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Mamoru Watanabe (b.1992, Tokyo, Japan) works with artistic creation and design research to explore subjective, sensory, and perceptual experience. His practice investigates how bodily perception, imagination, and experiential structures can be articulated and engaged with through interactive systems, audiovisual works, and experimental media, without reducing their complexity.
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.
Alongside his research, he actively engages in visual art, media art, and music projects, often collaborating with other practitioners. He is also the co-founder of the artistic research collective FEAMR and a resident at Noods Radio.
His recent presentations and exhibitions include 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), and selection as one of 100 Japanese Motion Graphic Creators (2020/2022).