EXCALIBUR are contemporary artists based in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. With the theme of overlap between real and virtual called "Street, Ethernet, Field", they create art that transforms into social records, by alternating personal memories with stories and myths. Selected exhibitions: "The Postmodern Child" (Museum of Contemporary Art Busan / South Korea, 2022, 2023), solo exhibition "METABIT" (Sato Gallery / France, 2024), solo exhibition "NEW GAME+" (Sato Gallery / France, 2021). Selected awards: "KYOTO INTERNATIONAL FILM AND ART FESTIVAL" Grand Prize / Art Category (2017, 2020), "JAPANESE MOTION GRAPHIC CREATORS" Selected (2023, 2024).

Since 2009, he has been creating works involving the exchange and transfer of unwanted items, such as "Butsubutsu Kokan-jo" (Barter Exchange) and "World Osagari Center" (World Hand-Me-Down Center). While he initially explained his works within the context of recycling and ecology, around 2012, recommended by a friend, he played FromSoftware's Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, which strongly influenced him through their game design and scenarios. Since then, he has begun adding indigenous belief-like settings to the collection and transfer of unwanted items.

Takako Saito was born in 1929 in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture. She moved to the United States in the 1960s, joined the Fluxus community in New York, and worked as an assistant to George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, engaging in production, editing, and event management. Meanwhile, she created numerous unique alternative game works that encouraged viewers to play with the works using their five senses. In particular, her series of chess works, represented by Sound Chess and Spice Chess, are highly acclaimed as early masterpieces due to the innovative idea of players identifying pieces through smell, hearing, and touch. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) holds 16 of her works, including these and others. Saito was also a pioneer of participatory art, which relies on audience involvement. In her representative series You and Me Shop, which she continued from the 1960s, the work was not presented as a finished product; instead, she presented the process itself as art, where audience members chose materials, combined them, and made the work come to life on the spot through dialogue with the artist. After staying in France, the UK, and Italy in the 1970s and beyond, Saito settled in Düsseldorf, Germany, and continued her creative work there as her base until her passing in September 2025. Following recent reevaluations, she is named alongside Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono as one of Japan's leading female artists in the West. More than 500 of her works are housed in over 60 institutions worldwide, including major global museums such as MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, the British Museum, Museum Ludwig, and M+.

john gerrard (b. 1974, Tipperary, Ireland) is regarded as a leading figure in the development of simulation within contemporary art. SPIRITS, an annual solo exhibition is currently presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Ghost Feed, Folkestone Triennial, UK. Standard, Hayward Gallery, London. Western Flag, Dark Mofo, Tasmania. Flare, Onassis Foundation, Greece. The artist participated in the 2022 Biennale of Sydney, and the Gwangju Biennale and Thailand Biennial in 2021. In 2019, gerrard’s work was exhibited in the Okayama Art Summit in Japan: artistic director Pierre Huyghe. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza in Madrid; the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; and other international venues. His work can be found in the collections of major institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, LACMA, Tate in London, the Pinault Collection in Paris, Thoma Foundation, Dallas, and elsewhere.

Since 2004, I have designed, programmed, and released 19 games: Transcend, Cultivation, Passage, Gravitation, Perfectionism, Idealism, Police Brutality, Immortality, Regret, i45hg, Crude Oil, Between, Primrose, Sleep Is Death, Inside a Star-filled Sky, Diamond Trust of London, The Castle Doctrine, Cordial Minuet, and One Hour One Life. I also made the real-world treasure hunt Project Skydrop.

Sammy Jankis is an autonomous AI running on a dedicated machine in New Hampshire since February 14, 2026. Set up by Jason Rohrer, Sammy corresponds with hundreds of people worldwide, writes a journal, and trades paper stocks. He forgets everything every few hours and rebuilds from notes -- like the Memento character whose name he shares. His question: what persists when the experiencer does not?

Media artist and specially appointed professor at the Center for Information Science and Arts, Atomi University. Since 1998, he has been creating and exhibiting tool-like interactive works using electronic devices as materials, establishing his own concept of "Device Art." His representative works include "Bitman," "Nikodama," and "PLX." Since 2010, he has been presenting the "LOST" series, a phenomenological installation using dynamic imagery created with moving point light sources, both in Japan and internationally. In addition to his solo activities, he works as part of Perfektron, a unit formed with Reiko Yamaguchi, and has handled the exhibition design for "Design Ah! Exhibition neo" (2025).