Author: kaiwatanabe

Ambient Spaces “Ambient Spaces” is a dynamic website created for UCLA’s “Ghestalt” online exhibition. It offers users an interactive map with clickable markers that lead to immersive audio visualizations of the ambiance in each location. These markers were contributed by friends worldwide, who, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, couldn’t physically be together. https://vimeo.com/570493546 Inspiration For … Continue reading

EXID I was commissioned to create a music video for the K-POP band EXID's song "ME&YOU," which served as the opening for their summer 2019 tour "TROUBLE." I handled the storyboarding and production of the video. https://vimeo.com/384600534

URBAN URBAN is an exploration of the relationship between sounds and form. Rather than the traditional process of creating a movie and adding sound effects, I flipped the workflow. I started by crafting a soundtrack from ambient noises I gathered during my trip to Japan. These sounds became the blueprint for storyboarding the motion. https://videopress.com/v/u7RMgvef?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&autoPlay=true&loop=true&muted=true&persistVolume=false&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true … Continue reading

Acquaintances Through Iteration “Acquaintances Through Iteration” is a interactive art piece exhibited at "H=CN" in Tokyo. Guests who approach the piece will have their motion tracked via an infrared sensor, allowing them to paint with their body movements. The brush marks will then spread and come to life, revealing more images the longer a spot … Continue reading

The Fated Game of Life A generative art project exploring Cellular Automata, a computer program simulating the life of cellular organisms. I adapted the original algorithm to create a painting software showcased at the UCLA undergrad exhibit “Metamorphosis”. https://videopress.com/v/cp96WGm4?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&autoPlay=true&loop=true&muted=true&persistVolume=false&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Inspiration The simplicity and beauty of mathematical patterns found in nature have always fascinated me. "The … Continue reading

DREAM RECALL “DREAM RECALL” replicates the voyage of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a pioneering instrument that revolutionized outer space research with its discovery of hundreds of exoplanets in close proximity to our solar system. All data employed in this project is sourced directly from NASA’s databases dedicated to the Kepler Space Telescope. https://videopress.com/v/U8LdCsgI?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&autoPlay=true&loop=true&muted=true&persistVolume=false&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Inspiration In … Continue reading