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Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Staged jointly with University of Tokyo, the 2008 installment of campus is meant to illustrate how the creative economy that’s so often evoked in this part of the world is already functioning quite successfully in Japan.
The University of Tokyo (UT) was founded by the Meiji government in 1877 as the first national university. campus | Tokyo exhibition and events introduce various projects mainly from its three courses—Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (III), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and Graduate School of Engineering. Around 25 projects from each laboratory are exhibited here, showing a diverse range of research areas united by a kind of common theme "Hybrid Ego," as a kind of altered ego by the technologies. The University of Tokyo is by no means an art college, which is why such great significance is attributed to integrating artists into the process of educating scientists and engineers in the context of expansion to interdisciplinary research programs.
Opening
September, 4: 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Boxed Ego »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Boxed-Ego is a double trap for the Self. A peep-show box waiting in a corner of the exhibition space first captures the curiosity of the observer - and then the observer himself.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
ephemeral melody »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
ephemeral melody is a novel musical instrument using soap bubbles. We can listen to unrepeatable music at the time bubble burst through this instrument.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
feelings of daily details »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
When you touch and stroke this concrete table, sound is generated and varies according to your stroke. Examining our daily life keenly, we recognize that rich details are already hidden in it. But usually, rather consciously or unconsciously, aren’t we deadening our sense and denying the contact with actual sensation of reality?
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
inter-glow »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
inter-glow is a system that facilitates close interaction and communication among users by using multiplexed visible-light communication technology. When users shine lamps on a table in a miniature living room, the system recognizes which lamps are illuminated and produces family conversations.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Kotaro - A Multiple-DOF Variable-Flexible-Spine Musculoskeletal Humanoid »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Humanoid robots are still in a process of the evolution. The artists are trying to develop a next generation named Kotaro.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Log-Log 2008 »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Log-Log is a balance-beam shaped interface that makes use of shifts in the user's center of gravity as the input, and an interlocked interactive video system.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Optical Camouflage »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Optical Camouflage technology makes anyone and anything wearing a special cloth seems to be transparent.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Plushie »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Plushie is an interactive system that allows nonprofessional users to design their own original plush toys.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
structured creature »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
structured creature is a small prototype of a life-scale flexible space structure that could interact with human like sound or light. It can realize the space where physical space completely corresponds to the subjective space that people perceive.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Tablescape Plus »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
Tablescape Plus is an interactive tabletop video theater. Different images are projected onto the respective tiny screens placed upright on the table. As the user moves the screens, the images change. Moreover, users can develop new stories by changing the arrangement of the screens.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
TORSO - the telexstence system »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
TORSO acquires natural visual information and accurately tracks the user's head motion.
Hybrid Ego. Towards A New Horizon of Hybrid Art - The University of Tokyo
Virtual Asukakyo »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-19:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz
The Virtual Asukakyo project intends to restore Asuka-Kyo to its original state by using Mixed Reality technology.