“Magnetact Animals” is a kinetict toy (a moving toy) created by extending “Magnetact,” a magnetic tactile technology using magnet sheet, researched by Dr. Kentaro Anken of NTT, from the realm of tactile sensation into the realm of “movement.” With nothing more than a simple craft activity of attaching magnet sheet and cardboard to paper, it produces a variety of creatures that move in surprising ways. In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when children could not go बाहर and had fewer opportunities to experience science at museums and similar places, Ishikawa and his team designed and held an online craft workshop using Magnetact Animals as teaching material, allowing children to learn how magnets work. By sending kits to each household and making full use of the power of video—such as multiple cameras and an opening film—they created a workshop that could be understood and enjoyed even online, while still providing a satisfying sense of accomplishment. This is the opening film shown to the children at the start of the workshop, as well as an introduction to the activity as a whole.

An attempt to reconstruct heaven and hell, and the purgatorial purification of Catholicism, from the perspective of the transformation of memory. By incorporating drawings by No-ka and uncertain images generated through machine learning, the work seeks to depict how memories burdened with pain are altered and supplemented, wavering toward salvation.

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A city that repeats endless cycles cannot keep the same landscape for long. The landscape of memories that once existed there is deeply personal, yet at the same time it reflects the fleeting form of the city. The landscape of that day, which now exists only in individual memory, will soon disappear. We can no longer recall those who are being forgotten for the sake of tomorrow.