“Who Owns the Photograph? AI and the Reallocated Subject”

For over two-three decades, my work in artificial life has explored open-ended evolution, from computational models to self-propelled droplet experiments. I am now engaged in constructing artificial life in the physical world, with a particular emphasis on Hybrid Agency—how predictive responsibility and autonomy are redistributed across bodies, environments, and collective structures. Through the humanoid android Alter3, large-scale Boids systems, and a developing theory of collective intelligence (Community First Theory), I investigate how agency emerges not as an individual property, but as a dynamically coordinated and relational phenomenon.

Beginning with photography, I navigate between drawing and text to investigate correspondences among image, body, and landscape, as well as the temporality specific to photography. Selected publications include Memory (FOIL), Spring Ephemeral (FOIL), Rugged TimeScape (with Takashi Ikegami; FOIL), and \ Landscape (KADOKAWA). Selected group exhibitions include New Pictures 뉴-픽쳐스 (The Reference, Seoul) and International Non-Violence Exhibition #SUM_MER_2025 (Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto). Selected solo exhibition: So Delicate and Nuanced as to Seem on the Verge of Disappearing (Mizuma Art Gallery).

Lighting Director. Yusuke Nakanishi was born in 1968 in Fukuoka, and currently lives in Kyoto. He travels the world, expressing his impressions of light and shadow from his memories. He has worked as a lighting director for music videos, feature films, stages, music concerts, fashion shows and interior designs. He also created lighting object series eatable lights and Tamashii and has exhibited installations at the Hara Museum, School Gallery (Paris), including Nuit Blanche in Kyoto. He co-founded KYOTOGRAPHIE with Lucille Reyboz in 2013 and is the co-director. In Autumn 2022, he was involved in the creative direction for Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition LIGHT OF FLOWERS, which was held on the grounds of Shimogamo Shrine and the Tadasunomori Forest. In 2023, he co-founded KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival with Lucille Reyboz.