AKIRA WAKITA

PROFILE

Pursuing a new kind of expression where art and science coexist, aiming to “approach the essence of existence through form.” His works have been exhibited at Kenninji Zen Temple, Ars Electronica Center, RedBull Music Festival, Mutek, WRO Art Center, SIGGRAPH, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Japan Media Arts Festival, Miraikan, Any Tokyo, Sapporo International Art Festival, etc. He is a professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. Ph.D.(Media and Governance).

SOLO EXHIBITION

Stream, Shibuya Stream, Tokyo, 2024
Cross Section of Light, Japan Art Bridge Gallery of Manseibashi , Tokyo, 2024
Proposal, Japan Art Bridge S4 Gallery, Tokyo, 2023
Governing Equations, Japan Art Bridge S2 Gallery, Tokyo, 2023
Photons, Museum of the Light in Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, 2020
Scenery, Rouault Chapel in Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, 2019
Symptom Visualized , Art & Science Galley Lab Axiom, Tokyo, 2018
Fluid, Art & Science Galley Lab Axiom, Tokyo, 2016

PERFORMANCE

Daigoji Temple and its National Treasures, Live Performance, Osaka, 2024
MUTEK, Neuro Music - Dive into Your Brain, Tokyo, 2023
Ars Electronica Festival 2023, Future Lab Night, Linz, 2023
NxPC.Live vol.35 IAMAS x SFC, Circus Tokyo, 2019
MUTEK / RedBull Music Festival, Miraikan, Tokyo, 2017

EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS

“Dragon Cloud”, Zen Night Walk Kamakura, Kenchoji Temple, Kamakura, 2025
“Lightning Forest”, J-POWER (Power Development Corporation) Head Office Entrance, 2025
“Energy Flow”, J-POWER (Power Development Corporation) Head Office Entrance, 2025
“Nature Underground”, Japan Kyoto Trade Exhibition in Dubai, Dubai, 2025
“Dragon Rain”, Zen Night Walk Kyoto, Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, 2024
“Over Billions of Years”, Sapporo International Art Festival, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo, 2024
“Climatic Reflector”, Sapporo International Art Festival, Aurora Plaza, Sapporo, 2024
“us”, Yatsugatake Art Ecology 2023, Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum, Yamanashi, 2023”,
Kikugawa Art, Kyoto, 2023
“Mother Fluctuation”, Ars Electronica Festival, Data Art & Science Project, DeepSpace8K, Linz, 2023”,
“Proposal (JR Version)”, Japan Art Bridge, Tokyo, 2023
“Governing Equations”, Japan Art Bridge, Tokyo, 2023
“Cross Section of Light”, Tokyo Gendai (Exhibited at Yoshii Foundation booth), Yokohama, 2023
“Proposal”, KOKUYO OPEN LAB., Tokyo, 2022-2023
The Universe Within, KonicaMinolta Planetaria Tokyo, 2022
Kiyoharu Jomon Exhibition, Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum, Yamanashi, 2022
For Alan and Keith, Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, (Hokuto Art Program ed.1), Yamanashi, 2021-2022
MADD.screening, KonicaMinolta Planetaria Tokyo, 2021
“holiness (AV version)”, Media Ambition Tokyo, Tokyo, 2021
“2020”, Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum, Yamanashi, 2021
“2020”, Hokuto Art Program ed.0, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, 2020
“Triplet”, Chichibugahama Art Festival, Kagawa, 2020
“Hidden Superb View powered by Softbank 5G”, Mixalive, Tokyo, 2020
“Async Lab”, Unbuilt Development, Tokyo, 2020
“Moment (horizontal version)”, Media Ambition Tokyo, Tokyo, 2020
“CLAIR DE LUNE - Akira Wakita & Isao Tomita”, Global Ring Theater, Tokyo, 2020
“Moment (horizontal version)”, GRADATION DAIKANYAMA, Tokyo, 2019
“Count the Number of Photons”, AnyTokyo, Tokyo, 2019
“River”, HELLO NEO SHIBUYA, Tokyo, 2019
“Moment”, Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH, Tokyo, 2019
“Ant Colony Optimization”, Insects: Models for Design, 2121 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, 2019
“Under the Sea”, Roppongi Art Night, Sel Octagon Tokyo, 2019
“Visualization of Air Conditioner”, Media Ambition Tokyo, Tokyo, 2019
“Speculative Fake College”, School of the Future Festival - TOKYO MIDTOWN X ARS ELECTRONICA, Tokyo, 2019
“Scenery (street version)”, ARIGATO SAKURAGAOKA Produced by Art Photo Tokyo, Shibuya, 2018
“Dismantling Awe”, VENT, Oya Histroy Museum, Tochigi, 2018
“Scenery (Homology)”, MUTEK, Miraikan, Tokyo, 2018
Seia Lee Soprano Recital - Grace Note 2018, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2018
“Over Display”, Ars Electronica Festival, Gallery Spaces, Linz, 2018
“Scalar Field of Cosmetics”, Kanebo Cosmetics “LUNASOL” 2018 Autumn Collection, Tokyo, 2018
“Scalar Field of Shoes”, Euglena Tokyo Headquarters, 2018
“Xhiasma”, Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, 2018
“(Non)Linear”, Takahashi Collection - Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharu Art Colony, 2018
“Furnished Fluid #4”, Media Ambition Tokyo, Tokyo, 2018
“New Synergetics”, Nissan Crossing, Tokyo, 2017
“Ryoanji / Parking”, Ars Electronica Festival, Gallery Spaces, Linz, 2017
“Scalar Fields”, Media Ambition Tokyo, Tokyo, 2017
“Furnished Fluid#3”, ART PHOTO TOKYO -edition zero-, Tokyo, 2016
“Furnished Fluid”, Moths, crabs, fluids, WRO Art Center at the Koszyki Hall, Warsaw, 2016
“Scalar Fields”, Ars Electronica Festival, Deep Space 8K, Linz, 2016
“Furnished Fluid”, Best of Art and Science, European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, 2016
“Furnished Fluid#2”, Impetus and Movement, ARS ELECTRONICA in the KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL Vol.06, Osaka, 2016
Technarte, Bilbao, 2016
“Furnished Fluid”, Eco Expanded City, WRO Art Center, Wrocław, 2016
“Ocean General Circulation Simulation (for Geo-Prism)”, Miraikan, Parmanent Exhibition, Tokyo, 2016
Scalar Field of Shoes - Solo Exhibition, SPACE_XX(hiromiyoshii roppongi 2F), Tokyo, 2016
“Furnished Fluid”, Digital Media and Japanese Graphic Design, Tokyo Midtown, 2016
“Furnished Fluid”, SIGGRAPH Asia, Art Gallery, Kobe, 2015
“Scalar Field of Shoes”, Any Tokyo, Zojoji, 2015
“Furnished Fluid”, BElements of Art and Science, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, 2015
“Furnished Fluid”, Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Central, Linz, 2015
“Flora”, Amu Special Party, Tokyo, 2015
“Blob Motility II”, Robotinity, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, 2011-2014
“Furnished Fluid”, Any Tokyo, Zojoji, 2014
Japan Media Arts Festival Kushiro Exhibition, Kushiro, 2014
Techfest 2012, invited work of Japan Media Arts Festival, IIT Mumbai, 2012
ACE 2011, Interactive Art, Gold Award, Lisbon, 2011
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011, Emerging Technologies, Hongkong, 2011
“Blob Motility”, Japan Media Arts Festival Exhibition, The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2010
INTERIOR LIFESTYLE TOKYO, 2009
Interactive Tokyo, 2006
SIGGRAPH 2006, Emerging Technologies, Boston, 2006
SIGGRAPH 2005, Cyberfashion Show, Los Angeles, 2005
Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, 2001
Graz Biennial on Media + Architecture, Graz, 2001
cast01, Bonn, 2001
Architecture Media Player, Traveling exhibition, Italia, 2000
Electronic Language International Festival, invited, Sao Paulo, 2000
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, 2000

Principal Career and Committee Membership

Tokyo Midtown Award, Art Competition Jury, 2024 - present
Keio University Art Center, Vice-Director, 2024 - present
Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Professor, 2024 - present
Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Dean, 2019 - 2021

BOOKS

Entrance Examination Issues for the Year 2050, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2022
Access to Materials - Material Computing for Design, Art and Architecture, BNN, 2013
x-DESIGN, Keio University Press, 2013

CONTACT

Request for works and interviews, please DM to the address below. https://www.instagram.com/akira.wakita/