Open to collaborations and commissions. A curated short reel showcasing my work is available upon request. Feel free to get in touch.
コラボレーションやお仕事のご相談、お待ちしています。また、実績を厳選してまとめたショートリールがございます。ご興味のある方はお気軽にご連絡ください。
Yasushi Harada aka chimanaco is a visual artist / director currently based in Tokyo Japan / Vancouver Canada. With a background in psychology, he works in a wide range of fields including interactive installations, data visualization, generative design, web, apps, magazine and real-time music visualization for brand activation, museum exhibitions, night club events and music festivals to create aesthetic experience. He is a founder and co-organizer of the TouchDesigner Study Group and has done workshops in Canada and China. He is always eager to work with someone weird to make our world even weirder. TDSW producer/director.
早稲田大学教育学部教育学科教育心理学専修卒。 日本とカナダの制作会社で働き、イベントやミュージアムのインタラクティブ/イマーシヴインスタレーション、音楽ライブの演出、VJ、Web 制作などに関わる。クリエイティブコミュニティ TDSW 運営担当。宝塚大学東京メディア・芸術学部非常勤講師。コミュニティや教育の活動では、作って楽しい人を増やす、新しい事に取り組む第一歩を踏み出す敷居を下げるのを目標としています。
Interactive/immersive installation, live visuals, technical direction and consultant, instructor, web design and development, app development, event organization
TouchDesigner, Notch, Houdini, Unreal Engine, Ableton Live, Davini Resolve, disguise, smode, Unity, Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Processing, openFrameworks, MadMapper, Arduino, VDMX, Resolume, Python, GLSL, JavaScript( WebGL, node.js, Vue.js , React, three.js, etc), C#, PHP, MongoDB, html5, CSS3, Java, ActionScript, Lua
Japanese(Native), English (IELTS6.5, TOEIC900)
日本語ネイティブ、英語（カナダに7年ほど住んで英語で仕事と生活をしていました）
Takarazuka University Tokyo Media Arts Faculty
Instructor for a TouchDesigner lecture series, 2025/4-, Tokyo, Japan
TDSW | Mujuuryoku Session
Instructor, 2024/02/23, Tokyo, Japan
https://tdsw20250323.peatix.com
Takarazuka University Tokyo Media Arts Faculty / Communication University of China
Instructor, 2024/07/29-8/3, Tokyo, Japan
Takarazuka University Tokyo Media Arts Faculty
Instructor for a TouchDesigner lecture series, 2024/4-8, Tokyo, Japan
https://chimanaco.notion.site/2024-e1f4608148614a2f9e68c3642a595a2ahttps://github.com/chimanaco/takara-univ-media-programming-2024
Takarazuka University Tokyo Media Arts Faculty
Instructor for a TouchDesigner lecture series, 2023/4-8, Tokyo, Japan
https://chimana.co/workshop/takara-univ-2023/
https://github.com/chimanaco/takara-univ-media-programming-2023
Takarazuka University Tokyo Media Arts Faculty
Instructor for a TouchDesigner lecture series, 2022/4-8, Tokyo, Japan
https://chimana.co/workshop/takara-univ-2022/
https://github.com/chimanaco/takara-univ-media-programming-2022
Takarazuka University Tokyo Media Arts Faculty
Instructor for a TouchDesigner lecture series, 2021/4-8, Tokyo, Japan
https://chimana.co/workshop/takara-univ-2021/
https://github.com/chimanaco/takara-univ-media-programming-2021
VIVO Media Arts Centre
Instructor for a beginner workshop, 2021/5, Online
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/touchdesigner-for-live-visuals-tickets-142926881149
https://chimanaco.notion.site/202105-TouchDesigner-VIVO-f4753eb359ad48c4aa9cd79f095f8c3e
Instructor for a workshop at Sapporo Media Arts, 2020/12-2021/1, Online
https://connpass.com/event/197414/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-1mBm2OHuE
VIVO Media Arts Centre
Instructor for a beginner workshop, 2020/2, Vancouver, Canada
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/touchdesigner-for-live-visuals-tickets-86560714427#
https://chimana.co/works/touchdesigner-for-live-visuals-online-workshop
https://github.com/chimanaco/td-workshop-vivo201902
https://chimana.co/workshop/202002vivo/
Speaker and instructor at TouchDesigner Summit Shanghai 2018
2018/12, Shanghai, China
http://www.touchdesigner.co/summit
http://manamana.net/VideoPlayer?videoId=4046
https://github.com/chimanaco/td-shanghai-2018-gpgpu
2024/9, Izu, Japan
Lighting performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NotVjKFtj54
2023/4, Tokyo, Japan
Live visuals with Unreal Engine at an audio visual showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhY4Kq_4k0
2021/9, Tokyo, Japan
Live visuals in VR with Unreal Engine at an audio visual showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNFolcQMA8c
2019/9, Vancouver, Canada
Live visuals at art and music festival
https://vimeo.com/364573712
2018/11, Vancouver, Canada
Live visuals at a live coding event
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/coda-20-software-for-people-the-upgrade-tickets-52021081455#
2018/7, Merritt, Canada
Interactive installation at art and music festival
https://vimeo.com/281044464
2022/3-6, Washington, DC, USA
Spring-celebrate visuals
https://www.artechouse.com/program/pixelbloom/
https://twitter.com/artechouse/status/1530937993242021888
2017/6-7, Onomichi, Japan
https://washroom.ws/exhibition201706
2016/10, Tokyo, Japan
https://washroom.ws/exhibition2016
https://courrier.jp/news/archives/64773/
2024/11/20, Tokyo, Japan
Translater
https://peatix.com/event/4194171/view
2020/4-, Tokyo, Japan / Vancouver, Canada / Online
Producer/Director
https://www.youtube.com/@TDSW-online
2018/7, Vancouver, Canada
Organizer
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touchdesigner-beginner-workshop-audio-visualization-and-interaction-101-tickets-45398849180
2017/10, Vancouver, Canada
Organizer
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touchdesigner-beginner-workshop-tickets-37780771
2017/12-2020/12, Vancouver, Canada
Organizer
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touchdesigner-study-group-meetup-20-tickets-102533895642#
2014/3-2015/2, Vancouver, Canada
Organizer
https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Creative-Technology/
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