A stage designer/choreographer. As the director and chief choreographer of dance company "ELEVENPLAY", MIKIKO has been building up her very own creative world with the company's highly talented dancers. She has taken an artistic direction and choreographic direction for famous Japanese artists like Perfume, BABYMETAL, Ringo Shiina and more and for various MV, CM and stages. Her works have gained a highly reputation in the Media Arts world both of Japan and overseas. In the universe of MIKIKO, the mixture of the real and virtual worlds generates immediate fascination with her adept skills in utilizing the newest technology for her choreographies. She has collaborated with creators transcending a wide various of genres.

Dance company directed by choreographer & art director, MIKIKO. ELEVENPLAY was founded by MIKIKO in 2009, in the hopes of creating dancers who would possess highly artistic sense and creativity on top of exquisite techniques, body and spirit. Composed of female dancers from a variety of genre, ELEVENPLAY has diverse methods of expression are diverse from stages to video works and still photos. We have many collaboration pieces with Rhizomatiks, directed by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, we were privileged to present one of such pieces at "Sónar Festival," "Festival Internacional Cervantino," "MUTEK MEXICO," "MUTEK Montréal," and "Gray Area Festival."

Tokyo-based artist, interaction designer, programmer, and DJ.
Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. Manabe’s work in design, art, and entertainment takes a new approach to everyday materials and phenomenon. However, his end goal is not simply rich, high-definition realism by recognizing and recombining these familiar elemental building blocks. Rather, his practice is informed by careful observation to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelationships and boundaries delineating the analog and digital, real and virtual.

Engineer / Artist. Director of Rhizomatiks. Born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1975. Graduated from the Department of Systems and Control Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences(IAMAS). Ishibashi is involved in a diverse range of activities, including art performances, music videos, and installations based on the production of devices and hardware. His work has been recognized by many awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica, Cannes Lions, and Japan Media Arts Festival.

(Kinsei R&D Director / Lighting designer) As a member of the Japanese art collective Dumb Type, he has been involved in stage works. Since the beginning of the 21st century, he has produced and announced stage and artworks using digital devices such as LED lighting under Kinsei R&D. He has been actively collaborating with domestic and foreign artists. Also, since 2010 he has been trying to add LED lighting to Noh performances at Yamamoto Noh Theater in Osaka.https://kinsei.asia/

A musician and sound artist. He is leading the "See by Your Ears" project, where a new auditory experience is explored. Using a stereophonic sound system as a musical instrument, he has produced cutting-edge works with his unique "spatial composition" both in Japan and abroad. His most recent work, "Sea, See, She - To whom I Have Yet to See" (2020, Spiral Hall), which is based on the concept of "seeing movies with your ears", was premiered for the first time in the world with great praise. His current installation works include "Haze" (Towada Museum of Contemporary Art, until August 31, 2021) and "Grass Calls" (Ginza GINZA SIX rooftop garden, until February 23, 2021).
https://evala.jp/
https://seebyyourears.jp/