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Zeroichi Arakawa

code poet

BIO

Zeroichi Arakawa explores program code as a medium that is read, tested, and executed. His practice examines the literary and structural beauty of code while foregrounding the experiences produced through verification and runtime environments.

PhD candidate at IAMAS, Japan.

SELECTED WORKS

BUGCAT — Smart-contract sculptures embodying historic vulnerabilities
Executed Poetry — Poems that run on physical devices
CodeTEI — A TEI extension for archiving executable poetry
DeepSea — A code-poem exploring system states through testing
inside window — Excavating poetic spaces in browser runtime

EXHIBITIONS

2025.9Computational Poetry Exhibition（NEORT++, Tokyo） [BUGCAT] [Executed Poetry] [CodeTEI]
2025.2BYOD² (Bring Your Own Data & Display) Exhibition（MIYASHITA PARK, Tokyo） [Lost Language] [inside window] [DeepSea]
2024.111st Japan Generative Art Award Exhibition（Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]） [DeepSea]
2024.4'Visual Poetry' group show curated by Atelier（fxhash, Online） [inside window]
2024.1DIG SHIBUYA - Proof of X: Decoding PFP Culture（GALLERY X BY PARCO, Tokyo） [Async to Sync]
2023.9art stage OSAKA 2023 - Proof of X（Grand Cube Osaka, Osaka） [Digital Native Art]
2023.6Proof of X 2023（THE FACE DAIKANYAMA, Tokyo） [Digital Native Art]
2022.9Crypto Art Week Asia Tokyo 2022（DMM Azabu Satellite, Tokyo） [Lost Language]
2022.7Crypto Art Fes 2022（Shibuya Space Edge, Tokyo） [Sakutaro Poems NFTs]

PRESENTATIONS

2025.9The 14th Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH2025)　"CodeTEI: A TEI Extension and PoC System for Executable Poetry"
2025.7Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies 45th Annual Conference　"Sign Transposition in Code Poetry and the Application of Peircean Sign Classification"

AWARDS

2024.91st Japan Generative Art Award — Selected Work

EDUCATION

2024–PhD Program, IAMAS, Japan
2013M.S., Biological Sciences — Osaka University
2011B.S., Computer Science — Kyushu Institute of Technology
2009National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College — Information Engineering
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