ShadowUp

Release: April 01, 2025

“ShadowUp®︎” is an interactive installation where shadows—not light shows or projection mapping—take center stage.
Using our proprietary StereoLight® system*, the work transforms any environment into a vibrant space where light and shadow leap into the air. It creates an immersive world of dynamic, three-dimensional imagery with limitless resolution, rendered in real time—entirely without CG.
The result is a one-of-a-kind analog experience, full of surprise and wonder that can only be felt in the moment.

For details on the system and examples of past installations, please visit the website below.

“ShadowUp” Project Archives

*1 StereoLight System (Application No.2024-230384)

Work example: A scene from “Syn : A New Horizon of Bodily Senses” by Rhizomatiks × ELEVENPLAY, TOKYO NODE Opening Commemorative Project at Toranomon Hills Station Tower. A dancer’s three-dimensional shadow is formed by the StereoLight system. Photo: Muryo Homma (Rhizomatiks)
Top left :StereoLight(R) System, Top right: Installation Works “High-Powered Stereo Light”, Bottom left: Installation Works “Mirror Balls”, Bottom right: Installation Works “Caustics”

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Credit
Installation Work Example: "ShadowUp Kochi Castle"

Creative Direction: Yoichi Sakamoto, Keitaro Shimizu
Technical Direction: Yoichi Sakamoto, Tatsuya Takemori
Art Direction / Visual Design: Yosuke Kobayashi (Kitchensink.)
Installation Design & Production: Yoichi Sakamoto, Tatsuya Takemori
Stereo Light Circuit Design & Production: Katsuhiko Harada
Handheld Stereo Light Casing Design & Production: Toshitaka Mochizuki
Craft Work: Toshitaka Mochizuki
Support for Fixed Stereo Light Casing Design: Momoko Nishimoto
Sound System Design: Shintaro Kamijo
Sound Design: DJ UPPERCUT
Sound Production: Yuichiro Ozawa (Groundriddim)
Video Direction / Videographer / Editing: Muryo Honma
Production / Project Management: Keitaro Shimizu
Technical & Creative Supervision: Motoi Ishibashi

ShadowUp™ Lead Creators : Yoichi Sakamoto, Tatsuya Takemori

*Names in bold indicate members of our company. Credits are accurate as of the time of publication of this article.