Presenter

Akira Nakayasu is an interactive artist, projection designer, and an educator based in Tokyo, Japan. He works across digital media art and robotics, and often collaborates with the theatrical world, contemporary music and dance. He recently focuses on a life-like expression using robotics, and is inspired by a wiggling tentacle of the sea anemone and by grass blowing in the wind. His works always use proprietary developed shape-memory alloy actuators to realize a life-like movement.