2025年度CCBTアーティスト・フェロー活動報告会「『これからのコモンズ』への応答」

Since 2005, Ueda Maki has explored the intersection of scent and art, creating works that use smell and becoming a pioneering figure in the field of olfactory art. Since 2009, she has taught at institutions around the world including the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, nurturing a new generation of olfactory artists. Nominated five consecutive times for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent at the Art and Olfaction Awards―an international hallmark of olfactory art―and winner of the award in 2022, Ueda is also a recipient of the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award 2024. Currently based on the island of Ishigaki, she runs an olfactory art laboratory engaging in education and tourism while exhibiting and running workshops around the world.

Kishi Yuma reinterprets AI as alien intelligence and proposes the emergent relationship between humans and AI as an alien subjectivity, which he explores through paintings, sculptures, and installations created in collaboration with an AI that he developed himself. Since 2023, the AI model MaryGPT has curated almost all of his work. Kishi’s exhibitions include the solo show Oracle Womb (2025, √K Contemporary, Tokyo) and the group show DXP2 (2024, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa). His awards include the short list for the CAF Award 2024. He is the author of Creating with the Unknown: On the Alien Encounter between Humans and AI (2025, Seibundo Shinkosha).

Doi Itsuki pursues research on synchrony in social groups. His artistic practice explores means of understanding the unique experiences and feelings of others, including artificial systems, from their own standpoints. His major exhibitions include ALTERNATIVE MACHINE (2021, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo), I Forgot How to Look at the Ocean (2022, JINNAN HOUSE, Tokyo), MONAURALS (2023, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo), and Harsh Listening (2025, LESSAYA, Tokyo). His music releases include Peeling Blue (CD, 2017).

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Fujishima Sacco works at the intersection of art, games, and social issues, using painting and interactive media to examine our relationship with contemporary society in multifaceted ways. In her major work WRONG HERO, she employs RPG-like structures to challenge stereotypes around gender and social roles, drawing viewers into a critically engaged experience as players. In Virtual Demo, voices are gathered in virtual space and enacted as real-world “events,” unsettling the boundary between virtual and physical realities, and prompting new forms of viewer agency and participation.

Born in 1992, Yamauchi Shota completed graduate studies in new media at Tokyo University of the Arts. He explores the relationship between the self and the world as well as the cracks that open up in reality and fantasy. In addition to moving image, sculpture, and performance, his transmedia practice has recently encompassed installations that use smell.

Born in Aichi Prefecture, Shimizu Tomoko is an associate professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Global Arts. Her research specialty is culture theory and media and culture. Her writings include Culture and Violence: The Unravelling Union Jack (2013, Getsuyosha) and Disney and Animals: Breaking the Spell of the Magic Kingdom (2021, Chikuma Sensho). Her co-translations include David Lyon’s Surveillance After September 11, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, and Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly and The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind.

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Tsugawa Eri completed graduate studies at Waseda University in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, she worked at an architecture firm. In 2018 and 2019, she worked at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York on a fellowship given by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. She returned to Japan to claim top prize at the Sannomiya Station Plaza Contest run by the city of Kobe in 2019, and established her own firm, ALTEMY. Tsugawa also teaches at Tokyo University of Science, Waseda University, Tokyo Denki University’s graduate school, and Japan Women’s University. Her past projects include the Spectra-Pass lobby at the Pola Museum of Art (2021), Sankita Square in front of Hankyu Kobe-sannomiya Station (2021), the exhibition Incomplete Niwa Archives (2021) at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, and Machi-no-Hoikuen Community School Minami-Aoyama (2024). Her prizes include the Urban Landscape Award Special Prize given by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Civil Engineering Design Prize (Excellence Prize), Tokyo University of the Arts Emerald Award, and Kukan Design Award.

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Hal Seki is an accomplished geolocation service developer and social entrepreneur. As the founder of Code for Japan and CEO of Georepublic Japan and HackCamp, he fosters innovation in addressing social issues. In 2021, he joined the Digital Agency as a Senior Expert in civic tech. His commitment to leveraging technology for social impact has earned him recognition as a prominent figure in Japan’s civic tech movement.

Lawyer/Attorney at Law (City Lights Law) based in Tokyo. He specializes in Tech, Urban development, Art and Design Law. He has a deep knowledge in the intersection of technology, the creative economy, open source strategies, and sharing culture. He is also a board member of Creative Commons Japan and Arts and Law, a visiting professor at Kyushu University Global Innovation Center (GIC), a Part-time lecturer at Keio University SFC. He is the author of the book “Legal Design – Accelerating Creativity and Innovation through Law” and the co-translator of “Open Design”. His work reflects his dedication to integrating creativity and legal knowledge.

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Exploring through poetry and writing how to regain a sense of being with others and recover from the urban solitude that has emerged since the appearance of the first smartphone, Fuse Rintaro’s practice encompasses moving image, websites, exhibition curation, book publication, and event programming. Major exhibitions include the installation Another Mew, which was based on his novel, at “ ‘New “Artists Today’ Exhibition 2024: I Found Myself in You” (2024, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery), the solo show “New Corpse = Dead Corpus” (2022, PARCO Museum Tokyo) and “Planet Samasa” (2022, former site of Odaka Binding Factory), which he curated in a disused printing factory. His publications include How to Write Love Letters (2023, Shobunsha) and the poetry collection Catalogue of Tears (2023, PARCO Publishing).

Director of Towada Art Center, President of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan, artistic Director of “Forest for Dialogue and Creativity”. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University and Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and Kyoto University of the Arts. Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on “Information flows”. In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Juror of many international competitions. Published Ecosophic Art in 2023, many co-publications.

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