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ICC Kids Program 2025
“Mixed Realities: Finding Your ‘Compass’ in the Information Jungle”

August 8–September 15, 2025

Outline

We live in a world where we are exposed to a variety of information from all over the world. While this information can help us make the decisions we make each day, information overload can lead us astray and sometimes in unwanted directions. It is as if we are walking through the Information Jungle where the path is overgrown with plants and trees, and it’s difficult to tell where we are going.
A compass is a tool that helps you determine what direction you are facing, what your situation is, and gives you clues as to the path you should take. We need to read our own “compass” in this world to get through ‘the Information Jungle.’
In this exhibition “Mixed Realities,” you will encounter various mixed reality works expressed by the artists in their own ways.

This work overlaps an imaginary world created using familiar objects with the real world.

This work considers the time and space we share, in a space where digital technology and physical phenomena overlap.

This is a work in which a table game is played in a realistic setting with video opponents.

This work allows viewers to experience the uncertainty of information from the situation in front of them and the images being broadcast.

This work allows visitors to experience the process of blending a virtual body with a real body in a hybrid exhibition space.

This work makes us aware of the difference between recorded images and images recalled from the memories of those who saw them.

The experience of not only “looking” at works of art, but also participating in and being actively involved with them based on the life experience and sensations that you have cultivated thus far, can help one find their own path to discovering meaning.

In this mixed reality world, where information space and physical space can be superimposed onto each other, we will attempt to develop the ability to recognize the complex nature of information, how to perceive it, and how to judge it, which is essential in modern society.

Now, step into ‘the Information Jungle’ and find your new compass.



Date: August 8–September 15, 2025
Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery B, Hyper ICC
Hours: 11:00am–6:00pm
Closed: August 12, 18, 25, September 1 and 8
Admission Free * Reservation is recommended.

* Opening hours and holidays are subject to change. Please visit the ICC website for up-to-date information.


Co-Curation: AKABANE Kyo (IAMAS), KASHIMADA Tomoya (ICC)


Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] (NTT EAST, Inc.)
Cooperation: Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS]
Under the auspices of Shibuya City Board of Education, Shinjuku City Board of Education, Nakano Board of Education, Bunkyo City Board of Education


AKABANE Kyo

Professor at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS], Director of the RCIC
Focusing on interaction design, AKABANE researches creations made using technology. He develops workshops that deal with media creation, and is researching archive methods for sharing the content of those workshops. His main activities are “Pina” (Ag Ltd.), “ex-Workshop” (Agency for Cultural Affairs Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Art Creators) and “Spatiotemporal archive for interactive art that uses 3D scanning technology” (Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research).


Works

‘AR Audio Guide’

[The ‘AR Audio Guide’ will change your viewing experience and the way you perceive the artwork]

The ‘AR Audio Guide’ is a system for audio guidance using AR technology that can be converted into a multi-layered experience, for example by dividing the sound into personal and public sounds, or by overlapping each sound at the same time. By wearing headphones that do not cover the ears and using a smartphone-type device while exploring the exhibition site, visitors will experience mixed reality throughout the exhibition. The sound from the headphones will overlap with the sound from the device, without having to operate the device, in a physical state similar to not wearing any devices at all (auditory experience).

‘AR Audio Guide’
https://sites.google.com/view/ar-audio-guide/

Works in the Admission Free Area

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* The events will be held in Japanese.
* Please visit the ICC website for up-to-date information.

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