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EMAP residency 2022

This year’s EMAP residency started beginning of September. The residency was held in Zagreb at Radiona Zagreb Makerspace with productional and technical support in the development of the artwork.

The goal of the EMAP residency is to offer artists better conditions and resources for the research and production development of artworks. The focus is on cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary aspects of artworks development and the possibility for an intensive and focused artistic research. The residency contributes to international visibility and significance of contemporary artistic practices engaging local communities and new audiences, merging productively and creatively diverse areas of knowledge.

Kazokutchi

Kazokutchi is a digital artificial life NFT. Its home is a miniature robot with a display. Kazokutchis living in the same house are related, share the same surname, and have their initial name. There is a breeding season for Kazokutchi. An IC tag is affixed to the home, and an IC tag reader is used for mating. If the mating is successful, an egg NFT will be minted. The owner of the Kazokutchi is the owner of the egg. When you buy a home robot, you'll be prompted to choose a family name and color. They will be inherited by all Kazokutchis born in the family.

Kazokutchi is a living creature with a lifespan. When it reaches the end of its life, it appears as a dot on the screen, with proof of its existence preserved on the blockchain. The majority of artificial life is made up of simulations. All of the lives there will be gone once you reset. What if it can't be reset as in real life? This project raises this question by integrating artificial life with NFTs.

The focus of the residency was on the development and design of a new website of the project, robots and robotic farm as well as an update of the existing Kazokutchi system fit for various social experiments.

So Kanno (DE/JP)

So Kanno is an artist born in Japan and based in Berlin and Nagoya. He makes robots for art installations and performances. Kanno is interested in swarm intelligence, organic behaviour, emergence, unpredictability, and errors caused by systems rather than perfect control.
kanno.so

Akihiro Kato (JP)

Akihiro Kato is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. He creates works that explore the relationship between technology and society through a combination of digital and physical media. Kato is interested in the impact of distributed and anonymous systems on society.
akihirokato.com

Takemi Watanuki (JP)

Takemi Watanuki is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. He specialises in graphic production, pre-rendered video production, and real-time rendered video. Watanuki creates works with motifs of wriggling objects and artificial life. He is strongly interested in systems that automatically circulate away from human hands.
watakemi725.github.io/