Image: NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo has begun showing 'WIND FIELD—空間に広がる風を捉える' ('WIND FIELD: Mapping Airflow Across Space'), a new work by a team combining researchers from Tokyo University of the Arts and NTT. The display opened on July 25 and runs through November 8, 2026, as part of the research complex project ‘身体性BEYOND’ at ICC.
According to ICC, the work was created by Ryohei Akita, Koki Sone and Takayuki Hamada of Tokyo University of the Arts together with Yutaka Chiyo, Yuki Yano and Kei Komaki of NTT. The page describes the project as a joint effort in which the names listed under planning and experience design are the same six contributors, while Chiyo is also credited with system design and implementation.
The work is presented as a study of how wind can be sensed and represented as a spatial phenomenon rather than as a single measurement. ICC says that when a viewer blows into the system, the resulting airflow spreads through content on a 3D monitor and a rear screen. By combining a wind-force sensor with a depth sensor, the installation uses sensor data and a game engine to estimate and reproduce the direction, strength and fading of the air across space.
ICC’s description emphasizes the interaction between measurement and embodied experience. Instead of recording wind only at one point, the installation integrates multimodal information to explore how invisible movement can be understood, reconstructed and expressed. The museum frames the piece as a way to test how far a spatial behavior such as wind can be drawn from a single point of data, and how that process might lead to new forms of expression.
The work is included in the exhibition ‘身体性BEYOND’ under the ‘Research Complex NTT R&D @ ICC’ program. ICC lists the exhibition period for that presentation as June 20 to November 8, 2026, at NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo’s Nishi-Shinjuku district, on the fourth floor of Tokyo Opera City Tower.
