher, Cultural theorist)
Tanaka Miyuki (Curator, Producer)
Mizuno Tasuku (Lawyer, Attorney)
Application Outline
Application Period
April 25 (Thu) – May 26 (Sun), 2024
Categories
- Tools and platforms with a focus on future creativity, and artistic practices harnessing such tools and platforms
- Inquiries and artistic research on future humanity, and artistic practices harnessing such research
Application numbers
86
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