sensorium
Sensorium is a project that was launched online on January 1, 1996, as the Japan Zone Theme Pavilion of the Internet 1996 World Exposition. After the exhibition period ended, it moved its platform to sensorium.org and continued its activities, though the project has since concluded. Its guiding concept was “expanding the potential of the Internet as a neural network enveloping the entire Earth and creating mechanisms for sensing the living world.” The members included Shinichi Takemura, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Ichiro Higashiizumi, Takuya Shimada and Koichiro Eto, among others, forming a diverse group of cultural anthropologists, designers, programmers, and musicians. Each project was developed by small, cross-disciplinary teams assembled according to the needs of the work. In 1997, Sensorium received the Golden Nica in the .net category at the Prix Ars Electronica.