The curator team gathers up and appears for the first time in public!

Implementation summary

Date and time November 23, 2030 (Fri)13:00-14:30
Place United Cinema Urawa Screen No. 3
Main Event Saitama International Art Festival Executive Committee

Message

■ Shoji Toyama (Director)

Film director. Born in Kumamoto in 1984. Graduated from Hosei University, Faculty of International Culture. Study abroad at Boston University. Graduated from Waseda University Graduate School of International Information and Telecommunications. He has directed and written films such as "NOT LONG, AT NIGHT-There is no night"-"Winter Butterfly" and has won high acclaim at domestic and international film festivals. Currently he is the director of the art project "Kurigaura Wednesday Post Office" and "Point Hope".

Creative Director / Contemporary Artist. From 2000, while working from branding of a number of companies to the output, on the other hand, it announces a number of works with no message. Nikkei Advertising Awards, Advertising Dentsu Awards, Japan Package Design Awards, Roppongi Crossing Audience Awards, etc. His books include "Draking making (art publishing company)" and "Super Furoku book (Kokuyo)". Appearing on E-Tele "Shakeen!"

Born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1975. art director. Graduated from Tokyo Art University Advanced Art Expression Department. While doing various client artworks, corporate identity development, and startup company branding work, he produced a gravure idol unit “Gracia!” To support sports.

Born in Tokyo in 1984. Graduated from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Asia Pacific Management Faculty. After graduating, he worked at the NPO BEPPU PROJECT and was in charge of planning and managing art projects in public spaces and commercial facilities. Involved in regional revitalization and tourism promotion based on cultural arts. Established NPO corporation Invisible in July 2015 with artist Hiroko Kikuchi.

Born in Tokyo. Graduated from Engraving Course, Faculty of Arts, Boston University, and completed Master's Program in Tufts University, USA. After living in the United States for 20 years, in 2011, he returned to Tokyo in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and became a creative director of NPO Invisible. He also works as a professor at Musashino Art University, Rikkyo University, and a member of the World In Asia Foundation.

Joined a foreign consulting firm after graduating from university. Involved in business strategy planning and new business launch as strategy consulting. After that, I went to Tokyo University of the Arts, and I felt the need to create a better relationship with creation and funds, and in 2011 launched the crowdfunding platform “MotionGallery” and received the 2015 Best Design Best 100 Award. Launched microcorner platform "popcorn" in 2017.

Born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1983. Performing arts producer. He has been involved in the launch of the International Performing Arts Festival "Festival / Tokyo" since 2008 as a staff member of the secretariat, and has been in charge of production in 11 to 13 years. In charge of business and planning of public theater Roam Theater Kyoto in Kyoto city from 14 years. Involved in the production and production of "KYOTO EXPERIMENT Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival", "Import Project-Kyoto-Okazaki Plan-", "CIRCULATION KYOTO", etc.

Born in Saitama in 1957. Graduated from Musashino Art University in 1981. Saitama Prefectural Art Museum curator, International Art Center Aomori, Chief Curator, Yokohama Art College (now Yokohama Art University), part-time lecturer, Ii Art Gallery (Shanghai), Art Director, I am currently an NPO corporation contemporary art Director of Japan, part-time lecturer at Musashino Art University. "Saitama Art Exhibition Project" has been developed since 2008.

Work production on the theme of "time" and "memory" from around 2004. A representative work is "Respiring shadow-Photogram of exposed trees-" which keeps shooting Hiroshima's exposed trees every year since 2012. We think that it is our own art to work with both wheel of "making" and "sustaining", and create interactive "place" and "time" of the person who creates art and the person who sees it energetically There is. At Saitama Triennale 2016, I was a coordinator of SMF school.

Born in Osaka. Launched "BreakerProject" as a part of Osaka City's culture project in 2003 and worked on community-based art projects based in Nishinari Ward, curated and managed at "BEPPUPROJECT 2010", "Sapporo International Art Festival 2017", etc. Bear. Through the practice of working with artists who create their own expression methods, we will explore new expression areas and explore the "live relationship between art and society".