Toshio Iwai
- January 10, 2024
- Artist
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Toshio Iwai Biography
| Name | Toshio Iwai |
| Birthday | Nov 9 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
| Place Of Birth | Kira |
| Birth Country | Japan |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
Toshio Iwai is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on November 9, 1962 in Kira, Japan.
Iwai was born in Kira, Aichi, Japan. As a child, he spent time creating flip book-style animations in the corner of text books and making motor-driven mechanical toys, since these were the only technologies available to him. In 1981 Iwai matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media. Influenced by the work of Norman McLaren, he began producing installation art that combined pre-cinema animation techniques (the phenakistoscope and the zoetrope) with modern methods of image capture and creation (photocopiers, video cameras and computer graphics) and of stroboscopic lighting (video monitors, video projectors and LEDs). His 1985 installation Time Stratum won the Gold prize at the High Technology Art Exhibition ’85, held in Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo. Time Stratum II was awarded the Grand Prize at the 17th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo. In 1987 Iwai graduated from the University of Tsukuba with a master’s degree in Plastic Art and Mixed Media. In the same year, Iwai designed his first published videogame, Otocky, in association with ASCII Corporation.
Iwai’s first game was the musical shoot ’em up Otocky (1987), produced in association with ASCII Corporation for the Famicom Disk System, an add-on for the NES available only in Japan. The game is notable for being the first to include creative/procedural generative music. Through association with different game mechanics and player actions, the game plays quantized-in-time musical notes in a variety of digitally synthesized voices. Otocky is a precursor of Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s 2002 Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 game exploring similar themes of player action and musical evolution.
Toshio Iwai Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Artist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Toshio Iwai is one of the richest Artist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Toshio Iwai 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Toshio Iwai (岩井 俊雄 , Iwai Toshio, born 1962) is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.
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Later, leveraging work done on the 1993 installation art project Music Insects at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, Iwai created another sound-based game in 1994 for the Super Famicom system called Sound Fantasy. In the game animated insects traverse a grid containing colored dots. As the insects pass over the dots, musical scales, sounds, and graphical effects are triggered. The player can select colors from a palette and paint on the grid, triggering new results and changing the insects’ direction, improvising a visual music performance. However, the game’s release was cancelled and it was eventually converted into the PC title SimTunes, published by Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts.
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Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Toshio Iwai celebrates birthday on November 9 of every year.
Resonance of 4 (1994) is a collaborative music-creation artwork consisting of four adjacent stations, each comprising a small podium bearing a computer mouse, a 16-by-16 grid projected onto the floor from a video projector above, and a cursor connected to the mouse. Dots can be placed in each of the grid’s cells by clicking with the mouse. A synchronized bar sweeps across all the grids simultaneously, triggering musical notes wherever a dot has been placed. Sound is relayed over a loudspeaker system, and the notes from all four stations are superimposed, although each station has its own musical tone. This work was shown at the Serious Games exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle in 1996 and 1997 and at the Barbican Arts Centre, London in 1997.