Film director and stage actor. Born in Nagano in 1985, Ota majored in philosophy at Waseda University. “Sotsugyo,” his debut film, won the Japan Tomorrow and Audience Prizes at the 2010 Image Forum Festival, while “The End of The Special Time We Were Allowed” premiered in 12 countries. “Fragile” was released in 2020, soon to be followed by “Sunrise Vibration.” He has acted in plays by the theater company chelfitsch and others, as well as in several television dramas.

Born in Tokyo in 1955. Publisher and chief editor of culture web magazine “Realkyoto”. A guest researcher, Academic Research Center, Kyoto University of Art and Design. Senior Researcher of Kyoto Performing Arts Center, Kyoto University of Art and Design. From 2000 to 2016, publisher and chief editor of culture web magazine “Realtokyo”.  In 2002 he published “One Hundred Years of Idiocy,” a photo book that summarized human idiocy in the 20th century and launched a bilingual contemporary art magazine “ART iT” in 2003. He became General Producer of performing arts section, Aichi Triennale 2013. He wrote and published a photo book “One Hundred Years of Lunacy” in 2014. In 2018 he wrote and published “What Is Contemporary Art?”

Born 1947 in Tokyo. Graduated from Musashino Art University, College of Art and Design. Creative director and producer. Director of Atamatote International, visiting professor at the Graduate School of the Kyoto University of Art & Design, and director/secretary of the Japan inter-design forum. Publications include Art Virus, Urbanart Memorial, Super Calligraphy by Ryoichi Enomoto, and Tokyo Monsterland. Enomoto has been producing the ”Nippon Graphic,” “Objet TOKYO” and “URBANART” exhibitions between 1980 and 1999. He was a member of the emblems selection committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The exhibition “Enomoto Ryoichi Kokaiki” was held at Ginza Graphic Gallery in 2016.  

She graduated from Tama Art University (Craft Department, Glass Course) with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art. After graduating, she joined metaPhorest (biological / bio-media art platform)in the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Network & Biomedia Art, at Waseda University as an artist and visiting researcher. Since 2021, she enrolled in the Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo (Yasuaki Kakehi Lab.) She’s creating artworks using scientific glass production techniques, organisms, organic matter, image analysis, etc.. She’s main themes are to reconsider the borders of nature/society, human/non-human, and the indivisibility of the expresser and the object of the expression at the interdisciplinary viewpoint.

Art writer and editor. She also works as an art coordinator in many exhibitions and projects. The editorial staff of RealTokyo.

Dance critic, Intellectual historian. Editorial board of Theatre Arts magazine. Co-director of “Maiboku no kai”. In 2017, publications include, Takaya Eguchi and Misako Miya’s Modern Dance Group Touring in the Battlefront (co-authored), the translation of John Dee’s “Mathematicall Praeface” published in Essential Scientific Writings in Renaissance Europe.