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Tosa Naoko
Born (1961-10-22) October 22, 1961 (age 62)
Fukuoka, Japan
OccupationMedia artist
EmployerDisaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)

Naoko Tosa (born 1961) is a Japanese media artist based in Fukuoka, Japan.[1][2] In recent years Tosa has been creating artwork expressing Japanese tradition and culture without utilizing digital technology but rather by taking photographic captures of water and flowers in motion at 2000 frames per second.[3] Much of her focus is based on Japanese Zen, Shinto and Rinpa traditions. Rinpa, a school of painting which traces its origins to 17th century Kyoto emphasizes natural subjects, refinement and the use of gold leaf, and is a key influence in Tosa's most recent works.[citation needed]

Early life and education

After receiving a Ph.D. for Art and Technology research from the University of Tokyo, Tosa was a researcher at the ATR (Advanced Technology Research Labs) Media Integration & Communication Lab (1995–2001). Tosa was a fellow artist at CAVS, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2004. From April 2005 to March 2011 she was a specific professor at the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University; from April 2011 to June 2018 she was a professor at the Organization for Information Environment, Kyoto University; from July 2018 to April 2022 she was a specific professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS);and from May 2022 she has been a specific professor at the Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute of the same university.

Career

Naoko Tosa was named Japanese Cultural Envoy by the Agency for Cultural Affairs for the period of September 2016 – March 2017.[2] Toas's work has been shown in the Museum of Modern Art,[4] New York, USA, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Toyama, Nagoya City Art Museum and Takamatsu city museum of Art. Her works are also part of the collections at the Japan Foundation, the American Film Association, the Japan Film Culture Center, The National Museum of Art, Osaka and the Toyama Prefecture Museum of Modern Art. Her work, "An Expression" is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art.[5]

Naoko was one of the original members in the establishment of the Society for Art and Science in 2001. She has been serving as the Chair of IFIP TC16 Entertainment Computing Art & Entertainment since 2006 and was chair of the International Conference on Culture and Computing in 2013 and 2015.

In 2016, she was appointed as the 2016 Cultural Exchange Ambassador,[6] visiting 10 cities in 8 countries, and spent a month in Times Square, NY, screening "Sound of Ikebana Spring" on over 60 billboards and conducting cultural exchanges.

Works

Video art

Collaboration work with Nidec Corporation
Works exhibited at Kenninji Temple
Works exhibited at Kenninji Temple

Interactive art

Selected for ACM SIGGRAPH 1993 Machine Culture
ARS Electronica Invited Exhibition
CG character that recognizes emotion and generates emotion from human voice inflection in real time.
ACM SIGGRAPH 1995 Emerging Technology Invited Demo
Robot hand-connected neurobaby system for cross-cultural translation of emotional expressions over the Internet University of Tokyo: joint research with Hidenori Hashimoto, Associate Professor, and Kaoru Sezaki, Associate Professor
A poet system that recognizes the meaning and emotion of words from the human voice and outputs them in real time to a CG character who reads poems in a renga-like style with a human. Winner of the Grand Prize of the L'Oréal (an award given for research in the arts and sciences)
An interactive theater system that allows people to play the main character and create their own stories by recognizing the meaning of words and emotions and outputting them in real time from the voices and actions of multiple people.
Winner of the Berlin International Film Festival, New Media category
A system that expresses the degree of communicative resonance based on human heartbeat information (ecological information) and hand movements (psychological perspective).
Awarded in the Interactive Art category at Ars Electronica, the world's largest international conference on digital content (sponsored by Austrian National Broadcasting Corporation)
Netware that uses CG characters to express the emotions intended in the text of an e-mail, and uses gestures to express them to the recipient, and uses speech synthesis to read them out loud.
Co-researcher: Yoshimoto Kogyo Co.
Studied unconscious information contained in words, and designed a computer system for "comic dialogue," which is an exchange of feelings, to realize an interactive dialogue.
SCI 2002 Best Paper Award.
Collaboration with Fujiko Fujio.
Collaborators: Peter Davis, Seigo Matsuoka, Toshinori Kondo
Cultural computing to experience the culture and spirit of Zen. Exhibited at the following locations.
MIT Museum Main Gallery (2003.10.24-11.13) MIT News
KYOTO Film Festa "Future Film DNA" The Museum of Kyoto (2003.11)

iPhone app

Photography art

Sculpture

Fashion works

NFT Art Works

Main Exhibitions (Invitational)

Awards

Tosa received research funding from the agency for cultural affairs in Japan 2000; Japan Science and Technology Agency 2001–2004; France Telecom R&D 2003–2005; Taito Corp. 2005–2008, from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) 2005–2008.

Media Appearances, etc.

Internet

References

  1. ^ "Naoko Tosa". MoMA. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Naoko Tosa". Japan Culture Envoy. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  3. ^ "naoko tosa projects sound of ikebana onto art science museum in singapore". designboom. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Sound of Ikebana: Four Seasons". SIGGRAPH: Science of the Unseen. SIGGRAPH. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Naoko Tosa: An Expression". MoMA. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  6. ^ "文化交流使に佐藤可士和さん、柳家さん喬ら6人". スポニチアネックス. 2016-04-19. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  7. ^ "An Expression – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  8. ^ "Trip – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  9. ^ "ECSTASY – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  10. ^ "GUSH! – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  11. ^ "KABUKI-MONO – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  12. ^ "EXPO 2012 Korea Digital Gallery work "Under Water Sansui with Four Gods" – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  13. ^ "Sound of Ikebana Four Season – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  14. ^ "Space Flower Series – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  15. ^ "Wind God and Thunder God – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  16. ^ "MIYABI – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  17. ^ "Volcano – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  18. ^ "UTSUROI – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  19. ^ "連獅子 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  20. ^ "花と龍 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  21. ^ http://tosa.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/itookashi/
  22. ^ "Genesis – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  23. ^ "Dragon – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  24. ^ "漆によるアジアの四神 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  25. ^ http://tosa.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/naoko-tosas-digital-noh-art-work-memento-of-moon-17min-2019/ digital
  26. ^ "雨滴声 – Raindrops voice – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  27. ^ "竜の夢 – Dream of Dragon – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  28. ^ https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/ubugoe_by_sound_of_ikebana/[self-published source]
  29. ^ "マジックウィンドウ – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  30. ^ "TOSA RIMPA: Sansui – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  31. ^ "Fifty babies's UBUGOE – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  32. ^ a b "ZERO Gravity Sound of Ikebana – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  33. ^ "Ars Electronica 1993, "Talking to Neurobaby" by Naoko Tosa".
  34. ^ "L'Oréal, world leader in beauty : Makeup, cosmetics, haircare, perfume".
  35. ^ http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S99/artists/Tosa_Naoko.html
  36. ^ http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/event/ad/doraemon/
  37. ^ "Zen and the art of computers". 22 October 2003.
  38. ^ https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/sansui-ink-painting/id359077376
  39. ^ a b "Sanctuary – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  40. ^ "宇宙的郷愁 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  41. ^ "Timeline – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  42. ^ "ZEN:Nothingness is everything – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  43. ^ "影の中の光 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  44. ^ "永遠の間 by UTSUROI – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  45. ^ "未来の乗り物の形の研究 by Sound of Ikebana – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  46. ^ "光のテーブル – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  47. ^ "Caustics Light – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  48. ^ "奈良を見る弥勒 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  49. ^ "弥勒と声聞 – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  50. ^ "Sound of Ikebana Fashion (Dress, shirt) – Art Innovation Tosa Laboratory".
  51. ^ "NFTStudio". NFTStudio. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  52. ^ "NAOKO TOSA Zero Gravity NFT Exhibition @AEON MALL|どこでMALL!たのしモール!". どこでMALL!たのしモール! (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  53. ^ "2022 AAME | J-COLLABO | Japan x Brooklyn". jcollabo (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  54. ^ Tosa, Naoko; Nakatsu, Ryohei; Yunian, Pang; Ogata, Kosuke (2015). "Projection Mapping Celebrating RIMPA 400th Anniversary". 2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing). IEEE. pp. 18–24. doi:10.1109/Culture.and.Computing.2015.12. hdl:2433/232627. ISBN 978-1-4673-8232-8. S2CID 15708862. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)