志村翔太

Shota Shimura

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Media artist. Born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Grew up in a family-run dry cleaning business. After traveling around the world and working in business development, completed a master’s program at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). Centering on the narratives of place, the experience of mobility, and media environments surrounding recording and communication, he pursues new media expression grounded in literary imagination, using mobile technologies such as iPhones and bicycles.
Biography
主な展示歴
2026 個展 モビル文学 多摩川アンセム・フォー・マイセルフ(東京)
2026 クリティカル・サイクリング展(岐阜)
2026 ENCOUNTERS(東京)
2025 Here's A Bicycle(ルサカ/ザンビア)
2024 ATAMI ART GRANT 2024(静岡)
2024 第2回 BUG Art Award ファイナリスト展(東京)
2023 六本木アートナイト 2023「都市のいきもの図鑑」(東京)

主な受賞歴
2026 公益財団法人 花王芸術・科学財団 2026年度 メディアアート展覧会助成 採択
2026 やまなしメディア芸術アワード2025-26  入選
2025 文化庁 令和7年度 メディア芸術クリエイター育成支援事業 採択

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Mobile Literature Kawasaki in the Shota Shimura - 映像作家: shotashimura 7 days remaining
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Mobile Literature Kawasaki in the Shota Shimura

2026
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“Mobile Literature” (English: Mobile Literature) is a series that seeks to merge movement by bicycle and projection technology with literary expression, using a bicycle modified as a visual device to project texts written for each city onto the ground of those places while cycling through them. To date, the project has been carried out in Japan around the Tama River, in Ōgaki City, Gifu Prefecture, Atami, and around Tokyo Station, and overseas in Cairo (Egypt), Lusaka (Zambia), and London (United Kingdom). This work, “Mobile Literature: Kawasaki in the Shotashimura,” is a piece in which text written on the theme of southern Kawasaki City is edited into a visual work, and the text is projected onto the ground while cycling through the area at night on a bicycle. In “Mobile Literature,” writing is the act of inscribing into text the bodily sensation of motion, and the rhythm of breathing and travel, gained through the speed of a bicycle: slower than a car, yet faster than walking, at a human scale. The letters projected onto the ground are linked to physical sensations such as the force applied to the pedals, vibrations from the road surface, and changes in incline; they fluctuate, alter their shading according to speed and the texture of the road, and emerge with a singular, one-time expression, even when the same sentence appears. By treating bicycles and urban space itself as media, this series pursues the possibilities of literary expression rooted in place, as well as a reading experience impossible on paper or digital media. At the same time, because Ōgaki City, Gifu Prefecture—the site of the first work in the series—is the final destination of Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the project aims to develop around the world, in the spirit of Bashō’s journey and contemplation.