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existence of our life forms connected to a higher-dimensional internet in a far future where the word “digital” feels outdated.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.”

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.