4 papers
Touching Movement: 3D Tactile Poses for Supporting Blind People in Learning Body Movements
Kengo Tanaka, Xiyue Wang, Hironobu Takagi +2
Visual impairments create barriers to learning physical activities, since conventional training methods rely on visual demonstrations or often inadequate verbal descriptions. This…
Digital Nature Revisited: A Ten-Year Synthesis of Art, Technology, and the Evolution of "Nature": Reimagining Post-Truth Ecologies Through Art, Algorithm, and Animism
Yoichi Ochiai, Takashi Shimizu
This paper critically re-examines "Digital Nature," a concept that has proliferated across various domains over the last ten years. By "Digital Nature," we refer to an evolving vie…
Photographic Conviviality: A Synchronic and Symbiotic Photographic Experience through a Body Paint Workshop
Chinatsu Ozawa, Tatsuya Minagawa, Yoichi Ochiai
This study explores "Photo Tattooing," merging photography and body ornamentation, and introduces the concept of "Photographic Conviviality." Using our instant camera that prints i…
null2: Boundary-Dissolving Bodies and Architecture towards Digital Nature
Yoichi Ochiai
This paper presents a case study of the thematic pavilion null2 at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai, contrasting with the static Jomon motifs of Taro Okamoto's Tower of the Sun from Expo 197…