Mamoru Watanabe (b. 1992, Tokyo, Japan) is an artist based in Scotland, UK, working across installation, sound, moving image, and computational media. Reconfiguring audiovisual practice from an external spectacle into an internal, somatic event, his work investigates how sound, image, and computation interact with interoception and bodily awareness. By treating first-person sensation as a primary material, he constructs perceptual environments that tune into subtle, elusive subjective states.
Bridging experimental studio practice, live performance, and interdisciplinary research, he frequently collaborates with other practitioners to develop projects and workshops, alongside co-hosting an ongoing residency at Noods Radio with Kohei Kamoto. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, 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.
His work has been exhibited, performed, and presented at venues and conferences including 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). He has received the Grant for Young Artists from the Pola Art Foundation (2026), a fully funded doctoral scholarship from the University of Bristol (2022), First Prize in the Bloomberg Design Competition (2017), and selection as one of 100 Japanese Motion Graphic Creators (2020/2022/2026).
