AI MASAYA NAKAHARA「DRAWING A NOVEL WITH VOCAL CORDS!!」Presented by UKAWA NAOHIRO & DOMMUNE

  • Official Program
ESHIBUYA PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE
2.13fri
14sat
●Installation 13:00-19:00  ●Talk & Live Event 19:00-23:00

DOMMUNE is launching a project to support the disability of Nakahara Masaya, a Mishima Prize-winning author and noise musician who suffered a cerebral infarction as a complication of diabetes, resulting in significant loss of physical function and vision, and now lives in a wheelchair. The project is titled “AI Nakahara Masaya! Drawing Novels with Vocal Cords!” We will build a knowledge base using all of Nakahara’s texts—novels, autobiographies, critiques—as source material and expand it using RAG. We will also clone Nakahara’s own voiceprint to create “Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara.” Produce a project where the <flesh-and-blood Masaya Nakahara> engages in repeated dialogue with his digital twin, the <Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara>, to co-create a new novel via “SPEECH TO SPEECH” and aim for the Akutagawa Prize!! At DIG SHIBUYA, an installation featuring the vocal cord AI will be held, along with workshops where audiences “draw” the novel alongside AI Masaya Nakahara and visualize it into film alongside AI Naohiro Ukawa.

<Friday, February 13th, 1:00 PM – 11:00 PM, Shibuya PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE>

■13:00-19:00 DOMMUNE “Vocal Cord AI Masaya Nakahara” installation

An installation in which the audience “draws” a novel together with AI Masaya Nakahara

■19:00-23:00 [Vocal Cord AI Summit DAY 2] DRAWING A NOVEL WITH VOCAL CORDS!!

<TALK3> 19:00-21:00:
●Appearances: Akihiro Kubota (Professor of the Department of Information Science, Tama Art University), Mamoru Goto (Dark Criticism) ●MC: Naohiro Ukawa (DOMMUNE)


<TALK4>21:00-23:00:
● Featuring: Hideki Nakazawa(Artist/Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group/NPO AI Patronage Group)Hiroshi Yamakawa(Principal Researcher at the University of Tokyo/Whole Brain Architecture Initiative/AI Alignment Network, Intelligence Coexistence Chapter) ● MC: Naohiro Ukawa (DOMMUNE)

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<Saturday, February 14th, 1:00 PM – 11:00 PM, Shibuya PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE>

■13:00-19:00 DOMMUNE “Vocal Cord AI Nakahara Masaya” installation

An installation in which the audience “draws” a novel together with AI Masaya Nakahara

■19:00-23:00 [Vocal Cord AI Summit DAY3] DRAWING A NOVEL WITH VOCAL CORDS!!
<TALK5>19:00-21:00:
●Starring: Mariko Asabuki (novelist), Taichi Iwamoto (Bungei Editorial Department/Kawade Shobo Shinsha) ●MC: Naohiro Ukawa (DOMMUNE)

<DJ SET1> 21:00-22:00: “DJ Plays Masaya Nakahara ONLY|Chapter 1” ●DJ: Chloé Juliette

Overview

Date / Time
February 13 (Fri) February 14 (Sat)
●Installation 13:00-19:00 ●Talk & Live Event 19:00-23:00
*On February 15 (Sun), at PARCO 10F PBPX, there will be an installation and workshop from 15:00, a talk session from 18:00, and a live performance and DJ from 21:00.
Program details for February 15 can be found here.
Venue
Shibuya PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE (2/13, 2/14)
10F PBOX (2/15 only)

Venue

SHIBUYA PARCO 9F SUPER DOMMUNE
9F 15-1 Udagawa-Cho Shibuya-ku Tokyo

Profile

DOMMUNE Co., Ltd.
Japan’s first live streaming studio, launched by Naohiro Ukawa in 2010. For 15 years since, it has continued exploring new forms of cultural expression, traversing fine art, popular culture, and technology. For this project, it collaborates with diverse masters including Konel, the editorial department of Kawade Shobo’s “Bungei” magazine, Taniguchi Sukesuke Club, ANOMALY, and boid to develop an AI project supporting Masaya Nakahara’s creative work. It participates as an experimental ART×TECH collective unique to DIG SHIBUYA.
https://www.dommune.com/