about






This digital storybook is an artistic experiment co-created together by students in Contemporary Art Theory class at Waseda University.

Our focus is on open questions with plurality instead of answers. While telling stories from our own lives we find interweaving connections with contemporary artists.

We recorded dialogues utilizing transcription, translation and artificial intelligence tools then revisited these texts, images and audio to add and subtract until it resonates the way we want it to.

This experiment is indebted to an innovative philosophy class design by Professor David Kishik at Emerson College as well as research on “Relational Intelligence” by Isabella C Hau.

Here we aim to share our process in a creative format that acknowledges sources while also allowing others to find alternative relations through art today.

First question: What isn’t art?




Professor
James Jack 



TA / Designer
Yi Qian Chan



Students
Ann Goto
Anonymous
Anonymous 2
Aoi Nakagami
Ashwikaa Balasubramaniyan
Kai Yamada
Kono Kikukawa
Kousuke Tomita
Masato Hasegawa
Mayuko Kawamura
Momoka Nakamoto
Sana Hayashi
Sayuki Kon
Shuntaro Tani
Sota Nishida
Takeshi Yamada



Guest Artist
Aki Nagasaka





contemporary art theory (stories)