October 20, 2023
A project by Kai Kohara (a second-year master's student in the Graduate School of Media and Governance), Risako Shibata (a fourth-year student in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), and alumnus Shoya Maruyama (graduated from the Faculty of Policy Management in 2019 and a researcher at the Keio Research Institute at SFC), all from Associate Professor Shinya Fujii's Laboratory at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, was selected for the Project to Support Nurturing of Media Arts Creators by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
The Project to Support Nurturing of Media Arts Creators is a project organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs aimed at supporting the creative activities of young creators who will lead the next generation of media arts.
This year, the 13th edition of the Domestic Creator Presentation Support Program received 53 applications, and 24 projects were selected, including the project by Kohara, Shibata, and Maruyama titled "Door of Diversity: An Exploration of Self through Facial Recognition and Auditory Perception." A presentation event and exhibition of the results are scheduled to be held in February.
Selected Project
Door of Diversity: An Exploration of Self through Facial Recognition and Auditory Perception
Kai Kohara, Risako Shibata, Shoya Maruyama
Comment from Kai Kohara
I am greatly honored that our project was selected for the Domestic Creator Presentation Support Program of this project. I would also like to express my deepest gratitude for the grant we received from this project upon its selection. After continuous discussions with members of the Shinya Fujii Laboratory about what constitutes unknown music, I am truly overjoyed that our project was selected as a result. I am very grateful to Professor Fujii for his daily earnest and enthusiastic guidance, the members of the x-music lab, and everyone who supports our research activities. In addition to the results presentation event in February, this project also plans to hold an exhibition based on a "sound media installation." Therefore, I will continue to devote myself daily, keeping the laboratory's motto, "for the unknown of music" and "for the music of the unknown," in my heart.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office