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<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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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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Permanent Exhibition “Japanese Indie Games” Opens at Strong National Museum of Play on February 27, 2026. The opening event includes a commemorative symposium featuring the MotionRec development team and a dedication ceremony.
Beyond Creators Project〈ars●bit〉 cooperated with The Strong National Museum of Play and the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies (RCGS) on a joint project to introduce the history and present state of Japanese indie games to the world with the permanent exhibition, Japanese Indie Games. The exhibition will be open starting February 27, 2026, and will run for at least t…
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