Kazuhiro Tanimoto's Rain Blooms Opens in Tokyo Tomorrow

🌧️ Pixels come alive

By Art Blocks Explorations
May 18, 2026, 3:39 PM
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Rain Blooms, a new work by Kazuhiro Tanimoto, debuts as an immersive physical exhibition at the neort gallery in Tokyo on May 15.​

The project explores evolution through pixels operating as living cells, using a cellular automaton system where cells interact, merge, and react to create unpredictable visual and auditory events.​

Following the Tokyo exhibition, Tanimoto will release 128 digital works on Art Blocks Studio on May 21.​

This marks Tanimoto's return to Art Blocks three years after his curated project Memories of Digital Data, which is now part of the AB500 permanent collection.​ While that earlier work meditated on data deterioration and loss, Rain Blooms experiments with data as a metaphor for life and evolution.​

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Art Blocks 500 artist Kazuhiro Tanimoto @KZ_LAB_E is debuting Rain Blooms at the @neort_io gallery in Tokyo, Japan on May 15. Rain Blooms is also coming to Art Blocks Studio. đź’Ą Stay tuned.

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📣Press release out now! NEORT++ presents 《Rain Blooms — Worlds Emerging from Computation》 by Kazuhiro Tanimoto @KZ_LAB_E — opening May 15. Generative visuals emerging from cellular automata. 🤝A collaboration with Art Blocks Studio @artblocks_io prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p…

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