Mother Tree & Friends, 2023
In this installation, a majestic banyan tree in Esplanade Park is transformed into an interactive “Mother Tree” that invites viewers to communicate with an illuminated forest. The installation uses projections, LEDs, and sound to illustrate the importance of older trees to the forest ecosystem. “Friends” – the trees surrounding the mother tree – begin to […]
Full Spectrum, 2022
Full Spectrum (2022) was exhibited as a part of LUMINEX, award winning large scale outdoor public art exhibition in Downtown Los Angeles. The audio-visual projection mapping piece invites viewers to step into the hidden worlds beyond the rainbow. Bees and birds can see ultraviolet light on flowers and the James Webb Telescope lets us see the […]
Doodles SXSW
https://vimeo.com/721606977 It was SXSW’s first IRL event after a virtual lineup in 2021, and we were teaming up with one of the biggest names in the NFT space. So you could say we knew we had to make something special. Joining forces with the Doodles team, we set out to turn a warehouse […]
Glowing Clouds
Glowing Clouds series explores ever changing colors and shapes of clouds. Each artworks draw inspiration from Japanese nature. Visit NFT Gallery
Portal, 2015
Portal is a 7000 pixels of animated light hallway created by artist Akiko Yamashita in the Weller Court plaza in Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles in 2015. It brings color and motion to the city center. It has become a destination portal – formally a dark tunnel – has been transformed by this […]
DashMart DisPlay
Playing With Your Food on the Streets of New York The DashMart DisPlay is a window game that channels the vibe of a classic claw game (think of the aliens in Toy Story). If players could clasp a faux display of fruits and veggies within a 60 second timeframe, they won a DashMart bag filled […]
Where does water come from?, 2021
https://vimeo.com/532910488 Where does water come from? is a 5 minutes long audio-visual piece originally exhibited at MUTEK JP+MX Virtual Gallery. The artwork explores the creation of water. Yamashita’s imagination flows deeper into space, into the atomic state, into the ocean, constantly changing its state of being. Artist Statement Water flows from high to low.On the Earth at least.Water […]
Eureka!, 2021
Interactive Neural Connectivity “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” – Donald Hebb. 1949 Eureka! TOPIC: Neural connectivity ARTIST: Akiko Yamashita LEAD SCIENTIST: Kristen Anderson, PhD An interactive installation exploring the science of how neurons make connections based on Hebb’s postulate that, in a simplified version, states “neurons that fire together wire […]
Forest Perception, 2021
If a tree talks in the forest, does anyone listen? https://vimeo.com/563380242 ‘Forest Perception — if a tree talks in the forest, does anyone listen?’ projection mapped a giant forest only for one night in the middle of downtown Los Angeles as a part of LUMINEX. The Story Yamashita’s grandfather devoted his life to creating forests […]
Hana Fubuki, 2019
https://vimeo.com/353968236 Hana Fubuki is an interactive installation commissioned for the exhibition “In Peak Bloom” by ARTECHOUSE. Inspired by nature’s ability to help us see what is otherwise invisible to the naked eye, such as the passing of time, Hana Fubuki refers to “Sakura snow,” or the way falling cherry blossom leaves can resemble a gentle snowfall […]