Artists
0xhaiku
Artist After working as a software developer, 0xhaiku began working anonymously to test the possibilities of art on Web3. His research theme is "a system of art in which everyone can participate," He also explores conceptual yet poetic expression.
Alexis André
Alexis André is an artist, researcher and designer aiming at redefining entertainment. In this golden age of computation and data overflow, why is our entertainment still designed to be consumed in a passive way? A few media are offering interactive experiences, but none of them are designed specifically for you. Alexis is working towards a future where you could enjoy unique experiences that were tailored to your preferences, where the power of generative systems is leveraged to offer individually custom-created pieces. As a first implementation of this concept, he created the robot toy platform “toio” that gathered various design awards (iF Design, reddot, Good Design…). His generative art pieces have been showcased all around the world (Tokyo, Art Basel Miami, COP26 in Glasgow…) and in auction at Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
arata matsumoto
Born in 2000 and hailing from Hyogo Prefecture, He works as a freelance front-end developer while also crafting media art pieces. Engaged in the delicate act of deconstructing the concept of infinity—a foundational fear of theirs—through perspectives on time and life/death, they strategize to alleviate this fear through their recontextualization.
Ayumu Nagamatsu
After studying art history in undergraduate school, experienced as a PM of system development in an internet service company. In parallel, started to create apps and generative art. 2018, he completed a Master’s degree in Media Creation at IAMAS. Freelance programmer and artist.
bouze
Artist bouze was born in 1984 in Hyogo Prefecture. After graduating from high school, he entered Yoshimoto Kogyo's comedian school, but after various things happened, he entered Tama Art University. After that, he worked for tha ltd. led by yugop, and now he is working on expression activities focusing on the blockchain while working at a company. Major awards include Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award and Tokyo TDC RGB Prize.
Jeunne Lee
Jeunne Lee expands her artistic horizons for the end purpose of creating what may be called “communicative art.” She has been actively involved in multiple artworks and research as well as group exhibitions and events across Japan, Korea, and China based on various work experiences in the art world and the market for the past 10 years. She tries to create and robustly maintain a sustainable borderless global art network, as well as continuing her research into large-scale installation’s pace in the art world and possibilities of its coexistence with the latter.
Junni
We change the world with playful ideas that make people happy. We, Juni, are a digital production company with such a philosophy, using ideas and technology as our weapons.
Kazuhiro Aihara
Kazuhiro Aihara is a Japanese digital artist based in Tokyo. He began studying graphic design on his own around 2005, and in 2010 began his full-fledged career as a graphic artist in fields such as advertising design, fashion, and interior design. Since around 2014, his works have been at the International Poster Triennial Toyama (Japan), the Moscow International Graphic Design Biennale (Russia), the Brno International Graphic Design Biennale (Czech Republic), the Trnava Poster Triennial (Slovakia), and the Lahti International Poster Biennale (Finland). He has been invited to international exhibitions such as the Ecuador Poster Biennale (Ecuador), and his major works are permanently stored in the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design (Japan) and the National Moravian Gallery (Czech Republic). Since around 2018, he has shifted his base of art activities overseas and has collaborated with many up-and-coming young visual artists. Although he is a freelancer, he has signed contracts with major global companies Warner Music (UK, Australia) and Universal Music Group (USA), and has worked for international music artists such as Jess Glyne and Perto, and merchandise for Trippie Redd. Notably, from 2019 to 2020, he worked on the first graphic campaign visual for the collaboration between NIKE Global (USA) and fashion brand SACAI (Japan), which attracted the attention of the scene. Provides artwork to ACRONYM (Germany & USA) also Perks And Mini (Australia) etc. In the same year, he held a solo exhibition and collaboration at Dogs, a concept store produced by Japanese artist KOHH. In 2021, he completely transitioned his art activities to a “Digital Artist” and has been presenting crypto artworks on Tezos and Ethereum overseas marketplaces (Teia, [Objkt.com](http://objkt.com/), Foundation, SuperRare, etc.). He explores a style that combines traditional painting techniques, such as original textures, brushstrokes, and color palettes, with expressions such as pixels and glitches unique to digital art. His style is diverse, such as "PSY," an abstract painting series featuring liquid animation, "FAXCE," a portrait series that makes full use of digital textures and brush strokes, and "BFK," a series that reconstructs internet memes based on the digital history. His unique works have been collected by XCOPY, a legend in the digital art world, and are attracting attention in the early NFT scene. He is a rare community builder on the Internet and is one of the few Japanese people who deeply understands the history and trends of the world's digital art through strong connections with top artists. He defines his style as "Uncharted Pixels," and as the name suggests, he continues to create digital art that doesn't exist on the map every day.
Kitasenju Design
He experiments and implements new visual expressions on the web, XR, NFT and other interactive media on a daily basis. Major works include exhibits at Audio Achitecture, Media Ambition Tokyo, and the Museum of Magic. Magazine advertisements, Yamanashi Media Arts Award, design work for Proof of X exhibition, etc.
Kosaku Namikawa
Born in 2000, Namikawa loves the web and networks, as well as installation and construction, and video, audio, and lighting technology, and creates artworks utilizing media-related technologies. He is interested in networks, the boundaries of media, and the act of exhibition through his own productions and multifaceted involvement in the production of other artists' works. He is an unexplored junior super creator, adopted by the Hetero-Vation subversive challenge category, and a second-class electrician.
Masayuki Akamatsu
Masayuki Akamatsu is a media producer, born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1961. He received his Doctor of Arts at the Kyoto University of the Arts, Graduate School of Art. He is a Dean and a professor at Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences. Currently, he leads a research group, named "Critical Cycling". He has used technology to create interactive works of music and video that investigate the relation between the artwork and the audience, as well as the autonomy of the artwork itself. Recently, with the themes of mobility and reality in mind, Akamatsu's research investigates the influence of mobile devices on the individual and society. His characteristic works include: an exhibition, titled "Time Machine!"and "AR Art Museum", two mobile apps, "Banner" and "Decision Free". He also has published a variety of books, including "2061:Max Odyssey" and "iOS Textbook". Lastly, he has participated in the development of advanced information technology products, such as: "Sekai Camera" and "FUN’IKI Ambient Glasses".
Michibumi Ito
Through images and installations using VR, Ito presents situations where physical laws--such as scale, distance, time, perception--language systems, and ways of perceiving the world could have been originally different. Based on the research on religion and pathology, he compares the virtual images created by the VR media with the ‘body’ and ‘I’ or ‘we’ that could have existed differently in the media environment surrounded by today’s internet, devices, and thoughts on the ethics of life. At Retopology Engine Lecture (2021, TIME MACHINE), he presented a VR in which the body transforms on a hammock-like housing into earthworms, fish, or organisms without forms, showing the body before and after human. At XipeTotec Reality (2021, PARCO Shibuya), he studied the ancient Aztec festival of wearing peeled off human skin to imitate the god of corn (Aztec Flaying ceremony) to satirize the current virtual worlds where people still wear ‘skins’ as their avatars.
moku
Born in 2002. moku uses experiences that occur in her daily life to create her works.
Mueo
Stuart Ward is a contemporary Canadian artist. His formal arts education focused on oil painting and art theory; post-grad, he transitioned to digital work while in Tokyo during the heyday of its VJ scene in the mid 2000s. Evolving from the digital to the digital-physical in the late 2000s, he began exploring interactive art installations. His work now borrows from lessons in experience design to inform how artwork can be expressed in an environment without physical boundaries.
NEORT
A startup that develops NEORT, an online platform for new art using digital technology. In April 2022, NEORT++, an exhibition space specializing in digital art, opened in Bakurocho. We aim to create new art experiences between online and offline.
NIINOMI
Media Artist / CEO of NEORT, Inc. NIINOMI explores the possibilities of new art forms that use digital technology, especially programming. In recent years, he has found aesthetic value in the system itself, which continues to output mechanically through algorithms, and produces works under the theme of "System as an Art.
NOLL
NOLL is a creative unit that pursues art and technology at a higher level and creates possibilities for a new era. They create creativity from each aspect of art, brand, experience, and R&D, and constantly updates the "next" sense of values that transcends preconceived notions and common sense.
Reva
Reva is an algorithmic artist, crypto artist, and computer graphics engineer, born in 1986 in China. She received her MA from the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has worked as an algorithm engineer in the movie-making, VR, and AR industries for 6 years. She self-taught generative art in 2018 and became a freelancer making new media arts. At the beginning of 2020 she stepped into the crypto art space and since then devoted herself to Web3 creating and building. She has established the Crypto Art Mutual Aid Association community and WeirDAO, a decentralized organization for independent crypto artists. Her generative project Through the Window was released on Art Blocks in 2021. She was the first Chinese mainland crypto artist to issue the artwork on Art Blocks. Her artworks have been auctioned in Poly and Yongle and showcased in Art Basel HK 2022.
Shinsei Galverse
Shinsei Galverse is a collection of 8,888 Gals shooting across space and time to bring a project of peace to all cultures and people. WAGMAA - we're gonna make an anime! Join the team in Tokyo as we set out to turn Shinsei Galverse into a real anime production. Have your say in the story, art, and development direction of Shinsei Galverse! Inspired by nostalgic showa-era anime. Made with love by Emi, Ayaka, Devin, & Jack. Visit galverse.art for more details.
Shunsuke Takawo
Shunsuke Takawo was born in 1981 in Kumamoto Prefecture. He received his M.F.A. from the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in 2008. He is a member of Processing Community Japan and one of the Selection Members for the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival’s Art Division. He is also a college professor at the Department of Creative Media Studies at Konan Women’s University. In April 2022, he established the Japan Generative Art Foundation (JGAF) and became its representative director.
たかくらかずき
Born in 1987 in Yamanashi Prefecture, he received his MFA from Tokyo Zokei University in 2012, and uses technologies such as 3DCG, pixel animation, 3D printing, VR, AI, and NFT to create works on the theme of rewriting the rules of contemporary art through Eastern thought and pursuing new values in digital data. He is currently working mainly on the concept of Japanese Buddhism. Currently, he creates works mainly based on the concept of Japanese Buddhism. He is a part-time lecturer at Kyoto University of Art, and is currently developing the NFT series "BUSDDHA VERSE" at opensea.
避雷
Technical artist, kind of... Currently an undergraduate student at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering.
