Hanna Saito
She graduated from Tama Art University (Craft Department, Glass Course) with a bachelor's degree in Fine Art. After graduating, she joined metaPhorest (biological / bio-media art platform)in the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Network & Biomedia Art, at Waseda University as an artist and visiting researcher. Since 2021, she enrolled in the Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo (Yasuaki Kakehi Lab.) She’s creating artworks using scientific glass production techniques, organisms, organic matter, image analysis, etc.. She’s main themes are to reconsider the borders of nature/society, human/non-human, and the indivisibility of the expresser and the object of the expression at the interdisciplinary viewpoint.
< Exhibition History >
2013 Biomedia Art Exhibition / 3331Arts Chiyoda Akibatamabi 21
2013 – 2014 Open Space 2013 “BioAesthetics Open Lab” / ICC
2014 Materializing Exhibition 2 / Tokyo University of the Arts Museum The
Chinretsukan Gallery
37th Anual Meeting of Molecular Biology Science & Art Planning Poster
Exhibition
2015 Independent Exhibition “Ontological Snip” / Gallery HIGURE
Independent Exhibition “Beyond the Farthest Plane” / 3331Arts Chiyoda
Akibatamabi 21
2016 KENPOKU ART 2016 (Hideo Iwasaki + metaPhorest)
2016 – 2017 Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition /
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
2019 Tsukuba Science Art Exhibition / Sakura Minkaen, Tsukuba
WRO Media Art Biennale 2019 / Wroclaw, Poland
2020 Non Human Control Exhibition / TAV Gallery
ROOMS 41 / Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, Sankaku Hiroba
2021 Jack into the Noösphere, Mihamaen (Japanese Garden)
Re-Display: Instruction and Protocol / The University Art Museum,
Tokyo University of the Arts
3331 Art Fair / 3331
Open Space 2021 New Flatland / ICC
Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition: Hard Problem of
Aesthetic Consciousness / Informer Nakagawa-villege art museum, Bee Art
Museum, Ex Ceramics Studio
Ghostliness / Ghost
Mother Nature – Interactions Between Women, Nature and Culture / N&A Art
Site
< Research history >
2013 Japanese Society for Cell Synthesis Research / Poster Presentation
2016 31st International Congress of Psychology / Oral presentation
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grants (C) “Possibility of Art in
Global Art Industry” Second Public Workshop “Life Manipulation
Technique = Art, Its Present and Future-Biotechnology Bioart” /Lecturer
2017 Society for Cocreationology 1st Annual Meeting / Oral presentation
2018 7th Annual The Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology symposium / Oral
presentation
< Awards >
2014 Finalist / Curate Award 2014 sponsored by Prada Foundation and
Qatar Museum of Art (participated in curation plan 'metaPhorest' by Kazuhito
Hanyu and Hiroki Yoshioka as an artist)
2015 nominated / “Revital HgS” (in the name of the performer when
nominated) / 19th Student CG Contest
2016 the jury award (Yoichi Ochiai Award) / “sensors, muscles, circles” /
art hack day “Technology as a Life Form”
2017 nominated / "Senses of Light" / 21st Student CG Contest
2020 "Eaten Colors Ver.2" won the FRaU Ethical Award at ROOMS41
< Others >
2020 Contributed of an article "Turing Test of Stone: Living as Thinking Matter" to
the Special Issue on Panpsychism, Gendai Shiso (Japanese contemporary
philosophy magazine), June 2020
2021 Shoes × Culture #13 Slip-ons in gorgeous colors Designed by Slime Molds - The
Art of Shoes, ABC Mart / web publication
Participated in the discussion project "Futurology, Again: Sakyo Komatsu's
Actuality Questioned from Practice / Gendai Shiso October 2021 Extra Edition
Special Feature: Sakyo Komatsu
Contributed to a short article the 40th anniversary special issue (No. 213) of the
design magazine AXIS / "Messages from Creators" in "Perspectives for Future
Designers"
Contributed to a short review of the movie "Solaris" for WIRED JAPAN vol.42