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**Baku Hashimoto** is a visual artist who works independently across a wide range of mediums—from [[generative-art|generative art]] and [[motion graphics]] to [[stop-motion animation]] and [[interactive design]]. Influenced by experimental film and [[ハッカー文化|hacker culture]], he explores new ways of creating through both visual experimentation and technical innovation. By continually researching tool development and diverse modes of expression, he pursues a variety of styles within the visual arts.
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アニメーションから生成アート、インタラクティブデザインまで様々なメディアを横断して制作する映像作家。実験映画とハッカー文化の影響を受け、視覚表現とテクノロジーの両方の領域において新たな可能性を探究する。
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[Contact](contact){.button}

### Exhibition / Performances

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- 2024
  - :en[[[giftoooon|Ac-bu solo exhibition “GIFTOOOON”]]] :ja[[[giftoooon|AC部個展『GIFTOOOON』]]]
- 2023
  - [EASTEAST (w/ YOSHIROTTEN)](https://easteast.org/2023/)
- 2022
  - [MUTEK.JP “Beyond the Irisium Sea” w/ YOSHIROTTEN, TAKAKHAN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwxbjlZQJ2Y)
- 2011
  - [THE SIX](https://www.musabi.ac.jp/topics/20111216_01_01/)

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### Awards

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- 2025
  - [:en[Grand Prize, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards] :ja[東京TDC賞 グランプリ]](https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2025-results/)
  - [:en[TDC Prize, Small Graphics Category Nominee, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards] :ja[東京TDC賞：TDC賞、小型グラフィックカテゴリー部門入選]](https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2025-results/)
  - [Best Experimental, Berlin Music Video Awards](https://www.berlinmva.com/news/berlin-music-video-awards-2025-winners-compilation/)
- 2024
  - [Finalist, Design category, ACC Tokyo Creativity Awards](https://acc-awards.com/festival/2024fes_result/design.html)
- 2019
  - [Ars Electronica Animation Festival](https://ars.electronica.art/outofthebox/en/?post_type=post&p=5113)
  - [Special Mention, 24th ifva Animation Category](https://blog.hkmovie6.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1%E7%86%B1%E8%A9%B1/ifva%E7%8D%A8%E7%AB%8B%E7%9F%AD%E7%89%87%E5%8F%8A%E5%BD%B1%E5%83%8F%E5%AA%92%E9%AB%94%E7%AF%80-%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B%E5%B1%86-%E6%AF%94%E8%B3%BD%E5%BE%97%E7%8D%8E%E5%90%8D%E5%96%AE/)
- 2018
  - [:en[Audience Award, New Chitose Airport Int'l Animation Festival 2018] :ja[新千歳空港国際アニメーション映画祭 観客賞]](https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/306679)
  - [Vimeo Staff Picks - imai / Fly ft. 79, Kaho Nakamura](https://vimeo.com/246660563)
- 2017
  - [:en[20th Japan Media Art Festival, Entertainment Division, Jury Selection] :ja[第 20 回文化庁メディア芸術祭 審査委員会推薦作品]](http://festival.j-mediaarts.jp//download/20jmaf_jury_selections_en.pdf)
- 2016
  - [:en[The Best Music Animation, New Chitose Airport Int'l Animation Festival 2016] :ja[新千歳国際アニメーション映画祭 ベストミュージックアニメーション]](http://airport-anifes.jp/en/competition/awards/)
  - [Bronze Lion, Digital Craft category, Cannes Lions Festival](http://www.canneslionsarchive.com/winners/entry/782424/deja-vu-kamra)
  - [Silver Pencil, One Show](https://www.oneclub.org/#olmag=/_ajax/archive/?action=arc_work%26value=23739%26rndm=906)
  - [Graphite Pencil, Animation & Illustration for Digital Marketing category, D&AD](http://www.dandad.org/awards/professional/2016/crafts-for-advertising/25016/the-color-eater-adobe-creative-clouds-philosophy-video/)
- 2015
  - [:en[New Face Award, Entertainment category, 19th Japan Media Art Festival] :ja[第 19 回文化庁メディア芸術祭 エンターテイメント部門 新人賞]](http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp/en/festival/2015/entertainment/works/19e_group_inou_eye/)
  - [:en[Execellence Award, Moving Images category, Asia Digital Art Award] :ja[アジアデジタルアート大賞展 動画部門 優秀賞]](https://adaa.jp/ja/winners/winners2015.html)
- 2010
  - [:en[Grand Prize, TV Document category, NHK National High School Broadcasting Competition] :ja[第 56 回 NHK 杯全国高校放送コンテスト TV ドキュメント部門 最優秀賞]](http://www.nhk-sc.or.jp/kyoiku/ncon/ncon_h/kako50/pastresult3.html)

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### Publications

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- 2025
  - **[[baku89|橋本麦]]**, [[加藤淳]]. [[tweeq|Tweeq]]: [クリエータによるクリエータのためのパラメタ調整GUIウィジェット](https://scrapbox.io/wiss2025/27_Tweeq:_%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%81%AE%E3%81%9F%E3%82%81%E3%81%AE%E3%83%91%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A1%E3%82%BF%E8%AA%BF%E6%95%B4GUI%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%88). _WISS 2025（第 33 回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ）_.
  - **[[baku89|Baku Hashimoto]]**, [[加藤淳|Jun Kato]]. [[tweeq|Tweeq]]: Parameter-Tuning GUI Widgets by/for Creative Professionals. In _Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ([[UIST]] ’25)_. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746059.3747723
- 2021
  - **[[baku89|Baku Hashimoto]]**. [[glisp|Glisp]]: Lisp-based Graphic Design Tool. In _Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Real-Time Live! (SA ’21)_, Article 3, 1 page. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478511.3491312

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### Interviews / Speaking Engagements

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- 2025
  - [:en[JAGDA Design Conference 2025 “Graphic Design Now” – Session “Technology: AI and Design Space”] :ja[JAGDAデザイン会議2025「Graphic Design Now」テクノロジー｜AIとデザイン空間]](jagda-design-now)
- 2024
  - [:en[YCAM InterLab Camp vol.5 “Homo Codens — How Will Humans Draw in the Age of AI?” — Panelist / Workshop Leader; Cross-talk vol.1 Co-lecturer w/ [[takawo|Shunsuke Takawo]]] :ja[YCAM インターラボ・キャンプ vol.5「ホモ・コーデンス—AI時代、人類はどう描くのか」 クロストーク vol.1 講師（w/ [[takawo|高尾俊介]]）]](https://www.ycam.jp/events/2024/cross-talk-vol1-of-interlab-camp-vol5/)

- 2023
  - [:en[Tokyo University of the Arts Art DX Project Special Lecture: “Between the Generative and the Handcrafted” (Japanese only)] :ja[東京藝術大学アート DX プロジェクト 特別講演『ジェネとチマの狭間で』]](https://vimeo.com/event/2667716/dac315c3b5)
- 2022
  - [:en[JDN - Creator's Workspace (Japanese only)] :ja[JDN - クリエイターの仕事場]](https://www.japandesign.ne.jp/interview/workspace-hashimoto-1/)
- 2021
  - [Future Sketch Talks "What do creative coding toolkits of the future look like?", MIT Media Lab](https://www.media.mit.edu/events/future-sketches-talks/)
- 2019
  - [NHK World - Anime Supernova "Creates Innovative Images with Self-Developed Expressive Tools"](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2065030/)
  - [:en[NEWREEL: Do You Ever Feel That Expression Has Already Been Exhausted? From Video Production to R&D (Japanese only)] :ja[NEWREEL:「表現って出つくした」って思いますか？ 映像制作から R&D へ]](https://newreel.jp/feature/3764)
- 2018
  - [:en[5th New Chitose Airport Intl. Animation Festival: Master Class] :ja[第 5 回新千歳国際アニメーション映画祭 マスタークラス「ハッカー的態度と映像制作」]](https://www.slideshare.net/BakuHashimoto/new-chitose-2018-121674926/)
  - [Motion Plus Design's Meet-Up Paris 2018: Guest Speaker](https://x.com/Mo_Plus_Design/status/1017797323324305414)
  - [:en[Japanese Motion Graphics Creators 2018] :ja[映像作家 100 人]](http://eizo100.jp/archives/category/2018/)
  - [MdN Managine Feb 2018, Design Digest (Fly ft. 79, Kaho Nakamura)](https://www.mdn.co.jp/di/MdN/)
- 2017
  - [+81 MAGAZINE Vol.78 U-30 Creators The Millennial-Generation issue](http://www.plus81.com/detail.php?id=241)
  - [MdN Magazine Jan 2018, Software review: Parallels Desktop for Mac 11](https://www.mdn.co.jp/di/MdN/?asid=4234)
  - [:ja[NEWREEL - ○○ 風でないコンピュータ映像の世界 橋本麦の Playlist]](https://newreel.jp/playlist/baku-01) [:en[5 favorite videos from recent CGI experimentalism]](https://medium.com/@BakuHashimoto/5-favorite-videos-from-recent-cgi-experimentalism-8dc688097385)
  - [JDN - Creator's works](https://www.japandesign.ne.jp/creator/hashimotobaku/)
  - [Motion Plus Design's Meet-Up Tokyo 2017: Guest Speaker](http://motion-plus-design.com/meetuptokyo2017/)
  - [:en[Japanese Motion Graphics Creators 2017] :ja[映像作家 100 人+100]](http://www.bnn.co.jp/books/8545/)
  - [MdN DESIGNERS FILE 2017](http://www.mdn.co.jp/di/book/3216303027/)
- 2016
  - [The Creators Project: Digital Distortion Slices Up Olga Bell's Newest Music Video](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/olga-bell-glitch-distortion-music-video)
  - [The Creators Project: Claymation Rotoscoping Is Now a Thing—And It's Incredible](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/claymation-rotoscope-stop-motion-short-film-kinect)
  - [DemoDay Tokyo #1 Speaker](http://demoday.tokyo/archive/20160417/Baku_Hashimoto/en/)
  - [:en[MdN Magazine Aug 2016, Featured Article: Favorite works of each 100 artists] :ja[MdN 2016 年 8 月 特集：表現者 100 人の「この作品を語らせろ！」]](http://www.mdn.co.jp/di/MdN/?asid=3622)
  - [FITC Tokyo 2016 Speaker: "Think of Look"](http://fitc.ca/presentation/think-of-look/)
  - [:en[MdN Magazine Mar 2016, Featured Interview: Kitasenju Design x Baku Hasihmoto] :ja[MdN 2016 年 3 月号 人と人 / 渡邊敬之 × 橋本麦]](http://www.mdn.co.jp/di/MdN/?asid=3524)
- 2015
  - [white-screen “The Perfect Insider” ED Interview](http://web.archive.org/web/20161130085604/http://white-screen.jp/?p=75496)
  - [white-screen "group_inou - EYE" Interview](whitescreen-eye)
  - [:en[Japanese Motion Graphics Creators 2015] :ja[映像作家 100 人 2015]](http://www.bnn.co.jp/books/7535/)
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### Education / Residencies

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- 2025
  - [Osaka Expo EU-Japan Animation Residency](https://www.cultureinexternalrelations.eu/2025/03/27/osaka-expo-eu-japan-animation-residency-bridging-cultures-through-the-art-of-animation/)
- 2021
  - [:en[Projects to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, 2021-2022] :ja[文化庁メディア芸術クリエイター育成支援事業]](https://creators.j-mediaarts.jp/project/niu)
- 2016
  - School for Poetic Computation, NYC, Fall 2016
- 2013
  - Musashino Art University, Department of Imaging and Science, Tokyo, Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2013

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