Wednesday April 22nd 2026 @ The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) & online
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
contact us: gvinfo@cc.tuat.ac.jp a workshop organized with the support of the French Embassy in Tokyo and Kawada Technologies