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  • His Master's Voice -
    HMV is a board game. The players can move semi-autonomous ball robots by making sounds. Form and gravity collude with voice, board and chance. Each ball listens to a certain pitch and starts to move if the right frequency was hummed or sung. The
  • Innovation Forum -
    The INNOVATION FORUM is an issue-based interactive multimedia forum on innovation and technology that solicits real-time comments from its viewers. The exhibit features real-time ability for visitors to record and playback audio/video comments.
  • Equipements which exchange views between two persons. You can only see through the other person's eyes when you wear these machines, which forcibly put you in the other's place. These were made to obscure the border between identities of
  • 32. Canticle to the Sun IV, 1996 20" by 15"" Pen plotted drawing. In 1966 the artist painted a large eight-foot by four-foot wooden panel as a "Canticle to the Sun". That work, celebrating the sun, incorporated text from the sun canticle
  • 10. Gaia E VIII, 1995. Paper Size: 30" by 22" Pen plotter drawing. Familial Resemblance. The software procedure generates a "family" of forms with a strong familial resemblance. These works resemble each other because they were created
  • Light/Depth -
    A public art for skaters. A sculpture done in collaboration with MATSUO Haruyuki,which skateboarders can skate on. The desire to have an art work for skaters, this sculpture was made as a public art even though it was my first work. Reproduced in
  • Over the Rainbow -
    7Computers linked seven huge swings (5m high) for adults. Each swings are illuminated by seven differnt colours when their angles are all differnt (almost impossible though). A work made to represent " cooperation through non-cooperation".
  • World System -
    The theme of this project is "re-design for telephone". Winner of Japan Art Scholorship. This is a model of a flying TV-telephone which by itself float to find and link to other people (just like WWW). An idea "What if the original telephone
  • PostPet -
    A artificial pet mail-soft. Planning and directing.(Graphic Design by MANABE Namie, Program by KOUKI Takashi) A pet you keep in your computer delivers your e-mail just like a carrier pigeon. If your e-mail friend has PostPet soft, your pet
  • RobotPHONE -
    RobotPHONE is a Robotic User Interface (RUI) that uses robots as physical avatars for interpersonal communication. Using RobotPHONE, users in remote locations can communicate shapes and motion with each other. For a long time, robots have