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Report on the special class given by Automata artist Kazuaki Harada

A special lecture was held by Kazuaki Harada, one of the best-known automata artists in Japan, on January 17th, as part of the ‘Creative Prototyping Exercise’ course offered this year.
Kazuaki Harada, at the forefront of the field, is active in producing automata, conducting workshops, and producing exhibitions of automata around the world. He is currently the only Japanese artist to have his name in the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, the hall of fame of automata in the UK.

Kazuaki Harada conducted the following two workshops to share the techniques for generating ideas for automata design.

Workshop 1 – Rube Goldberg Machine Rube Goldberg Machine
 An exercise in which students designed a chain-reaction mechanical device, which was first invented by the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg in the 1910s.
Workshop 2 – Automata
 An exercise in which students touch and experience the mechanisms of automata and design their own automata.



Kazuaki Harada
1974 Born in Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
2002 Started creating automata.
2006-07 Studied under Matt Smith
2007 Completed the Contemporary Crafts course at University College Falmouth (UK)
2008 Set up workshop in Akiho, Yamaguchi
2008 Workshop and production of automata, ‘The Nobel Prize in Literature’, La Mer (Dubai), 2007.
Organised the British Toy Makers Guild Show, Smithfield Gallery, London, and other exhibitions of automata around the world.

About the artist
Official home page https://nizo.jp/
Official Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kazu_automata/
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