Android Opera “MIRROR – Deconstruction and Rebirth” to premiere this May at Osaka Festival Hall, with Keiichiro Shibuya and Android Maria appearing at the press conference.
Keiichiro Shibuya served as the music and sound producer for POLA SALON+ AOYAMA, where the sound installation work “Abstract Music” has been permanently installed. The spatial design was produced by Kazuyo Sejima.
ATAK Academy launches with its first session on Saturday, January 17, featuring Hidetaka Ishida’s lecture, “Art in the Age of AI — The Grammatology of Android Opera.”
Keiichiro Shibuya joins talk session about AI and music at Tokyo DIGICONX
Keiichiro Shibuya and the AI-powered android Maria appear in a newly commissioned original-music TV commercial.
Filmed at KAIT Plaza, designed by architect Junya Ishigami, the commercial also features special appearances by Charlotte Kemp Muhl and others. Nationwide broadcast begins on January 9, 2026.
“fimachine” Keiichiro Shibuya+Takashi Ikegami in transmediale 2008
ABOUT
Date:2008.1.28~2008.2.10
The opening is on Monday 28th, 19:00hrs
Place : Podewils’sches Palais, Klosterstr. 68 Berlin Germany exhibition “transmediale.08”
info. : http://www.transmediale.de/
sound instalation:
“fimachine” Keiichiro Shibuya+Takashi Ikegami in transmediale 2008
Composition : Keiichiro Shibuya [ATAK]
Generating Sound Patterns and Textures : Takashi Ikegami [Tokyo University]
Multiphonic 3-dimentional Programming : evala [ATAK, port]
Program Development : Yuta Ogai [Tokyo University / Ikegami lab.]
LED Programming : Daito Manabe
LED Programming and System Management : Takayuki Ito [YCAM]
CREDIT
Production Management : Maria Shibuya [ATAK]
Curated by Kazunao Abe [YCAM]
Produced by Les Jardins des Pilotes for transmediale.08
Co-produced by ATAK, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
Cooperation with Tokyo National Univercity of Fine Arts & Music Film and New Media
Sponsored by Musikelektronik Geithain and Color Kinetics Japan
supported by AGENCY FOR CULTURAL AFFAIRS, JAPAN