Worms surface
Created by Artists Na Omi Judy Shintani & Colin Wright
2024, Interactive Digital Artwork
Use your fingers or mouse to zoom in and out and explore the world of worms! Guide the worms above and below the ground and let them interact with the vegetation!
Created by Artists Na Omi Judy Shintani & Colin Wright
2024, Interactive Digital Artwork
Use your fingers or mouse to zoom in and out and explore the world of worms! Guide the worms above and below the ground and let them interact with the vegetation!
Artwork created by Artists Na Omi Judy Shintani & Colin Wright
Join us for a special evening to experience an interactive digital artwork set for the 20th micro-season, "Worms surface / 蚯蚓出 / みみずいづる / Mimizu izuru" by Na Omi Judy Shintani and Colin Wright!
Joined by Regenerative Development Strategist Nina Bazan-Sakamoto and Seed Scientist Kana Koa Weaver, the panel will discuss how the collective wisdom and creativity of our communities inspire ecological lifestyles and practices rooted in the Japanese cultural traditions.
After the insightful discussions and Q&A, you will have an opportunity to try out the interactive digital artwork yourself at NOHSpace, an intimate cultural hub in the heart of the Mission, San Francisco!
Tuesday, May 14, 7pm - 8:30pm
Venue: NOHSpace (2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco)
Admission Free - no registration required
Joined by Regenerative Development Strategist Nina Bazan-Sakamoto and Seed Scientist Kana Koa Weaver, the panel will discuss how the collective wisdom and creativity of our communities inspire ecological lifestyles and practices rooted in the Japanese cultural traditions.
After the insightful discussions and Q&A, you will have an opportunity to try out the interactive digital artwork yourself at NOHSpace, an intimate cultural hub in the heart of the Mission, San Francisco!
Tuesday, May 14, 7pm - 8:30pm
Venue: NOHSpace (2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco)
Admission Free - no registration required
Na Omi Judy Shintani (Lead Artist)
Na Omi Judy Shintani is a community artist who creates a safe environment for inquiry and connection. Her work powerfully explores hidden stories and brings social issues to light. Shintani’s unique assemblages and installations often incorporate traditional Japanese arts and crafts and augmented reality. She has exhibited throughout the US and internationally, including solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, and Towson University in Baltimore.
Na Omi Judy Shintani is a community artist who creates a safe environment for inquiry and connection. Her work powerfully explores hidden stories and brings social issues to light. Shintani’s unique assemblages and installations often incorporate traditional Japanese arts and crafts and augmented reality. She has exhibited throughout the US and internationally, including solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, and Towson University in Baltimore.
Colin Wright (Technical Collaborator)
Colin is an alumnus of the CCA film/video/interactive program, with a semester at Kyoto Seika Daigaku in the exchange program. He worked primarily in the commercial film world from 2011 to 2020 doing animation and camera for corporate clients and Wired, the Sonoma Film Festival, and assistant-edited the feature film “Ai Wei Wei: Your’s Truly”. More recently he has focused on supporting other fine artists in implementing work digitally, doing 3d modeling, animation, and interactive implementations for Tamiko Thiel on ReWildAR at the Smithsonian, a group of 9 artists at The Hidden Histories project at San Jose Japanese American museum, and Na Omi Judy Shintani’s permanent public exhibition at the San Bruno BART station and ongoing installations in various museums and galleries nationwide.
Colin is an alumnus of the CCA film/video/interactive program, with a semester at Kyoto Seika Daigaku in the exchange program. He worked primarily in the commercial film world from 2011 to 2020 doing animation and camera for corporate clients and Wired, the Sonoma Film Festival, and assistant-edited the feature film “Ai Wei Wei: Your’s Truly”. More recently he has focused on supporting other fine artists in implementing work digitally, doing 3d modeling, animation, and interactive implementations for Tamiko Thiel on ReWildAR at the Smithsonian, a group of 9 artists at The Hidden Histories project at San Jose Japanese American museum, and Na Omi Judy Shintani’s permanent public exhibition at the San Bruno BART station and ongoing installations in various museums and galleries nationwide.
Kana Koa Weaver (Guest Speaker)
Kana is a mother, an ethnobotanist, and a seed keeper based in Berkeley, California. Her work focuses on plant-human relations, traditional plant knowledge, and the protection of biocultural diversity. Kana received MA in Agrarian and Environmental Studies from Erasmus University, and studied at the PhD program in Environmental Studies at UCSC (incomplete). Kana provides lectures, workshops, writings, consultation, and organizes a seed library network in Japan. Most of the time, she could be found wandering and foraging in the wild. https://www.seedfromearth.com/ @seedfromearth
Kana is a mother, an ethnobotanist, and a seed keeper based in Berkeley, California. Her work focuses on plant-human relations, traditional plant knowledge, and the protection of biocultural diversity. Kana received MA in Agrarian and Environmental Studies from Erasmus University, and studied at the PhD program in Environmental Studies at UCSC (incomplete). Kana provides lectures, workshops, writings, consultation, and organizes a seed library network in Japan. Most of the time, she could be found wandering and foraging in the wild. https://www.seedfromearth.com/ @seedfromearth
Nina Bazan-Sakamoto (Guest Speaker)
Nina is a visionary environmental artist, activist, and organizer with a background in International Relations and Environmental Politics. As a mixed ethnicity woman, she feels a calling to unite people across barriers to celebrate diversity and catalyze collaboration on our environment. She expresses her passion through dance choreography and eco-fashion, and she is founder of Wiz Amulets - Symbiotic Living Jewelry made of living plants and organic materials, with the purpose to reconnect our style to nature and ancient wisdom.
https://airplantnina.com/pages/about-the-designer
Nina is a visionary environmental artist, activist, and organizer with a background in International Relations and Environmental Politics. As a mixed ethnicity woman, she feels a calling to unite people across barriers to celebrate diversity and catalyze collaboration on our environment. She expresses her passion through dance choreography and eco-fashion, and she is founder of Wiz Amulets - Symbiotic Living Jewelry made of living plants and organic materials, with the purpose to reconnect our style to nature and ancient wisdom.
https://airplantnina.com/pages/about-the-designer
This project is made possible through the support from the California Arts Council, WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation), the National Endowment for the Arts, and generous individual donors.
