We would like to announce that WOW will be participating in Expo 2025 (Osaka, Kansai, Japan) ’s Thematic Project “Signature Pavilion ‘null²’” under OCHIAI Yoichi, as the creation team covering all planning and video content creation and production.

WOW has been touring elementary schools in Japan as “BAKERU School” since 2018 in response to the adoption of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Promoting the Development of Children through Cultural Arts Project - Tour Performance Project. From June this year, we will be touring Tokyo, Saitama, Gunma, Ibaraki, Fukushima, Shizuoka, and Gifu.

“Special Exhibition: You and Robots ― What is it to be Human?”, which opened on Friday the 18th March, is the most ambitious robot exhibition in Japan's history. 130 robots, of around 90 different varieties, have been gathered in Odaiba, Tokyo for the event. WOW was responsible for the planning, direction, and production of the installation found in the “You and Robots ― What Does the Future Hold?” zone.

Nagoya Midland Square will be holding an event for its 15th anniversary (Midland Anniversary 2022) based on the theme of travel starting from March 4 (Friday). WOW was in charge of planning, directing, and producing the main video that is being played on a special monitor imitating the boarding gate.

WOW's new art installation “Motion Modality / Layer”, which has the theme of "Giving form to videos", will be exhibited at the 14th Yebisu lnternational Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, starting from Friday, February 4th, 2022.

May this year be a great one! We look forward to your continued patronage in 2022.

Beginning December 23rd (Thursday), Audi will be holding its special event, "Road to a Better Future," under the sparkling illumination lights at Roppongi Hills. WOW handled planning, directing, and producing for this work of installation art, which fuses the dynamic handling of the Audi e-tron GT, with brilliant displays of light.

“POEM”, WOW's original short film which was showcased for only 3 days at the WOW Short Film Festival this summer, is now available online. This work was produced as part of WOW's 25th Anniversary Exhibition Project to commemorate WOW's 25th anniversary next year.

WOW's original research project “The Shape of Prayer” focuses on the culture of prayer in Japan. The themes of "Katashiro", "Monyo", "Mountains", and "Sake", which have been associated with prayer since ancient times, were selected to create works through research and fieldwork, and the series of processes were recorded on video. The completed videos of all the works, as well as a making-of video of the research and fieldwork, can be viewed on the "The Shape of Prayer" website.

The 9th online talk event in the “WOW Talk” series led by WOW staff will be held on October 7 (Thu) at 7 pm. The talk will center on the making of the WOW original short film “Contour” which was released this summer.