Fram Kitagawa
Born in 1946. Chairman of Art Front Gallery. Following his graduation from Tokyo University of the Arts, Fram Kitagawa has organized and been responsible for a wide range of art projects and exhibitions such as Antoni Gaudi exhibition (1978-1979), Apartheid Non! International Art Festival (1988-1990), Faret Tachikawa Art Project (1994) etc. As for the community development activities, he has served as general director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale since 2000, Setouchi Triennale since 2010, the Northern Alps Art Festival as well as the Oku-Noto Triennale since 2017, and Ichihara Art Mix, Boso Satoyama International Art Festival 2020.

Ryuta Ushiro
Chim↑Pom is an artist collective formed in 2005 whose practice responds to contemporary issues with a strong social message. Though based in Tokyo, the group develops projects around the world.
In 2019 published The Age of Public (Asahi Press) with artist Osamu Matsuda. As participants of “After ‘Freedom of Expression?'” art exhibition during Aichi Triennale 2019, the collective was among the leading artist to protest against censorship by starting ReFreedom_Aichi movement.

Keigo Kobayashi
Born in Tokyo. After studying at the Department of Architecture at Waseda University and completing a Master’s Degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2005, Kobayashi was involved in numerous projects at OMA/AMO office in Rotterdam until 2012. Since 2012, Kobayashi has been teaching at Department of Architecture of Waseda University and co-founded Network of Research and Architecture (NoRA). Some of his works includes “Exhibition Design of 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale Japanese Pavilion”, and “Gordon Matta Clark Exhibition Design at MOMAT.” He has also been collaborating with PortB / Akira Takayama on “Wagner Project” and “McDonald’s Radio University.”

Tomoko Wakabayashi
Project coordinator / Specially Appointed Associate Professor of Rikkyo University Graduate School of Social Design Studies.
After working for a design firm, she returned to college to study cultural policy and arts management in the U.K. From 1999-2013 she worked for the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts as a program officer developing an effective environment and ways for corporations to support the arts and culture. Currently she works across a wide range of arts project s as an independent coordinator, including writing, research, program evaluation, consulting for corporations, foundations, and municipalities. Her interest presently lies in exploring the potential of arts and culture in the field of social design.

Chiaki Soma
Representative Director of NPO Arts Commons Tokyo, Art producer. Chiaki was the first Program Director of Festival/Tokyo, Japan’s leading performing arts festival, from 2009-2013, as well as the first Director of Steep Slope Studio in Yokohama from 2006-2010. She served on the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Culture Council Cultural Policy Subcommittee from 2012-2015. In 2015, she received the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Since 2016, she has been a Specially Appointed Associate Professor, College of Contemporary Psychology, Body Expression and Cinematic Arts, Graduate School of Contemporary Psychology of Rikkyo University, Tokyo; since 2017, she has served as the chairperson of the Theater Commons Tokyo Executive Committee, as well as its director. She is also involved in theatrical curation for the 2019 edition of the Aichi Triennale.