About the work A man trudges through the same place again and again in a dim wasteland, as if dragging his weary body behind him. His doubles, replicated like afterimages, drift through the air, forming a huge mass that hovers over his head. On the ground, tentacles cling to him as if to hinder his steps. Before long, the man collapses to the ground and sinks into a mental realm. A visual work that depicts modern people, constantly exposed to information and living alongside complex human relationships, in an unfamiliar brilliance. The contours and boundaries of the self, shaped by self-awareness, waver, mutate, and dissolve. It portrays human beings living through this cycle. Directed and produced by the unit of Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki, winners of Best of Stash and the Telly Award Gold. Filmed at Dimension Studio in London using the latest volumetric imaging technology, with music by Max Cooper. Max Cooper How many artists over the past decade have, like Max Cooper, reexamined and expanded the relationship between electronic music, visual art, technology, and science? Through collaborations with artists and institutions across disciplines, including the Barbican Centre, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Dolby Atmos, Cooper works with a mixed-media approach to create immersive installations, psychoacoustics, visual art, and electronic music. Max Cooper▶ maxcooper.net/ Dimension Studio Dimension Studio is a London studio that provides innovative volumetric and real-time production for creating next-generation virtual production, digital humans, and XR content. With production studios based in the UK and the US, as well as mobile environments operating around the world, it is committed to bringing the virtual entertainment of the future to life. Dimension Studio▶ dimensionstudio.co/

KITCHEN & COMPANY, MIKATA, and WOW collaborated on the Teijin Group’s 100th anniversary project. Looking toward the next 100 years, they declared “FUTURE NAVIGATION” as a global message shared around the world. At the same time, they launched the “THINK HUMAN PROJECT” to explore ways to improve the future quality of life for people through nine experimental projects. WOW was responsible for directing and producing the TV commercial and OOH campaign for the “FUTURE NAVIGATION” declaration. To express a project that reexamines humanity from multiple perspectives, the visuals and story were built around the idea of reducing human beings to an unknown entity. What separates humans from objects? How should humans interact with their environment? What does it mean for human beings to live as human beings? Through a variety of angles and forms of expression, this work confronts these questions, which have no clear answers. By boldly yet delicately transforming sensitive motifs, it aimed to create a uniquely beautiful yet poisonous world.

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE is a bag brand built on an innovative concept and production method that freely creates endless forms by combining pieces. Its triangular structure transforms the shape, bringing beauty, delight, and surprise born of chance to the user, while also offering practicality that functions in every aspect of daily life. In “Shape with a world,” the infinite forms that define the BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE concept are expressed through motifs inspired by various objects and phenomena in the natural world. Phenomena abstracted through the BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE structure are endowed with new meaning and beauty, creating a unique world. Through this process, the work explores the appeal of the organic, distinctive forms and movements generated by its triangular structure.