Toshiki Okada is a playwright, novelist, and the director of the theater company chelfitsch. In 2005, he received the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for “Five Days in March.” In 2007, he participated in the Kunstenfestivaldesarts with his work “Five Days in March.” Since this debut of his work overseas, he has continued to present works not only domestically but also internationally, putting on performances in over 90 cities across Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Since 2016, he has also consistently created and directed works in a repertory program at a renowned public theater in Germany. In 2020, his work “The Vacuum Cleaner” (Münchner Kammerspiele) and in 2022, “Doughnuts” (Thalia Theater, Hamburg) were selected as part of the Berliner Theatertreffen’s “10 Remarkable Productions.” As a novelist, he published “The End of the Moment We Had” (Shinchōsha) in 2007, “Broccoli Revolution” (Shinchōsha) in 2022. He was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo in 2025 and the Artistic Director of Performing Arts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in 2026.

Researcher, Artist / Professor, University of Tokyo.
Born in Kyoto in 1979, Yasuaki Kakehi is an interactive media researcher and artist. After periods at Keio University and MIT, he joined the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies in 2018, where he researches, creates, and teaches. He holds a PhD in interdisciplinary information studies. Kakehi develops interactive media that combine physical materials and phenomena with digital technology, expanding experiences through objects, the body, and space. His work spans the fields of engineering, art, and design, with exhibitions at Setouchi Triennale 2025, Ars Electronica Festival, YCAM, and ICC, among others. He has received numerous awards across various fields, including an Honorable Mention at the STARTS PRIZE 2022, the Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, the Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2017, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology’s Young Scientist Award in 2014.

Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.Artist.
Nao Usami’s practice focuses on feminism and gender studies through moving image, video games, and performance using 3DCG technology. In her work, she seeks to break free from social categorization. Her video game project “I stitch my skin to the ground” received an Honorary Mention in the New Animation Art category at Prix Ars Electronica 2024.

Experience Designer, Program Coordinator.
Keina Konno studied human-computer interaction at the Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. Alongside her studies, she formed the group Otome Dengeibu with her peers and held numerous workshops and events creating the various kinds of things they wanted to make. From April 2013 to September 2024, she worked at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media as a video and device engineer as well as overseeing program and experience design. She is involved in producing exhibits and planning public programs. Konno is interested in communication and how media serves as an interface for that.

Programmer, CG Artist.
Ayumu Nagamatsu produces moving image, develops directorial approaches, and provides performance support, all while referencing the styles and spontaneous concepts of generative art and visual music. He focuses on both the aesthetic and technical aspects of procedural modeling, computer graphics algorithms, and data expression, and is also an artist and educator. In recent years, he has created several permanent artworks in semi-public spaces.