Games Day Programme: Kids Game Jam Workshop by Daisuke Nishijima

About the workshop:

As part of the exhibition ART BIT MATRIX – TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME– .

Join Japanese artist Daisuke Nishijima for a fun and hands-on Kids Game Jam! In this workshop, children will create, play, and even stream their very own game characters—all in one day. No computer or programming skills are required; just imagination and curiosity!

Ahead of the workshop, participants will receive two A4 worksheets to design their pixel-art characters, name them, and dream up their special moves. During the session, their characters will be brought to life inside a game environment, making this a truly magical experience of art, play, and storytelling.

Games Day Programme: Kids Game Jam Workshop by Daisuke Nishijima

📅 Date: Saturday, 30 August 2025

🕒 Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (with a break from 12:00–12:30 PM)

👦👧 For ages: 9–13

📍 Venue: Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Rd, #01-34, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939

💰 Fees: S$40 per participant (excluding lunch; please bring your own). Drinks and light refreshments will be provided.

✍️ Reserve a spot now!

"Kids Game Jam workshop by Daisuke Nishijima" is presenting in conjunction with the exhibition ART BIT MATRIX -TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME- at Mizuma Gallery from 29 August to 19 October 2025. For more information, visit: https://tinyurl.com/artbitmatrixsg

About the artist:

Daisuke Nishijima (b. 1974, Tokyo, Japan) is a Mangaka and contemporary artist, Daisuke Nishijima made his manga debut in 2004 with sci-fi manga O-sou Sensou (The Universal), and has since published several mangas, including Điện Biên Phủ (Dien Bien Phu) and Sekai-No-Owari-No-Mahoutsukai (The Witch at the End of the World). In 2024, he began to develop indie games and released Mudai-san Adventure and SPACE INVADIANS. In the same year, his works were exhibited in The Development of Characters at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, promoting the theory of “The emergence of Art”. In August 2025, he released the indie game CYBERPUNK:CCMA at Chiba City Museum of Art. His indie game SUSHI-NATOR is currently shown at the Expo 2025 Osaka, featuring creatures inspired by sushi ingredients.

About the exhibition:

ART BIT MATRIX -TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME- at Mizuma Gallery brings together 12 Japanese artists to explore the intersections of contemporary art, indie games, and tokusatsu. Merging two past exhibitions—art bit and Character Matrix—the show examines character design, pop culture, and the fusion of Western art history with Asian traditions. Through paintings, animation, and interactive games, the exhibition also reflects on 80 years of post-war Japanese culture and questions artistic responses to today’s global tensions.

The exhibition ART BIT MATRIX -TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAME- will be showing at Mizuma Gallery from 29 August to 19 October 2025. For more information, visit: https://tinyurl.com/artbitmatrixsg

Curators:

Daichi Nakagawa, Takakurakazuki, and Yasutaka Toyokawa

Artists:

contact Gonzo, Daisuke Nishijima, Hayaki Nishigaki, Kenji Yanobe+BAN8KU+YANOKEN PROJECT, Romana Machin Tanimura, Sawako Kageyama, Shun Okada, Takakurakazuki, Takumi Hirayama, Tomoya Kuki, Yoshihiro Takeuchi, and Yume Aoyama

About Mizuma Gallery:

Executive Director Sueo Mizuma established Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo in 1994. Since its opening in Gillman Barracks, Singapore in 2012, the gallery aims for the promotion of East Asian artists in the region as well as the introduction of Southeast Asian artists to the international art scene. From 2014 to 2019, the artist residency space “Rumah Kijang Mizuma” opened in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to create a new platform for dialogue by supporting exchanges between East Asia and Southeast Asia. From 2018 to 2023, “Mizuma & Kips” opened in New York, USA, as a shared collaboration between Mizuma Gallery from Tokyo and Singapore and Kips Gallery from New York.

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