Inching ever closer to cyborgism, Daito Manabe believes there is no difference between man and machine [read more]

Prior to the opening of the Spooky Action at a Distance exhibition tomorrow evening, Dorkbot will be hosting a presentation with body hacker Daito Manabe at 5.30 sharp in the gallery. Everyone who saw his incredible performance at the Big In Japan event last night is itching (twitching?) to learn more about his practice, so do come along and hear him talk, and demonstrate the technology he uses [read more]

The new media art festival CREAM makes for a good excuse to get aquatinted with the city of Yokohama, one of Japan’s most interesting new hubs for contemporary art  [read more]

As possibly the most contrived and controlled built environments possible, airports are rather surreal places. Like disorienting black holes where time and space cease to exist in the same way, they are sites of heightened emotions (the drama of goodbyes and reunions, the anticipation of new journeys, the panic of missed flights) played out alongside intense boredom. Perfect places, I say, for transparent floating balloon people. From this week until November 3rd, Terminals 1 and 2 at Haneda Airport will be filled with digital public art projects, including human balloons, LED stars and video projections [read more]

You might be one of the 1.4 million who have already watched this unnerving/mesmerising Youtube clip, originally posted as an experiment to show a friend but subsequently spawning a series of copycats and launching Daito Manabe to an unexpected level of celebrity. But Daito is not just a geeky guy Youtubecasting himself from his bedroom doing fucked up things with gadgets on his face. Since graduating as a mathematician he has been active as a researcher, programmer, coder, hacker, sound / light designer, composer, DJ, VJ, video artist, and this list goes on [read more]