Ryohei Nakatsu
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA1997
Ryohel Nakatsu received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University in 1969, 1971 and 1982, respectively. After joining NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Cooperation) in 1971, he mainly worked on speech recognition technology. Since 1994, he has been with ATR and currently is the president of the AIR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories. Recently, he has become interested in the recognition of non-verbal information such as emotions in speech. He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Japan (lEICE-1) and the Acoustical Society of Japan. In 1996 he met Naoko Tosa, a media artist, and they started collaborating. They have developed several computer characters which are able to communicate with people based on emotions. Their works were exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, 0 Museum in Tokyo, and other museums and art exhibitions. Their recent work, called Interactive Poem, was awarded L’Oreal Prize in 1997.
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- Japan
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Art Events:
Mic and Muse
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Installation Art]
[ISEA96]
Interactive Poem
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Interactive Monitor-Based]
[ISEA97]
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Title: For Interactive Future Movie: Body Communication Actor, “Me” & Feeling Improvisation Actor, “Muse”
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ISEA96
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Title: For Interactive Future Movie: Body Communication Actor, “Me” & Feeling Improvisation Actor, “Muse”
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ISEA96
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Title: Alive Cinema: Romeo and Juliet in Hades
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ISEA98
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Title: Integration of Art and Technology for Realising New Communications
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ISEA98
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Title: Hitch haiku: an interactive supporting system for composing haiku poem
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