Authors

Haruka Fukao

Haruka is just Haruka but sometimes an artist, a filmmaker, a Japanese language teacher, a walker, a traveler, an anthropologist, a thinker, a philosopher or a sloth. She recently created a film about mortuary rites in Japan as a MA visual anthropology student at the Arctic University of Norway. She is interested in the balance of the social self and substance. She loves deconstructing definitions of things to recreate another view of the world through filming, performance art and other mediums with no limitations. For this collaboration Haruka, friend of Keiken, has been exploring the world through the eyes of ‘Yaxu’, the protagonist of Keiken’s game Morphogenic Angels.

Natsumi Wada

Having grown up with deaf parents using sign language as their first language, I was fascinated by the possibility of expressing myself again with my hands when I entered university. He explores the possibilities of sensory media through research on visual body language and collaboration with people with various physical characteristics. In recent years, in collaboration with LOUD AIR, the card game “Qua|ia” (2018) that explores the senses, and Tabata Hayato + magnet, a communication game based on tentacle language “LINKAGE” and “Tacchi Matchi” (2019) ) and other games and projects that explore methods of translating words and sensations. Signed with artist Mai Nagumo and programmer Hideyuki Kodama, she conducts experiments to research and express visual body language, and holds workshops at museums. Currently enrolled in a doctoral course at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Advanced Expression Informatics. Researcher at the same university's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.Qualified as a sign language interpreter in 2016. 2017-2018 ICC InterCommunication Center emergencies!033 “tacit crelole / tie and open”.

Hana Omori + Tani Cruz + Isabel Ramos

(keiken)

Keiken is an artist collective co-founded in 2015 by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos, based between London and Berlin. Keiken (the Japanese word for ‘experience,’ which is at the centre of their practice) are collaboratively building and imagining speculative futures, to test-drive new structures and ways of existing. They do this through filmmaking, gaming, installation, Extended Reality (XR), blockchain, and performance. “Morphogenic Angels” is Keiken’s current ongoing and ever-evolving project, unfolding in a radically different time and space that transcends our current political, societal, financial and subjective reality.