2024 CCBT Artist Fellows Final Presentations: CCBT Stadium!

Nakaya Hide

Art director, Professor/Department of Digital Entertainment, International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo

After a period as a freelance video art director in advertising, Nakaya Hide joined the broadcaster NHK. He served as film director for an NHK show about the Nagano Olympics and, as art director, his numerous credits include the NHK logo. As a member of the NHK commentary committee, he handled science, culture, and art, and helped produce many digital creatives at the show Digital Stadium. Nakaya currently teaches in the International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo’s Department of Digital Entertainment, along with heading and presenting the Thursday Art Museum streaming show, and serving as a Good Design Fellow for the Good Design Award. He is also a member of the Japan National Press Club.

Ichihara Etsuko

Artist, fantasy inventor

Etsuko Ichihara has been creating artworks that interpret Japanese culture, customs and beliefs from a unique point of view, and present new, technology-based approaches. Thanks to their strong impact, these works have been introduced across a wide range of media all over the world. Ichihara’s works were included in the Excellence Award at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival, Entertainment Division and Honorary Mention (Interactive Art＋) in PRIX Ars Electronica. She has recently presented her works in exhibitions such as ʻRoppongi Crossing 2022ʼ at the Mori Art Museum.

HUMAN AWESOME ERROR

Inspired by the uncertainty of self-certification in society, HUMAN AWESOME ERROR launched in 2019 as a collective seeking out thrilling perspectives from system errors. Comprising project teams centering on Chae Umi and Fukuhara Shiho, its interdisciplinary practice encompasses moving image, drawing, sculpture, installation, products, biotech, crafts, and more. In the project Super Cell, Fukuhara’s frozen cancer calls were transferred to a lab for culturing in an attempt to challenge bioethics and undertake new research into immunity. As of 2025, the collective is based in Tokyo and Kyoto, and exploring various themes.

Shibata Yusuke

artist

Born in 1980 in Fukuoka. He obtained a MFA in Printmaking in Fine Arts at Musashino Art University in 2007. Focusing on the ambiguity and uncertainty of the real world, he has presented installation works using a variety of media including video, photography, and objects. He conducted research on video media of Southeast Asia traveling in 10 cities of 6 countries in 2019. In recent years, he has been working on several food-related projects, including Popular Kappou Daitaiya -Culture Dish- (2023, Yahiro Shokudo, Tokyo), New Authentic (2023, ya-gins, Gunma), and Finger on the Rice (2022, Finger in the Soup,Tokyo).

Token Art Center

Token Art Center opened in Tokyo’s Sumida ward in 2019. With a focus on artists creating noncommercial, project-based work and installations, it programs and organizes exhibitions and events not at art museums and galleries but at accessible places in the city like parks and river banks as well as factories and planetariums. Interested in how artworks are presented and received at spaces other than conventional white cube galleries, the center searches for new, socially engaged approaches to art.

Fuse Rintaro

Artist

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).

MVMNT

speculative design unit

Dedicated to creating the legends of the year 20XX, MVMNT specializes in speculative design that embeds possible future visions of society and culture, and produces as yet unknown movements. It prototypes art-driven, intellectually and socially engaged content that create new meanings, worldviews, and opportunities. MVMNT aspires to bring out new world lines in contemporary society, and trigger creative social movements of all sizes through the power of communities.

Ukawa Naohiro

Contemporary Artist, DOMMUNE CEO

Filmmaker, graphic designer, VJ, writer, university professor, and artist of the “right now,” Ukawa Naohiro is active across various fields. His practice freely blurs the lines between fine art and pop culture. When DOMMUNE was established in March 2010, the live-streaming studio and channel marked a record-setting number of viewers, attracting attention from Japan and beyond. In its tenth year, in November 2019, DOMUNE moved to the ninth floor of Shibuya PARCO. Newly named SUPER DOMMUNE, it has continued to evolve with cutting-edge technology. In 2021, Ukawa received the 71st Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize.

Shimizu Tomoko

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.

Tanaka Miyuki

Curator, Producer

Tanaka Miyuki produces category-defying projects that explore how disabilities offer perspectives that redefine the world. She rethinks the way we perceive expression with audiences that include people with disabilities. Recent projects include Dance Work in Progress with Creative Audio Descriptions (2017–, Kanagawa Arts Theatre and other venues), the film Night Cruising (2019), and the exhibition Rules? (2021, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT). In 2022, Tanaka conducted research in New York as a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for Disability Studies on a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. Her publications include Rules? Design for Living Creatively (2024, Film Art, co-authored) and Who Is Accessibility For? (2014, Little More).

Mizuno Tasuku

Lawyer, Attorney

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.