TORIHADA — A Wearable Art Installation for the Future
Presented at Tokyo Prototype 2025, a three-day exhibition by
@tokyonode at Toranomon Hills.
AI today lives in the cloud - corporate-owned, accessed through prompts. But the next generation will grow up beside AI. Who will raise it? Who will own it? TORIHADA begins as a thought experiment: what if AI were nurtured like a child, shaped through intimacy rather than extraction? Instead of distant infrastructure, it could exist close to the body - as clothing, as companion, as Totem. What happens when intelligence no longer hovers above us, but rests against our skin?
Animals communicate through physiology - goosebumps, raised hair, sweat, tears, flushed skin, dilated pupils. These signals precede language; they are instinctive and honest. TORIHADA expresses emotion in the same way. Its surface rises like standing hair, translating feeling into visible aura. The jacket becomes a site where technology does not erase the animal but reweaves it - where AI is embodied, vulnerable, and alive. No matter how advanced we become, we remain animals. TORIHADA asks our machines to remember that.
TORIHADA is searching.
Perhaps for you.
Credit:
Story: Alexander Reeder (
@art.and.program ) /
@yusuke.murakami3 (
@three.and ) /
@aulam_work (art and program)
Technology / Hardware: Alexander Reeder /
@aulam_work
Visual / Moving Image:
@yusuke.murakami3
Fashion Design:
@aulam_work
Sound:
@haru.kikuchi (
@wa_ve.jp )
Programming: Yuya Kato / Alexander Reeder
TouchDesigner: Yuya Kato /
@yusuke.murakami3 / Mika Takigawa
Subliminal Images:
@yusuke.murakami3 / Kato Yuya / Mika Takigawa
Mechanical Design: Hiromi Murao / Tetsuro Takayama (
@art.and.program )
Abstract Movie: Kaori Takasu (
@three.and )
Installation Design:
@11_bep
Support: Tetsuro Takayama,
@kirbyshosa (
@wa_ve.jp ), Kotaro Ito
Art Direction (Main Visual): Yusuke Murakami / Alexander Reeder
Photographer (Main Visual):
@kyokomunakata (SIGNO)
Makeup:
@kotoekikuchi
Hair:
@kiyoigarashi (SIGNO)
Model:
@_ykaneend (moment)
Cinematographer:
@go.motion / Yusuke Murakami
Produced by
@3_and_program
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