Naoko Tosa

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.

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; and from July 2018 she has been a specific professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS) 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
exhibited in the exhibition "Video Art in Japan," [ http://tosa.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/art/trip/ TRIP(1985)], ECSTACY(1986),GUSH!(1989)
Collaboration work with Nidec Corporation
Works exhibited at Kenninji Temple
Works exhibited at Kenninji Temple

Interactive Art
  • Neuro-Baby(1993-2000)
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.
  • Networked Neuro-Baby(1995)
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
  • Interactive Poem (1997)
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)
  • Interactive Theater "Romeo & Juliet"(1997-1999)
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
  • Unconscious Flow (1999)
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)
  • Emotion Translation Email Software (2001)
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.
  • Interactive Manzai(2001-2002)
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.
  • Help! Doraemon (2002-2005)
Collaboration with Fujiko Fujio.
  • Zen Computer (Zenetic Computer) (2002-2004)
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
  • Landscape Zen by Computer: ZENetic Computer, Kita Shoin, Kodaiji Temple (2004.5.10-6.6)
KYOTO Film Festa "Future Film DNA" The Museum of Kyoto (2003.11)
  • "Inter-Culture Computing: ZENetic Computer" ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging Technology Venue.

iPhone App
  • Sansui Ink Painting

Photography Art
Dedication work for Kenninji Temple
Dedication work for Kenninji Temple
Homage to André Malraux

Sculpture

Fashion Works

Awards
  • 1996, best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia;[7]
  • 1997, the L’Oreal Grand Prix for research combining art and science; 2000, honorary mention in the Interactive Art section in ARS Electronica;
  • 2004, 2nd Prize for Nabi Digital Storytelling Competition of Intangible Heritage, organized by UNESCO.

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.

References
  1. "Naoko Tosa". MoMA. MoMA. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. "Naoko Tosa". Japan Culture Envoy. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  3. "naoko tosa projects sound of ikebana onto art science museum in singapore". designboom. designboom. 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. 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. 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 Xplore. IEEE. pp. 18–24. doi:10.1109/Culture.and.Computing.2015.12. hdl:2433/232627. ISBN 978-1-4673-8232-8. S2CID 15708862.
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