99th metaPhorest seminar

Friday, November 8th, 2024, 19:00-21:00

99th metaPhorest seminar by Yuri Nakahashi ＋ Kazutoshi Uemura

This event will be primarily in Japanese, but questions and comments in English are also welcome.

This metaPhorest Seminar features presentations by a second-year master's student from metaPhorest and an emerging design researcher from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. The talks will be conducted primarily in Japanese. We warmly welcome anyone interested to join us.

Date and Time/Location

Friday, November 8th, 2024, 19:00-21:00
Waseda University Research Facility for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns), 3rd Floor, Seminar Room 2
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ONLINE

This seminar can also be held online. Zoom Link

Yuri Nakahashi

Yuri Nakahashi's practice reconsiders human habits and ways of living through observations of the behavior of cats with whom she lives. Her works include h(cat), an installation that records the movement paths of both humans and cats with threads in a room-like space, and Adventure in Comfort, a 24-day documentation project in which she slept wherever her cat chose to rest. Her major awards include the Sony Award at the WIRED CREATIVE HACK AWARD (2022) and the Excellence Award at the GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD (2023). She is currently enrolled in the master's program at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.

Kazutoshi Uemura

Born in 2000. Uemura is currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering at Waseda University (Iwasaki Lab, M2) and joined metaPhorest in 2021. Through fieldwork at apiaries, he focuses on the tools used in beekeeping and creates artworks that seek to deconstruct conventional relationships between humans and honeybees. His recent exhibitions include metaPhorest Biome: The Ecology of Art in a Biological Laboratory (2024).