Toyo Kotetsu’s new logo and branding film. The logo is designed around the motif of the iron “cutout” holes created by a blanking press. Using restructured sound built from machinery noises recorded in an actual factory, the film artistically portrays the production process through which products are created, resulting in a branding movie that expresses the brand’s identity.

Description: Set against Wakayama’s profound history and magnificent natural scenery, this 30-minute audiovisual installation explores the theme of “mixing and binding” — the fusion of different religions and genres, as seen in shinbutsu-shūgō. It offers a visual and musical experience projected onto eight totems, each 4 meters high, evoking the towering ancient trees of Kishu, and reflects Wakayama’s “spirit of tolerance” found in places such as Koyasan, the Kumano Sanzan, and in the thought of Minakata Kumagusu. Drawing inspiration from the Kumano pilgrimage, the work portrays Wakayama’s character — its acceptance and coexistence beyond differences in religion, social status, nationality, and ideology — as a journey through future, past, present, and once again into the future. This journey is an experience of “rebirth,” a space where Japanese tradition and digital expression, the real and the virtual, the West and the East intersect, reflecting the spirit of shinbutsu-shūgō.
There, Minakata Kumagusu’s belief that “truth lies in between the two” comes alive. Drawing inspiration from the Kumano pilgrimage, the work portrays Wakayama’s character — its acceptance and coexistence beyond differences in religion, social status, nationality, and ideology — as a “journey of rebirth” through future, past, present, and once again into the future. Symbolic order of the Kumano pilgrimage and its blessings Kumano Hongu Taisha — Future Kumano Hayatama Taisha — Past Kumano Nachi Taisha — Present Kumano Hongu Taisha (Return) — Future / Rebirth The video installation is composed of these four parts. 01. FUTURE The opening moment where anticipation and spirituality intersect.
Through flickering light, pulses, and shifting colors, it depicts a world on the verge of creation. 02. PAST A journey into the origins of Wakayama.
Tracing the land’s deep memories through historical elements such as volcanic activity, nature, and mandala scrolls. 03. PRESENT A chapter that moves through the diverse landscapes that could be called the hundred views of Wakayama.
It captures the culture, daily life, and beauty alive in modern Wakayama. 04. FUTURE / RESURRECTION A dreamlike finale centered on the theme of “rebirth” leading into the future, using reverse-playback imagery.
As a symbol that transcends the boundaries of religion, gender, and nationality, totems appear and visually embody the “spirit of tolerance.” About the event movie The five great elements of esoteric Buddhism at Koyasan — fire, water, wind, void, and earth — are translated into visual expression,
making visible the flow by which they merge to form the universe.
It conveys the spiritual depth of Wakayama in a visual and sensory way. What does “Mixing, Binding.” mean? The word “musu,” found in Takamimusubi-no-Kami and Kamimusubi-no-Kami, two of the three creator deities in Japanese mythology,
means “to give birth” or “to produce,” and represents the power to generate new life and relationships.
As seen in words such as musuko and musume,
“musu” has long been a core concept in Japanese, meaning “generation” and “bonding.” Shimenawa and shide, seen at shrines and sacred sites, are symbols of “binding” that sanctify space and invite the gods. We chose this “musu (Musubu)” as the theme of this work because it is a word that symbolizes the spirit of Wakayama, which has passed down Japan’s oldest culture to the present day.

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.

SOUL MOTION is an interactive map that uses location tags embedded in uniforms. The sensors capture real-time data and also display records of the past three days, such as weather, total communication volume, visitor numbers, and individual trajectories. When visitors approach the “soil” or “sofa” zones, virtual microbes swarm to those locations, showing how they multiply or decline depending on environmental conditions. A light touch on the sensors makes them scatter, revealing a constantly changing, dynamic map. By visualising invisible processes such as microbes, technology, and the delicate rhythms of human relationships, SOUL MOTION prompts us to reconsider the hidden environments around us and creates an opportunity to rethink the connections between people and between people and nature.

Installation of Volca I, II, and III. Displayed on giant LED screens in major cities in China. Volca expresses the concentration of energy, continuously transforming in color and form as digital magma. A project in collaboration with Poly Art Digital Gallery. Cities of exhibition: Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen.

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Audio-visual live performance by ∈Y∋ (BOREDOMS) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London for Parallel Vision #10, hosted by NTS Radio in the UK. The two-hour event consisted of three sets and revolved around Singeli, a fast-paced dance music genre from Tanzania. The visuals were synchronized to its high-tempo beats, expressing the music’s intense energy through imagery. By fusing in elements of AI, the performance amplified an immersive sense of chaos and speed.

Responsible for the creative direction and direction of the main movie for FC TOKYO's rebranding. The film expresses Tokyo, a city where diverse people and cultures cross paths, blending the club's history of “inheritance” with its desire for “innovation” to create a new chapter. Using a two-sided blue-and-red visual approach, the film conveys the dynamism and chaotic energy of Tokyo and football.

At BMW Japan Premiere, Forwardism: BMW The Seven Museum, this art installation was presented at the National Art Center, Tokyo. “Transcendence of Digital Form” is a work that questions the existence of our life forms connected to a higher-dimensional internet in a far future where the word “digital” feels outdated. The first half depicts the digital present, and the second half is divided into two parts, portraying a future beyond digital. The music was composed by sound artist Hal ca, expressing the digital “present” and the digital-transcendent “future.”

Description: An audiovisual live performance at the two-hour after-party following Diesel’s SS24 runway show at Milan Fashion Week 2023. Set on a stage inspired by an outdoor film festival, the performance took place in front of 5,000 guests after the runway show, featuring a massive LED screen approximately 30 meters wide. The space is enveloped in red, black, and white light.

3D graphics from the two hours leading up to the Diesel SS24 runway at Milan Fashion Week 2023. Set on a stage inspired by an open-air film festival, a massive 30-meter LED screen slowly brings the Diesel logo to life over the course of two hours, rising out from the giant screen and building the atmosphere to a climax in front of 5,000 guests.

An immersive audiovisual installation using three LED walls at W1 Curates, an immersive space in London. In the final section, a triptych depicting heaven, the present, and hell was created with AI across the screens from left to right.

An enchanting projection mapping work created for Inukko Matsuri 2024, blending the mystical patterns of snow, causal sets, and “hare.” The festival is said to have originated from the myth of “Amano-Iwato,” beginning with a lively festival held by the villagers to lure Amaterasu out of the Iwato (another world), after which the rock door was opened. In addition, “dogs” have long been enshrined throughout Japan as a talisman against evil. “Hare” refers to an extraordinary state, such as a special day or a festival. Inspired by the origins of Inukko Matsuri, this work is a massive 50 x 23 m projection mapping that immerses viewers in a wondrous world created by the fusion of mystical protections and purification rites with the mysterious patterns of snow. It opens a portal connecting the real world and the otherworld, leading viewers into a “hare” dimension. Snow patterns like causal sets, where every event is infinitely connected by cause and effect, and fantastical scenery in which “hare” and “ke” flicker like a kaleidoscope unfold before the eyes. Bathed in spirits, mysterious protective rituals, light, and sound, the work explores a majestic visual landscape and an enchanting world.

RICOH 3L is a practice-based research lab that accelerates team creativity while pursuing the joy of work. Within it lies RICOH PRISM, a future space designed to bring out the creativity of teams. One of its contents, “Anima,” is a new kind of perceptual art experience: a 16-minute audiovisual work in which you encounter your own digital twin, converted into digital form. Inspired by RICOH multifunction printers, it uses cutting-edge 3D sensing, 360° sound, and imagery to let participants experience five stages, recording the participant’s ANIMA, or soul, transforming it into data, and through subjective and objective viewpoints, metacognizing and reexamining and reconstructing perception. By accurately capturing the user’s viewpoint and position through 3D sensing, it achieves a highly immersive and realistic 3D space without the need for a VR headset. It also records scan data from a variety of participants, allowing it to be viewed from above and enhancing metacognition. In a future where everything has been digitized, it asks whether ANIMA, or the soul and perception, still exist.

An art projection work using the wall of the JAXA Science and Technology Museum at the Tanegashima Space Art Festival 2023. Since ancient times, Tanegashima has been a place where the Kuroshio Current and the East China Sea Current collide, a final destination of the world where cultures drift ashore. Tanegashima is also the starting point from which that culture spreads throughout Japan. It is also the point of departure from which rockets launch into space from around the world. It is as if Tanegashima were a black hole in another universe and a white hole in this one. This work is a fantastical journey through space, depicting the mysterious Tanegashima as a singularity from a perspective beyond dimensions.

The Digital Pharmacy series is an experimental approach to exploring the effectiveness of drug experiences in digital space. The Digital Pharmacy series is the world’s first audiovisual pharmaceutical series, designed to produce different effects for specific symptoms. This series aims to redefine what medicine is and contribute to the future well-being of society as a whole in the digital age.

A concept film for AERO, a new suitcase by GLOBE-TROTTER designed for future adventurers, which is envisioned to still exist in the 23rd century. This cutting-edge suitcase is made with an innovative full carbon body also used in space shuttles. Its world is expressed as a grand, fantastical, and artistic journey through space, with each meteorite portrayed as an individual space traveler.

A massive installation for Dubai Design Week using the LED façade of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. Inspired by the colossal tower rising from the earth to the sky, the installation begins in the magma deep underground and travels through layers of the earth’s crust, the deep sea, the ocean, the desert, the city, the mountains, the sky, and outer space, and then on beyond time and space. Surrounded by hundreds of people, it raises a fantastical pillar of light in the pitch-black Middle Eastern night, inviting viewers on a journey of ascension.