Dialogue with the city
Circulation Balls XR
ExMetaClub
Keio University Graduate School of Media Design Embodied Media Project
IEEIR
9/27 (Friday) - 10/6 (Sunday)
Flower Plaza, Stone and Light Square, Yume-no-Ohashi, Dream Plaza
TOKYO DREAM PARK planned construction site
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（Miraikan）
Exploring Cutting-Edge XR Art Through Dialogue with the City
This interactive XR art experience allows visitors to explore six different spots around the city, enjoying AR art while imagining the entire city as a massive experimental apparatus. The fusion of art and technology offers a unique XR experience.
Flower Plaza The XR BALL circulates through the monorail and the entire plaza, offering an AR experience that makes you feel the wind of the Rinkai Fukutoshin area. At the Flower Plaza, Noboru Tsubaki's "Round Horizon" is on display, creating a harmonious interaction with real art.
Stone and Light Plaza The dynamic XR BALL bounces through the city, rushing toward participants in an immersive experience.
TOKYO DREAM PARK construction site The XR BALLs stretch across the entire 300-meter span of Dream Bridge, soaring into the sky.
Yume-no-Ohashi A rainbow emerges from the circulation balls that cross Tokyo Bay, stretching across Dream Bridge. This area is where the Rainbow Bridge and highways intersect, giving a sense of Tokyo's logistics. The XR BALLs race across the rainbow.
Dream Plaza
Main area for Circulation Balls XR.
Experience a new type of art where immersive interaction and tactile sensations merge, offering an unprecedented immersive experience as you engage in a "dialogue with the landscape."
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（Miraikan）
Perry Ex Machina
A collaboration project with young artist IEEIR and the Circulation Ball Project.
About Cells in Dialogue with the Landscape
At Dream Plaza, experience an immersive adventure inside cells that respond to the landscape! A limited-time, new sensory art installation that merges XR and tactile sensations will also be on display.
Get an immersive experience inside a giant cell-like ball that responds to the landscape. Three XR BALLs are born from a physical ball, where virtuality and reality intersect.
In particular, the artwork that combines XR and tactile sensations, developed by ExMetaClub in collaboration with Keio University's Graduate School of Media Design, invites you to a new physical sensation in which events in virtual space can be felt as tactile sensations in real space.
Celestial Bodies
Water and Sky
Light Green
Let's shine a light inside the Circulation Ball by holding up a physical smartphone.
Experimental Research The Echoes of Tactile Sensation Celestial Bodies Special Event September 27 (Fri) - September 29 (Sun), October 5 (Sat) - October 6 (Sun)
By experiencing AR art through tactile devices, a sense of "echoes" is created, as if your body’s cells are remembering the sensation. How long will these echoes of virtual reality linger in your body once you’ve physically touched it?
"Circulation Balls XR" by ExMetaClub will also be available, where you can experience the latest XR art while touring around "Flower Plaza," "Stone and Light Square," "Yume-no-Ohashi," and "Dream Plaza." When you view the scenery of Tokyo Waterfront City through your smartphone using the XR app "STYLY," you will see the city transform into a giant experimental device, and a mysterious scene unfolds where a large ball that shouldn't exist is dynamically running around. . By taking a walk while chasing this ball, we provide an opportunity to discover new charms of the town and the relationship between people and the town. In the project's main area, ``Dream Plaza,'' you can have an immersive experience in which you step inside a giant cell-like ball that responds to the landscape. Particular attention will be paid to the experimental artwork that combines XR and haptics, developed by ExMetaClub in collaboration with Keio University Graduate School of Media Studies. Furthermore, next-generation artist IEEIR's AR art will be displayed near The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（Miraikan）.
XR technical cooperation
*Please download the app in advance to experience XR art more smoothly.
Art Fest Stamp Rally
Those who complete the stamp rally around the six art locations below that will be featured in “Circulation Balls XR” will receive art festival limited goods as a gift.
- Flower Plaza
- Stone and light square
- TOKYO DREAM PARK planned construction site
- Yume-no-Ohashi
- dream square
- The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（Miraikan）
*Goods will be specially made clear files or stickers, and can be picked up at the art festival reception at "Stone and Light Square" or "The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（Miraikan）."
*Stamps will be automatically stamped within the app when you experience it with the XR app “STYLY”.
ExMetaClub
PROFILE (main artist)
A creative unit that develops experimental artwork with themes of metacognition, boundaries, and tactility.
In a place where virtual space and reality intersect, he explores a multisensory experience that allows viewers to reconsider their own perceptions.
ARTBAY TOKYO Art Festival 2023, Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, and DESIGNART TOKYO are based on XR installations where the self and avatar interact. We are also planning a workshop that fuses contemporary art and the Metaverse in collaboration with Mori Art Museum.
Keio University Graduate School of Media Design Embodied Media Project
PROFILE (Dream Square XR Haptic Collaboration)
The Keio University Graduate School of Media Design's ``Embodied Media'' project creates future media technology that records, shares, expands, and creates the various experiences people gain through their own bodies. See, hear, touch. By understanding and manipulating physicality in interactions between people and things, we create new physical experiences that lead to fun, surprise, and comfort.
IEEIR
PROFILE (XR Collaboration Artist near The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation（Miraikan）)
An art research collective consisting of sound artist Shoya Maruyama, artist Yusuke Takahashi, and concept work artist Sho Suzaki. IEEIR reconfigures technology as a ``pharmacon'' that is both poison and medicine, surrounding the viewer in the exhibition space and as an interface for the viewer to act, and exploring the diversity of our contemporary environment and technology. attempt to recover.