CONNECTED FLOWER
Natural flowers bloom,
drawing water from the ground
Robot Flower blooms watered by the world’s love.
This project is using a Big-data approach to visualize how full of love the world is.
Robot flower will be collecting tweets with affectionate words from all over the world.
Each one will be displayed on the world map as a single light particle.
Robot Flower will bloom and the world map will glow with your affectionate words.
Collaboration
Nobumichi Asai with Honda
Inspired by Honda’s drive to evolve human movement and living.
We created the Robot flower with Honda to share the feeling of happiness and joy worldwide by connecting people.
How to join
Please tweet about “Love” and “Peace” for your loved one and for the world with hash tag #connectedflower.
Flower Robot calls your name and returns the word of thanks.
ARTIST：NOBUMICHI ASAI
ROBO DESIGNER：TAMAE HIROKAWA
ROBO 3D MODELING & ENGINEERING：MUDSNAIL
ROBO INTERACTION & ENGINEERING：PROTOTYPE / ITK
DATA VISUALIZATION DIRECTOR：HIROSHI OKAMURA / RYO AKIYAMA
CINEMATOGRAPHER：HIROAKI MURANAKA
FILM DIRECTOR：ERIKO NODA
ART DIRECTOR：CHIE KAKINUMA
MUSIC/ TEASER FILM：LEO SATO
MUSIC/ INSTALLATION：hatis-noit
PROJECTION TECH：PRISM
WEB PRODUCTION：katakuriko
PROJECT MANAGER：TAKATO HENMI
CREATIVE PRODUCER：KAZUHIKO KAMEDA
Artist Profile
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NOBUMICHI ASAI
浅井宣通
The media artist Nobumichi Asai graduated from the Department of Science of Tokyo University.
He is famous worldwide, in particular for his face mapping artworks.
Among them his collaboration with Lady Gaga for her performance at the Grammy Awards, and his collaboration with Ayabambi on the projects “INORI”, CONNECTED COLORS, OMOTE, and FACE HACKING.
He has received numerous awards such as Japan Media art festival, VFX AWARDS, and ARS Electronica.He has also been invited as a speaker and a judge at many art festivals around the world, such as the Louvre Museum, Circle of Light in Moscow.