Gifu Land of Clear Waters Art Festival
– Art Award IN THE CUBE 2023
Judges
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IRIE KeiichiArchitect/Design Director
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IRIE KeiichiArchitect/Design Director
Irie graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, and then completed the master’s degree program at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts. He became skilled with computers in the 1980s and has since been producing innovative architectural works in the pursuit of new possibilities of architecture in the digital age. As an internationally renowned architect, he has been honored with many awards, and invited to participate in many overseas exhibitions and international conferences as a guest, including MOMA, Ars Electronica and Biennale di Venezia. During his professorship at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, he led various architectural projects to design urban spaces and housing, as well as school and office buildings. The monumental cauldron that housed the flame for the National Athletic Meet and the National Sports Tournament for Persons with Disabilities held in Gifu is one of his design works.
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IWASAKI HideoArtist and Researcher/
Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Director of metaPhorest -
IWASAKI HideoArtist and Researcher/Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Director of metaPhorest
Iwasaki completed the doctoral degree program at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University. His interest in the complex interface and relationship between science and arts led him to establish metaPhorest, a platform for artistic expression and research in the realm of life-related science, thought and arts in 2007. Among other awards, he received the Excellence Prize in the Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival hosted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs for his “Culturing
cut” in 2019, and the Young Scientists’ Award in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology and the Encouragement Prize of the Japanese Society for Chronobiology for his research on the biological clock in bacteria and morphogenesis.
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KITAMURA AkikoDancer and Choreographer/
Professor, Faculty of Arts, Shinshu University -
KITAMURA AkikoDancer and Choreographer/Professor, Faculty of Arts, Shinshu University
Kitamura’s background includes ballet, street dance, and Indonesian martial arts. She founded her dance company, Leni-Basso, in 1994 while enrolled at the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University. She was sent to Berlin in 1995 as a trainee artist under the Overseas Training Program of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and since returning to Japan, has been implementing her own theory of choreography, the Grid System, establishing a directing style that mixes dancing, light, rhythm and imagery. Based on the concept of “physical thinking,” she is active in a broad range of artistic fields, including theatrical plays, operas, movies, and commercials, as a creator, choreographer or performer, while conducting research on the use of the human body as a medium based on theories of the human body, direction and dancing as a university faculty member. She has won various awards, including the grand prize in the 13th Japan Dance Forum. She was appointed as a Japan Cultural Envoy for fiscal 2020–2021 by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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SHIKATA YukikoCurator and Critic/President, International Association of Art Critics, Japanese Section
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SHIKATA YukikoCurator and Critic/President, International Association of Art Critics, Japanese Section
Shikata currently serves as a visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, and as a part-time lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences and Musashino Art University. She engages in activities that encompass the genres of art and natural and social sciences, focusing on streams of information such as data, water, humans, animals, plants, and weather. While working as a curator at Canon ARTLAB (1990–2001), Mori Art Museum (2002–2004), and NTT InterCommunication Center (2004–2010), she led many experimental exhibitions and projects as an independent curator. Her recent roles include: curator at the Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 and KENPOKU Art Festival 2016 in Ibaraki Prefecture; director of the media art festival AMIT (2014–2018); chairperson of the executive committee of the AICA Japan 2020 Symposium; director of the MMFS2020 online festival; moderator of the Forum “Imagination as a form of ‘capital’” (Kyoto in 2021); and co-host of the Forum “Energy called spirit: stone, water, forest, people” (2021). She has served as a judge at various competitions in Japan and abroad, and co-authored many books.
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TERAUCHI YokoArtist
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TERAUCHI YokoArtist
Terauchi graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design and completed the Graduate School of Art and Design. Then she moved to London where she studied under Anthony Caro at Central St. Martins and completed the advanced course in sculpture. For two decades, she was active as an artist in London. She has continued to create sculptural works that are naturally shaped by the materials used and installations that are visible only in part, and has shown them in Japan and abroad. Her works reflect her desire to overcome commonplace dichotomies such as inside vs. outside and front vs. back and her pursuit of the question of dualism that underpins such dichotomies.
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MORIMURA YasumasaArtist
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MORIMURA YasumasaArtist
Morimura graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts and then completed the Graduate School of Arts of the university. In 1985, he created a photographic self-portrait of himself dressed as Vincent van Gogh and has since continued to create self-portrait-styled works in which he disguises himself as “others,” namely iconic figures from different periods beyond race and gender. In 1988, he was selected to participate in Venice Biennale’s Aperto 88 exhibition, and has since held exhibitions in Japan and abroad. He was awarded the Order of Purple Ribbon in the autumn of 2011. In 2018, Morimura@Museum was opened in Kitakagaya, Osaka. His recent exhibitions include: “Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020” (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020) and “M’s Gift of the Sea: Auto-Mythology” (Artizon Museum, 2021).
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YAMAGIWA JuichiDirector-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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YAMAGIWA JuichiDirector-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Yamagiwa withdrew from the doctoral-degree program of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, with research guidance approval. Specializing in anthropology and primatology, he worked as a researcher at the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda, the Japan Monkey Center, and the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. After serving as associate professor and then professor at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, he was appointed President of Kyoto University in October 2014. He has authored many books, including books for children.
