Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again

Victoria Bennett | The Japan Times | 6th November 2026

Mori’s art sounds so characteristically Japanese. Her early, mid-1990s works focused on anime, pop culture and the role of women in Japanese society, but soon she began paying attention to technology. Later performance and installation works blurred the boundary between technology and self, anticipating avatars well before social media. Subsequent works including sensors projecting viewers brain activity onto large displays, place Mori at “the cutting edge of art, technology and consciousness”.