Toshio Iwai
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Toshio Iwai (岩井俊雄 Iwai Toshio)(born 1962 in the Aichi prefecture of Japan) is a Japanese interactive media artist. He specializes in blending music and visuals. His recent work includes the Nintendo DS program Electroplankton. Iwai first began producing games for the Famicom Disk System, an add-on for the NES available only in Japan. His first game for this system was Otocky, which became his most well known game.
Later on, he created another charming sound-based game (this time for the Super Famicom system), called Sound Fantasy. However, its release was cancelled for whatever reason, and it was eventually converted into the PC title SimTunes, published by Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts.
Iwai gave a prestigious invited public lecture at the 4th International Conference on New interfaces for musical expression, held in Hamamatsu, Japan, in June 2004.
In 2005, he created and released Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS. This allowed players to create music using 10 different types of underwater plankton, utilizing all of the features of the Nintendo DS, such as the Touch screen and the Microphone. As of Mid-2005, Electroplankton is one of the most popular Japan-to-US imports by gamers across the country.
Notable Works
Installations
- Piano - as image media 1995
- Resonance of 4 1994
- Another Time, Another Space 1993
Television
- UgoUgoLhuga 1992-94
Software
- Otocky 1986
- SimTunes 1996
- Electroplankton 2005
Event
- Music plays images x Images play music 1996
Permanent Exhibits
- Well of Lights 1992
- Music Insects 1992
External links
- http://ns05.iamas.ac.jp/~iwai/iwai_main.html
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