Architect / Director of Kyoto City Museum (Commonly used name: Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art). Born in 1956 in Yokohama, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University with a Master of Architecture in 1982. Established his own eponymous practice, Jun Aoki and Associates (re-organized as AS in 2020) in 1991. Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Award by Fukushima Lagoon Museum in 1999, and by Kyoto City Museum in 2021. Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize in 2005. Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts.

Runs an advertisement production company, while also being active as a writer and interviewer in the fields of music, cinema and dance. He is the director of “LAND FES,” an event revolving around improvised sessions with dancers and musicians while wandering through the streets, and is involved in the planning and implementation of workshops and other events for handicapped children.

Curator, associated professor at the Tokyo University of The Arts. Received her BA in Literature from Keio University, and her MA in Museum Studies from Leicester University. Has been involved in the organization of exhibitions and educational programs as a curator for the MitakaCity Arts Foundation(1994-2002) and Mori Art Museum (2003-2018). Exhibitions she curated include ”Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb,” “Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children,” “Dinh Q. Lé: Memory for Tomorrow,” and “Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice.”

Torajiro Aida (born in 2001) is a media artist and a software engineer. They interact with various technologies such as language, artificial intelligence, blockchain, law, and operating system to pursue the imaginative and creative applications. Works and Exhibitions – Solo Exhibition “yume tensei”, UENOSHITA STUDIO, Ueno, Tokyo, 2024. – “Toward the Emancipation of All Smart Contracts, Accounts and Beyond”, Exhibited at “Meta Fair #1”, Sonoaida, Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan, 2022. – “Ero Law Search”, Exhibited at Media Ambition Tokyo (group exhibition), Tokyo City View, Roppongi Hills Building, Tokyo, Japan, 2021. – “Consonant-friends”, Exhibited at Media Ambition Tokyo, Tokyo, 2020. – “I’m In The Computer Memory!”, 21st Japan Media Art Festival, Newbies Award, Exhibited at 21st Japan Media Art Festival, Japan, 2018. – Join a Gloup Exhibition as Aida-ke, “An Art Exhibition for Children Whose place is this?”, Museum Contemporary Art of Tokyo, Japan, 2015. Other Activities – Perticipated in IT Human Resources Discovery and Training Project “MITOU”, Information-technology Promotion Agancy, Japan, 2018. – Masason Foundation alumni.