Akane Hiraoka is a Japanese new media artist based in London, working across interactive installations, AI-driven systems, and real-time visual environments. Her practice explores how presence, observation, and interaction shape digital systems and human experience.
With a background in motion graphics, she creates audience-responsive works that use gesture, voice, and movement as active inputs. Her projects often operate as adaptive systems that shift in real time, allowing behaviour and perception to influence visual and spatial outcomes.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Japan Expo 2025, art’otel London, and the Royal Society of Arts. She has been invited to speak at events including RAISE Summit at the Carrousel du Louvre, Zebu Live, and UCL IDEALondon, addressing the role of AI, interaction, and human intention in contemporary creative practice.
Observation as Input: Designing AI Systems That Respond to Presence
Akane’s talk presents a practice-based approach to interactive and AI-assisted art that focuses on how visual environments respond to human presence, movement, and attention. The work examines interaction as a continuous condition rather than a sequence of commands, where images change through proximity, motion, and spatial behaviour.
Drawing from recent installations and moving-image projects, the presentation explores how responsive systems can remain open and unstable, allowing visual states to shift over time. The talk situates this practice within contemporary discussions of human–computer interaction, audience participation, and the role of the body in shaping digital environments. Through selected examples, it reflects on how AI-generated material can be incorporated into interactive contexts without fixing outcomes in advance.
