Interactively Visualizing Social Issues! High School Students Release Web Media Art 'entity'
High school students from the 'First off Projects' community have released 'entity', an interactive web-based media artwork that visualizes complex social issue data, with an upcoming exhibition at Niconico Chokaigi 2026.
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- 📰 Published: April 3, 2026 at 17:30
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High school students belonging to 'First off Projects,' a business community of high school and university students, have released 'entity,' a media artwork that digitally expresses open data related to social issues. Currently, two works are published on the web and can be freely viewed from a browser.
■ entity (PC only)
https://entity.studymeter.jp/
This work is a media artwork that allows anyone to intuitively experience the current state of society from a browser by visualizing complex social issue data as 'tangible volume' or 'shattered shapes.' The creators, high school students, started from their original interest in social issues, and completed two works in about four months from conception while learning 3D modeling and development technologies.
In addition, this work is scheduled to be exhibited at the 'First off Projects' booth 'Our Super Future Laboratory' at 'Niconico Chokaigi 2026' held at Makuhari Messe on Saturday, April 25th and Sunday, April 26th. Please take this opportunity to talk directly with the developers and experience it at the venue.
■ Niconico Chokaigi 2026 'Our Super Future Laboratory' (First off Projects Booth)
https://chokaigi.jp/2026/plan/fops/
Work 1: 'Invisible Water' - The weight of water residing in a sphere
Much of the water we use in our daily lives is hidden not at the end of the faucet, but in the production processes of food, clothing, and industrial products. This work visualizes the water footprint (the total amount of water used to produce products) of each country as spheres. The greater the water burden, the larger and darker the sphere becomes. It questions the existence of 'invisible water,' which is hard to convey through numbers alone, in a form close to a physical sensation.
Work 2: 'Soccer Ball and Global Labor' - The invisible supply chain shown by a shattered ball
■ entity (PC only)
https://entity.studymeter.jp/
This work is a media artwork that allows anyone to intuitively experience the current state of society from a browser by visualizing complex social issue data as 'tangible volume' or 'shattered shapes.' The creators, high school students, started from their original interest in social issues, and completed two works in about four months from conception while learning 3D modeling and development technologies.
In addition, this work is scheduled to be exhibited at the 'First off Projects' booth 'Our Super Future Laboratory' at 'Niconico Chokaigi 2026' held at Makuhari Messe on Saturday, April 25th and Sunday, April 26th. Please take this opportunity to talk directly with the developers and experience it at the venue.
■ Niconico Chokaigi 2026 'Our Super Future Laboratory' (First off Projects Booth)
https://chokaigi.jp/2026/plan/fops/
Work 1: 'Invisible Water' - The weight of water residing in a sphere
Much of the water we use in our daily lives is hidden not at the end of the faucet, but in the production processes of food, clothing, and industrial products. This work visualizes the water footprint (the total amount of water used to produce products) of each country as spheres. The greater the water burden, the larger and darker the sphere becomes. It questions the existence of 'invisible water,' which is hard to convey through numbers alone, in a form close to a physical sensation.
Work 2: 'Soccer Ball and Global Labor' - The invisible supply chain shown by a shattered ball