More than 100,000 Visitors to Date! MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art
2025.5.20 [Tue]
Visitors to the MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art exhibition surpassed 100,000 visitors as of Saturday, May 17, 2025, only 94 days after its opening.
The exhibition features approximately 50 works by 12 artists and creators from Japan and abroad who are highly regarded not only in the field of contemporary art but also in the fields of design, gaming, and AI research. These works utilize technologies such as game engines, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and generative AI. The immersive experience created by large-scale video installations and the thought-provoking content exploring the relationship between technology and humanity have received widespread acclaim from visitors.
All works in this exhibition are photographable, and the top three most popular works posted on social media are as follows:
- Beeple, HUMAN ONE, 2021-: A video sculpture depicting the first human born in the metaverse travelling through an ever-changing digital world.
Beeple
HUMAN ONE
2021₋
Four video screens (16k resolution), polished aluminum metal, mahogany wood frame, media server, and endless
video with corresponding dynamic nonfungible token
220 x 114.8 x 114.8 cm
Installation view: MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025
Photo: Takehisa Naoki Beeple
HUMAN ONE
2021₋
Four video screens (16k resolution), polished aluminum metal, mahogany wood frame, media server, and endless
video with corresponding dynamic nonfungible token
220 x 114.8 x 114.8 cm
Installation view: MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025
Photo: Takehisa Naoki - Kim A-young, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, 2022: A video installation depicting female delivery workers challenging themselves to make deliveries in the shortest time and distance possible in a futuristic, otherworldly version of Seoul.
Kim Ayoung
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere
2022
Video
25 min.
Installation view: MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025
Photo: Takehisa Naoki Kim Ayoung
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere
2022
Video
25 min.
Installation view: MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025
Photo: Takehisa Naoki - Lu Yang, DOKU Series: A video installation in which the artist’s digital avatar travels through various dimensions of the Buddhist world, questioning the nature of life and death.
Lu Yang
Installation view: MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025
Photo: Takehisa Naoki Lu Yang
Installation view: MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025
Photo: Takehisa Naoki
The MACHINE LOVE exhibition runs through June 8, 2025. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is your chance to visit the Mori Art Museum. The exhibition is expected to be crowded towards the end, so we recommend visiting early.
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