Akira Nakayasu
About Akira Nakayasu
Affiliations
- Kanazawa College of Art, Associate Professor
- Kobe Design University, Associate Professor
- Tokyo Metropolitan University
Location
- Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Website
- http://nakayasu.com/
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
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.
SIGGRAPH –
Akira Nakayasu (born 1973) is an interactive artist, projection designer, and an educator based in Kanazawa, Japan. He graduated from Kyushu Institute of Technology, where he earned Bachelor of Engineering in 1996, and received Ph.D in Design from Kyushu University in 2013. As an educator, he is currently Associate Professor at Kanazawa College of Art. He works across digital media art and robotics, and 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.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Reviewer
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Art Papers
Conference Contributions
Artworks
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[Electronic/Robotic Object] [Installation] [3D and Sculpture]
[3D and Sculpture] [Electronic/Robotic Object]Artist(s):
[Interactive and Monitor-Based]Artist(s): Experiences
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Emerging Technologies
Other Information
Roles
- Art Papers Author
- Art Papers Reviewer
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Speaker/Presenter
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Poster Presenter
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