“Drawing on Space: Oyamazaki” by Koji Shiroshita & Mifuku has been awarded the Maxell Prize at the Maxell KUSE ga aru Award: NURU (“Paint”), a competition that supports the next generation’s creative challenges sponsored by Maxell.

A finalist exhibition featuring three shortlisted works and the Maxell Prize-winning work will be held at the “Kuse ga Aru Studio” (within Art & Technology Village Kyoto) from October 19 to November 3.

In addition, VR viewing sessions will be available on the following dates.
No reservation required / Free admission.

• 10/19 (Sun) 12:45 – 13:15
• 10/22 (Wed) 13:00 – 16:30
• 10/25 (Sat) 13:00 – 16:30
• 10/26 (Sun) 13:00 – 16:30
• 10/30 (Thu) 13:00 – 16:30
• 11/1 (Sat) 11:40 – 12:30 / 15:40 – 17:00
• 11/2 (Sun) 13:00 – 16:30
• 11/3 (Mon) 13:00 – 16:30

Concurrent events at Art & Technology Village Kyoto:
10/19 (Sun) – Kyoto Kodomo Tankyu Expo
11/1 (Sat) – Oyamazaki Yama Fes

Work Statement

Drawing on Space is a project that treats VR devices as a medium and employs space itself as the support for drawing.

So far, the project has been realized in urban spaces such as Shibuya, Kyoto, Tenjinbashi, and Takanawa Gateway, where drawings are created in VR space and infused with textures and ambient sounds collected on-site. By granting these drawings the physical constraint of site-specificity, the project seeks—paradoxically—to form a pictorial presence.

In “Drawing on Space: Oyamazaki,” field drawings and texture sampling were conducted across various sites in Oyamazaki, including Maxell’s “Kuse ga Aru Studio.” By integrating an AI-conceived concept of “new materials of the next 100 years” as a matière of the future, the work constructs a multilayered pictorial space in which the past, present, and future intersect.

Maxell KUSE ga aru Award: NURU (“Paint”) Finalist Exhibition (Official Site)