Nicola Di Croce is an architect, musician, sound artist, and scholar. He has a PhD in Regional planning and public policies, and he’s currently Postdoctoral research fellow at Iuav University of Venice, Italy. His research deals with the relationship between Urban Studies and Sound Studies. In particular, he’s interested in collaborative and participatory approach to urban policy analysis and design through methodologies emerging within Urban Planning, Urban Sociology and Sound Art practice. Sound is central to Di Croce’s artistic and academic practice, as he intends critical listening a pivotal tool for the investigation of urban and cultural transformations aecting particularly vulnerable areas, such as depopulation, segregation and loss of local identities. Through articles, lectures, compositions, performances, and installations Di Croce aims to foster sonic awareness and to empower institutions and local communities, exploring new potentials for urban regeneration, participatory processes and local development.
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Oshiro was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1978. He is a Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments that are based on electronic devices, every day materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He is a member of installation/performance group The Great Triangle with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro and also singlehandedly runs music label Basic Function.

Owada was born in 1985 in Tochigi, Japan. He received MFA in Intermedia Art from Tokyo University of the Arts and a degree in Musical Creativity and the Environment from the same university.
Based on preverbal feelings perceived in the environment as well as interests in complexity of natural phenomena, he produces electroacoustic works and installations. His selected exhibitions include Singing in Falsetto (Kurumaya Museum, Tochigi, Japan, 2016), Impurity / Immunity (Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 / BARRAK 1, Okinawa, Japan, 2018), Ars Electronica 2018 (Linz, Austria, 2018), Biennale WRO (Wrocław, Poland, 2019), BIENNALE NÉMO 2019 (Paris, France, 2019), Explode OK Extent (Kurumaya Museum, Tochigi, Japan, 2020)

Photo: HYAKUTOU Takeshi

Fujikura was born in Saitama, Japan in 1992. She currently lives and works in Tokyo. Fujikura received her Master of Film and New Media degree from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018 and her Bachelor of Language and Culture Studies degree from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2016. Accentuating images with artificial textures and tactile sensations, Fujikura assembles scenes that can free us from the continuation of time and sprawl in the modern city. The scenes materialize from industrial goods designed, manufactured, and installed by humans. Overwhelmed by the excess of the city, these items deviate from their programmed functions and from human control. As naked objects, they derive a peculiar trace of spirituality and a primal animism. On a plane where things exist as things, they render a form which will go on to possess autonomy. Interweaving 3D CG animation techniques and computer programming, Fujikura generates movement that surpasses even the creator’s intentions and devises a fabricated realization which can be perceived only through a screen. In recent years, her work has centered on the dynamism of daily logistics in reclaimed lands and the emergence of gardens in the city, as she develops new spatial expressions. Her work was selected for recognition by the jury of the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2019. Fujikura’s recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition entitled“ Colony Highway Broadcast”(NTT Inter Communication Center, Tokyo, 2018), and group exhibitions in“ Encounters in Parallel” (ANB Tokyo,Tokyo,2021)“, The Museum in the Multi-layered World”, (NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, 2021) and“ Close to Nature, Next to Humanity”, (Taitung Art Museum, 2020).