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Tomo Kihara is a game designer and media artist who explores play as a form of critical inquiry. Through experimental games and playable installations in public spaces, he invites people to collectively question and reflect on how emerging technologies such as AI are reshaping the ways we think and live. His work has been showcased internationally at venues including Ars Electronica, the V&A Museum, and the Exploratorium.
新たな問いを引き出す遊びをテーマに、実験的なゲームや都市に介入するインスタレーションを制作するゲーム開発者 / メディアアーティスト。主な作品に画像認識AIには判別できないが人間には理解可能な絵を描くゲーム『Deviation Game』がある。近年参加した展示に「Art Plays Game」（2025、FACT Liverpool／イギリス）、「Adventures in AI」（2025、Exploratorium／アメリカ）など。
EDUCATION
2019 - 2020 : European School of Urban Game Design [Athens, Greece & Amsterdam, Netherlands]
2016 - 2018 : Delft University of Technology - MSc in Interaction Design [Delft, Netherlands]
2012 - 2016 : Keio University - BA in Environmental Information [Shonan, Japan]
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 : Watershed — Playable City Commission [Bristol, United Kingdom]
2022 : Civic Creative Base Tokyo — Artist Fellow [Tokyo, Japan]
2022 : Mozilla Technology Fund — Awardee [Global]
2021 : Artsformation EU [Europe]
2020 : Creative Industries Fund NL — Talent Development Fund [Amsterdam, Netherlands]
2018 - 2021 : Waag Future Lab — Research Fellow [Amsterdam, Netherlands]
2018 : Design Indaba — Global graduates [Capetown, South Africa]
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024: FACT Liverpool — ART PLAYS GAME [Liverpool, UK]
2024: Taipei Digital Art Festival [Taipei, Taiwan]
2023: Arts Maebashi 10th anniversary Exhibition — New Horizon [Maebashi, Japan]
2023: Busan Sea Art Festival 2023 [Busan, South Korea]
2023: ICC Kids Program 2023 [Tokyo, Japan]
2023: Now Play This — A Festival of Experimental Game Design [London, UK]
2022: V&A Digital Design Weekend [London, UK]
2022: EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE [Berlin, Germany]
2022: 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT — Future In-sight [Tokyo, Japan]
2021: Matsudo International Science Art Festival [Matsudo, Japan]
2021: ARS ELECTRONICA — STARTS PRIZE Exhibition [Linz, Austria]
2019: Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen — Social Design Exhibition Asia [Xiamen, China]
2019: Kunsthal KAdE — Balancing Acts [Amersfoort, Netherlands]
2018: Victoria & Albert Museum — Future Starts here [London, UK]
2016: London Design Museum — Designs of the Year [London, UK]
AWARDS
2024: S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 — Honorary Mention : How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car
2021: S+T+ARTS Prize 2021 — Nomination : TheirTube
2019: Mozilla Creative Media Awards 2020 : TheirTube
PUBLICATIONS
English
2021: Goethe-Institut -“Fish discovers water last”: Designer Tomo Kihara in interview
日本語
2024: WORKSIGHT 22号 ゲームは世界 A–Z World is a Game
2022: グラフィック社 - 来るべきデザイナー 現代グラフィックデザインの方法と態度
2020: WIRED.jp フィルターバブルを“体験”可能にする「TheirTube」
2019: BNN社 SPECULATIONS 人間中心主義のデザインをこえて
2018: WIRED.jp 「ものごい」の代替手段 : ストリートディベーターという職業が、路上生活者を社会復帰に導く
ACADEMIC PAPERS
2019: DIS - San Diego : Designing and Prototyping from the Perspective of AI in the Wild (Full Paper)
2019: CHI - Glasgow : Designing an Escape Room in the City for Public Engagement with AI-enhanced Surveillance (Late Breaking Work)
2018 CHI - Montreal : Connected Resources: A Novel Approach in Designing Technologies for Older People (Late Breaking Work)
TEACHINGS & WORKSHOPS
2023: < Guest Lecture > Chicago University — Department of Computer Science [Chicago,USA]
2022: < Workshop > Columbia University — MA in Global Thought [New York, USA]
2022: <Guest Lecture> Haute école d'art et de design Genève — MA Media Design [Genève, Switzerland]