Dorita, Dorita Takido, 


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is an artist, director, and designer based in Tokyo, 

Currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Tokyo Graduate School.
Completed a B.A. in Design Informatics at Musashino Art University. 

By weaving together heterogeneous functions and senses, and letting technology run in parallel with them, she seeks to open new thresholds of thought—points of departure at the boundary of perception. Her practice is oriented toward generating experiences that gently shift the existing scale of the senses, while exploring new forms of symbiosis that may reconfigure relationships between humans and other living beings.



In recent years, she has been creating works that question the evolution of organisms and plants by attaching artificial muscles to plants and engaging tactilely with robotics. She also presents an audiovisual installation at Tokyo International Cruise Terminal, in which a robot modeled on the leptocephalus, the larval form of the eel, swims together with humans, inviting viewers to reconsider the imaginative frameworks surrounding endangered species. Drawing on her research at the University of Tokyo, she has additionally developed works that apply the minute electrical energy generated by microbial fuel cells to other plants, gently stimulating their growth. Through such newly configured circuits of circulation, she explores perspectives that unearth latent connections between humans and nature and reconsider what it means to coexist.

From the summer of 2025, she will present a long-term installation, “Deep ground Resonance — Resonance in the Abyss of the Earth” (co-created with Dorita Takido and Yasuhiro Suzuki), at the co-creation facility “Comone” on the Nagoya University campus. In this work, sounds traveling through the soil are experienced as vibration, light, and reflections on the water’s surface; the piece is scheduled to be on view until 2028. She is currently enrolled in the Master’s program at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, tracing the fluctuations and crossings between “research” and “artistic expression” through her practice.



Her major recognitions include an Honorary Mention in the DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART category at PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA & STARTS Prize 2017 for Bug’s Beat, a work that allows audiences to experience the footsteps of insects through sound and vibration, and the New Face Award in the Entertainment Division at the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival (2014) for Slime Synthesizer, a formless, fluid musical instrument. She has also been selected three times— in 2016, 2019, and 2024— for the Media Arts Creator Development Support Program.



COMISSION

2025-2028 Public commission,  
the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System “Common Nexus” TAKIDO Dorita+ Suzuki yasuhiro ‘Deep ground Resonance’ Nagoya
2022-ongoing　Public commission, 
the Tokyo International Cruise Terminal‘The Sighs of Eels‘ Tokyo

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 “OPEN SITE 9 ‘Energeia Cycle’,”  Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, 2025

SELECTED GROURP EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS

2025 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators Presentation Exhibition ”ENCOUNTERS” TODA building
2024 Ars Electronica Festival 2024 “HOPE” Features Exhibition Yasuaki Kakehi Lab, The University of Tokyo『Well-tangled -Harmony Amidst Chaos-』Linz, Austria
2024 xlab Showcase 2024 “Well-tangled －
2022 JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL special exhibition「AUDIBLE SENSES」Tokyo
2022 The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2022 YEBIZO MEETS Partnership ProgramAt World’s End, Garden and Interior ーYuichi Higashionna, Dorita Takido AL Tokyo
2022 CULTURE GATE to JAPAN「+A+」 movie works, TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CRUISE TERMINAL Tokyo
2021 The Exhibition of Jack into the Noösphere Japanese garden of Mihama-en Chiba Chiba-city
2020 23rd  JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL exhibition
2020 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators Presentation Exhibition ”ENCOUNTERS” Ginza
2018 Matsudo International Science Art Festival
2017 exhibition Ars Electronica Festival & STARTS PRIZE in Berlin
2017 exhibition　Ars Electronica Festival & STARTS PRIZE Nominations  Linz ,Austria
2017 exhibition Tweetakt Festival inUtrecht, Netherlands
2017 "Ooinaru nitijyo-The great ordinary-" workshop of Bug's Beat. Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Kyoto in Japan
2016 Japan Media Arts Festival 20th Anniversary Exhibition Performance Day 01, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Japan
2016 "KYOTO OKAZAKI LOOPS" Kyoto Okazaki Area, Japan
2016 Artspace kimura Ask? “Wunderkammer ”Yuji Dogane, Yumi Sasaki + Dorita
2016 “Maker Faire Singapore 2016” Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
2016 "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2016" The Garden Hall, Japan

SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System “Common Nexus” TAKIDO Dorita+ Suzuki yasuhiro ‘Deep ground Resonance’ Nagoya

GRANTS and AWARDS

2024 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, 2024
2018 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, 2019
2017 Prix Ars Electronica Digital Musics & Sound Art Honorary Mentions Linz, Austria
2017 STARTS PRIZE Nominations Linz, Austria
2015 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, 2015 Japan
2014 18th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Entertainment Division New Face Award

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

2016.11 Collaborative Session with sasanomaly (Slime Synthesizer)
2015.08　"Yakushimaru Etsuko Kagaku Ongaku Jikken-shitsu (Etsuko Yakushimaru's Science Music Laboratory)", NHK-FM / Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan (A session of dimtakt / Etsuko Yakushimaru, Laser Guitar / DORAVIDEO, OPTRON / Atsuhiro Ito, Slime Synthesizer / Doita)