Toshi
About
Since the emergence of blockchain technology, Toshi has made works that deal with smart contracts and their standards, as well as with the ways organizations are constituted. These include “The Ten Thousand” (2022), a contract that meets only the minimum conditions needed to be displayed as an NFT; “OpenTransfer” (2022), a token that anyone can transfer; and “PlayTrain” (2023–24), which links ENS subnames together into a single train. Through very small interventions in standards, Toshi has continued to ask what digital ownership and identity rest on.
Exhibitions
- 2026
An Exhibition of Auto-Destructive ArtNEORT++, Tokyo2026-10-02 – 10-18
Shown: @toshiaki_takase: Room
- 2023
Proof of X - Blockchain As A New Medium For ArtTHE FACE DAIKANYAMA, Tokyo2023-06-17 – 06-25
Shown: PlayTrain
- 2022
Proof of X - NFT as New Media Art3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo2022-04-22 – 05-01
Shown: The Ten Thousand, OpenTransfer, Summer & Summer Moments
Texts
Bound Baw
NFTアートを取り巻く現況を徹底解説。「Proof of X展」マニフェスト
hasaquiJA
Original site no longer online; archived copy.
Works
@toshiaki_takase2026
The X account under the artist’s real name, in use since 2012, opened in a state where others can only take away.
PlayTrain2023–24
ENS subnames linked together, making a personal name into a single train.
The "NFT summer" of 2021, made into 576 fragments for each person to take home.
OpenTransfer2022
A token that anyone can transfer.
The Ten Thousand2022
A contract meeting only the minimum conditions required to be displayed as an NFT.
Contact
- X
- @toshiaki_takase
- GitHub
- toshiakitakase
- ENS
- tsh.eth
tsh.eth resolves to 0xDb5C70D55D427AC1063330129499e1806C50cb0A.