AI artist aratama 璞 will participate in “All About Generative AI Expo Vol. 5,” taking place in Kinshicho, Tokyo, on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.

About the All About Generative AI Expo

Source : Generative AI Exhibition

The “All About Generative AI Expo” (Generative AI Nande-mo Tenjikai) is Japan’s largest event for independent developers and creators working with generative AI. It brings together independently developed generative AI projects and artworks, creating a space where participants and visitors can exchange ideas about technology, creativity, and expression. This fifth edition will be the largest yet, with approximately 190 creators and developers expected to participate.

Unlike corporate or business-focused conventions, the event is centered on individual passion, experimentation, and creative exchange.

About the Exhibition

Through generative AI-driven video expression, character art, and narrative-based creative practice, aratama 璞 has continued to explore themes such as memory, emotion, and embodiment, while investigating where technology meets human feeling and perception. This exhibition will offer a firsthand look at works and creative experiments that emerge directly from that ongoing practice.

Details about the specific works on display and any materials or items available at the booth will be announced at a later date on this website and through official social media channels.

Taking place on the final day of Golden Week in Japan, the event offers a valuable opportunity to talk in person about practical generative AI workflows and the creative process. If you attend, please feel free to stop by the booth. I would be delighted to meet you there.

Event Details

• Event Name: All About Generative AI Expo Vol.5 (Generative AI Nande-mo Tenjikai Vol.5)
• Date & Time: Wednesday, May 6, 2026 / 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM (JST)
• Venue: Sumida Industry Hall 8F Sunrise Hall (Marui Co-Development Building, 3-9-10 Kotobashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)
• Access: 1-minute walk from the South Exit of Kinshicho Station (JR / Tokyo Metro)
• Admission: Free
• Official Event Page: https://techplay.jp/event/987273
• Official Website: https://www.genai-expo.com/
• Official Hashtag: #生成AIなんでも展示会

Looking Back at Vol. 4

#生成AIなんでも展示会 Vol.4、無事終了しました！
約1,500人の来場があり、最後までAI好きの方々と話せて幸せな時間でした。
Wi-Fiの接続が不安定で、具体的な制作ワークフローをお見せできず申し訳ありません。
規模が拡大しているので、スケジュールが合えば次回も参加予定です。

— aratama 璞 (@aratamadao) September 7, 2025

AI artist aratama 璞 announces the official entry of their original short film, Ragna Astraea: Twin Shells, into the “AI Film Festival Japan — Short Film Competition 2026,” an international open call dedicated to cinematic works created with generative AI.

An International Open Call Set 100 Years Ahead

This competition is an international open call organized as a collaborative initiative between AI Film Festival Japan (AIFJ) and “LOOP 2126 ∞prelude∞.”
Under the theme “A world 100 years from now (the year 2126),” the festival seeks forward-thinking, AI-driven short films from creators around the globe.

Exceptional works that pass the initial screening will be showcased on the large outdoor screens of Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, as well as in public spaces and stages throughout Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district. Furthermore, works recognized for their high artistic merit will automatically qualify as official entries for the main “AI Film Festival Japan 2026” competition in November 2026.
The festival offers a platform for bringing AI-driven films from Japan to a wider international audience.

About Ragna Astraea: Twin Shells

The core concept of this film stems from a single question: what remains after humanity is gone? Even in a world devoid of people, there is a compelling possibility that memories, duties, and fragments of emotion might endure in alternate forms.
The story follows two autonomous robots locked in endless combat dictated by a forgotten mission. However, as shattered memories of their human past resurface, the underlying meaning of their battle gradually shifts. Rather than focusing solely on destruction and conflict, the narrative explores how a new future might emerge from the broken, the imperfect, and the half-forgotten.

Ragna Astraea: Twin Shells is a sci-fi short film created using generative AI. Centered on character designs that fuse mechanical anatomy with mythological motifs, it builds a cinematic atmosphere where profound silence and visceral tension coexist.
Through themes of a desolate Earth, fragmented memories, and two confronting entities, the film captures the lingering echoes of war and the possibility of renewal. By carefully layering the aesthetics of light, skies, weaponry, and physical form, the visual style achieves a delicate balance between apocalyptic finality and deep tranquility.

Artist Statement: aratama 璞

Ragna Astraea: Twin Shells is an original sci-fi short film created with generative AI. I focused on maintaining visual cohesion and a dense, self-contained world, while using the two central beings to evoke impermanence, loss, and emotional emptiness. With this entry, I’m grateful to be able to present the project as a completed cinematic work.

Entry Information

About aratama 璞

aratama 璞 is an AI artist, filmmaker, and VDJ based in Japan.
Working at the intersection of generative technology, cinematic aesthetics, and emotionally grounded storytelling, aratama 璞 creates works spanning AI-generated visuals, animation, and experimental film.
By weaving together themes of sci-fi, memory, mythology, and human fragility, aratama 璞 pursues a new frontier of cinematic expression—one born from the creative dialogue between human imagination and AI systems.

Artist aratama announces the release of Kokkin no Me (Eyes of Black Gold), a new work from the YōuMo Art Collection. The piece will be exhibited at the digital art event Digi-E 2026, held on March 14–15, 2026.

About the Work

Kokkin no Me explores the theme of “light emerging from within” through the contrast of black and gold.

Black is not treated as mere darkness, but as a vessel that contains light.
Gold represents not only material brilliance, but also the spiritual luminosity residing at the core of existence.

In stillness, light emerges from within.
Black is not an end, but a vessel of beginning.

This work was created as an attempt to visualize energy radiating quietly from the center of being. Though digital in medium, it carries nuanced textures reminiscent of lacquer and gold leaf, evoking a subtle craft sensibility within a contemporary visual language.

Artwork Caption

Title

Kokkin no Me (Eyes of Black Gold)

Comment

In stillness, light emerges from within.
Black is not an end, but a vessel of beginning.
A new work from the YōuMo Art Collection.

Production Process and the “Gold Form” Study

During the creation of this piece, multiple visual studies were conducted before arriving at the final black-and-gold composition.

A gold-dominant variation known as Gold Form played a crucial role in exploring materiality and surface luminosity. The fully gold configuration functioned as an experimental phase, testing intensity of light, gradation of reflection, and the perceived weight of presence.

Through this process of examination, the composition ultimately converged toward “black as vessel,” allowing the radiance to stand out more distinctly. Thus, Kokkin no Me reached its final form.

Gold Form is presented here as an important research stage within the work’s development.

About the YōuMo Art Collection

The YōuMo Art Collection is a series that traverses cuteness and mysticism, symbolism and presence.

YōuMo was created as a presence that gently stays close to the emotions of those who encounter it. It values non-verbal communication, offering a quiet sense of reassurance simply by being there.

For children, YōuMo serves as a small symbol of safety.
For adults, it becomes a space to pause and restore emotional balance.

Centered on the concept of presence itself, the series continuously examines gaze, texture, and the structure of light while evolving as an artistic IP.

YōuMo will continue to evolve quietly.

Exhibition Information

Digi-E 2026 – Digital Art Event

Digi-E 2026 is an exhibition dedicated to digital expression, including digital painting, illustration, and AI art. Through an open call process, creators from diverse backgrounds and career stages are selected to exhibit.

Dates

March 14, 2026 (Sat) 11:30–18:00
March 15, 2026 (Sun) 11:30–16:00
Free admission

Venue

Minatomirai Gallery ABC (All Halls)
Queen’s Square Yokohama, Queen Mall 2F
2-3-5 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama

Direct access from Minatomirai Station. The gallery combines an airy atrium filled with natural light and a calm exhibition space. Located near Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu and Pacifico Yokohama, visitors can enjoy both art and the surrounding waterfront district.

During the exhibition, each artist’s SNS QR code will be displayed alongside their work to encourage interaction between visitors and creators. After the event, a printed catalog featuring all exhibited works will be produced.

Work Specifications

Size: Within A3 (29.7 cm × 42 cm)
Format: Two-dimensional work (panel display)
Installation: Wall display

Official Websites

Digi-E 2026：https://nihonbungei.net/digi_e_2026/
BUNGEI GALLERY：https://bungeigarou.official.ec/
Queen’s Square Yokohama：https://qsy-tqc.jp/

Credits

Artist: aratama 璞
Art Collection: YōuMo

Award Announcement

AI artist and filmmaker aratama 璞 has been awarded Second Place (Runner-up) in the global AI filmmaking contest “Escape × Dreamina – BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS”, co-hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina.

This international film challenge evaluates narrative strength, creativity, and innovative use of AI tools, and drew participation from AI filmmakers and visual storytellers worldwide.
A key characteristic of the contest is its emphasis on narrative-driven works that go beyond pure visual spectacle—leveraging Dreamina’s strengths such as multi-frame coherence and character/style consistency.

For this competition, aratama 璞 entered the cinematic music video “Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋.” The film was highly regarded for both its expressive depth and narrative quality, and was selected as one of the Top 3 winning films.

About the Award-Winning Film

Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋

(aratama 璞 / Escape AI × Dreamina Contest Film)

This cinematic music video explores the structural nature of anger—how it circulates, accumulates, and repeats within human society.

Rather than depicting war or violence directly, the film evokes anger as an atmosphere: a sense of impending collision expressed through rhythm, tension, and perceptual distortion.
Thoughts repeating without a clear cause, emotions amplified without an identifiable origin, and systems that keep moving even after they are forgotten—
anger is perceived not as a single event, but as acceleration, dissonance, and unresolved pressure.

The audiovisual perspective expands from an intimate, bodily scale to nature, the Earth, the cosmos, and ultimately a worldview in which all things coexist.
The imagery of plants multiplying abnormally—seemingly overtaking traces of conflict—serves as a symbolic suggestion that destruction and regeneration can coexist beyond human intention.

Music and visuals are tightly synchronized, with rhythm itself functioning as the engine of the narrative.
Minimal, repeating lyrics operate as an AI-mediated form of language that extends beyond conventional semantics, inviting meaning to be completed within the viewer.
Tracing the looping thought patterns that sustain anger, the work ultimately leaves a single question behind.

—This film quietly sings of “coexistence.”

Context Within the Contest

“Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋” responds to the theme “BRAVE NEW BEGINNINGS” by presenting:

• regeneration beyond conflict
• transformation from repetitive emotional structures
• a worldview where destruction and renewal coexist

as an integrated experience in which narrative, visuals, and music operate as one.

While incorporating scene construction and visual coherence enabled by Dreamina, the film positions AI imagery as a means to bring the story into being—aiming for an immersive narrative experience rather than a purely technical showcase.

Credits

Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋
Artist / Director / Music / Visual：aratama 璞

Related Links

Official contest page
https://escape.ai/contest/dreamina-122025

Film (YouTube)
Spiraling Anger 怒螺旋 – aratama 璞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9s5x3Yo4Y

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aratama 璞 Completes Entry to the Escape AI × Dreamina Global AI Film Contest

🕒️2026-01-20

OverviewAI artist and filmmaker aratama 璞 has completed an entry to the global AI filmmaking contest“Escape × Dreamina – Brave New Beginnings,” jointly hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina.This contest is an international film challenge that evaluates narrative strength, creativity, and innovative use of AI tools. It calls for narrative works that go beyond explaining events, instead allowing meaning to emerge through the viewing experience itself, leveraging Dreamina’s strengths such as multi-f...

AI artist aratama 璞 has been confirmed to make his first VJ appearance using AI-generated works at the immersive audiovisual event “Hypergeek #14,” taking place on Sunday, February 1, 2026. The performance will be held at TUNNEL TOKYO, an immersive space equipped with a massive 3×20m LED screen.

This appearance marks aratama 璞’s first VJ-style performance, expanding his ongoing AI-based creative production and research into a live, spatial context.

An Experimental Platform Where Art, Technology, and Community Intersect as Equals

Hypergeek is an audiovisual event series built around the concept of “agitation and fermentation,” where art, technology, and community intersect without hierarchy.

Now in its 14th edition, the event will take place at TUNNEL TOKYO, an immersive creative venue featuring large-scale LED visuals and spatial audio.

At Hypergeek, there is no concept of “guests.”
The performers on stage, the participants on the floor, and the engineers who build and operate the system—
everyone present functions as an equal material composing the space itself.

Hackmarkt × aratama 璞 A First Challenge in AI-Based VJ Performance

At this event, aratama 璞 will perform under a collaborative format with Hackmarkt.

For this performance, he will utilize a body of AI-generated works developed through ongoing production and research, stepping onto the stage as a VJ for the first time.

By synchronizing generative AI visuals with DJ and live sets and deploying them within the physical scale of a 3×20m LED screen, the performance presents a real-time visual experience where AI systems and human sensibility intersect.

For aratama 璞, whose practice is guided by a vision of supersensory evolution through human augmentation, this performance represents a critical step in expanding AI expression from “works” into “situations” and “spaces.”

Event Information

• Event Name: Hypergeek #14 at TUNNEL TOKYO
  (An audiovisual event featuring a 3×20m massive LED screen)
• Date & Time: Sunday, February 1, 2026, 15:15–20:25 (tentative)
• Venue: TUNNEL TOKYO
  Sumitomo Fudosan Osaki Garden Tower 9F 1-1-1 Nishishinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

Performances (25 minutes each)

• 15:15–15:40 » Kaito Asai
• 15:50–16:15 » suzukikeigo_
• 16:25–16:50 » MISOLA × KOKI
• 17:00–17:25 » Sengo x Monet Fujita
• 17:35–18:00 » ZOD
• 18:10–18:35 » Hackmarkt x aratama 璞
• 18:45–19:10 » galcid x Kinosoba-ya
• 19:20–19:45 » Aimi Sekiguchi x Madoka Kono
• 19:55–20:20 » Cyber Namu Namu x dian

Schedule subject to change depending on circumstances.

• DJ: Hackmarkt
• Visual Support: ANGRM™
• Photographer: Hirokazu Shirato
• PA: Johnny

Ticket Information

• Ticket Purchase: https://geek-14.peatix.com/
• Early Bird 1 (until Jan 20, limited to 50): ¥3,500
• Early Bird 2 (limited to 100): ¥4,000
• Student Discount: ¥2,500
• General Admission: ¥5,000

Students must present a valid student ID at the venue.
Tickets are non-refundable.

Guest Discount Information

A limited guest discount is available through aratama 璞.
For details, please contact via comments or direct messages on social media.
Availability is limited.

Profile

aratama 璞 (Aratama)
Founder / Producer / Artist
https://aratama.io/en/

An artist engaged in creative production and research using AI.
With award-winning experience in international AI art battles, he works across artwork creation, exhibitions, art battles, workshops, and research projects both in Japan and internationally.

Guided by a vision of supersensory evolution through human augmentation, his practice explores expressive possibilities emerging from the intersection of human sensibility and algorithmic systems.

Overview

AI artist and filmmaker aratama 璞 has completed an entry to the global AI filmmaking contest
“Escape × Dreamina – Brave New Beginnings,” jointly hosted by Escape.ai and Dreamina.

This contest is an international film challenge that evaluates narrative strength, creativity, and innovative use of AI tools. It calls for narrative works that go beyond explaining events, instead allowing meaning to emerge through the viewing experience itself, leveraging Dreamina’s strengths such as multi-frame consistency and character and style continuity.

For this contest, aratama 璞 submitted the cinematic music video “Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋” and has released the completed film on YouTube.

Contest official page
https://escape.ai/contest/dreamina-122025

Film video (YouTube: Spiraling Anger – aratama 璞 / Escape AI × Dreamina Contest Film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9s5x3Yo4Y

About the Work

Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋
(aratama 璞 / Escape AI × Dreamina Contest Film)

This work is a cinematic music video that takes as its central theme the structure through which anger circulates, accumulates, and repeats within human society.

Rather than depicting war or violence directly, the film evokes anger as a sense of impending conflict through atmosphere, rhythm, and subtle distortions of perception.
Thoughts that repeat after losing their cause, emotions that intensify without a clear origin, and structures that continue to move even after being forgotten—
anger is perceived not as a distinct event, but as tension, acceleration, and dissonance.

The visuals and music expand the viewer’s perspective from bodily, intimate sensations to broader scales of nature, the Earth, the cosmos, and a worldview in which all things coexist.
Images of plants proliferating uncontrollably over traces of conflict symbolically suggest that destruction and regeneration coexist beyond human intention.

Music and image are tightly synchronized, with rhythm itself functioning as the driving force of the narrative.
The minimal, repeated lyrics transcend linguistic boundaries through AI-mediated expression, tracing the loops of thought that sustain anger while allowing meaning to be completed within the viewer, and ultimately leaving a single unresolved question.

—Quietly, this work sings of “coexistence.”

Position Within the Contest

“Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋” responds to the theme of Escape × Dreamina’s “Brave New Beginnings” by presenting “rebirth beyond confrontation” and “new beginnings emerging from repetitive emotional structures” as an integrated experience of narrative, visuals, and music.

While incorporating scene construction and visual coherence enabled by Dreamina, the work positions AI-generated imagery strictly as a means of bringing the narrative into being, aiming for a film experience that goes beyond a mere visual showcase.

Credits

Spiraling Anger – 怒螺旋
Artist / Director / Music / Visual: aratama 璞

aratama’s AI anime work was selected as the weekly #1 on the international AI video curation program “5ives.”
This article provides a fact-based summary of how aratama was introduced in the YouTube episode “Top 5 Jaw-Dropping AI Anime Films This Week,” drawing directly from the comments and context presented during the program.

Overview｜5ives “Top 5 Jaw-Dropping AI Anime Films This Week”

Program Overview

5ives is a YouTube program that highlights AI-generated video and AI anime works from around the world, presenting them weekly in a ranked format. The show is hosted by Jon Rogers and Kai Turner, who curate featured works based on overall completion, expressiveness, and technical achievement.

The theme of this episode was “Has AI Anime Crossed the Line?”—a question examining whether AI anime is moving beyond an experimental phase toward a level of quality suitable for broadcast or commercial use. This question framed the discussion throughout the episode.

aratama’s Feature｜Introduced as the Weekly #1 Ranking

aratama’s work was featured in the final segment of the main ranking. Within the program, it was positioned as a representative AI anime work of the week.

During the introduction, the following points were mentioned:

• Visual design drawing on artistic references reminiscent of traditional Japanese oni and yōkai
• A combination with modern anime character expressions that feel approachable and cute
• A level of completion that goes beyond a purely experimental attempt, functioning as a finished work
• A quality level discussed in the context of being “broadcast-ready” or close to broadcast standards

From both technical and expressive perspectives, the program also highlighted:

• The consistency of visual style maintained across works
• A clear and coherent creative direction evident throughout multiple pieces
• A well-organized approach to presentation and structure as an AI anime work

In addition to evaluating the work itself, the program briefly touched on aratama’s involvement in AI creator community building and educational activities, noting that aratama has been featured multiple times on 5ives.

Other Creators and Works Featured in the Same Episode

Below is a summary of the other AI anime works and creators introduced in the same episode.

#5 Samuel Mayor Santana (Spain)｜Character Design

Overview

Samuel Mayor Santana was introduced as a creator based in the Canary Islands. The program noted the distinctiveness of his character designs, emphasizing that, despite being AI-generated, they differ clearly from existing anime styles and possess a visual identity that is immediately recognizable.

#4 Tú Michael (Vietnam)｜AI Anime Action Sequences

Overview

Based in Vietnam, Tú Michael ranked with an AI anime work featuring full combat sequences. The piece is characterized by action continuity across multiple cuts, and was described on the program using the phrase “broadcast-quality fight scenes.” The hosts also mentioned that the work has been featured on OX Framer. This work is a fan-created derivative of Shinsei Galverse.

BREAKOUT SPOTLIGHT (USA)｜Dave Clark

Overview

Dave Clark was introduced in the BREAKOUT SPOTLIGHT segment. His demo work created using Nano Banana Pro was featured, with its style described as “Kill Bill Meets Anime.” The program highlighted its color design, editing rhythm, and clarity of stylistic direction.

#3 YUUUKI (Japan)｜Horror Music Video “Red Parade”

Overview

YUUUKI’s work “Red Parade” was introduced as an entry in the Colotech Competition. The piece is an AI anime music video set to Kenshi Yonezu’s “Party of Monsters,” and was noted for its horror-infused atmosphere and direction.

#2 Rudolfin AI (Spain)｜“Listen to Me”

Overview

Rudolfin AI ranked with “Listen to Me,” a work that placed third in the Morphic Competition. The piece was introduced as an AI anime centered on a time-loop structure, with its narrative-driven composition highlighted as a defining characteristic.

This article summarizes aratama’s feature and the other AI anime works introduced in the same episode, based on the content presented during the 5ives program. It serves as one example of how expression and technology surrounding AI anime are currently being discussed.

*The above content is a summary prepared for this article based on the context and remarks made during the program.