CCBT 2024 Artist Fellow Recruitment | Tokyo

April 25, 2024 Life Culture and Sports Bureau, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture

Civic Creative Base Tokyo[CCBT]is looking for artist fellows who will work with us as partners to create expressions, explorations, and actions that will make Tokyo a better city through creativity and technology.
Recruitment for 2024 will begin today, April 25th (Thursday) as shown below.
For details, please see Attachment 1 (PDF: 1,265KB) and Attachment 2 (PDF: 622KB).

Overview of 2024 Artist Fellow Recruitment

Creating expressions, explorations, and actions that will transform Tokyo into a better city through creativity and technology.

Category

• (1) “Development of tools and platforms” focusing on future “creativity” and expressive activities that utilize them
• (2) “Inquiry and artistic research” that focuses on “humanity” in the future, and expressive activities that make use of it

support

• Support for production costs (up to 10 million yen)
• Providing opportunities for advice and technical support from experts such as mentors, etc.

Mentor

• Naohiro Ukawa (“current” artist, head of DOMMUNE)
• Tomoko Shimizu (media researcher, cultural theorist)
• Miyuki Tanaka (curator, producer)
• Yu Mizuno (Lawyer/City Lights Law Office)

Qualification requirements

• Be a resident of Japan
• Be over 18 years old
• Must have an activity history of 5 years or more, etc.

application

Application period

April 25th (Thursday) – May 26th (Sunday), 2024 (Application materials must arrive)

Application homepage

Home page (link to external site)

examination

• The selection of submitted projects will be carried out by CCBT Creative Director Hideaki Ogawa and the mentors listed above.

About art incubation

“Art Incubation,” one of CCBT’s core programs, provides creators with opportunities for new creative activities and opens up the process to citizens (civics) to create expressions, explorations, and actions that change cities for the better. This is a program that aims to
The five creators selected through public recruitment and selection will act as partners of CCBT as CCBT Artist Fellows, embodying and announcing their plans, disclosing the creative process, holding workshops, talk events, etc.

2023 Artist Fellow Activity Results (Reference)

A total of 5 groups of artist fellows conducted a total of 45 programs including workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and exhibitions in the city, with a total of over 9,500 citizens participating.

• (1) TMPR (Iwasawa Brothers + Junichiro Horikawa + Yu Miyama + Kazue Nakata) “Artificial Intelligence Journey that follows the scenery seen by AI”

TMPR (Iwasawa Brothers + Junichiro Horikawa + Yu Miyama + Kazue Nakata)

• (2) Synflux “WORTH: Digital Fashion Platform”

Synflux

• (3) contact Gonzo “my binta, your binta//lol ~roars from the skinland~”

contact Gonzo

• (4) SnoezeLab. “IISE (Immersive Inclusive Sensory Environment)”

SnoezeLab.

• (5) ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! “Electromagnetic matrix”

ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!

For detailed information on the activities of each fellow, please see the homepage (link to external site).

About CCBT

Civic Creative Base Tokyo[CCBT]is an activity base for demonstrating people’s creativity to society through art and digital technology. Equipped with spaces such as labs and studios, it is the driving force behind making Tokyo a better city through various programs including five core programs: “Meetup,” “Workshop,” “Art Incubation,” “Camp,” and “Showcase.” It becomes.
Home page (link to external site)

This project is a project that promotes the “Future Tokyo” strategy.
Strategy 10 Smart Tokyo/TOKYO Data Highway Strategy
Strategy 15 Culture and Entertainment City Strategy

Contact information (About this press release) Cultural Affairs Division, Cultural Promotion Department, Lifestyle Culture and Sports Bureau phone03-5000-7236