John Hathway

A Native Japanese.

Holds a Master’s degree in Physical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He in the PhD program in the same university and is concurrently a special researcher, certified by Ministry of Education, specializing in quantum physics

Through art, installations, robot development, software, stories, animations 3D graphics etc., the fusion of expression, technology and theory has led to experimental works that is infused with science and philosophy from the viewpoint of a former researcher.

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In the field of Scientific Art, in pursuit of the possibilities in robots, circuits and programs etc., he has been involved in the display installations such as “Δ-Figure”, moving figure (robots) developed by artificial muscle at the renowned ArsElectronica exhibition in Austria and “Mover”, a type of projection mapping looking around by a cart mover developed and presented at the Kobe Biennale 2015. On top of that he has also released the hardware product, known as “vacuum tube headphones”.

When it comes to Contemporary Art, he has also been picked up by numerous art media in Japan, Europe and America. He was also One of Japan’s representative at the “Juxtapoz x Superflat Exhibition”, with works curated by Takashi Murakami to reflect the Superflat trend. On a 10F Building of Tokyo Akihabara, he created a giant wall display that was approx.15mwide x 20mhigh. and a giant PR banner drawings sized 4mwide x 25mhigh for a major internet portal, would be hung on a building wall at Tokyo Shibuya.

In recent years, he set up JH lab to further the connection between society and his works. Through crowdfunding, modern forms of expression such as art magazines, card games were trialed. His unique world view was also presented in the Smartphone game “Shinkukan Dolls”, in joint development with Sony Music by his supervision.
CEO of JH Lab Co., Ltd.
Visiting professor at Kyoto Saga University of Arts.