Venue
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＜Osaka Kita Area＞
Osaka Kita Area
“Thought-provoking music / New Storytelling”
SAKUMA Yoji, who worked on "Augmented Music" at Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival vol.3 in 2023, has set the theme that "storytelling, which brings about behavioral change in society, is one of the important values of art." A total of 5,000 people have visited the "Augmented Music" series, which has become a hot topic on social media, and new artists will be invited to update it. The 2025 festival will delve deeper into the concept, designing "stories for us to change the world for the better" from both the contemporary art and entertainment perspectives, and exploring storytelling that works in a multifaceted and ubiquitous way from the streets of Osaka.
Venue Information
The venue will be announced at a later date.
Curator
SAKUMA Yoji
Born in 1996. At Osaka University, he is engaged in research on virtual beings and future society design, and is scheduled to exhibit “Virtual Beings of the Future” as director of the Osaka Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo. He is also the principal investigator for a joint research project between Osaka University and the Japan Science and Technology Agency on future society design, and served as team leader for a moonshot research and development project in 2021. He is currently the chairperson of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Committee for the Creation of Future Society, the chairperson of the Task Force for the Future Generation Society of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers Club of Japan, among others. Winner of the Japan Open Innovation Award, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize in 2022, and selected for Forbes Japan 30 UNDER 30 in 2023. Project Researcher, Osaka University Social Solutions Initiative; Director, Osaka Pavilion Promotion Committee, Japan International Exposition, 2025.
