biography
I am an artist, filmmaker, AI engineer, and inventor whose practice examines how artificial intelligence and classification systems define normality. My work explores bodies, voices, and lives that are excluded, misread, or rendered invisible by technological systems in the name of progress, safety, and accuracy.
Drawing on my background as the founder and CEO of Creator’s NEXT and the inventor of 20 AI-related patents, I use hacking, glitches, errors, and misreadings as artistic methods. Through films, installations, and image-based works, I investigate the violence hidden inside seemingly neutral technologies.
I hold an M.F.A. in Inter-Media Art from Tokyo University of the Arts, and have completed AI-related programs at the University of Tokyo (GCI) and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Biography
1984 Born in New York, USA
2003 Founded Creator’s NEXT, currently serving as CEO
2006 Graduated from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
2024 Enrolled in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art
2026 M.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Inter-Media Art
Art, Film, and Media Awards
2021 Grand Prize, MONSTER Exhibition 2022
2025 Selected Artist, 2nd Cohort, Tokyo Artist Accelerator Program
2025 Best Short Documentary Film Nominee, Atlantis Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2025 Official Selection, CENRETA Art Award 2025, Bangkok, Thailand
2025 Honorable Mention, Film Arts & Hearts Festival, USA
2025 Best Humanity Film, ICP Entertainment Film Festival, USA
2025 Best Short Documentary, Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition, USA
2025 Best Documentary, 14th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival, India
2026 Best Director – Short Documentary, Berlin Indie Film Festival, Germany
2026 Best Short Film, Kaia International Film Festival, Turkey
2026 Silver Remi Award, Shorts Documentary, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, USA
2026 Official Selection, Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF), Canada
Canadian Screen Award–Qualifying Festival
Artist Visit
2025 Visited Andan, a member of ruangrupa, in Indonesia for a collaborative project
Patents
Kubota is the inventor of 20 AI-related patents granted or filed across Japan, the United States, China, and Hong Kong. His patented work spans adversarial defense, AI hacking countermeasures, neural network optimization, machine learning workflows, and real-data platforms.
Selected patents:
Patent No. 6968475 – Adversarial Defense Using IoT Sensors
Patent No. 6971514 – Optimal Defense Against AI Hacking
Patent No. 6942900 – Hidden Layer Optimization with a Focus on Activation Functions
Patent No. 6774129 – Optimization of Preprocessing, Models, and Hyperparameters for Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
Patent No. 6647543 – Real-Data Platform and Psychological Preservation