CLAN EXPERTS

Filmmaker, Associate Professor, Department of Games & Media, Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Electro-Communication University

NAGATA TAKESHI

Filmmaker, creative duo “TOCHKA” that formed by Nagata Takeshi and Monno Kazue since 1998. Invented a method of making animation called “PiKA PiKA”, which is the combination of long exposure photograph and stop motion animation technique. It enables everyone to make animation with drawings by penlights in the air. Area of activity is from experimental animations to contemporary art

critic/editor

NAKAGAWA DAICHI

Daichi Nakagawa is Critic/editor. Deputy editor of the critical journal PLANETS. With a focus on video games, anime, TV drama and other culture, he has been active with wide range interests including contemporary thought, urbanism, anthropology, life sciences, and information technology. He has written various critiques and reviews that bridge reality and fiction through technology. He is the author of Toukyou sukaitsurii ron (Study on TOKYO SKYTREE) (Kōbunsha 2012) and Gendai geemu zenshi (Brief History of Contemporary Games)(Hayakawa shobō 2016), and co-edited Ama-chan Memories(Bungeishunju 2013) .

Illustrator / Art Director

nebo

I manage the stationery brand “ASANEL,” based on the concept of “creating stationery I want to use.” I specialize in small business systems for creators. Currently studying psychology and sleep science, I research ways for creators to stay healthy and sustain their creative activities.