Curator/critic. Artistic Director of “Forest for Dialogue and Creativity”. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University and Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on “Information flows”. In parallel, working as a curator of Canon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT  InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, she realized many experimental exhibitions and projects and it is continued up to now..Juror of many domestic and international competitions, many co-publications. In 2023, the first book  “Ecosophic Art” was published. yukikoshikata.com

Born in Aichi. Associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsukuba University, specializing in media and cultural theory. Publications include Culture and Violence: The Unravelling Union Jack(Getsuyosha), Community-Engaged Art Project(joint authorship, Horinouchi Publishing), Art and Labour(joint authorship, Suiseisha), and Towards the 21st Century Philosophy(joint authorship, Minerva Shobo). Translations include Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly(co-translation, Seidosha) and Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt, Declaration(co-translation, NHK Publishing).

Art writer. Was an editor in charge of art for the cultural information magazine WEEKLY PIA from 1991 until ’97. Presently writes for publications such as SPUR and colocal. Has been conducting interviews with artists including Takehito Koganezawa and Taro Izumi, and contributing articles on such projects as the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. Also writes movie reviews, and is involved as a team member in “Meguriai JAXA,” a screening event of archival satellite observation images of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) edited into non-staged movies.

Founder of Studio KIKIRIKI, which organizes exhibitions and events and conducts artistic research for government entities and corporations. Draws on the public nature of European (particularly German) contemporary art and on the design of memory in the contemporary German community, rooted in the experience of World War II and the subsequent division of the country into East and West. Recent projects include “10 Major Cases in the 140-Year History of the Metropolitan Police Department, As Selected by its Employees” (Metropolitan Police Department, 2014), and “ASATTE NO EKI: Stations and lifestyles of the future” (JR East, 2019). Fukazawa is a graduate of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (Media art).

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation and has performed at various venues and festivals around the world. He was Artistic Director of STEIM (2007-12) in Amsterdam and Visiting Assistant Professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (2012-17), and since 2014 Co-Director of AMF, a festival focused on emerging experimental and improvised music form Asia. He is now based in Tokyo.

Editor, president of Gutenberg Orchestra Co., Ltd. Born in Miyazaki in 1964, he is a former editor in chief of the magazines Composite, Invitation, and Ecocolo. He edits books and magazines and engages in planning and consulting. As a writer, he has released 10 titles including “A Way of Edit” and “World without Desire.” He also manages the independent art book label “United Vagabonds” and received an Ihei Kimura Photo Award for Mari Katayama’s “Gift.” Sugatsuke presides over the “Editing Sparta Seminar” at B&B Shimokitazawa and “Tokyo Art Junior High” at Shibuya Parco. He is a professor at Tohoku University of Arts and Design and the recipient of a NYADC Silver Award and a D&AD Award London.