
About
Tomo Kihara works at the intersection of play, technology, and society, as an artist, designer, and developer. He creates playful interventions and toys for thought that provide a new perspective to complex socio-technical problems in an engaging manner. He holds an MSc in interaction design from TU Delft (NL) and has worked and collaborated with organizations like Waag, Mozilla Foundation on several design projects. His projects have been exhibited at places like the Ars Electronica and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Projects
AR poetry project that overlay the user's surroundings with signage posing questions about past and present climatic conditions.
Future Collider is a citizen-led participatory project that uses fictional signs and billboards in AR as a starting point for playful collaborative speculation on the future of cities.
TheirTube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people's YouTube.
Creating a job that provides a social alternative to begging on the street through discourse.
Exhibitions
Exhibiting the project TheirTube
Exhibited the project Street Debater