Mamoru Watanabe (b.1992, Tokyo, Japan) bridges artistic practice and research to explore the subjectivity of embodied sensory experience. His work investigates the intimate, first-person realities of the sensing body through audiovisual works, interactive installations, and immersive technologies that shift the audience's focus from external observation to internal, felt awareness.
He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, UK, where he conducts research on synaesthesia in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) under the supervision of Prof. Atau Tanaka and Dr. Oussama Metatla. He is also the co-founder of the artistic research collective FEAMR and a resident at Noods Radio.
His recent presentations and exhibitions include ACMCHI (2025/2026); Serendipity Art Festival, Goa (2025); xCoAx, Dundee (2025); Spike Island, Bristol (2024); IRCAM, Paris (2022/2024); Outernet, London (2023); and Bargehouse, London (2022). His accolades include First Prize in the Bloomberg Design Competition (2017), a fully funded doctoral scholarship from the University of Bristol (2022), the Grant for Young Artists from the Pola Art Foundation (2026), and selection as one of 100 Japanese Motion Graphic Creators (2020/2022/2026).
