Ryuta Aoki

Ryuta Aoki (born 7 July, 1979) is a Tokyo-based artist and artistic director. 
He was a curator and artistic director for the Agency for Cultural Affairs' "Japan Media Arts Distributed Museum" in 2020
 and the "Jack into the Noösphere" exhibition held as part of Chiba City's first art festival in 2021. The article highly praised the "Jack into the Noösphere" exhibition in his article, stating that "the exhibition itself somewhat akin to a piece of conceptual art." In a survey conducted by Chiba City, 98% of respondents said they "had fun," and 94% said they would "recommend it to acquaintances and friends," yielding exceptional results for a media art exhibition.
Selected exhibitions of his work include "ART for SDGs: Kitakyushu Art Festival Imagining Our Future" in 2020
 and "2121 Futures In-Sight" at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in 2021.
He won the Public Prize at the "WIRED Creative Hack Award in 2021. and the first Japanese group to win the Social Impact Award (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award) in the Art Division of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2022. The award-winning work "Bio Sculpture" was cited for being "This work, generated with practical and comprehensive knowledge, has made a significant contribution to the development of new media art" as the reason for the award. During the commemorative talk for the award, the jurors stated that the decision to award was made "unanimously."
He co-authored "ALife: An Introduction to Artificial Life Model Theory through Implementation" (O'Reilly Japan), published in Japanese in 2017. It was translated into Chinese in 2018.
==Works==
* New Rousseau Machine (METACITY, Installation, 2021)
* Bio Sculpture (SFC Hiroya Tanaka Lab. + METACITY, Art Installation, 2021)
* SOTOROJI #0 (The TEA-ROOM, Installation, 2020)
* ANH-00 (ALTERNATIVE MACHINE, Installation, 2019)
==Exhibitions and festivals==
* The 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Award-winning Works Exhibition (Miraikan, Tokyo, Sep. 16th - 26th, 2022)
* The Year 2121: Futures In-Sight (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, Dec. 16th, 2021 - May 26th, 2022)
* Ars Electronica 2021 Garden Tokyo (Online, Sep. 8th - 12th, 2021)
* The Exhibition of Jack into the Noösphere (Japanese Garden “Mihama-en”, Chiba, Jul.24th - Aug. 8th, 2021)
* Kitakyushu Art Festival ART for SDGs (Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery, Fukuoka, Apr. 29th - May 9th, 2021)
* Japan Media Arts Festival x Distributed Museum (Chubu Centrair International Airport, Aichi, Mar. 9th, 2020 - Feburary 9th, 2021)
==Publications==
===Books (Joint Authorship)===
* 『ALife - Build and Run: Introduction to Artificial Life Model Theory through Implementation』 (O'Reilly Japan, Inc, 2017)
===Articles===
* WIRED Japan Vol.42 (Condé Nast Japan, Sep. 16th, 2021)
* AXIS Vol.205 (AXIS, Sep. 1st, 2021)
* WIRED Japan Vol.36 (Condé Nast Japan, Mar. 13th, 2020)
===Scientific Papers (Joint Authorship)===
* 「Evolving Acoustic Niche Differentiation and Soundscape Complexity Based on Intraspecific Sound Communication」 (Jul. 2020)
* 「ALife as a Tool for Cooperative Society Between People and Machines」 (Jul. 2018)
Category:1979 births
Category:Artists from Tokyo
Category:Artistic directors
Category:Japanese people