Shunsuke Takawo

Born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1981, he is a creative coder engaged in cross-disciplinary practice that integrates expressive activity through program code grounded in information technology, the articulation of its underlying methodologies, and educational practice. From a position bridging the humanities and computational expression, he understands code not merely as a technical tool but as an expressive medium that mediates thought and sensibility, and he develops creation, research, and education as an integrated whole.

In 2019, he proposed “Daily Coding” as a practical methodology that connects programming to everyday life, personal history, local climate, and specific cultural contexts, and he continues to make visible the processes of thought through sustained creation and documentation. In 2021, he launched the generative art project “Generativemasks” using NFTs, which gained international attention as a case study that socially articulated the relationship between generative art and decentralized platforms.

He currently serves as Representative Director of the Japan Generative Art Foundation, where he is involved in the planning and operation of programs for the dissemination and education of generative art, and in practices that link creation, research, and community building.