Shunsuke Takawo

YCAM Interlab Camp vol.5 “Homo Codens — How Will Humanity Draw in the Age of AI”

(2024, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])

CCBT × Shibuya Sakura Stage “CIVIC CANVAS Vol.2: Kids Workshop” (2024, INTER-SQUARE, Shibuya Sakura Stage)

Japan Generative Art Award（2024）

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Yamaguchi

2024.10.25–11.24

Latent Space?

• AI can extract latent human features from massive datasets.

• But art explores the latent dimensions of humanity — society, culture, and emotions — whether or not we use AI.

• The role of art is to illuminate what cannot be reduced to data.

Personal Latent Space : dailycoding

• Daily coding practice revealed my latent interests in pattern design
• Rediscovered influence from my mother’s quilting tradition
• Coding became a way to uncover unconscious aesthetic roots
• Generative art as a method of personal excavation

Personal Latent Space : dailycoding

• Daily coding practice revealed latent interests in pattern design
• Rediscovered influence from my mother’s quilting tradition
• Coding became a way to uncover unconscious aesthetic roots
• Generative art as a method of personal excavation

Social Latent Space : eziraros

• Homage to *Kuo Hsueh-hu’s painting Festival on South Street (1930s Taiwan)

• Recreates Tōyōga painting process step by step: Outline → Initial coloring → Finalization

• Incorporates time into the work: showing unfinished traces, shifting light, urban transformation

• Two “Works in Progress” across a century reflect Taipei’s ongoing cultural shifts

Walk in Progress (2024) – eziraros (Taiwan)