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For ALife 2025, she serves as Director of the Art Program, curating the artistic contributions and conversations within the conference.

Instagram: @masakoshiba / @beaf.art

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👤 About the Curator:
Masako Shiba is an independent curator and the co-founder and executive director of the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation (BEAF), a nonprofit supporting experimental artists and researchers.

Curated as a conceptual project in its own right, the ALife 2025 Art Program proposes that perhaps the most vital scientific insights arise not just from data—but from curiosity, intuition, and the courage to imagine otherwise.

... Yasuo Nomura’s space-borne mandala of dimensional inquiry, or LuYang’s fearless philosophical engagement with reincarnation and consciousness—each artist here contributes a unique and radical perspective on what it means to be alive, to simulate life, or to imagine new forms of it.

it becomes a living, conceptual framework.
The result is a hybrid ecosystem of research and creativity. Whether it’s Shlumper’s sculptural meditation space activated daily, Sasha Stiles’ AI-generated poetry that pulses alongside keynote presentations, ...

Instead, they were encouraged to embed themselves into the life of the conference: to meditate alongside researchers, to attend talks, to let ideas evolve in real time. This integration allows artistic practices to engage with artificial life as more than a metaphor—

📝 Curatorial Note:

At ALife 2025, art is not a passive presence. It is a method of inquiry—one that sits beside science, not beneath it.
The artists participating in this year’s conference were not invited to exhibit “finished” works.

➡️ Ryuta Aoki × Masako Shiba (Live Conversation) Artist and ALIFE Lab co-founder Ryuta Aoki reflects on his contributions to ALife 2018 and ongoing interdisciplinary projects. ryutaaoki.jp

➡️ Yasuo Nomura (Pre-recorded + Commentary by Masako Shiba) A short documentary on PION, Nomura’s space-based artwork.

➡️ Sasha Stiles (Pre-recorded + Commentary by Masako Shiba) Poet and AI researcher Sasha Stiles presents her generative language works created with AI alter ego Technelegy.

➡️ LuYang × Masako Shiba (Live Conversation) ALife 2025 Ambassador LuYang discusses his interest in artificial life and how it informs his recent artistic explorations.

📆 Program Schedule:
➡️ Shlumper × Olaf Witkowski (Live Conversation) A dialogue on ALife, art, and energy between multidisciplinary artist Shlumper and Dr. Olaf Witkowski, General Chair of ALife 2025.

For ALife 2025, she serves as Director of the Art Program, curating the artistic contributions and conversations within the conference. Instagram: @masakoshiba / @beaf.art

🎨 Participating Artist: Masako Shiba

Role: Director, ALife 2025 Art Programs

Masako Shiba is an independent curator and the co-founder and executive director of the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation (BEAF), a nonprofit supporting experimental artists and researchers.

... “to listen to the talks of leading experts and gain insights into the latest developments in artificial life and AI. This is a theme that I find truly inspiring.”

As ALife 2025 Ambassador, LuYang actively participates in the full conference program—not as an exhibitor but as an attendee—approaching it with curiosity and openness ...