has received the World Technology Award and the Laval Virtual Award from Laval Virtual, Europe's largest VR festival, five times in four consecutive years. In education, he teaches lectures on media arts, media technology and content expression at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Tsukuba. In addition to the University of Tsukuba, he has taught at Osaka University of Arts, Kanazawa College of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts and Digital Hollywood University. . Digital Nature Digital Nature is a new natural environment that is reconstructed through the affinity between computer and non-computer resources and is "a new nature where people, things, nature, computers and data are connected and de-structured" and a new vision of nature proposed by Yoichi Ochiai. Digital Nature's evolutionary speed continues to speed up day by day, and Ochiai states that we must continually renew our relationship with a new, ever-changing nature through digital means. The permanent exhibition "DigitallyNatural, Naturally Digital" at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, , for which Ochiai served as art director and exhibition supervisor The exhibition states that "The world is now full of computers created by us, and the resolution and processing power of the world they create is exceeding the limits of our human perception and intelligence. In the near future, the difference between the original nature and the nature created by the computer world will diminish more and more, and a "new nature" will emerge for us in the future, in which we will not even be aware of the difference. Imagine a big nature in which nature inside and outside the computer is united, and think about how our view of nature and the world will change and what kind of 'questions' we will find". Digital Nature Development and Research Centre As of 1 June 2020, the Digital Nature Development and Research Centre was established at the University of Tsukuba. The research centre aims to integrate computing and nature. In the release surrounding its establishment, it is stated that "The centre will study the co-creation environment of information media devices and people in such a feedback loop and promote a series of research related to 'digital nature', thereby deepening research on elemental technologies, etc. for social implementation, and through interdisciplinary collaboration with culture, art and sports. Through interdisciplinary collaboration with culture, art and sports, we will conduct research on the development of media