Tomohiro Okada (岡田智博) is an interdisciplinary creative and innovation developer, researcher, policymaker, and art…
Tomohiro Okada (岡田智博) is an interdisciplinary creative and innovation developer, researcher, policymaker, and art curator of contemporary and technology field, Director of Creative Cluster. Since 1995 he has been active in electronic media and creative innovation in Japan especially promoting young talent in new media art, interaction design as a researcher, producer, curator, writer and organizer of numerous creative productions, and policy designs for government and institutions for economic and industry and culture affairs. He has written various policy papers for art and creative and civil development of various local governments and agencies, lectured and held positions at various universities, participated in conferences and symposia, and has worked as a consultant. As a curator and producer Tomohiro OKADA created Fantasista series (2005 – Evolution Cafe, Electrical Fantasista, Creative Fantasista), an independent new talent media art and design exhibition, certification of "Emerging people in the field of Media Arts - 2010. Agency for Cultural Affairs (JAPAN)", "Cultural Promoting Project – 2010 (Fine art). Tokyo Metropolitan Government". Tokyo Art Beat magazine signed most wanted art show in Tokyo, 2008 summer, by online reader voting, Super Robot Exhibition (2014, 2015) were hundreds of global media coverages introducing robotic art and design in Japan, also promoting new media and digital art talents thorough out of his curating and management works such as shown first art show at public art venue of TeamLab and Yoichi Ochiai, and contributing to promote Media Arts in Japan region by Japan Media Arts Festival exhibition (2010, 2017, 2019) as a director, Agency of Cultural Affair.
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Takashi Ito (伊藤高志, Itō Takashi; born 1956) is a Japanese experimental filmmaker known for his avant-garde short films…
Takashi Ito (伊藤高志, Itō Takashi; born 1956) is a Japanese experimental filmmaker known for his avant-garde short films, including Spacy (1981), Thunder (1982), and Ghost (1984). His films are characterized by such photographic techniques as long-exposure and time-lapse photography, as well as a stop motion technique in which series of photographs are themselves photographed frame-by-frame, creating an animated effect. Ito's filmmaking style and interest in experimental film were influenced by his mentor Toshio Matsumoto, under whom Ito learned while a student at the Kyushu Institute of Design. Matsumoto's 1975 experimental short Ātman influenced Ito to create Noh (1977), an 8 mm short. Ito's first 16 mm short, Spacy, was completed in 1981. Spacy screened at several museums in and outside of Japan, as well as international film festivals and universities. Over the course of his career, Ito has directed a total of over 20 short films, a number of which have been shown at film festivals and as part of retrospective exhibitions on Ito's filmography. Ito's debut feature-length film, Toward Zero, premiered at the 2021 Image Forum Festival, and received a theatrical release in Japan in August 2022.