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.
https://nicoladicroce.cargo.site/

Mihara was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. Based in Kyoto. He creates open systems engaged with the world that employ a wide range of materials and phenomena such as acoustics, foams, radiation, rainbows, microbes, moss, air streams, soil, humidity and electrons in order to reinterpret them as art. Since 2011, he has been involved in the Blank Project, which examines the relationship between technology and society, both in Japan and overseas. Since 2013, he has been participating in a series of artist-in-residencies in 18 locations in 9 countries, from the Arctic Circle to tropical rainforests, from military borders to bio-art labs, from the center of art to extreme environments. He has won awards including at Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and the Japan Media Arts Festival, and was on the jury of the Prix Ars Electronica in 2019. Since 2022, he has co-organized the event “Ride the Waves on March 11th”. In recent years, he has also been involved in conservation and restoration of sound art and media art for which methodologies have not yet been established.
http://mhrs.jp

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.

Umezawa was born in Gunma, Japan in 1986. He got MFA from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. His work uses sounds and photos, based on his interest in prelinguistic sensory that one may feel from the surrounding environment, and also based on his curiosity towards the complexity of natural phenomena. His latest work was exhibited in Thailand Biennale Korat (2021), Audiosphere | Museo Reina Sofía(Madrid, Spain, 2020), Mist from Artificial Lake(NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2022), The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (2023). He received grants for overseas study by young artists from Pola Art Foundation (Paris, France).
https://hidekiumezawa.com/

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).

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)

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Fernando Godoy is an electronics engineer, sound artist and producer who lives and works in Valparaíso, Chile. He uses diverse media to research sound as a social and natural phenomena, and is interested in the relationship between aural experience and territory. His practice includes field recordings, DIY technologies, electronics, sound installations, sound performances, radio works, web projects and experimental composition. Working also as a producer, he has been the director of the Tsonami Sound Art Festival since 2008, a platform for the diffusion and development of contemporary sound practices in Chile.

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Philip Samartzis is a sound artist with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions. His practice is based on deep fieldwork where he deploys complex sound recording technology to capture natural, anthropogenic and geophysical forces. He is associate professor in Sculpture, Sound and Spatial Practice and teaches Sound Cultures in the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) program at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). He is also artistic director of Bogong Centre for Sound Culture in the Australian Alps.
https://art.rmit.edu.au/philip-samartzis-saac

Daniela d’Arielli is a multidisciplinary artist based in Italy working in painting, photography and installation. Her research focuses on nature and reality, distortion and alteration, remembrance and memory investigated through the element water. In 2015, she earned a specialization in photography from IED in Rome. She is currently professor of “Design of Color” at the ISIA Pescara Design. Since 2008 Daniela has worked as a photographer and art producer for Pollinaria, an organic farm and research organisation cultivating innovative, integrated work in the fields of art, agriculture and ecology located in Abruzzo, Italy.

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Curator/critic based in Tokyo. Artistic Director of“ Forest for Dialogue and Creativity”, President of“ AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan”. 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 the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University. 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 Inter Communication Center [ICC] (2004–010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director)“, Forking PiraGene” (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum “Information as a form of ” (Kyoto Prefecture), Forum “Spirits as Energy | Stone, Water, Forest and Human” (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. The first solo publication“ Ecosophic Art” (2023). Essay series“ Ecosophic Future”at HILLS LIFE (2021–).
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Leandro Pisano is a curator, writer and independent researcher who is interested in intersections between art, sound and technoculture. The specific area of his research deals with political ecology of rural, marginal and remote territories. He is founder and director of Interferenze new arts festival (2003) and frequently he is involved in projects on electronic and sound art, including Mediaterrae Vol.1 (2007), Barsento Mediascape (2013) and Liminaria (2014‒18). Among the sonic arts exhibitions he has curated, there are”Otros sonidos, otros paisajes” (MACRO Museum–Rome, Italy, 2017), “Alteridades de lo invisible” (Festival Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile, 2018) and“ Manifesto of Rural Futurism” (Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, Australia, 2019). He conducted presentations, conferences and workshops in dierent universities or during events related with new media aesthetics, design, sound and territorial regeneration processes in several countries worldwide. He has written articles in several magazines, such as“ Corriere della Sera –La Lettura”“, Blow-Up”“, Doppiozero”“, Neural, Exibart” and “Nero Magazine”. He is author of the book“ Nuove geografie del suono. Spazi e territori nell’epoca postdigitale”, published in Milan by Meltemi (2017). Leandro Pisano holds a PhD in Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies from University of Naples“ L’Orientale”and he is presently Honorary Research Fellow in Anglo-American Literature at University of Urbino“ Carlo Bo”
https://www.leandropisano.it/en/