ABOUT
<ars●bit>—— A cross-disciplinary creator training project centered on games and play
“ars●bit” is a complex project that is a collaboration between “art bit,” a contemporary art x indie game exhibition series held annually at Hotel Anteroom Kyoto from 2021, and “404 Not Found,” a new indie game mecca that opened at Shibuya Sakura Stage in Shibuya, Tokyo in July 2024, to discover, nurture, and support unprecedented cross-disciplinary artists/creators in global challenges, with games/play as the core.
With Shibuya and Kyoto as international exchange hubs as its home, the project will develop new markets and foster cultural contexts from Japan through a wide range of activities, including support for the creation of works through seminars, study groups, and creative jams for artists/creators, exhibitions and events that provide a venue for presenting works both domestically and internationally, and exhibiting at international game shows and art fairs.
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art bit #6: Game Playing Society to Close on July 12 with a Philosophy Café — “Can Play Change Society?” — Plus a Limited Exhibition Catalog Available on the Day.
art bit #6: Game Playing Society, currently on view at HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, is scheduled to close on July 12. To mark the occasion, we will be hosting a closing event: a philosophy café titled “Can Play Change Society?” The event will be facilitated by Kazunori Yamamoto, representative of Yohaku Seisakusho, an organization with a…
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International Symposium: Thinking Through the Game-Playing Society: At the Interface of Play and Art — To Be Held at Ritsumeikan University on Sunday, May 17, 2026
The ars●bit Project and the Ritsumeikan University Research Center for Game Studies (RCGS) will host the international symposium “Reflecting on Game-Playing Society: From the Interface Between ‘Play’ and ‘Art’” on Sunday, May 17th, 2026, at Ritsumeikan University’s Kinugasa Campus.This symposium is a companion event to the contemporary art and indie game exhibition “art bit #6:…
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Experience Event for the Art Game “The Great Adventure of SHIP’S CAT,” Developed by Kenji Yanobe, to Be Held May 2–6 at the Pop-Up Shop of “Enfants Terribles, Premonitions of Oblivion — Morimura Yasumasa, Yanobe Kenji, Yanagi Miwa —” at Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
The ars●bit project has co-developed the art game The Great Adventure of SHIP’S CAT in collaboration with contemporary artist Kenji Yanobe. An experience event for the game will be held from Saturday, May 2 through Thursday, May 6, 2026 at the pop-up shop inside Enfants Terribles, Premonitions of Oblivion — Yasumasa Morimura, Kenji Yanobe, Miwa…
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