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Kodama Lab
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A media art lab that expands human senses with new materials and information technology.
AboutAbout the lab
Aiming to create works that move people's hearts.
The Kodama Lab studies the production of media art and design works, as well as the methodology behind them.
The lab works on creating interactive art that makes full use of new materials and information technology.
Its past projects include art projects using ferrofluid, the Bouncing Star Ball project, and the remote theater piece "New Taketori Monogatari (The New Tale of the Bamboo Cutter)."
In recent years, the lab has also exhibited works that use generative AI and researched conversational AI characters.
Key terms
- Media art
- Art that uses technologies such as new materials and information technology to expand human senses and communication
- Interactive art
- Experiential art in which the work changes in response to the audience's words and movements
- Ferrofluid
- A liquid with magnetic properties (ferrofluid). In the exhibited work, spikes rise on the surface of the black liquid and move as if pulsing
NewsLab news
A master's student and Associate Professor Kodama won the Best Interactive Entertainment Showcase Award at IFIP-ICEC
An undergraduate student won the Interactive Presentation Award (PC Recommendation) at Interaction 2025, organized by the Information Processing Society of Japan
A master's student won the Interactive Work Award at the Live2D Creative Awards 2024
An undergraduate student won the Special Jury Prize at the Art & Technology Tohoku 2024 contest
ResearchResearch themes
The lab applies technologies such as new materials and information technology to art, and studies media art from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It explores ways to expand human senses and communication, aiming to create new value and emotional impact.
*Illustrative imageTheory and Practice of Media Art
The lab researches the application of technologies such as new materials and information technology to art. It explores how media art can expand human senses and communication, and takes on the challenge of creating new value and emotional impact.
*Illustrative imageMixed Reality and Interactive Art
The current themes are interaction design and aesthetics in mixed reality, and the creation of interactive art that makes full use of new materials and information technology. The lab aims to create works that move people's hearts.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kodama Lab are faculty, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2024
- Associate ProfessorSachiko Kodama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Ferrofluido PopArt” Gianlucas Bertone Corrado / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Theory and Practice of Media Art: “Climatable being used at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design lobby in 2010” Tomi Knuutila / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mixed Reality and Interactive Art: “Space of Two Categories - Artwork by Hanna Haaslahti” Tomumaja / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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