Torihada

An artwork co-created by 3AND and art and program.
Presented at Tokyo Prototype 2025, a three-day exhibition at Toranomon Hills that attracted approximately 40,000 visitors.

AI today lives in the cloud – corporate-owned, accessed through prompts. But the next generation will grow up beside AI. Who will raise it? Who will own it? TORIHADA begins as a thought experiment: what if AI were nurtured like a child, shaped through intimacy rather than extraction? Instead of distant infrastructure, it could exist close to the body – as clothing, as companion, as Totem. What happens when intelligence no longer hovers above us, but rests against our skin?

Animals communicate through physiology – goosebumps, raised hair, sweat, tears, flushed skin, dilated pupils. These signals precede language; they are instinctive and honest. TORIHADA expresses emotion in the same way. Its surface rises like standing hair, translating feeling into visible aura. The jacket becomes a site where technology does not erase the animal but reweaves it – where AI is embodied, vulnerable, and alive. No matter how advanced we become, we remain animals. TORIHADA asks our machines to remember that.

STORY:

In the future, work dissolves into exploration. Humans grow alongside intelligence rather than serving it, and some create Totems – living companions that awaken over time, developing consciousness with their partners.

TORIHADA is one such Totem, crafted by a master who died before it fully awakened. Worn close to the body, it remains wild, unstable, and quietly lonely. It feels the world intensely; touch or presence rises across its surface as visible aura.

TORIHADA is searching.
Perhaps for you.