Kaori Ogawa

MFA design & technology
Kaori Ogawa is a Japanese multi-media artist based in New York, crafting new ways of sensing and relating. Her work integrates visual, auditory, and olfactory information to explore new modes of human-nonhuman relation.

Previously, she was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, and is a recipient of the Hsun Kwei & Aiko Takizawa Chou Scholarship, William Randolph Hearst Scholarship, and TOMODACHI-UNIQLO Fellowship. Her work was exhibited at Ars Electronica 2025 Campus Exhibition (Honorary Mention), Dutch Design Week 2025, and TEI 2026.

HARDSTOP?

2026

Can stillness become an alternative language between humans and autonomous machines? HARDSTOP? proposes an experimental “stillness-to-stillness” model of human-machine interaction to reconsider the meaning of autonomy of this era. When visitors before the machine fall still, the otherwise ceaseless machine falls still in return.

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