Dorita (Takido Dorita)

Dorita’s practice aspires to build new relationships between humans and living creatures, and create experiences that combine different functions and sensations to deviate from conventional feelings. Her work The power of muscle with plants. explored the evolution of robotics, living creatures, and plants by fitting flora with artificial muscles. Her film The Sighs of Eels about a person swimming with a robotic eel at the leptocephalus larval stage is now screening at Tokyo International Cruise Terminal. She is currently completing a master’s degree at the University of Tokyo, searching for approaches between praxis and research. Dorita’s major awards include the Ars Electronica & STARTS Prize for Bug’s Beat, which enables humans to perceive the footsteps of an insect through sound and vibration, and a New Face Award in the Entertainment Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival.Last Updated: 2024.07

Co-Players

Ikeda Takehide

PhD in physics and specializes in ecology and the study of animal behavior, Project Assistant Professor, Utsunomiya University

Ishikawa Yukako

urbanist, experience designer / Co-Director, for Cities / Director, Social Green Design / Director, watage

Ishibashi Tomoya

artist

Enomoto Teruya

scientist, researcher

Elizabeth Hénaff

computational biologist, artist

Oron Catts

artist / co-founder and director of SymbioticA

Konno Keina

Program and experience designer

Suzuki Haruo

Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University

Suzuki Rumiko

Project Associate Professor, Biological Networks Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics

Tsuda Kazutoshi

Researcher

Tsunoda Hajime

designer, engineer

Nakamura Keiko

doctor of science / Honorary Director, JT Biohistory Research Hall

Murakami Hisashi

Researcher

Yamabe Masaki

Data Visualization Artist, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University