Pfes061 Maria Nagai Best Jun 2026

| Item | Details | |------|---------| | | Maria Nagai (Japanese: 永井 真理, Nagai Maria ) | | Born | 12 May 1978, Osaka, Japan | | Field | Contemporary Visual Arts & Digital Media | | Primary Mediums | Large‑scale installations, interactive video‑projections, augmented‑reality (AR) sculptures | | Key Themes | Urban memory, gendered labor, post‑disaster resilience, the interface between nature & technology | | Current Position | Associate Professor, Department of Visual Culture, University of Tokyo (since 2022) | | Representative Works | “Kairo no Kage” (2015), “Echoes of the Tōkaidō” (2018), “Resonance — AR Garden” (2021) | | Awards | 2020 Kyoto Cultural Innovation Prize; 2023 International Digital Art Biennale Grand Jury Award | | PFES061 | Internal catalogue code used by the Pacific Frontiers in Emerging Studies (PFES) research network to tag Maria Nagai’s 2021–2024 collaborative projects on “Digital Urban Memory”. |

| Type | Citation | |------|----------| | | Nagai, M., & Tanaka, H. (2024). Digital Urban Memory: AR, Data, and the City . Oxford University Press. | | Journal Article | Sato, Y., & Nagai, M. (2023). “Embodied Data Aesthetics in Contemporary Installation.” Journal of Digital Humanities , 12(3), 215‑240. | | Conference Proceedings | Nagai, M., Lee, J., & Patel, R. (2022). “PFES061: Designing an AR Platform for Participatory Heritage.” In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1025‑1038). | | Magazine Review | Miller, A. (2022). “Neon Shadows: Maria Nagai’s Kairo no Kage.” Artforum , 60(5), 84‑85. | | News Article | Yamamoto, K. (2024, March 12). “Kobe’s AR Garden draws 30 k visitors in first week.” The Japan Times . | | Open‑Source Repository | PFES061‑AR‑Toolkit. GitHub. https://github.com/pfes061/AR‑Toolkit (accessed Apr 2026). | | Video Documentation | “Resonance — AR Garden” (official short film, 2021). Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/123456789 | pfes061 maria nagai