Hirota Fumi

After stints at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Hirota Fumi joined the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2012, where she was involved in promoting the Japan Media Arts Festival, especially expanding its reach internationally and regionally. In 2015, she joined the Japan Foundation, working on media culture and art projects for the foundation’s cultural exchange programs between Japan and Southeast Asia. Hirota took up a post at the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History of Culture in 2020, helping launch Tokyo Smart Culture Project, which digitizes cultural resources like the collections of Tokyo’s cultural institutions and offers various types of viewing experiences. In 2022, she was part of the team behind the opening of Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] in Shibuya.Last Updated: 2024.08

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Suganuma Kiyoshi

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Birte Sonnenberg

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Ito Takayuki

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