Masaki Fujihata is one of the pioneer of new media art, renowned in Japan as well as abroad. His CG work was much celebrated in the1980s, before his interests shifted to creating 3D sculptures from data using 3D printing, as in his CNC-routed Geometric Love (1987), the stereolithographic Forbidden Fruits (1989), and his small scale sculptures using Micro Machine technology(1993).

In the mid-90s, Fujihata produced canonical pieces of what would later be called “interactive art,” including the multimedia installation Beyond Pages (1995-1997) and the exploration of networking technologies Global Interior Project (1995, Ars Electronic Golden NIKA Award in 1996.)

In particular, his experiments with GPS technology beginning in1992 takes a rather uncommon technical tack in gathering data, making for a meticulously composed and unexampled series of cyber-spatial creations that can only be called “the cinema of the future,” or “the shape of media to come.” His 2003 Field-work@Alsace compiled interviews about international borders. The 2009 musical piece Simultaneous Echoes (Ministry of Education Award for Fine Arts, Japan 2010) was created in Northern Ireland. Fujihata’s latest signature piece is the 2012 Voices of Aliveness (Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in 2013,) created in Nantes, France and assembling the shouts of bicyclists in virtual space. In 2018, he reenacted human figures from old photographs taken on the street of Hong Kong in the 50 – 60 ‘s, as a 3D model data for AR (Augmented Reality) application “BeHere.”

Currently a Regent professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S. in 2020.

Dr Yoichi Ochiai, born in 1987, is a media artist and Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba. He received his Ph.D in Applied Computer Science from the University of Tokyo.
As an artist statement, he states following statement; exploring the boundaries in “End to End Transformation of Material Things”, exploring the boundaries between images and materials, nature and computers, and freely crossing the boundaries of computer science, applied physics, and media arts.
His work has been widely exhibited, including in the solo exhibitions “Image and Matter”, Kuala Lumpur, 2016, “Sehnsucht Nach Masse”, Tokyo Amana Square, 2019, and “Yoichi Ochiai, Beauty of National Resolution ∽ End to End Transformation of Material Things ∽ Digital Nature”, in Omotesando, Tokyo, which delved into the aesthetics of eastern philosophy. His work has also been shown in group exhibitions, including “Ars Electronica Festival”, “SIGGRAPH Art Gallery”, “Kempoku Arts Festival” and “Media Ambition Tokyo”.
Yoichi has received numerous awards, including a World Technology Award in 2015, the Prix Ars Electronica 2016, an Honorary Mention in the EU STARTS Prizes 2016, Laval Virtual Awards in 2014-17, 2019 SXSW Creative Experience ARROW Awards and more. He was included in the Best Knowledge Pool at the St. Gallen Symposium and the Global Shapers at the World Economic Forum.

Ou Sugiyama is a senior manager of Experience Planning Unit in Mori Building Co. Ltd. and a director of MEDIA AMBITION TOKYO institute. He has been conducting art activities set in town from college, and joined in Mori Building Co., Ltd in 2000. After serving as a member of Town Management Department and Urban Planning and Development Division, he became a head of the museum,「MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: EPSON teamLab Borderless」 (2018-2019). The museum won THEA AWARD for outstanding achievement and Nikkei superior Products and Services Awards etc. Now, he plans cultural facilities necessary for a prosperous urban life in the future.