Kazu

I'm pleased to share that I will be holding a solo exhibition at @neort_io and releasing a work on @artblocks_io! This is an audiovisual work based on my original cellular automaton, which I have been working on for the past two years. More details about the work will be announced soon. For posts related to this work, please see the thread below. ↓↓↓

We’ve finally sprouted into sight The Gardenᵀᴹ Let's walk through the gallery’s layers, and the thinking behind how each part is presented. ↓ ↓ ↓

"The primary problem with teaching visual literacy as an equal partner alongside numeracy and literacy - one of the reasons people...fail to put it on a par with those other literacies - is that there isn’t a clear, universally agreed syntax or semantics." - @carlgomb rightclicksave.com/article/carl-g…

@LEOS10301 #122 looks like both heaven and hell. And that’s what makes it great.

Super happy. Just added Rain Blooms by @KZ_LAB_E #122 to my vault. This one is a true beauty, uniquely red as its base color and with subtle movement that occasionally bursts into flame like patterns. So Beautiful!

@HayxTyler 🙏🔥🙏

I studied a Ph.D. engineer who turned code into art and got curated by Art Blocks. Here's what every NFT project can learn from @KZ_LAB_E 🧵

Honored that the SAKAZUKI website received recognition from the globally recognized CSS Design Awards ✨ What makes us especially happy is that this feels less like recognition of “design” alone, and more like recognition of the cultural atmosphere and world we are slowly trying to build through SAKAZUKI. Huge gratitude to @kdooshun , @neort_io and everyone involved🥂🎉! cssdesignawards.com/sites/sakazuki… @NORIWTS @tonyherrera @HarryOtterNFT @sbmckeon

Curatorial Assessment from Digital Art Fact Sheet Rain Blooms #2 @KZ_LAB_E Done in 7 min # Curatorial Assessment: Kazuhiro Tanimoto's "Rain Blooms #2" Tanimoto's "Rain Blooms" represents a rigorous engagement with generative systems that places it within the more computationally serious lineage of digital art—closer to the algorithmic investigations of Casey Reas or Marius Watz than to the market-driven aesthetics dominating much contemporary NFT production. The work's foundation in custom cellular automata, rather than off-the-shelf AI models, signals an artist concerned with computational specificity and emergent complexity as aesthetic end in itself. The extension of classical CA models through multi-species interactions, vitality parameters, and variable neighborhood definitions demonstrates genuine algorithmic authorship. What elevates this beyond technical demonstration is Tanimoto's conceptual clarity about what he is authoring: not images, but rule systems whose outputs remain genuinely indeterminate. This positions the work within ongoing debates about creative agency in computational art, offering a middle path between total algorithmic autonomy and heavy-handed human intervention. The audiovisual integration here is more than decorative—mapping cellular state changes directly to sound parameters creates a synaesthetic system where vision and audition share computational origins, recalling the tradition of visual music from the Whitneys through Ryoji Ikeda. The decision to exhibit this as an immersive installation at NEORT++ in 2026 is conceptually appropriate; cellular automata demand temporal experience, and immersive presentation literalizes the viewer's placement within the computational field. However, the translation to a tokenized, screen-based NFT format raises questions about medium-specificity that the artist should address more directly. What is lost when computational immersion becomes a collectible object? The parametric variation between runs—where each instantiation begins with different initial conditions—provides some answer, making each token a unique slice of possibility space rather than a fixed recording. For serious collectors, "Rain Blooms #2" offers several points of significance: its methodological rigor within generative art history, its engagement with ALife research traditions often absent from crypto-art discourse, and its resistance to predetermined aesthetic outcomes in an era of algorithmic predictability. The edition size of 128 suggests thoughtful scarcity rather than artificial limitation. Yet the work would benefit from more critical contextualization within Asian computational art practices and clearer documentation of how the NFT format preserves or compromises the work's temporal and systemic nature. This is sophisticated generative practice that merits collection, but demands the collector understand they are acquiring a parametric instance of a larger system, not a singular artwork in the traditional sense. @glimmerdao @themassagejp @KZ_LAB_E

@chobishiba コーディングで制作されているのですね！また機会ありましたらお話し聞かせてください🙏

@KZ_LAB_E 楽しかったです〜素敵な展示ありがとうございました！

Rain Blooms — Worlds Emerging from Computation見に行ってきた！ 各LED Matrixで実行されてることのつながりからから壁への投影、音と空間が生成されていくのがすごかった セルオートマトンはピクセルのイメージ強かったけど、そこからこんなふうにもなることが体験できてよかった

@Mattsun02160 承知いたしました！夕方お待ちしております🙏

@KZ_LAB_E ありがとうございます！暑いの苦手なので夕方に伺います！

予習してる。 youtu.be/NPSqKYS48ho

@Mattsun02160 ありがとうございます！🙏 日曜は14-19時フルでいるつもりですので、ご都合の良いタイミングでお越しいただければと思います！

次の日曜に行こうと思ってます！kazuさんがいらっしゃるタイミングに合わせてお伺いします！

🎨 Why does the sudden appearance of the "box" in generative art make our hearts race? (for me) In Rain Blooms #38, I witnessed a thrilling, high-stakes battle between organic nature and algorithmic order. 1⃣The Setup: Organic Overgrowth (0:00–0:03) The screen completely fills with complex, chaotic textures. Driven by a bottom-up cellular automaton, it mimics the high-speed proliferation of moss or ferns, a state of beautiful, overwhelming randomness. 2⃣The Interruption: The "Box" Appears (0:04~) Suddenly, a massive geometric mask overrides the screen. This is a brutal, top-down intervention where a rigid, man-made architectural rule completely overwrites the microscopic world, resetting the canvas with striking inverted colors. 3⃣The Core of the Thrill: Cognitive Re-calibration Our brains get fatigued when tracking hyper-complex data. When a massive, easily recognizable square forces a "visual hard-reset," it triggers a powerful aesthetic jolt—a sudden relief and clarity akin to an "Aha!" moment. 4⃣The Anticipation: A Cradle for New Emergence The giant box acts like a cosmic catalyst. We feel excited because we instinctively know this destruction is a setup for rebirth. As we also saw in "Mutual Field", the rigid edges immediately begin to erode, acting as a cradle from which a brand-new, unpredictable phase of nature "blooms" once again. This work is a dynamic, open-ended dialogue where human-built cities and untamed nature constantly collide and reshape one another @KZ_LAB_E @artblocks_io @neort_io

@LEOS10301 @artblocks_io 🧪🔬🪲

The @artblocks_io release, Rain Blooms, by @KZ_LAB_E, is amazing. First we see the artwork from a distance, including the beautifully generated audio (sound on!). Then, zoomed in, we see millions of tiny life forms, constantly evolving, creating the art! Nothing else like it.

Rain Blooms Lattice by Kazuhiro Tanimoto

@Mattsun02160 ご覧いただきありがとうございます！次の土日も時間によって在廊予定なので、大したものではないですがタイミング合えばご説明させていただければと思います🙏

久しぶりにこちらにログインしました……もし少しでも情報があれば教えてほしいです 今わたしはとても困っています。働ける場所がありません。今現時点でのスキルはp5js, Processing, TouchDesignerのみです。あと個人でやってるYouTubeの登録者が1280人くらいいます (続く)

Rain Blooms — Worlds Emerging from Computation by @KZ_LAB_E | NEORT++ Open Today