Shinya Mori

He is an artist who creates work based on the concept of a world that expands infinitely and continues to exist through overlapping layers. With the aim of fostering a society that reflects diverse values through social impact evaluation, he also develops MUSE, an open-source software designed to promote the effective use of living evidence.

Since 2022, he has been engaged in research and development at Fracton Ventures, focusing on funding mechanisms for public goods within the Ethereum ecosystem, collective decision-making in DAOs, and decentralized governance. In 2023, he co-founded Fracton Research (now Beacon Labs). He has spoken at Devcon SEA (2024), Funding the Commons Berlin/Taipei/Tokyo/Bangkok/Buenos Aires (2023–2025), and Ethcon Korea (2023) on topics including proposals for open-source software to enable living evidence utilization, quantitative comparative analysis of grant programs with differing operational models, and the design of positive-sum architectures. In 2024, he co-founded imi and began his artistic practice, creating works that explore the relationship between technology and society. Rather than converging toward a uniform vision of the future or a single overarching narrative, a highly technologically advanced society, in his view, should pursue a world in which multilayered and plural realities continuously emerge and coexist. Major works include Epistemology in AI (2024), Flowers (2024), and Lights (2025).