Awards & Recognition

  • Grand Prix "Zlatko Slavenski" Award, Skopje Light Art Festival, North Macedonia

  • Top Ten Finalist, Zsolnay Light Art Festival, Hungary

Selected Exhibitions

  • EXPO 2025 World Expo, Osaka, Japan

  • Ars Electronica Festival, XRE's Ars Electronica Festival Garden NYC Portal, New York

  • Japan Annual-Intl. Art Festival, UNESCO World Heritage Site Daigo-ji Temple, Kyoto

  • Art Dubai, NFTAsia,New Media Section, UAE

  • ARTECHOUSE, NFT Art Showcase, Washington DC

  • Tokyosaï, Magasins Généraux, Paris, France

  • #GROWINTHEDARK featuring Eri Harigai, Tokyo Love Hotels, Tokyo, Japan

  • “Secret Room” as part of Van Gogh x Japan, Theatre Of Digital Art Dubai (TODA), UAE

  • Temporal Vision Public Billboard Feature, Times Square, New York

Talks & Presentation

  • Invited Speaker, 'Color, Time and the Blockchain,' a DMINTI x MOCA Presentation

  • Invited Presenter, 映像作家100人+NEWCOMER100,
    '100 Japanese Motion Graphics Creators +NEWCOMER 100” Event

Press & Publications

  • Featured In: Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Metropolis Tokyo

  • Publication: 映像作家100人, 100 Japanese Motion Graphics Creators + NEWCOMER 100 Book

Eri Harigai is a new media artist working between physical craft and digital technology. Her practice combines traditional techniques, sculpture, electronics, and moving image to create hybrid artworks exploring the relationship between human-made processes and machine systems.

Drawing from her cross-cultural background and experience in immersive media, her recent works explore preservation, transformation, and the human touch within technological systems.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at ARTECHOUSE, Theatre of Digital Art, and Expo 2025 Osaka, alongside exhibitions and festivals across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

PAUSE/PLAY (2025)

Fabric, repurposed electronic components, embedded LED matrix display, digital moving image
Presented at: ARTGUMI Nanikore Exhibition, Roro Artspace, (2025)

PAUSE/PLAY was created in response to a moment of interruption during the creative process: an AI system halting generation after reaching a usage limit. The work exists as a physical and digital twin, combining traditional tsumami zaiku techniques with repurposed electronics and an embedded LED display looping paywall error messages.

The work examines how AI-assisted creation increasingly depends on access, subscriptions, and permission. It contrasts the persistence of hand-made craft with the conditional nature of contemporary AI systems, questioning how creative freedom may be shaped by systems of access and restriction.

Technical Process
Traditional tsumami zaiku fabric folding was used to construct the physical sculpture, combined with repurposed electronic components and an embedded LED matrix programmed to loop paywall error messages. A digital twin was developed in 3D animation to mirror and extend the physical work.
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Sitting with my failures again (2024)

Resin sculpture, embedded text, digital moving image
Presented at: ARTGUMI B.U.T.T Exhibition, Chignitta Gallery, Osaka, 2024

Sitting with my failures again began as a hand-made flower sculpture containing personal failures and mistakes from recent years, embedded within its form. Before being placed into the sculpture, these written records were translated by AI into gibberish, transforming personal experiences into unreadable but preserved fragments within the work.

The sculpture was then digitally preserved through NeRF scanning, creating a digital counterpart of a physical object that existed only in that exact form and moment. Moving between physical artifact and digital preservation, the work explores how personal experiences can pass through both human-made and machine-assisted processes, extending their existence beyond the original object.

Technical Process
A resin flower sculpture was created as the physical foundation of the work, embedding AI-translated fragments of personal writing within its form. The sculpture was then preserved through NeRF scanning and reconstructed into a digital counterpart.

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Latent Quietude (2023)

Miniature sculpture installation, digital moving image, sound
Award: 3rd Prize AI Category, We Love the Art Contest, OPTIMISM Blockchain

Latent Quietude was the starting point of exploration into AI as a collaborative tool rather than a purely generative one. Inspired by the calm and sensory experience of walking in nature, the work explores the relationship between the organic and the machine.

The piece began as a hand-built miniature installation. It was then 3D scanned and expanded into an audiovisual digital world using AI-assisted sound, image, and motion generation. By moving between handmade craft and machine-assisted expansion, the work explores how AI can extend human-made ideas while preserving the presence of the human hand.

Technical Process
A hand-built miniature installation was created as the physical foundation of the work, then 3D scanned and expanded into an audiovisual digital environment using AI-assisted sound, image, and motion generation. Final composition was assembled in Blender and Adobe After Effects.

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Latest Exhibitions

  • BYOD² - BRING YOUR OWN DATA & DISPLAY
    Shibuya Parco

    EXPO2025, 1 Min Projection Mapping
    Shining hat, Osaka

    XR FESTIVAL 2025
    Cattedrale dell'Immagine, Florence

    NANIKORE Exhibition
    Roro Artspace, Fukuoka

  • Tokyosaï
    Magasins Généraux

    UNHRD, NFT NYC
    Exhibit at The Oculus World Trade Center

    Optimism We <3 The Art
    Winner 3rd Tier

    #GROWINTHEDARK
    Tokyo LoveHotels, HVEN

    XR FESTIVAL 2024
    Cattedrale dell'Immagine, Florence

    ARTGUMI B.U.T.T Group Exhibition
    Chignitta Gallery, Osaka

    100+ Asia Art Group Exhibition
    Shanghai

  • 100 Japanese Motion Graphic Creators + NEWCOMER 100 Book
    Featured in Digital Art Section

    NFT Guide 2023 Book
    Art featured

    Theatre Of Digital Art Dubai TODA
    -Vangogh x Japan @ the Secret Room
    -Ikebana

    Japan Annual-International Art Festival
    UNESCO World Heritage Site
    Daigoji Temple
    NFT Creators File

    Crypto Art Fes 2023
    Shibuya Hikarie

    ARTCRUSH Gallery
    Omotesando

    WE ARE NFTASIA
    Exhibited at SuperlativeSS Gallery Bali

    NFC Lisbon 2023
    Nox Gallery

    DCENTRAL TOKYO
    Shibuya Stream Hall

    ART3 Bridging Dimensions
    21C Museum Hotel
    Featured

    Hitch-Hyper
    DEEP x Nox Gallery
    Exhibition

  • Art Dubai
    New Media Section
    NFT ASIA

    PIXEL BLOOM
    ARTECHOUSE DC,
    NFT Gallery section

    Tokyo Digital Art Gallery
    ART FACTORY Jyounanjima

    Korea Thai Japan NFT Festival
    Uncommon Gallery

    Polyphonic Narratives Exhibition
    Superchief Gallery LA

    Crypto Art Fes 2022
    Shibuya MODI

    GMJ Tokyo Exhibition
    Sleeping Tokyo Whiteroom

    DIGITOMA 2022

    TOKYO LOVE HOTELS VOL.30
    #WTFISNFT
    Art Exhibition

    TEMPORAL VISION
    Times Square, New York

    NFT WEEKS TOKYO
    Nanakusa Art Exhibition

    Tokyo NFT Portal
    @DAIA Shibuya

  • Crypto Art Week Asia 

    UltraSuperNew Gallery

    NFT ART JAPAN 2021
    Dojunkai Galery, Omotesando


    XRE's Ars Electronica Festival Garden NYC Portal

    The Meta-menagerie. New York