DIG SHIBUYA 2024 has ended.
DIG SHIBUYA 2024 has ended.
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Official Program
FriendsWithYou
“The Happy Dancing Rainbow Alliance”
1/13 12:00–15:00
Founded in 2002 and based in Los Angeles, FWY is a two-person art collaborative with a unique concept, creating experiential artworks proposing the establishment of new human connections based on the context of “Magic,” “Luck,” and “Friendship.”
On 13th January, 2024 (Saturday), visitors will have the opportunity to participate in an experiential art session by the main artist, FriendsWithYou (FWY). All FriendsWithYou’s previous works from around the world will unite in a parade along Koen-Dori, accompanied by a musical ensemble. The “Happy Dancing Rainbow Alliance” is a parade with the aim of spreading joy and happiness worldwide. After this 45-minute participatory art event, there will be a greeting session where attendees can take photos with FriendsWithYou’s characters.
*Please note that there will be vehicular traffic restrictions for this program.
FriendsWithYou
“Little Cloud Sky”
1/12–14 All Day
The installation “Little Cloud Sky” serves as a symbol celebrating the relationship between us and nature, embodying FriendsWithYou’s aspirations for hope and peace. In Yoyogi Park Keyaki Namiki, 19 clouds with a diameter of 2 meters each will float, representing a manifestation of these sentiments.
Nile Koetting / Ittah Yoda / Asako Fujikura / FriendsWithYou etc.
Shibuya Crossing Night Art
1/12–14 24:00–25:00
“Shibuya Crossing Night Art” is an outdoor exhibition using four large monitors at Shibuya Scramble Crossing. You will encounter the moving art of more than 10 artists presented through 3 nights from 0:00am to 1:00am, midnight.
Talks, Installations + Meet Up
DIG SHIBUYA 2024 Opening Session supported by JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE LABEL
1/12
OPEN 13:00
SESSION & MEET UP 14:00–19:30
A place where DIG SHIBUYA artists and collaborative partners come together. This year’s event will feature sessions by artists from a variety of genres, with a combination of Japanese and English. The main artist FriendsWithYou will take the stage, as well as Leni Andronics, founder of Logcast, Sara Giusto, producer of Asia’s first virtual human-imma, and the anime character generation website Pixai, which boasts over 2 million monthly visitors.
Followed by the impact of technology on music, the ‘past’ and ‘present’ of artists making art using technology, and much more.
An installation will feature collaborative partners Bonsai Collectors and TOTEMO, an act by Cyber Nanmu Nanmu, followed by a one-night meet-up of creatives and artists at the end of the night.
For a detailed time schedule and speaker profiles, click here.
*Purchase of ticket (¥3000) is required for admission.
Click here for tickets.
Nominated Program
In the fusion of cutting-edge tech with art, music, and culture, we scouted for groups and communities in Shibuya pushing cultural boundaries globally. We’ve handpicked 13 standout teams this time. These chosen squads will be putting on exhibitions and immersive experiences in the cultural hotspots around Shibuya Station from January 12th (Friday) to 14th (Sunday). Get ready for three days where Shibuya’s scattered public spaces and cultural hubs unite to become a single ART x TECH museum—it’s a can’t-miss creative rendezvous!
The Judge
Kyoko Kunoh / Ambassador of Ars Electronica in Japan , Interactive Artists
Takayuki Suzuki / CEO ParadeAll Inc.
Keisuke Toyoda / Professor Institute of Industrial Science Tokyo University , NOIZ , gluon
Shinji Nanzuka / NANZUKA
Venue
Program details
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Kitaya Park
A creative label that fuses science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research.
“Academimic” is currently working on various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. His main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” a project to transform theses into art to be displayed in the city, “Neu World,” a sci-fi prototyping project with the Cabinet Office, and the “LaddART Project,” which uses science to interpret contemporary art.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
“Lived Montage Project” will install an imaginary form of perception in the city of Shibuya, in which “the retinas of everyone who shares the place are cinematically edited into one’s vision.”
Lived Montage
The Lived Montage project is an imaginary “seeing” in which “the retinas of everyone sharing the scene are cinematically edited into one’s vision”. This project uses a unique goggle-like device to install the imaginary “seeing” into human beings. The setting for this project is a “park” in Shibuya. What and where on earth do we “see” in this city?
Don’t worry about the noise! It is a Silent Street Live!
KITAYA PARK has always provided a place where people can freely enjoy performances, aiming for the coexistence of music and the city.
This time, we will offer a new kind of musical experience where you can taste the performance directly through headphones.The performers are all young talented musicians selected through an open call! Enjoy the park music that will immerse you in the music!
https://shibuya-kitaya-park.tokyo/event/shibuya-park-music-silent-live-in-dig-shibuya-1-12-14/
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Yoyogi Park Keyaki-Namiki
FriendsWithYou (FWY) was founded in 2002 by Samuel Albert Borkson, born in Miami, and Arturo Sandoval, born in Havana, Cuba. Their works have been invited to numerous solo exhibitions around the world and are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami).
“Little Cloud Sky”
Little Cloud Sky is an installation created as a symbol to celebrate the relationship between human and nature. 19 clouds will float in the Yoyogi Park Keyaki-Namiki.
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SLOTH
SLOTH 2F Gallery
With the themes of “Fashion x Communication” and “Expanding Fashion,” “Cultural lab.” is an experimental student laboratory which delivers experientially how notion of beauty transforms. The lab is based in Shibuya, and its activities include runway and exhibition direction, design development, SNS promotion, and more.
Fashion Forms. the way of co-creation. for DIG SHIBUYA 2024
This is a documentary film in which people with different disabilities and creators with different characteristics face each other to create a piece of clothing for the people with disabilities. One of them, who has difficulty communicating verbally, and the creator, who uses image-generating AI, will exhibit their efforts to explore a new way of communication by combining fashion and technology.
Video installation (documentary screening)
January 12 (Friday) 18:00–19:30
January 13 (Sat) 13:00–14:30
January 14 (Sun) 13:00–14:30
Talk Event
January 14 (Sun) 14:30–15:30
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Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Closed on 1/15
CCBT’s “Art Incubation” is a program that aims to create expression, exploration, and action to change cities for the better by providing creators with new opportunities for creative activity and opening up the process to the public (civic). TMPR (Iwasawa Brothers + Junichiro Horikawa + Yu Miyama + Kazue Nakata) is a 2023 CCBT Artist Fellow.
Moving Point Observation Station (35.39.36.02/139.42.5.98)
In the “Tracing the Landscape That AI Beheld: An Artificial Intelligence Travelogue” project, TMPR will open the “Moving Point Observation Station” at CCBT as an experiment in monitoring the world in collaboration with AI. How do these AI predictions differ from the actual experiences of the human body? Where do they synchronize? The project will recruit “operators” (participants) for a workshop at the Moving Point Observation Station in which humans will observe the world alongside AI. You are also welcome to observe the progress of their research and observations.
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Kinro-Fukushi Building
2F – Japanese Room & 4th Youshitsu
A creative label that combines science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research. “Academimic” work is published in various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. The main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” where papers are converted into art and displayed in public spaces. They are also involved in the SF Prototyping Project “Neu World” sponsored by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and “LaddART Project,” interpreting contemporary art through the lens of science.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
2F – 2nd Yoshitsu
“Useless Prototyping Studio” is a design studio that creates prototypes that are seemingly useless but inspire people. This project, launched mainly by Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS), aims to create a new relationship between science and the world, and works to realize scientific theories and hypotheses derived from scientists’ “curiosity for the unknown” as prototypes of imaginary possibilities that could transform the future.
Black Hole Recorder
Inspired by research on quantum black holes and fantasizing about the distant future, the Black Hole Recorder, a phonograph-like device equipped with an artificial black hole, will be exhibited as an interactive art piece. This prototype imagines the possibility that research on how information can be stored inside a black hole may lead to the realization of large-capacity information storage in the distant future.
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PARCO GALLERY X
with Proof of X
Kumaleon advocates a new style of expression from Japan with works that fuse generative art and illustration. We are also extending the scope of our expression by combining blockchain and 3D CG technologies. Through the medium of KUMALEON, we are expressing a freer and more creative world.
“Proof of X” sees blockchain technology, with a focus on NFTs and smart contracts, as a new medium for art, We are exploring new forms of expression that transcend traditional boundaries with local and international artists who utilize these digital technologies.”
Proof of X – Decoding PFP Culture
Along with the progress of blockchain technology, the PFP (profile image) movement has entered and evolved into a singular cultural domain.
This exhibition focuses on “PFP”: digital identity, internet culture, financialization phenomenon, meme culture, and character expression, communities and DAOs, and explores the implications of this culture from multiple perspectives, from its potential to its problems.
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Spotify O-EAST
Bonsai Collectors manages “Bonsai Japan Club,” a bonsai-themed community that also holds a collection of bonsai collectors from around the world. Your own personal NFT, accessible via smartphone, is your membership card to this community.
This event offers a unique experience that combines the sophistication of bonsai art with digital technology. You will also receive limited-edition merchandise.
Step into a world where art meets the digital age at DIG Shibuya’s ‘Web3 x Culture’ event on January 12th. Bonsai Collectors is set to unveil a unique experience, blending the serene elegance of a masterfully crafted bonsai with cutting-edge digital innovation.
Witness the seamless integration of tradition and technology as you unlock a bespoke bonsai-themed NFT with a simple scan of a QR code, no prior crypto wallet needed. This NFT, effortlessly compatible with Apple and Android wallets, serves as your key to the ‘Bonsai Japan Club’, offering VIP access to a realm of exclusive content and high-end events, including private galleries, elite parties, and dinners across Japan. Each attendee will be gifted exclusive, limited-edition merchandise such as stickers, pins, and keyrings, symbolizing their membership in this elite circle.
Set in a VIP lounge-style cocktail bar, the event exudes an air of exclusivity and sophistication, marking the beginning of a modern community dedicated to the appreciation of high-end bonsai, art, Web3, and investment. Be part of this innovative journey and redefine the way we experience the art of bonsai.
* OPENING SESSION ticket is required
TOTEMO” is a street art digital platform from Shibuya. By curating talented street artists from around the world, providing artists with a place (wall) to create their works, mainly in Shibuya Ward, and selling their works as NFT at auction events hosted by the company and on the TOTEMO online marketplace, the company aims to expand artists’ sphere of activity and establish a new economic sphere.
Digital art exhibition by street art digital platform TOTEMO, live art by artists, sales of original goods, etc.
Digital art exhibition 13:00–19:30
Live performance by artists 14:00–18:00
Goods sales14:00–19:30
* OPENING SESSION ticket is required
“Cyber NamNam is a group of creators aiming to fuse Buddhist art and technological art, we have been exploring new ways of expression using various technologies such as social media integration, AR, VR, 16K high resolution, dome images, heart rate linkage, and NFT. This time we will try a new experiment using light to unite the entire venue.
A group of creators aiming at the fusion of Buddhist art and technology art. We have been experimenting with the fusion of various technologies and Buddhist art. In DIG SHIBUYA, we hope to express a new world view by manipulating light.
* OPENING SESSION ticket is required
SESSION & MEET UP 14:00–19:30
Talks, Installations + Meet Up – DIG SHIBUYA 2024 OPENING SESSION
A place where DIG SHIBUYA artists and collaborative partners come together. This year’s event will feature sessions by artists from a variety of genres. The main artist FriendsWithYou will take the stage, as well as Leni Andronics, founder of Logcast, Sara Giusto, producer of Asia’s first virtual human-imma, and the anime character generation website Pixai, which boasts over 2 million monthly visitors, and more sessions by professionals from various culture fields. Performance of Cyber Nanmu Nanmu will conclude with a one-night meet-up for creatives and artists.
-13:00- OPEN / Installation START
-14:00-14:15 Opening / DIG SHIBUYA introduction
-14:15-14:40 Meet FriendsWithYou, the Main Artist of DIG SHIBUYA 2024
-14:45-15:30 Redifining Self-expression: Will AI change our self-expression?
-15:35-16:20 Technology-driven music production and experience
-16:25-17:10 To be a tech centered Artist – why and how
-17:15-18:00 City As a Canvas: Talking about SCRAMBLE NIGHT ART
-18:10-18:25 Act by Cyber Namunamu
-18:25-19:30 Meet Up
For a detailed time schedule and speaker profiles, click here.
*Purchase of ticket (¥3000) is required for admission.
Click here for tickets.
LINE UP
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Kode9
Daito Manabe
MAYUDEPTH × JACKSON kaki
Romy Mats (解体新書)
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Kikiorix
Yuu Udagawa
YMASA
DDHOTD
Fees
DOOR：￥4,500
ADV：￥3,500
U23：￥3,500
Tickets on Sale
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Miyashita Park Car Port
Car Port
“Set in ‘Bit Valley’, Shibuya, this annual pixel art festival has been held since 2017. It is an attempt to highlight the artistic value of “pixel art” (so-called “dot art”) and to explore its appeal and potential in the entire city, consisting of exhibitions of works, fairs, and talk events throughout the entire Shibuya area.
Miyashita Park’s expressive artists are pixelated and projected on the wall. When they perform special pre-determined movements, special contents will also appear. Motion capture is also archived as AR, and lives on in the digital world as the pixel avatars of the artists.
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GOLDEN EGG
*Invitation Only
Shibuya Startup Support is working to internationalize the startup ecosystem in Shibuya by inviting overseas entrepreneurs, supporting entrepreneurs in Japan, strengthening ties with overseas ecosystem players, and inviting and managing events.
Creativetech Popup Day
“Creativetech Popup Day” is a space where art and creative tech products from Japan and abroad will be on display and available for hands-on experience. Why not take this opportunity to experience products packed with the latest technology?
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Shibuya Center St. Car Paking Area
by SSCA (Shibuya Smart City Association)
The Shibuya Smart City Organization is a hub for deepening collaboration among organizations, fields, and areas. We will create urban experiences that enhance the wellbeing of each and every Shibuya resident through the use of technology to create a mature international city that attracts the world.
This is a new initiative to promote the culture of food and entertainment not only in certain areas, but also in various unexpected spots. The best of Shibuya’s popular restaurants, which will be known around the world in the future, will gather at a corner of an alley in Shibuya with their eye-catching kitchen cars.
We hope you will come and enjoy this opportunity to see all of Shibuya’s best products in one place.
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Shibuya Crossing Night Art
During the three-day event, from 24:00 to 25:00, a video program “Shibuya Crossing Night Art” will be presented on the large screens at the Shibuya Scramble Crossing. On the first day, January 12, DIG SHIBUYA official artists Asako Fujikura, FriendsWithYou, Ittah Yoda, and Nile Koetting will be screened, and on January 13-14, a distributed global creative community, “REFRACTION DAO,” which was selected through an open call for entries, will be presented. REFRACTION DAO,” a decentralized global creative community selected through an open call for entries, will coordinate the screening of works by artists such as Asuka Watanabe x Iain Howie, YOSHIROTTEN, and others.
“Shibuya Crossing Night Art” An outdoor exhibition using four large monitors at Shibuya Scramble Crossing, the first day of the three-night program will feature a one-hour screening of video works by artists from the official program.
DIG SHIBUYA official video program Asako Fujikura/FriendsWithYou/Ittah Yoda/Nile Koetting
▶Screens: 109 Forum Vision, DHC Channel, Glicovision Shibuya, Q’s EYE
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SHIBUYA SACS
**INTERNATIONAL SHIBUYA TOKYO NFT FESTIVAL I +0.5**
This project aims to make SHIBUYA TOKYO the world’s most exciting and economically beneficial Web3 hub. An international festival that bridges NFT art, projects, and communities inspired by TOKYO CULTURE, including anime, manga, games, and fashion, with Japanese businesses to simultaneously create new brand businesses. 1st edition held November 7-12, 2023. We will participate in the DIG as a special adjunct project.
**INTERNATIONAL SHIBUYA TOKYO NFT FESTIVAL 壱+0.5**
This project aims to “make SHIBUYA TOKYO a major base for Web3.” As an adjunct to the first event held from November 7 to 12, 2023, the exhibition of collaborative works between overseas NFT projects and Japanese brands, and a workshop and exchange talk session involving the creator community will be held.
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ANewFace
12:00–20:00
Two companies related to motion graphic design (EDP graphic works Co., Ltd. and We inc.) will collaborate to hold an experimental exhibition using AI to pursue the possibilities of AI from their unique perspectives and pursue their inner interests in an unusual way.
AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI [AI Ten] Our Unusual Experiment
Where is our creativity headed? Creators have always sought and pursued evolution. Now that new possibilities for expression using AI are emerging, motion graphic design firm We and EDP graphic works, We will hold an experimental exhibition that will explore the possibilities of AI from our unique perspective and pursue our inner interests in an unusual way.
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Centrum MAGNET by SHIBUYA109 4F
Centrum is a community space that aims to be the Asian hub for web3, providing a rich network and a place to share innovative ideas and information for companies and projects at all stages of the web3 domain. By providing co-working space, event space, and a variety of other venues, we contribute to the web3 experience and the development of the web3 ecosystem.
web3 cafe @ Centrum offers a web3 experience + cafe space! VeryLongAnimals, one of the largest NFT PJs in Japan, CryptoBeerPunks, a next generation beer community, and SARAH, a “gourmet app that increases the number of delicious!” will also be open for purchase and giveaways of goods and beer through the web3 experience! For food, TARO TOKYO ONIGIRI, which evolves rice culture from its origins and promotes the appeal of onigiri (rice ball), will also have a stall!
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Kitaya Park
A creative label that fuses science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research.
“Academimic” is currently working on various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. His main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” a project to transform theses into art to be displayed in the city, “Neu World,” a sci-fi prototyping project with the Cabinet Office, and the “LaddART Project,” which uses science to interpret contemporary art.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
“Lived Montage Project” will install an imaginary form of perception in the city of Shibuya, in which “the retinas of everyone who shares the place are cinematically edited into one’s vision.”
Lived Montage
The Lived Montage project is an imaginary “seeing” in which “the retinas of everyone sharing the scene are cinematically edited into one’s vision”. This project uses a unique goggle-like device to install the imaginary “seeing” into human beings. The setting for this project is a “park” in Shibuya. What and where on earth do we “see” in this city?
Don’t worry about the noise! It is a Silent Street Live!
KITAYA PARK has always provided a place where people can freely enjoy performances, aiming for the coexistence of music and the city.
This time, we will offer a new kind of musical experience where you can taste the performance directly through headphones.The performers are all young talented musicians selected through an open call! Enjoy the park music that will immerse you in the music!
https://shibuya-kitaya-park.tokyo/event/shibuya-park-music-silent-live-in-dig-shibuya-1-12-14/
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Yoyogi Park Keyaki-Namiki
FriendsWithYou (FWY) was founded in 2002 by Samuel Albert Borkson, born in Miami, and Arturo Sandoval, born in Havana, Cuba. Their works have been invited to numerous solo exhibitions around the world and are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami).
“Little Cloud Sky”
Little Cloud Sky is an installation created as a symbol to celebrate the relationship between human and nature. 19 clouds will float in the Yoyogi Park Keyaki-Namiki.
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Koen-dori vehicle restriction area
FriendsWithYou (FWY) was founded in 2002 by Samuel Albert Borkson, born in Miami, and Arturo Sandoval, born in Havana, Cuba. Their works have been invited to numerous solo exhibitions around the world and are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami).
“The various works previously presented worldwide by FriendsWithYou will come together, marching down Koen Dori alongside a musical ensemble. The “”Happy Dancing Rainbow Alliance”” is a parade aimed at spreading happiness around the world.
Following the 45-minute limited-time participatory art event, there will also be greetings available with FriendsWithYou’s characters for photo opportunities.
*Please note that there will be vehicular traffic restrictions for this program.”
A creative label that combines science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research.
“Academimic” work is published in various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. The main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” where papers are converted into art and displayed in public spaces. They are also involved in the SF Prototyping Project “Neu World” sponsored by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and “LaddART Project,” interpreting contemporary art through the lens of science.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
TOTEMO” is a street art digital platform from Shibuya. By curating talented street artists from around the world, providing artists with a place (wall) to create their works, mainly in Shibuya, and selling their works as NFT at auction events hosted by the company and on the TOTEMO online marketplace, the company aims to expand artists’ sphere of activity and establish a new economic sphere.
Digital art exhibition by street art digital platform TOTEMO, live art by artists, and sales of original goods.
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SLOTH
SLOTH 2F Gallery
With the themes of “Fashion x Communication” and “Expanding Fashion,” “Cultural lab.” is an experimental student laboratory which delivers experientially how notion of beauty transforms. The lab is based in Shibuya, and its activities include runway and exhibition direction, design development, SNS promotion, and more.
Fashion Forms. the way of co-creation. for DIG SHIBUYA 2024
This is a documentary film in which people with different disabilities and creators with different characteristics face each other to create a piece of clothing for the people with disabilities. One of them, who has difficulty communicating verbally, and the creator, who uses image-generating AI, will exhibit their efforts to explore a new way of communication by combining fashion and technology.
Video installation (documentary screening)
January 12 (Friday) 18:00-19:30
January 13 (Sat) 13:00-14:30
January 14 (Sun) 13:00-14:30
Talk Event
January 14 (Sun) 14:30-15:30
SLOTH 6F
Lost Yetis is a Tokyo-based collaborative IP project that traverses the digital and physical worlds. Community members will be able to join Yeti’s journey, participate in events, join Discord, customize their characters, and more! For more information, visit lostyetis.com
The NFT project “Lost Yetis” offers a variety of Tokyo-based activities based on the “Yeti Journey,”. At DIG SHIBUYA, with the help of Meg Hina of Frenzy Lazy, you can experience the world of Yeti, which is NFT but easy and fun for everyone. You will be able to experience the world of Yeti, which is NFT but easy and enjoyable for everyone.
* Special Activity feat. Frenzy Lazy
1/13(Sat)14:00–17:00
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Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Closed on 1/15
CCBT’s “Art Incubation” is a program that aims to create expression, exploration, and action to change cities for the better by providing creators with new opportunities for creative activity and opening up the process to the public (civic). TMPR (Iwasawa Brothers + Junichiro Horikawa + Yu Miyama + Kazue Nakata) is a 2023 CCBT Artist Fellow.
Dynamic Point Observatory （35.39.36.02/139.42.5.98）
TMPR’s project, “Tracing the Landscapes AI has Seen: Artificial Intelligence Travels,” will open a “kinetic point observatory” at CCBT, a research base where AI and humans can collaborate to observe the world. How far will AI’s “prediction” differ from and synchronize with the human body’s “experience”? The kinetic point observatory invites “workers” to participate in the workshop to observe the world together with AI. You are also welcome to observe the progress of their research and observations.
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Kinro-Fukushi Building
2F – Japanese Room & 4th Youshitsu
A creative label that combines science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research. “Academimic” work is published in various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. The main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” where papers are converted into art and displayed in public spaces. They are also involved in the SF Prototyping Project “Neu World” sponsored by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and “LaddART Project,” interpreting contemporary art through the lens of science.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
2F – 2nd Yoshitsu
“Useless Prototyping Studio” is a design studio that creates prototypes that are seemingly useless but inspire people. This project, launched mainly by Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS), aims to create a new relationship between science and the world, and works to realize scientific theories and hypotheses derived from scientists’ “curiosity for the unknown” as prototypes of imaginary possibilities that could transform the future.
Black Hole Recorder
Inspired by research on quantum black holes and fantasizing about the distant future, the Black Hole Recorder, a phonograph-like device equipped with an artificial black hole, will be exhibited as an interactive art piece. This prototype imagines the possibility that research on how information can be stored inside a black hole may lead to the realization of large-capacity information storage in the distant future.
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PARCO GALLERY X
with Proof of X
Kumaleon advocates a new style of expression from Japan with works that fuse generative art and illustration. We are also extending the scope of our expression by combining blockchain and 3D CG technologies. Through the medium of KUMALEON, we are expressing a freer and more creative world.
“Proof of X” sees blockchain technology, with a focus on NFTs and smart contracts, as a new medium for art, We are exploring new forms of expression that transcend traditional boundaries with local and international artists who utilize these digital technologies.”
Proof of X – Decoding PFP Culture
Along with the progress of blockchain technology, the PFP (profile image) movement has entered and evolved into a singular cultural domain.
This exhibition focuses on “PFP”: digital identity, internet culture, financialization phenomenon, meme culture, and character expression, communities and DAOs, and explores the implications of this culture from multiple perspectives, from its potential to its problems.
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Miyashita Park Car Port
Car Port
“Set in ‘Bit Valley’, Shibuya, this annual pixel art festival has been held since 2017. It is an attempt to highlight the artistic value of “pixel art” (so-called “dot art”) and to explore its appeal and potential in the entire city, consisting of exhibitions of works, fairs, and talk events throughout the entire Shibuya area.
Miyashita Park’s expressive artists are pixelated and projected on the wall. When they perform special pre-determined movements, special contents will also appear. Motion capture is also archived as AR, and lives on in the digital world as the pixel avatars of the artists.
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Shibuya Center St. Car Paking Area
by SSCA (Shibuya Smart City Association)
The Shibuya Smart City Organization is a hub for deepening collaboration among organizations, fields, and areas. We will create urban experiences that enhance the wellbeing of each and every Shibuya resident through the use of technology to create a mature international city that attracts the world.
This is a new initiative to promote the culture of food and entertainment not only in certain areas, but also in various unexpected spots. The best of Shibuya’s popular restaurants, which will be known around the world in the future, will gather at a corner of an alley in Shibuya with their eye-catching kitchen cars.
We hope you will come and enjoy this opportunity to see all of Shibuya’s best products in one place.
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Shibuya Crossing Night Art
Refraction is leading the next generation of digital art, music, and culture in a community led by the artists themselves – online, on the blockchain, and in the real world.
Shibuya Crossing Night Art” is an exhibition using four large monitors at Shibuya Scramble Crossing, where you can enjoy an hour and two nights of music and images by more than 30 artists from Japan and abroad.
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SHIBUYA SACS
**INTERNATIONAL SHIBUYA TOKYO NFT FESTIVAL I +0.5**
This project aims to make SHIBUYA TOKYO the world’s most exciting and economically beneficial Web3 hub. An international festival that bridges NFT art, projects, and communities inspired by TOKYO CULTURE, including anime, manga, games, and fashion, with Japanese businesses to simultaneously create new brand businesses. 1st edition held November 7-12, 2023. We will participate in the DIG as a special adjunct project.
**INTERNATIONAL SHIBUYA TOKYO NFT FESTIVAL 壱+0.5**
This project aims to “make SHIBUYA TOKYO a major base for Web3.” As an adjunct to the first event held from November 7 to 12, 2023, the exhibition of collaborative works between overseas NFT projects and Japanese brands, and a workshop and exchange talk session involving the creator community will be held.
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FabCafe Tokyo
MVMNT is promoting R&D that takes artists’ questions and curiosity as its starting point, and as the first step, we have released a social infodemics game “SNEEZE” together with artist and hacker Wataru Ishihara. SNEEZE brings back the community lost by the virus and creates a mysterious groove among those who share a common experience through unexpected and coincidental connections.
Through talk sessions and workshops, we will uncover the story behind the development of “SNEEZE”. We will also invite Mr. Stern Ren of Senspace as a guest speaker, and hold an open planning meeting for a new communication event in Shibuya, while delving deeper into the method of propagating to people through the power of storytelling.
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ANewFace
12:00–20:00
Two companies related to motion graphic design (EDP graphic works Co., Ltd. and We inc.) will collaborate to hold an experimental exhibition using AI to pursue the possibilities of AI from their unique perspectives and pursue their inner interests in an unusual way.
AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI [AI Ten] Our Unusual Experiment
Where is our creativity headed? Creators have always sought and pursued evolution. Now that new possibilities for expression using AI are emerging, motion graphic design firm We and EDP graphic works, We will hold an experimental exhibition that will explore the possibilities of AI from our unique perspective and pursue our inner interests in an unusual way.
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Centrum MAGNET by SHIBUYA109 4F
Centrum is a community space that aims to be the Asian hub for web3, providing a rich network and a place to share innovative ideas and information for companies and projects at all stages of the web3 domain. By providing co-working space, event space, and a variety of other venues, we contribute to the web3 experience and the development of the web3 ecosystem.
web3 cafe @ Centrum offers a web3 experience + cafe space! VeryLongAnimals, one of the largest NFT PJs in Japan, CryptoBeerPunks, a next generation beer community, and SARAH, a “gourmet app that increases the number of delicious!” will also be open for purchase and giveaways of goods and beer through the web3 experience! For food, TARO TOKYO ONIGIRI, which evolves rice culture from its origins and promotes the appeal of onigiri (rice ball), will also have a stall!
De University of Ethereum (UETH) is building a self-sustaining community that organizes, educates and supports leaders on how blockchain tools can be applied to improving and advancing the world around them. UETH is the main organizer of Community Ethereum Development Conference (EDCON). | https://ueth.org
UETH Chapter is hosting an event for chapter members and students interested in blockchain and web3, aiming to support student projects in Japan. UETH will also share some updates about the upcoming EDCON 2024, which will be held in July at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Shibuya, Tokyo.
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Kitaya Park
A creative label that fuses science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research.
“Academimic” is currently working on various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. His main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” a project to transform theses into art to be displayed in the city, “Neu World,” a sci-fi prototyping project with the Cabinet Office, and the “LaddART Project,” which uses science to interpret contemporary art.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
“Lived Montage Project” will install an imaginary form of perception in the city of Shibuya, in which “the retinas of everyone who shares the place are cinematically edited into one’s vision.”
Lived Montage
The Lived Montage project is an imaginary “seeing” in which “the retinas of everyone sharing the scene are cinematically edited into one’s vision”. This project uses a unique goggle-like device to install the imaginary “seeing” into human beings. The setting for this project is a “park” in Shibuya. What and where on earth do we “see” in this city?
Don’t worry about the noise! It is a Silent Street Live!
KITAYA PARK has always provided a place where people can freely enjoy performances, aiming for the coexistence of music and the city.
This time, we will offer a new kind of musical experience where you can taste the performance directly through headphones.The performers are all young talented musicians selected through an open call! Enjoy the park music that will immerse you in the music!
https://shibuya-kitaya-park.tokyo/event/shibuya-park-music-silent-live-in-dig-shibuya-1-12-14/
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Yoyogi Park Keyaki-Namiki
FriendsWithYou (FWY) was founded in 2002 by Samuel Albert Borkson, born in Miami, and Arturo Sandoval, born in Havana, Cuba. Their works have been invited to numerous solo exhibitions around the world and are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami).
“Little Cloud Sky”
Little Cloud Sky is an installation created as a symbol to celebrate the relationship between human and nature. 19 clouds will float in the Yoyogi Park Keyaki-Namiki.
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SLOTH
SLOTH 2F Gallery
With the themes of “Fashion x Communication” and “Expanding Fashion,” “Cultural lab.” is an experimental student laboratory which delivers experientially how notion of beauty transforms. The lab is based in Shibuya, and its activities include runway and exhibition direction, design development, SNS promotion, and more.
Fashion Forms. the way of co-creation. for DIG SHIBUYA 2024
This is a documentary film in which people with different disabilities and creators with different characteristics face each other to create a piece of clothing for the people with disabilities. One of them, who has difficulty communicating verbally, and the creator, who uses image-generating AI, will exhibit their efforts to explore a new way of communication by combining fashion and technology.
Video installation (documentary screening)
January 12 (Friday) 18:00–19:30
January 13 (Sat) 13:00–14:30
January 14 (Sun) 13:00–14:30
Talk Event
January 14 (Sun) 14:30-15:30
SLOTH 6F
Lost Yetis is a Tokyo-based collaborative IP project that traverses the digital and physical worlds. Community members will be able to join Yeti’s journey, participate in events, join Discord, customize their characters, and more! For more information, visit lostyetis.com
The NFT project “Lost Yetis” offers a variety of Tokyo-based activities based on the “Yeti Journey,”. At DIG SHIBUYA, with the help of Meg Hina of Frenzy Lazy, you can experience the world of Yeti, which is NFT but easy and fun for everyone. You will be able to experience the world of Yeti, which is NFT but easy and enjoyable for everyone.
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Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Closed on 1/15
CCBT’s “Art Incubation” is a program that aims to create expression, exploration, and action to change cities for the better by providing creators with new opportunities for creative activity and opening up the process to the public (civic). TMPR (Iwasawa Brothers + Junichiro Horikawa + Yu Miyama + Kazue Nakata) is a 2023 CCBT Artist Fellow.
Dynamic Point Observatory （35.39.36.02/139.42.5.98）
TMPR’s project, “Tracing the Landscapes AI has Seen: Artificial Intelligence Travels,” will open a “kinetic point observatory” at CCBT, a research base where AI and humans can collaborate to observe the world. How far will AI’s “prediction” differ from and synchronize with the human body’s “experience”? The kinetic point observatory invites “workers” to participate in the workshop to observe the world together with AI. You are also welcome to observe the progress of their research and observations.
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Kinro-Fukushi Building
2F – Japanese Room & 4th Youshitsu
A creative label that combines science and pop culture. Aiming at a new output that is neither literature nor academic conferences, we create works of imagination born from our research. “Academimic” work is published in various media such as illustrations, novels, music, and videos. The main activities include “Lombun Art Street,” where papers are converted into art and displayed in public spaces. They are also involved in the SF Prototyping Project “Neu World” sponsored by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and “LaddART Project,” interpreting contemporary art through the lens of science.
Inspired by academic papers, the images are transformed into artworks as graphics and installations in collaboration with humans and AI.
What will these works, which have stepped out of the format of academic papers and academic conferences, bring to the cultural town “Shibuya”? By capturing the subjective impressions felt through contact with research in the works, the artist proposes a new culture between fiction and reality.”
2F – 2nd Yoshitsu
“Useless Prototyping Studio” is a design studio that creates prototypes that are seemingly useless but inspire people. This project, launched mainly by Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS), aims to create a new relationship between science and the world, and works to realize scientific theories and hypotheses derived from scientists’ “curiosity for the unknown” as prototypes of imaginary possibilities that could transform the future.
Black Hole Recorder
Inspired by research on quantum black holes and fantasizing about the distant future, the Black Hole Recorder, a phonograph-like device equipped with an artificial black hole, will be exhibited as an interactive art piece. This prototype imagines the possibility that research on how information can be stored inside a black hole may lead to the realization of large-capacity information storage in the distant future.
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PARCO GALLERY X
with Proof of X
Kumaleon advocates a new style of expression from Japan with works that fuse generative art and illustration. We are also extending the scope of our expression by combining blockchain and 3D CG technologies. Through the medium of KUMALEON, we are expressing a freer and more creative world.
“Proof of X” sees blockchain technology, with a focus on NFTs and smart contracts, as a new medium for art, We are exploring new forms of expression that transcend traditional boundaries with local and international artists who utilize these digital technologies.”
Proof of X – Decoding PFP Culture
Along with the progress of blockchain technology, the PFP (profile image) movement has entered and evolved into a singular cultural domain.
This exhibition focuses on “PFP”: digital identity, internet culture, financialization phenomenon, meme culture, and character expression, communities and DAOs, and explores the implications of this culture from multiple perspectives, from its potential to its problems.
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Miyashita Park Car Port
Car Port
“Set in ‘Bit Valley’, Shibuya, this annual pixel art festival has been held since 2017. It is an attempt to highlight the artistic value of “pixel art” (so-called “dot art”) and to explore its appeal and potential in the entire city, consisting of exhibitions of works, fairs, and talk events throughout the entire Shibuya area.
Miyashita Park’s expressive artists are pixelated and projected on the wall. When they perform special pre-determined movements, special contents will also appear. Motion capture is also archived as AR, and lives on in the digital world as the pixel avatars of the artists.
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GOLDEN EGG
Shibuya Startup Support is working to internationalize the startup ecosystem in Shibuya by inviting overseas entrepreneurs, supporting entrepreneurs in Japan, strengthening ties with overseas ecosystem players, and inviting and managing events.
Creativetech Popup Day
“Creativetech Popup Day” is a space where art and creative tech products from Japan and abroad will be on display and available for hands-on experience. Why not take this opportunity to experience products packed with the latest technology?
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Shibuya Crossing Night Art
Refraction is leading the next generation of digital art, music, and culture in a community led by the artists themselves – online, on the blockchain, and in the real world.
Shibuya Crossing Night Art” is an exhibition using four large monitors at Shibuya Scramble Crossing, where you can enjoy an hour and two nights of music and images by more than 30 artists from Japan and abroad.
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SHIBUYA SACS
**INTERNATIONAL SHIBUYA TOKYO NFT FESTIVAL I +0.5**
This project aims to make SHIBUYA TOKYO the world’s most exciting and economically beneficial Web3 hub. An international festival that bridges NFT art, projects, and communities inspired by TOKYO CULTURE, including anime, manga, games, and fashion, with Japanese businesses to simultaneously create new brand businesses. 1st edition held November 7-12, 2023. We will participate in the DIG as a special adjunct project.
**INTERNATIONAL SHIBUYA TOKYO NFT FESTIVAL 壱+0.5**
This project aims to “make SHIBUYA TOKYO a major base for Web3.” As an adjunct to the first event held from November 7 to 12, 2023, the exhibition of collaborative works between overseas NFT projects and Japanese brands, and a workshop and exchange talk session involving the creator community will be held.
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ANewFace
12:00–20:00
Two companies related to motion graphic design (EDP graphic works Co., Ltd. and We inc.) will collaborate to hold an experimental exhibition using AI to pursue the possibilities of AI from their unique perspectives and pursue their inner interests in an unusual way.
AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI [AI Ten] Our Unusual Experiment
Where is our creativity headed? Creators have always sought and pursued evolution. Now that new possibilities for expression using AI are emerging, motion graphic design firm We and EDP graphic works, We will hold an experimental exhibition that will explore the possibilities of AI from our unique perspective and pursue our inner interests in an unusual way.
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Centrum MAGNET by SHIBUYA109 4F
Centrum is a community space that aims to be the Asian hub for web3, providing a rich network and a place to share innovative ideas and information for companies and projects at all stages of the web3 domain. By providing co-working space, event space, and a variety of other venues, we contribute to the web3 experience and the development of the web3 ecosystem.
web3 cafe @ Centrum offers a web3 experience + cafe space! VeryLongAnimals, one of the largest NFT PJs in Japan, CryptoBeerPunks, a next generation beer community, and SARAH, a “gourmet app that increases the number of delicious!” will also be open for purchase and giveaways of goods and beer through the web3 experience! For food, TARO TOKYO ONIGIRI, which evolves rice culture from its origins and promotes the appeal of onigiri (rice ball), will also have a stall!
ALL JAPAN NFT STARS COLLECTION
Get your exclusive NFT in collaboration with DIGSHIBUYA × NFT Creators!
During the event period (from noon on 1/12 to 6 PM on 1/14),
we plan to set up QR codes at 40 spots around Shibuya.
– Those who collect a limited edition of 5 NFTs will receive a free Iyoshi-Cola,
available to the first 150 individuals each day (total of 450 individuals).
This offer is limited to one per person during the event period.
Please present your FUN FAN NFTs [My Page > My NFTs]
at the 1st-floor information desk of the Kinro-Fukushi Building to the staff.
– Individuals who collect a limited edition of 40 NFTs will receive a special NFT from Takakura Kazuki! Additionally, the first 50 individuals will receive a lenticular artwork as a gift (to be shipped at a later date).
* For detailed information such as reward details or issues with loading NFTs, please refer to our [Help Center]
First-time NFT acquisition is completed in 3 simple steps
1. Scan the QR code. 2. Register as a user with your existing accounts. 3. Get the NFT!
No need to download a dedicated app or prepare a Wallet for storing NFTs or crypto currency.
* Registration is possible with an account from Google, Apple, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or MetaMask, or with an email & password (Android devices only support registration with Google, MetaMask, or email & password). If using MetaMask, downloading the dedicated MetaMask app is required separately.
* For QR code scanning on iOS, it is recommended to use the ‘Camera App’.
*3. If using MetaMask, a separate download of the MetaMask dedicated app is required.
※ QR code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INC.
Participating Artists
Event overview
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Event Name
DIG SHIBUYA 2024 -
Dates
January 12 (Fri) – 14 (Sun), 2024 -
Venues
Yoyogi Park Keyaki Namiki area, Koen-dori area (Shibuya Ward Office, Kitaya Park, etc.) Spotify O-EAST, cultural and entertainment facilities in Shibuya Ward, etc. -
Organizer
SHIBUYA CREATIVE TECH Committee -
Co-organized by
Shibuya City -
Supported by
Shibuya City Tourism Association, Shibuya Future Design Incorporated Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Public art project) -
Grant
2023 JAPAN CULTURAL EXPO 2.0 (by Japan Arts Council / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan) -
Collaboration Support
Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (CCBT-organized program), Metaverse Japan Association -
Special Cooperation
Shibuya Koen-dori Council, Shibuya Koen-dori Shopping Street Promotion Association, Shibuya Center Shopping Street Promotion Association, Shibuya Dogenzaka Shopping Street Promotion Association.
Sponsorship
Cooperation
Venue Partner
Media Partner
Event Overview
Organized by the SHIBUYA CREATIVE TECH Executive Committee, ‘DIG SHIBUYA’ unveils a roaming ART x TECH cultural event that reimagines scattered venues across Shibuya—public spaces, parks, clubs, music bars—as a decentralized art museum.
The official program boasts an array of international and domestic artists showcasing art installations, while the collaborative segment serves as a showcase for the latest technology and ideas from businesses and organizations thriving in Shibuya Community.”
