Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow

Period
2019.11.19 [Tue] – 2020.3.29 [Sun] 
Open every day

Open Hours
10:00-22:00 (Last Admission: 21:30)
* 10:00-17:00 on Tuesdays (Last Admission: 16:30)
* Open until 22:00 on Tuesdays of November 19, December 31, 2019 and February 11, 2020 (Last Admission: 21:30)

Venue
Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Tokyo)
Access

Admission
Adult 1,800 yen
University / Highschool student 1,200 yen
Child (Age 4 up to Junior highschool student) 600 yen
Senior (Ages 65 & over) 1,500 yen

Advance ticket
Ticket Pia [P-code: 769-948] (* In Japanese-language only)
Adult 1,500 yen
Available until 2020.3.29 [Sun] 

ASOVIEW (* In Japanese-language only)
Adult 1,500 yen et al.
Available until 2020.3.29 [Sun]

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Advances in technology over the past few years are now starting to have a significant impact on various aspects of our lives. It is said that not too far in the future, human beings will be entrusting many of their decisions to AI (artificial intelligence) which will then supersede human intelligence; the advent of “singularity” will potentially usher in enormous changes to our society and lifestyles. Another development, that of blockchain technology, looks set to build new levels of trust and value into our social systems, while advances in biotechnology will have a major impact on food, medicine, and the environment. It is also possible that one day, we humans will be able to extend our physical functions, and enjoy longer life spans. The effect of such changes may not be necessarily and universally positive, yet surely we need to at least acquire a vision of what life may look like in the next 20-30 years, and ponder the possibilities of that new world. Doing so will also spark fundamental questions about the nature of affluence and of being human, and what constitutes life.

Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, consisted of five sections: i.e. “New Possibilities of Cities;” “Toward Neo-Metabolism Architecture;” “Lifestyle and Design Innovations;” “Human Augmentation and Its Ethical Issues;” and “Society and Humans in Transformation,” will showcase over 100 projects/works. The exhibition will aim to encourage us to contemplate cities, environmental issues, human lifestyles and the likely state of human beings as well as human society – all in the imminent future, via cutting-edge developments in science and technology including AI, biotechnology, robotics, and AR (augmented reality), plus art, design, and architecture influenced by all these.

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Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange
The Orb
2018
Photo: Michael Filippoff

(Top image: ecoLogicStudio, H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g 2019 ©NAARO)

Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow

OrganizersMori Art Museum
NHK
In Association withEmbassy of Switzerland in Japan
Grant fromAdam Mickiewicz Institute / culture.pl
Australian Embassy Tokyo
The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Corporate SponsorsOBAYASHI CORPORATION
Delta Electronics (Japan), Inc.
JUT Group (Taiwan)
MAIN
MGM Resorts Japan
Thai Beverage Public Company Limited
SANKEN SETSUBI KOGYO CO., LTD.
mixi, Inc.
IHI Transport Machinery Co., Ltd.
KUME SEKKEI Co., Ltd.
NIPPON PMAC Co., Ltd.
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
AMANO Corporation
SHINRYO CORPORATION 
SupportALL NIPPON AIRWAYS CO., LTD.
Champagne Pommery
Production SupportTAKENAKA CORPORATION
NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD
NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
GE Healthcare Life Sciences
ASTRODESIGN,Inc.
PatronTezuka Kiyoshi
Curated byNanjo Fumio (Director, Mori Art Museum)
Kondo Kenichi (Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Honor Harger (Executive Director, ArtScience Museum, Singapore)
Curatorial AdvisorsSymbioticA, The University of Western Australia
The Mori Memorial Foundation