As part of the Art × Tech Lab program, which provides opportunities to learn design hands-on through digital technology, Civic Creative Base Tokyo will hold two workshops and a talk with guest artists from the innovative cutting edge of imagination and technology.
Welcoming Bye Bye World and Gyaru-den to CCBT! Bye Bye World’s Takahashi Masato, known for creating the comic clapping robot BIG CLAPPER, will lead a workshop at CCBT in January, followed the next month by a workshop by Kyoko from Gyaru-den, which aspires to realize gyaru culture for the new normal through electronics art and design. Participants can learn programming and soldering while experiencing the essence of making things. At a talk held in conjunction with the workshops, Bye Bye World and Gyaru-den are joined by a guest speaker to share their insights into the creative genius of capsule toys.
Information
Bye Bye World and Gyaru-den: Clap Clap Shock! Flash Flash Electric Shock! Workshops
Dates: January 8 (Sun), 9 (Mon), February 4 (Sat), 5 (Sun), 2023
Hours: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Workshop
Bye Bye World Shocking Workshop:
Make clapping robot BIG CLAPPER Nano by programming!
Make a BIG CLAPPER Nano and program it to clap the rhythm you want!
Fee: 3,000 yen
Capacity: 15
Target: 1st grade elementary school students and up
* Elementary school students in grades one or two must be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Date: January 8 (Sun) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
January 9 (Mon) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Reservations: please reserve via the link below
Bye Bye World Shocking Workshop Peatix page
◆Accessibility and Support
Do you have accessibility requirements? If so, please let us know of any accessibility needs that you may require.
Bye Bye World
This “enter-maker” company led by Takahashi Masato creates entertainment-centered design. With a focus on robots and toys, it invents entertainment products that use both analog and digital technology. Its past products include the one-handed clapping toy Pachi Pachi Clapper and the clapping robot BIG CLAPPER.
Bye Bye World website (Japanese only)
Gyaru-den Electric Shock Workshop:
Make a flashing circuit board accessory with Gyaru-den!
In this workshop, participants make an LED accessory using Gyaru-den’s original custom-made printed circuit board. Try your hand at soldering and creating something exciting!
Fee: 2,000 yen
Capacity: 10
Target: 4th grade elementary school students and up
* Elementary school students must be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Date: February 4 (Sat) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
February 5 (Sun) 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
◆Accessibility and Support
Do you have accessibility requirements? If so, please let us know of any accessibility needs that you may require.
Kyoko (electronics art designer / Gyaru-den)
Kyoko is part of the electronics art group Gyaru-den, which formed in September 2016. Her practice fuses electronics art and crafts with the gyaru youth subculture that was one of Japan’s signature female street fashion trends of the 1990s and 2000s. Inspired by the idea that today’s gyaru can create things with electronics, she advocates a unique concept of technology for gyaru, by gyaru. Her output includes such original items as the dekotora-cap (hats decorated with electronic components) and “devices that you want to encounter so much it makes you shake.” She continues to explore a creative combination of gyaru fashion and technology that can attract guys at nightclubs and parties. Her dream is that Arduino kits will one day be available to buy at discount stores.
Talk
Clap Clap, Flash Flash, Gacha Gacha—Personal Approaches to Design
Joining Bye Bye World and Gyaru-den is a designer from BRIGHT LINK, a company that advocates self-professed “totally crazy design” and a leading force behind the capsule toy renaissance, to share their insights from the perspective of the next generation of talent in the industry. With Bye Bye World and Gyaru-den, they will describe their personal approach to design.
Speakers：Takahashi Masato（Bye Bye World）, Kyoko (electronics art designer / Gyaru-den)
Guest：Shimoda Kozue (BRIGHT LINK Co., Ltd.)
Date: Sunday, January 8th, 2023, start 17:00~19:00
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Capacity: 60
Free of charge
Reservations: please reserve via the link below (available on a first come, first served basis
Talk Peatix page
Pre-registration available until 12 p.m. on the day. After 12 p.m., please go directly at the venue.
◆Accessibility and Support
Do you have accessibility requirements? If so, please let us know of any further accessibility needs that you may require. (e.g. Text-based support (UD Talk), Advance availability of materials)
Shimoda Kozue (BRIGHT LINK Co., Ltd.)
A fan of toys as well as cute and interesting things ever since her childhood, Shimoda Kozue works for the capsule toy manufacturer BRIGHT LINK. A design student at university, her duties at BRIGHT LINK encompass everything from planning and design to sales. She aspires to create an emotional experience for people when they open up the capsule, and strives each day to adhere to the core BRIGHT LINK value of “totally crazy design.”
BRIGHT LINK Co., Ltd. website (Japanese only)
