Born 1976 in Ishikawa. Active as a DJ/producer, while at once engaging in research into user interfaces and musical expression based on artificial intelligence (AI). He established Qosmo in 2009. Understanding AI as an alternative intelligence that is not based on an emulation of the human being, but on an entirely different logic, he continues to explore the possibilities of expanding human creativity with the help of AI as a partner and intellectual cooperator. An associate professor at Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University.

Born 1983 in Tokyo. Received his Ph.D. (Fine Art) in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015. Lived and worked in Vienna as a participant in the Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists in 2015–17. Visualizes self-organizing processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. Recent group exhibitions include the “Setouchi Triennale 2022” (Ogijima, Kagawa), “Drawings – Plurality” (PARCO Museum Tokyo, Shibuya, 2022), and “Aichi Triennale 2019” (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art).