MORI ART MUSEUM FY2024 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE FOLLOW-UP

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MARCH 6, 2024

FY2024 EXHIBITION SCHEDULEFOLLOW-UP
To follow on from the exhibition programs already scheduled for FY2024 - Theaster Gates: Afro-Mingei(2024.4.24 [Wed]–9.1 [Sun]), and展Louise[Sun]) - the Mori
Bourgeois (2024.9.25 [Wed]–2025.1.19
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Art Museum, Tokyo is delighted to announce MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art ,which turns its attention to the relationship between some of the new technologies of recent years, andcontemporary art.
The Museum will also join the Les Franciscaines Cultural Center to stage the exhibition Floating
Worlds: From Japonisme to Contemporary Art from Japan as part of the Normandie Impressionniste 2024
Festival, which will take place in Normandy during summer/autumn to coincide with the Paris Olympics.

MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art
Period: February 13 [Thu] - June 8 [Sun], 2025
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)

Lu Yang
DOKU the Self
2022 Video 36 min.
Music: liiii

Sato Ryotaro
Dummy Life #11
2022 Inkjet print 12.4 ｘ 14.8 cm

Joint Overseas Exhibition

Floating Worlds: From Japonisme to Contemporary Art from Japan
Period: June 22 [Sat] - September 22 [Sun], 2024
Venue: Les Franciscaines, Deauville(Normandy, France)

Morimura Yasumasa
Une Moderne Olympia 20182017-2018
C-print, transparent medium
210 x 300 cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Installation view photo: Muto Shigeo

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MORI ART MUSEUM FY2024 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE FOLLOW-UP

Press Release

MARCH 6, 2024

MACHINE LOVE:Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art
Period: February 13 [Thu] - June 8 [Sun], 2025
HillsMori Tower)
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi 展覧 会関連シンポジウム開催決定！
2 0 12 年 4 月 19 日
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
Curated by: Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum), Martin Germann (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum),
Yahagi Manabu (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Advisors: Hatanaka Minoru (Chief Curator, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]), Taniguchi Akihiko (Media Artist)

With the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and the integration of the virtual and real worlds, thelatest cutting-edge technologies have quickly penetrated our daily lives. This tendency has become especiallyapparent since the COVID-19 pandemic, when many human activities shifted towards virtual space. Looking
back, the progress of art and technology has run parallel to each other throughout the course of history, which isespecially evident in the ﬁeld of computer art and video art. While recent innovations in video game engines andAI offer unprecedented possibilities for artists, the advent of generative AI also has raised signiﬁcant concerns.
Such developments are now attracting considerable attention in various fields and industries, including thecontemporary art world.
MACHINE LOVE introduces contemporary artworks that employ game engines, VR and AR, and other
innovative technologies that have the capacity to extend human creative power, such as algorithms andgenerative AI. These works explore new aesthetics and image-making through the use of various data-sets thatexist in the digital space, while demonstrating novel approaches to art making made possible by interactive
networks of countless individuals. Other works examine how online avatars and characters can nurture new typesof gender and racial identities that lie beyond the reach of social norms. By adopting these methods, artists
delve into the most pressing challenges facing contemporary society, including the environmental crisis, historicalinterpretation, humanity, ethics, and diversity.
By exhibiting artworks jointly created by “machines” and artists, and offering immersive spatial experiences
through large-scale installations, this exhibition provides a platform to contemplate the relationship between
humankind and technology, which evokes emotions of love, empathy, elation, fear, and anxiety. Join us in a space
where reality and virtual space overlap in order to envision better ways to live out an uncertain future.
Participating Artists:
Kim Ayoung, Lu Yang,
Sato Ryotaro, Jakob Kudsk Steensen,
Adrián Villar Rojas, and others

Kim Ayoung
Delivery Dancer's Sphere
2022
Video
25 min.

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Joint Overseas Exhibition

Floating Worlds: From Japonisme toContemporary Art from Japan
Period: June 22 [Sat] - September 22[Sun], 2024
展覧 会関連シンポジウム開催決定！
2 0 12 年 4 月 19 日
Venue: Les Franciscaines, Deauville (Normandy, France)
Organizers: Les Franciscaines, Mori Art Museum
Curated by: Annie Madet-Vache (Museum Director, Les Franciscaines), Martin Germann (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum)The year 2024 marks 150 years since the first “Impressionist” exhibition was held in Paris. To celebrate thisanniversary, the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, held in Normandy since 2010, has this year scheduled over
120 exhibitions and performing arts programs. As part of this comprehensive lineup of events, to shine a lightfrom both past and present perspectives on Japanese culture and its intimate connection to the development ofImpressionism, the Mori Art Museum will join the Les Franciscaines Cultural Center in the Normandy town of
Deauville to present Floating Worlds: From Japonisme to Contemporary Art from Japan .
Floating Worlds will feature 34 pieces of Japanese contemporary art by 17 artists from the Mori Art MuseumCollection, making it the first-ever exhibition outside Japan that showcases a large group of works from theCollection. These will be joined on the French side by Impressionist and other paintings of the same era, plus
Japanese ukiyoe prints, on loan from institutions including the Musée d’Orsay, Bibliothèque nationale de France,and Guimet Museum, creating a space for dialogue with Japanese contemporary artworks that will transcend
temporal and spatial boundaries. Taking in rooms with perspectives such as “In the Gaze of the Other,” “Vastnessof the Coastline,” “Cityscape and Urbanity,” “Portraits of 19th and 21st Centuries,” and “Mysterious Nature,”
visitors will find a recurring interplay of historical continuity and moments of resonance with the innovative
immersive experiences of today’s contemporary art.
Artists from the Mori Art Museum Collection:
Enomoto Koichi, Fukaya Etsuko, Haruki Maiko, Hatakeyama Naoya,
Ishida Takashi, Katayama Mari, Kazama Sachiko, Lee Ufan,Miyagi Futoshi, Morimura Yasumasa, Seto Momoko, Shinoda Taro,Shitamichi Motoyuki, Tateishi Tiger, Umetsu Yoichi, Yamaguchi Akira, andYoneda TomokoArtists from Collections in France:
Ukiyoe:Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, and others
Artists from 19-20th century:
Jean-Francis Auburtin, Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin,
Henri-Edmond Cross, Maurice Denis, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet,Paul Ranson, Félix Elie Regamey, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Auguste Rodin, Paul Serusier, Paul Signac, Alfred Stevens,Félix Vallotton, and others

Tateishi Tiger
Micro Fuji
1984
Oil on canvas
162 x 112 cm
Collection: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

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