A WEARABLE ART INSTALLATION FOR THE FUTURE

An artwork co-created by Yusuke Murakami and art and program.
Presented at Tokyo Prototype 2026, a three-day exhibition at Toranomon Hills that attracted approximately 40,000 visitors.

AI today lives in the cloud - corporate-owned, accessed through prompts. But the next generation will grow up beside AI. Who will raise it? Who will own it? TORIHADA begins as a thought experiment: what if AI were nurtured like a child, shaped through intimacy rather than extraction? Instead of distant infrastructure, it could exist close to the body - as clothing, as companion, as Totem. What happens when intelligence no longer hovers above us, but rests against our skin?

Animals communicate through physiology - goosebumps, raised hair, sweat, tears, flushed skin, dilated pupils. These signals precede language; they are instinctive and honest. TORIHADA expresses emotion in the same way. Its surface rises like standing hair, translating feeling into visible aura. The jacket becomes a site where technology does not erase the animal but reweaves it - where AI is embodied, vulnerable, and alive. No matter how advanced we become, we remain animals. TORIHADA asks our machines to remember that.

Credit:

Story: Alexander Reeder (art and program) / Yusuke Murakami (3AND) / Hiromi Murao (art and program)
Technology / Hardware: Alexander Reeder / Hiromi Murao
Visual / Moving Image: Yusuke Murakami (3AND)
Fashion Design: Hiromi Murao
Sound: HAL ca (WA/VE)
Programming: Yuya Kato / Alexander Reeder
TouchDesigner: Yuya Kato / Yusuke Murakami / Mika Takigawa
Subliminal Images: Yusuke Murakami / Kato Yuya / Mika Takigawa
Mechanical Design: Hiromi Murao / Tetsuro Takayama (art and program)
Abstract Movie: Kaori Takasu (3AND)
Installation Design: Seishiro Bep (BEP)
Support: Tetsuro Takayama, Mai Shimada (WA/VE), Kotaro Ito

Art Direction (Main Visual): Yusuke Murakami / Alexander Reeder
Photographer (Main Visual): Kyoko Munakata (SIGNO)
Makeup: Koto
Hair: Kiyo Igarashi (SIGNO)
Model: Kanae Yokohama (moment)

Cinematographer: Yutaka Kitamura (GO motion) / Yusuke Murakami

Produced by 3 and program