MEDIA AMBITION TOKYO

X

Whispers from Buzz (WIRED CREATIVE HACK AWARD 2019 –GRAND PRIX–)

GengoRaw (Tomoya Ishibashi, Kento Niikura, Ryuji Yoshida, Kohei Futakuchi, Tomoya Yoshida)

Now that everyone carries a smartphone and is constantly connected online, yesterday’s news and buzz are forgotten today. Anyone can transmit information through social networks, and the writing that is posted in such huge volumes day to day drops from the top of your feed to the bottom and is rarely looked back on. This work is an installation that composes AI-generated poems based on the theme of the trending words that are produced every day on Twitter. This is a new form of intelligence that statistically processes our words and us in the social media age, where tremendous quantities of words are transmitted. The collision between ourselves and this new form of intelligence projects the current state of the media and language that surround us.

Vimeo LINK

Artist : Tomoya Ishibashi
AI Engineer : Kento Niikura
Web Engineer / Motion Designer : Ryuji Yoshida
Art Director : Kohei Futakuchi
Engineer : Tomoya Yoshida

SHIBUYA SCRAMBLE SQUARE 15F, SHIBUYA QWS

Google Map

2.28 (fri) – 3.8 (sun) | 11:00 – 21:00

Schedule

  • Admission Free

    * From the B2 floor and the 2nd floor [Office, SHIBUYA @ QWS dedicated entrance], please come to the 15th floor by elevator.

Artist Profile

  • GengoRaw (Tomoya Ishibashi, Kento Niikura, Ryuji Yoshida, Kohei Futakuchi, Tomoya Yoshida)

    GengoRaw is an art project that presents experiments and productions based on the logic and imagination of language from a mechanical point of view that is being jointly conducted by Ishibashi, an artist who engages in a scientific approach to expressing life and language, and Niikura, a natural language processing engineer who develops AI copywriters among other things.