World champion new-media artist/designer (and general hero to all) Toshio Iwai was at the Futuresonic festival in Manchester a couple of days ago, to provide a keynote. Toshio Iwai is the creator of many interactive installations and software exploring a wide variety of topics . Most recently, he created electroplankton on the Nintendo DS and has been working on the Tenori-On - a new musical instrument - for Yamaha. The talk covered most of his previous work, his childhood and his background - Chris has covered the event on pixelsumo and videoed the event , and regine has more coverage over at we-make-money-not-art.

Below is the footage Chris recorded from the event. Check back on pixelsumo regularly as he hopes to get full video of the conference:

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