Four media façades in Shibuya transformed through creative coding!
Opening up the city through civic creativity
A series of screenings on a public canvas in the heart of Shibuya
Civic Creative Base Tokyo presents Civic Canvas, a series of screenings on the Inter-Square media façades at Shibuya Sakura Stage from August 25.
Inter-Square is a set of four media façades inside the Shibuya Sakura Stage complex. Launched in 2024, it serves as a digital square for fostering new creativity in Shibuya, opening up signage in the city to creatives, and promoting Shibuya’s inspiring and diverse culture.
Civic Canvas features the works of around twenty creatives that resulted from a workshop for making creative visuals through coding. The program aims to transform the city into an artistic landscape through the intersection of creativity and technology. The second iteration of Civic Canvas will include further screenings and a workshop for elementary school students.
* Civic Canvas is organized in partnership with Flowplateaux Co., Ltd., which oversees project direction for Inter-Square, and the Japan Generative Art Foundation, which aspires to promote generative art, create opportunities for artists, and build international networks.
■Outline
Screening program “CIVIC CANVAS Vol.1“
Venue: INTER-SQUARE (Shibuya Sakura Stage) (1-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, etc.)
Dates: August 25 (Sun), 2024 – September 7 (Sat)
Time(Duration: 10 mins): 7:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. *Every thirty minutes
Workshop lecturer / facilitators:
– Arikuni Keisuke (project director, planner / Flowplateaux Co.,Ltd.)
– Tanaka You (visual artist, programmer / Rhizomatiks co.,ltd.)
– Takawo Shunsuke (Artist, Chairman of the Japan Generative Art Foundation, Director of “CCBT Future Ideations Camp Vol.2”)
■Participants
Aoki Yuta (Creative coder)
Arakawa Kensuke (Design engineer)
ayat (Visual prosumer)
chobishiba (Artist, software engineer)
foana (Artist)
Goto Taisei (Sound artist, designer)
Hirooka Joki (Daily coder)
k-ogi (Artist)
Kurahashi Masaya (Engineer, artist)
Lynn Ximo (Contemporary artist)
mikio (Artist, designer)
Miura Daiki (engineer)
Sakamoto Hiroyuki (Designer)
Samuel YAN (Generative artist, creative coder)
Senbaku (Artist, creative coder)
Shinada Tom (Artist, Architect)
Tajima Takumi (Engineer, idea designer)
[Guest Participation] Takawo Shunsuke (Artist, Chairman of the Japan Generative Art Foundation, Director of “CCBT Future Ideations Camp Vol.2”)
■Venue: Inter-Square (inside Shibuya Sakura Stage)
Inter-Square is a set of media façades featuring modular square-shaped screens at four locations inside Shibuya Sakura Stage. The system can host various kinds of creative styles, accommodating a wide range of moving visuals and patterns on the screens. At Civic Canvas, creatives have taken advantage of Inter-Square’s unique characteristics, system, and façade shapes to produce new content for the screens at a workshop. The program has sought to cultivate new examples of the creativity made possible by Inter-Square and which harnesses its visibility from the station.
Interlinked screenings at four locations
1. Street vision:
Three-dimensional screen next to Tokimeki Stage
2. Rail vision:
120-meter screen viewable from Shibuya Station’s New South Exit and platforms
3. Corridor vision:
Vertical screen in the passageway at the back of Nigiwai Stage
4. Deck Vision:
Three-dimensional screen on the deck walkway along National Route 246
▶︎ Screening works
Aoki Yuta
crossover(2024)
Arakawa Kensuke
morph(2024)
ayat
find me(2024)
k-ogi
green & purple
(2024)
Kurahashi Masaya
Tip of the Iceberg
(2024)
Goto Taisei
Angry Neko-chan, Angel, Angle(2024)
Sakamoto Hiroyuki
50 Overlapping Squares(2024)
Samuel YAN
Generative YOSEGI(2024)
Shinada Tom
hidden shapes(2024)
Lynn Ximo
scrap and build
(2024)
Senbaku
Intersection
(2024)
Tajima Takumi
quantum entanglement(2024)
chobishiba
fractal flower(2024)
Hirooka Joki
Busy Primitives(2024)
foana
luminescence(2024)
mikio
Ah!(2024)
Miura Daiki CCBT Tile #0(2024)
CCBT×Shibuya Sakura Stage「CIVIC CANVAS Vol.1: クリエイターズ・ワークショップ 」
日時:2024年8月24日(土)13:00〜19:00
会場:SHIBUYA SACS(東京都渋谷区桜丘町16-12 桜丘フロントビル 1F)
講師・ファシリテーター
・有國恵介(プロジェクトディレクター、プランナー/Flowplateaux)
・田中陽(ビジュアルアーティスト、プログラマー/Rhizomatiks)
・高尾俊介(アーティスト/ジェネラティブアート振興財団代表理事/CCBTキャンプ第2回プログラムディレクター)