Mamoru Watanabe (b.1992, Tokyo, Japan) bridges artistic practice and research to explore and reexamine perceptual boundaries. Through audiovisual works, interactive installations, and immersive environments, he creates situations that shift the audience's focus from external observation to internal, felt awareness. His practice leverages first-person sensory experience as a core medium, developing tools and environments that enable individuals to deeply access, understand, and share their subjective internal states.
He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, UK, where he conducts research on synaesthesia in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) under the supervision of Prof. Atau Tanaka and Dr. Oussama Metatla. Alongside his academic research, his creative work spans experimental sound design, music videos, and moving image. He is the co-founder of the artistic research collective FEAMR and a resident at Noods Radio, collaborating across different disciplines.
His recent presentations and exhibitions include ACMCHI (2025/2026); Serendipity Art Festival, Goa (2025); xCoAx, Dundee (2025); Spike Island, Bristol (2024); IRCAM, Paris (2022/2024); Outernet, London (2023); and Bargehouse, London (2022). He has received First Prize in the Bloomberg Design Competition (2017), a fully funded doctoral scholarship from the University of Bristol (2022), the Grant for Young Artists from the Pola Art Foundation (2026), and selection as one of 100 Japanese Motion Graphic Creators (2020/2022/2026).
