REPORT A colorfully designed street piano was displayed on the third floor of Aqua City Odaiba crowded with many people including young people and families. The piano is the first of five pianos originally produced as part of Yamaha's "LovePiano®" project, which began in September 2017 with the wish to "make the piano more accessible and enjoyable." Passersby were intrigued by the design, which seemed to evoke cheerful music just by looking at it. The installation was a scene of pianos and people playing together, with confident piano players showing off their skills, children who are learning to play the piano trying out a practice piece, and children who were experiencing the piano for the first time fearlessly trying to make a sound.

REPORT AR art has appeared in the wide open sky of Yume-no-Ohashi Bridge, a program that allows visitors to experience augmented reality AR (augmented reality) art that combines real scenery and AR content by installing and launching the XR CHANNEL application and holding their smartphones up to the surrounding scenery. Lucky charms from eastern Japan such as "Akabeko," "Tanabata Festival decorations," and "Kokeshi dolls" appear in the scenery of the Tokyo Waterfront City and move around slowly and fluidly. This is an art experience that fuses the everyday scenery with the extraordinary AR art, turning the city space itself into a campus.

REPORT Projection mapping was the opening and finale of the art festival. The four works and special videos screened were the winners of the Grand Prize, two Excellence Awards, and the Jury's Special Award of the "Tokyo International Projection Mapping Award Vol. 6." The front of the conference building, which consists of two inverted triangles, is a huge screen measuring approximately 94 meters in width and 30 meters in height. The "Tokyo International Projection Mapping Award" is one of Japan's largest projection mapping contests for young spatial image creators, and the program was a great opportunity to enjoy the video works of young artists who are about to usher in a new era.

REPORT This projection mapping work is created to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Nomura headquartered in Odaiba, Tokyo. The opening image, in which the dots are connected by lines of light, expresses the connection between "people and people," "people and the city," and "people and society. The entire building appears to be moving with the images as the graphics are projected onto the square window frames on the exterior walls. At the ending, colorful flowers bloom in profusion, and photos of employees and their families appear one after another, displaying the message "Your story begins here. After the main video, by scanning the QR code on the back of the admission ticket with a smartphone, 130 different illustrations of flowers related to the 130th anniversary appeared in 360°VR, providing a new visual experience linked to the projection mapping.

REPORT The photo rally allowed visitors to participate in the event by touring the artworks at the venue, freely taking pictures of three of the nine target artworks and posting them on Instagram and Twitter. The targeted artworks included Leandro Erlich, Akinori Goto, ULTRA STUDIO, and Nobumasa Takahashi's artworks, as well as four of the 13 public artworks scattered throughout the Tokyo Waterfront City.
Visitors who toured and photographed the three artworks were presented with an original tote bag by showing the photo taken at the booth located at the entrance to Nomura's headquarters office. The tote bag featuring a large event logo was a pretty big size in keeping with the event's theme of "NEW SCALE. It can also hold large-size luggage. We saw many people carrying these tote bags at the event.
*You can see the photo rally's collection by searching "#artbayfes2022" on Instagram and Twitter.

REPORT On Sunday, September 25th, a live performance by Haven Artists was held at the "Dream Plaza," where ULTRA STUDIO's installation "Territory Gone Wild" was on display. Performing was "SunRise," a unit consisting of Kuriko Yokoyama (violin) and Hidemi Takemoto (viola). The duo who have known each other since childhood and have been performing on the street since elementary and junior high school enjoyed entertaining the audience with their well-matched performance.
Although the typhoon had been causing rainy weather, this day under a clear blue autumn sky, many visitors enjoyed the art and the live performance with their eyes, ears, and all five senses while sitting on the objects that were also part of the installation.