Michael Jackson, in his song Man in the Mirror 

The art is not what you see, but is what you interact with. Good paintings make their viewers imaginative. As every artist has been expressing love in many ways, the authors introduce a novel way to express the shape of love with real interactive way by using state-of-the-art computing technology. The viewers of the art will not see the picture, but will interact the picture literally. >>Sweet Home


The Mirror of Transfiguration reflects your figure on pictures of Canadian nature. Once you take a pose with a specific posture (like raising a single hand, bowing, or ducking), you will transfigure into one of animals of Canadian Gods. The animals are hand-drawn, and walk, fly, or swim around you. >>The Mirror of Transfiguration


In front of the big mirror you wave the "magic" stick, and you see a magical effect on you. >>Air Lights

We are making new furniture that can interact with people surrounding them. The concept of the future furniture comes from ancient Japanese habitat. They believed that Gods lives everywhere and then even talked to the Gods inside stuffs of everyday’s life, e.g., kitchenware, houses, and furniture. The future furniture we have developed is capable to talk with their users, as ancient Japanese used to do. >>RGBy desk

Koiwarai is a Hiroshi Matsumiya's novel published from Magazine House, Japan. In the novel Meguru Wani, a female college student who is happened to be a master of swords, fights against mysterious enemies with Gensuke, also a mysterious old man. >>Koiwarai

Inside Story
So why the computer scientist is doing this art thing? In the book Literate Programming, Dr. Donald E. Knuth, the best computer scientist in our age, pointed out that the word art used to refer not only fine art but also a concept that we might call engineering today before the industrial revolution. This suggests that researchers in engineering are also artist in some meanings. 

Who Are In This Field?

• MayuArt.com is a partner of PineappleDesign.org and has been making media arts with highly sophisticated drawing technique. 
• Monoscape is an award-winning professional media artist group directed by Takahiro Matsuo. The artworks of Monoscape are popular in Austria and Asian countries. 
• Studio Mongoose is a professional art/design unit based in Tokyo. Fuwapica is one of their masterpiece, and so loved by children of the world. 
• Plaplax is a professional group that has specialty on interactive design/art and space design. 
• Kumiko Kushiyama is a talented media artist whose art work Thermoesthesia is widely known. 
• Norihisa Hashimoto is an artist who is known as the creator of quite unique F-Zero photographs. 
• Tsutomu Muto is an artist who is building a new and unique color theorem. 
• Yasushi Noguchi is an artist who is famous by his C-LOC, a locative media.