Wednesday April 22nd 2026 @ The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) & online

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Each speaker will give a brief talk (at most 15 minutes) before each session they appear in and then all speakers will discuss and address questions from the audience.

9 :00-10 :00 JST Pause-café and welcome

10 :00-10 :10 JST Introductory Vitamins

Gentiane Venture, Dominique Lestel

10 :10-11:10 JST The forgotten senses

Ai Hisano, Gentiane Venture x Dominique Lestel

"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection." Marcel Proust

11 :10-11:30 JST Pause-café

11 :30-12:30 JST The forgotten senses

Ai Hisano, Gentiane Venture x Dominique Lestel

"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection." Marcel Proust

12 :30 - 14 :00 Lunch time (on site lunchbox will be prepared)

14 :00-15:00 JST Prosthetic Expression: Coding Movement into Art

Masahiko Inami,

"I have a lot of parts that are human, and a lot of parts that are not. The parts that are not, I know what they’re doing. The parts that are human, they’re just... loud. They have opinions. They want things. They’re a mess." — Martha Wells

15 :00 – 17 :00 General Discussions & closing remarks

 

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a workshop organized with the support of the French Embassy in Tokyo and Kawada Technologies 
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