"Rain Blooms — Worlds Emerging from Computation"
Solo by Kazuhiro Tanimoto @kz_lab_e
May 15 – 31, 2026
NEORT++, Tokyo | Wed – Sun, 14:00 – 19:00
Reception: May 15, 18:00 – 22:00
Art Blocks Studio release: May 22, 0:00 JST
@artblocks_io
NEORT++ presents the solo exhibition "Rain Blooms" by Kazuhiro Tanimoto — the result of two years of sustained practice developing an original cellular automaton algorithm.
What the artist designs is not a predetermined form, but a set of local rules at the level of individual pixels. Through their repetition, organic movements, linear patterns, and complex interactions emerge — often beyond the artist's own expectations.
Multiple "species" are introduced, each with relationships of attack, assimilation, and indifference, and each assigned a vitality parameter. Shapes introduced from outside immediately become part of the system — collapsing, proliferating, and transforming. Sound is generated from changes in hue, brightness, and saturation, linking the visual and audio as products of the same generative process.
Rain Blooms is presented as an immersive environment — an experience of placing oneself within continuously transforming images and sounds generated through real-time code execution.
▶︎ Upcoming: "Passing"
Ryu Furusawa @ryufurusawa
This exhibition presents "Passing", a new work by Ryu Furusawa. Applying an original digital process to footage captured through a train window, the work transforms the very experience of time that "passing" entails.
When we gaze at a landscape from a moving train, depth emerges naturally from the flow before us. Nearby utility poles and buildings rush past; distant mountain ranges barely move. It is this gradient of speeds that constitutes our perception of depth. This mechanism rests on a premise: that the observer and the observed share the same three-dimensional space, and that time flows in a single direction. When that premise collapses — where do our perceptions of position, distance, speed, and time begin to drift?
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古澤龍 個展 "Passing"
本展では、古澤龍による新作 Passing を展示する。列車の車窓から撮影された映像に独自のデジタル処理を施し、通過 という時間経験そのものを変容させる作品である。
列車の窓から風景を眺めるとき、私たちは流れる風景から自然と奥行きを知覚する。近くの電柱や建物は速く流れ、遠くの山並みはほとんど動かない。この速度の勾配が奥行きの知覚を生み出している。しかしこの仕組みは、観察者と対象が同じ三次元空間を共有し、時間が一方向に流れるという前提のもとで成立している。
もしその前提が崩れたとき、観察点と対象の関係、距離、速度、時間の知覚はどこへ流れつくのだろうか。
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April 17 Friday – April 26 Sunday
14:00 – 19:00 | Wednesday – Sunday
Closed Monday, Tuesday, Holidays
Venue: NEORT++ @neort_2
maruka 3F, 2-2-14 Nihonbashi Bakurocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
JR Bakurocho Station C4 Exit
Production Support: Sony Corporation, Sony Group Corporation
Grants: Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Japanese Motion Graphic Creators CREATOR GRANT, MAM
Co-organizer: NEORT Inc.
Organizer: Ryu Furusawa Exhibition Committee
Design: Tomoyuki Yanagawa @vorbildurbild
NEORT++ 4th Anniversary|MOMENT
In 2022, a digital flower began to bloom, one that only blossoms at this time of year. The flowers that bloomed never fell. Four years of springs have quietly layered, one upon another.
Those who minted a flower, those who came to see it, those who joined in the pursuit of expression, those who witnessed it from behind a screen, this tree has grown because of all of you. And this year, too, this moment becomes something special because you are here.
We would love to celebrate another year together, beneath a canopy of digital blossoms. We hope to see you there.
Date|Saturday, April 4th, 16:00–21:00
Venue|NEORT++
Free admission / Capacity: 70 guests
Artworks by our community on display
Light refreshments provided
Mint your flower in MOMENT 2026, just like every year
No streaming on 4th, a night made for those who show up in person (5th will be streaming 3 shows on youtube)
Upcoming:
"Screen Flesh"
by Takayoshi Ohara @takayoshi.ohara
Mar 13 – Mar 29, 2026 @ NEORT++
Opening Reception:
Mar 13 | 6 PM – 9 PM
No reservation is necessary and everyone is welcome.
RSVP: /ro9kgehg
Video transforms beyond the subject-object framework, becoming an event that encompasses the body's position and movement.
Open: Wed – Sun, 14:00 – 19:00
Details: https://two.neort.io/exhibitions/screen_flesh
LOCAL NETWORK — Community beyond the place
Mar 4–8, 2026 @ NEORT++
Many regions across Japan are quietly approaching a threshold. Rather than lamenting the “disappearance” of community, this exhibition uses this challenge to question its very concept: Is “living in a place” the only thing that defines one’s belonging to it?
Tracing the trajectory of "Digital Villager" practices:
📍 Yamakoshi (Niigata)
📍 Tenryukyo (Nagano)
📍 Shiiba (Miyazaki)
It is neither migration nor tourism, but a new form of belonging—one formed through intention and interest rather than physical residency.
Featuring:
◽️ "mouth of the river" by @horristic
◽️ A new Apple Vision Pro experience of Shiiba Kagura NFT
LOCAL NETWORK is both a record of practices gathered around this question, and the question itself—still unfolding. Paradoxically connecting more deeply to place by moving away from it.
Exhibition Details:
Mar 4 – Mar 8 | 2 PM – 7 PM
maruka 3F, Nihonbashi Bakurocho 2-2-14, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
https://two.neort.io/exhibitions/local_network
#CryptoVillage #NEORT #Yamakoshi #Tenryukyo #Shiiba
Goki Muramoto and NEORT present “Beautiful Medium,” a special exhibition of research materials.
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Is “beautiful medium” possible?
(From the book "Beautiful Medium")
Medium-Art is a term proposed by Muramoto to describe an art practice that takes the medium itself—that is, the subject that mediates something—as an object of aesthetic recognition. In this documentary exhibition, by critically set the adjective “beautiful” against “media,” which has long escaped becoming its object, we excavate a sensibility toward media itself while examining the genealogy and possibilities of Medium-Art.
At the venue, anchoring the presentation are archival displays prepared by a research group led by Muramoto, in which a wide range of media are observed as aesthetic/sensory objects. Alongside these, the exhibition unfolds a video interview piece reflecting on the phrase “beautiful media”; a physical “tin-can telephone,” as a medium, together with a video by Saran Kobayashi of people using a tin-can telephone; a fictional poster for an imagined “Medium Arts Festival” curated by the research group through the “curation of media”; and a book compiling multiple theoretical reflections on Medium-Art.
This exhibition commemorates a book related to Goki Muramoto's solo exhibition "Univocity of Mediation: Beautiful Medium," which was held last year as a joint exhibition by NEORT++ and parcel.
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During the exhibition period, a talk session will be held in preparation for the "Medium Arts Festival" program, inviting Media researcher Takuya Umeda, curator and critic Minoru Hatanaka, and media and communication researcher Yuiko Fujita.
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Planning: NEORT, Goki Muramoto
Research: Kaori Tada, Hasaqui Yamanobe, NIINOMI, Saran Kobayashi, Kai Fukubayashi, Yusuke Shono, Yuya Kashiyama
Special Thanks: Saran Kobayashi (Artwork)
Research co-operation: Yuiko Fujita, Ryo Sawayama, Tomoko Shimizu, Minoru Hatanaka
Support: parcel, The Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, Inami-Monnai Lab, The University of Tokyo
@neort_2@neort_io@parceltokyo@hasaqui@r21nomi@sarang_kobayashi@kai_fukubayashi@themassagejp@dudesinhach@yuiko_fujita@fuzzy_sun
❏ MIYASHITA PARK: Now Live ❏
#SCREENS_CONTEXTUALIZED
A compilation of @molecubed and 34 artists from "Weather Writes."
35 different algorithmic perspectives now describe the urban atmosphere of Shibuya
📍MIYASHITA PARK | Feb 9–22
❏ screens.neort.io
@digshibuya@miyashitapark_
❏ One Night Only | @digshibuya Special Projection:
Projecting Shibuya After Dark in DIG SHIBUYA 2026
"Fireworks of the Word"
by Toshiki Okamoto @tskokmt
On February 14, "SCREENS CONTEXTUALIZED" presents a large-scale projection work at Shibuya PARCO. @parco_shibuya_official
Artist Toshiki Okamoto utilizes the iconic facade as a canvas, exploring the intersection of digital matter and urban structure.
📍 Shibuya PARCO
📅 Feb 14, 2026
#SCREENS_CONTEXTUALIZED #DIGSHIBUYA #岡本斗志貴 #ShibuyaPARCO
SCREENS CONTEXTUALIZED | DIG SHIBUYA 2026 Official Program
@digshibuya
Redefining urban digital signage as stages for cultural expression.
NEORT presents "SCREENS CONTEXTUALIZED" across 10 locations in Shibuya, featuring 8 international artists and 34 selected open call works.
From large-scale building projections to transit space takeovers, the city itself transforms into a gallery for three days.
✦ Featured Artists
Andreas Gysin @andreasgysin
Chia Amisola @hotemogf
Kitasenjudesign @kitasenjudesign
FELIXFELIXFELIX @i____felix____i
mole^3 @molecubed
eziraros @eziraros
Toshiki Okamoto @tskokmt
Baku Hashimoto @_baku89
✦ Special Projection at Shibuya PARCO
"Fireworks of the Word (言の花火)" by Toshiki Okamoto
One night only: Feb 14 (Sat), 17:00–21:00
✦ Open Call: "Weather Writes"
34 works selected from 324 worldwide submissions will take over the MIYASHITA PARK VISION network.
Selected Artists:
Eric Bagnara / æther / David Seven / Martin Lukas Ostachowski (MLO.art) / Yosca Maeda (mae) / Andrey Maximov / Shojiro Nakaoka (中岡 将二郎) / ayat / nzm / Chayapon Puapaiboonwong [Tayyy] / tsumichara / Yuta Aoki / Arnaud Laffond / Mori Daiki (もり/森大起) / Ozaki Artist (尾崎アーティスト) / P1xelboy / bashobits / Asahamiz / Pawel Dudko / Jeanyoon Choi / Senbaku (センバク) / Samuel YAN / Yuri Mizokami / HY / Eisuke Kato / Muriel Lherm / Saeko Ehara / Chih-Yu Chen / Alan Bolton / stefany / NekonoUmi / Alvis lee / RYUSEI_BS / Andrew Baxter
✦ Exhibition Details
📅 Dates: Feb 13 (Fri) – 15 (Sun), 2026
📍 Locations: 10 venues including MIYASHITA PARK, Shibuya PARCO, Shibuya Hikarie, and more.
🖼️ Hub Exhibition: PARK in PARK (MIYASHITA PARK 1F)
Visit our special website for the interactive map:
🔗 https://screens.neort.io
#SCREENS_CONTEXTUALIZED #DIGSHIBUYA #DIGSHIBUYA2026 #NEORT #digitalart