SOUL BUBBLE is an immersive art installation that visualises an individual’s mental and physical state. Inside a space surrounded by eleven screens, visitors sit on a single-seat sofa equipped with AI and sensors. The sofa reads changes in posture and centre of gravity, heart rate, breathing, and hand movements, visualising these signals in real time. States of mind and body such as relaxation, focus, tension, anxiety, excitement, meditation, and confusion are analysed and transformed into microbial-like patterns that spread throughout the entire space. At the end of the experience, the participant’s own behavioural data is projected onto the screens, stored, and used to advance the AI system. As more participants join, individual and collective data accumulate, revealing differences, distributions, and new tendencies. This ongoing process continually evolves the installation, forming an endless archive that keeps recording human states. Interestingly, many visitors were highly interested in their own results and came expecting to find a pattern of “high relaxation.” SOUL BUBBLE gently envelops the body like a bubble, while also presenting itself as a prototype for future sensing devices, where technology stays close to the body, responds to the soul, and brings to light the hidden layers beneath mind and existence.

By blending analog cutout animation with 3DCG in Blender, we created a place like a paradise somewhere out there. There, grass, insects, clouds, and even moon stones sing and dance. I’d be happy if it made you want to come back here again and again! Pappidou!!

Stone, camera, and display are suspended in a straight line. While the camera and the display each perform pendulum motions with different phases, they capture and present the stone in real time. The motionless stone, within this linkage, is constantly transformed as an image. What emerges here is not the movement of the object itself, but a relational fluctuation made visible by the phase difference between the apparatuses. While identification with the camera draws the subject as an “eye” into the interior of the image, the movement of the screen pulls it back into physical space as a body subject to gravity. The shift produced by the asynchronous movements of the camera and the screen, in this back-and-forth, gently suspends the very framework of seeing itself.

Adobe MAX Challenge 2025 Motion Category Grand Prize-winning work. Centered on hand-drawn animation, this piece portrays the very process of video production as a fantasy. By combining character animation drawn frame by frame with keyframe animation in After Effects, it visualizes the feeling that “creating itself is fun.”

Loop music video for monje's "Coyote." It was created using hand-drawn animation made with analog techniques.

Outdoor installation work, W4.5mm × H2.5mm. Presented at Roppongi Art Night 2025. A composite structure of LED neon, LED vision, and painting, in which the imagery on the LED vision switches in response to the blinking of the central sculptural LED neon object, illuminating the space with high-intensity light. Together with the other exhibited work, “Current Location,” the theme is “movement” within urban space. [Statement] When a street sign updated with LED is detached from its former purpose of stimulating desire and arousing speculative excitement, it becomes nothing more than a device whose lines flash brilliantly. The bright flickering light, visible under any conditions, attracts people and creates a sense of exhilaration even without any function. In a city centered on this intersection, it may serve as a marker for crossing over divisions such as arterial roads, the boundary between city and art, the threshold between everyday life and festival, and invisible hierarchies.

Environment gives rise to phenomena, and phenomena create the work. Immersed in that new body of works, one becomes one with the environment. The work cannot exist on its own; environment gives rise to phenomena, and phenomena create the work. Pebbles and the things humans have made until now have been objects. Objects possess a stable structure in themselves and, separated from the outside world, continue to exist even when placed inside a sealed box. A vortex born in the sea, on the other hand, disappears the moment it is transferred into a closed box. A vortex does not maintain its structure by itself; it exists only within the flow created by its environment. It is formed by water that continuously flows from outside to inside, and from inside to outside, changing along with the flow. Its contours are indistinct, and there is no material difference between the vortex and the world outside it. Rather than making objects, create a special environment, and create works through the phenomena that environment brings forth. Let us call this “environmental phenomena.” Works cannot be separated from their environment; they change as the environment changes. Works are liberated from the material objects that have so far carried their existence. Even the ordinary things of everyday life—air, water, light—will become phenomena through unique environments, transforming into a new kind of existence. Transcending the common sense of what humans have made until now, works will retain their existence even when people enter them bodily, and will be repaired when broken. The boundaries of a work’s existence are indistinct and continuous with what lies outside it. However, if the environment is lost, the work will disappear. Human consciousness will expand from existence itself to the environment. Exhibition details: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/e/phenomena/

An animation introducing how to spend time at the museum and the guidelines for visitors. The song was specially written by Ichiyanagi. The joy of drawing, the joy of looking, the joy of not knowing. It was created with the hope that people would encounter the works with a free spirit. Several works from the Yokohama Museum of Art’s collection also appear in the video, which is based on the museum’s theme colors, pink and gray. The technique combines drawings on paper with digital coloring. An illustrated “Children’s Mission Sheet” was also produced alongside it.

I have developed an original system that generates visuals in real time in response to sound. This video work was created by recording that real-time rendering process.

I expressed the worldview of the work.