NEWVIEW AWARDS 2022

Naohiro Ukawa was born in 1968 in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. He has been a current "living" artist since the end of the 1980s. Ukawa is active in a wide range of fields, including filmmaking, graphic design, VJing, writing, and being a university professor. In 2001, he participated in the "Buzz Club: News from Japan" (MoMA PS1, New York) and "JAM: Tokyo-London" (Barbican Art Gallery, London). In 2010, he personally launched DOMMUNE, Japan's first live streaming studio and channel, which attracted attention in Japan and abroad for its record-breaking number of viewers, and was selected as a recommended work for the 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2016, he opened a 500m wide satellite studio, "DOMMUNE LINZ!," in the Train Hall of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and a satellite studio, "DOMMUNE SETOUCHI," at the Setouchi International Art Festival in 2019. DOMMUNE has participated in numerous international contemporary art exhibitions in London, Dortmund, Stockholm, Paris, Mumbai, Linz, Fukushima, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Akita, and Sapporo. Also in 2019, he opened a new studio on the 9th floor of the newly renovated Shibuya PARCO. This new studio evolved into what is called "SUPER DOMMUNE." It is a studio designed for highlighting the future outlook of the most avant-garde technology after 5G. In 2021, the SUPER DOMMUNE Studio received the 71st Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award.

Kizuna AI Inc. was created in 2020 as a management team for virtual entertainers centered on Kizuna AI and is a creative team that produces virtual entertainers and content such as virtual live performances and music.

In addition to producing and remixing for various artists in Japan and overseas, he shows his talent in various fields producing TV commercial music, spatial music, soundtracks, and also producing "music bars" focusing on vinyl records.
In 2017, he released MONDO GROSSO's album "Reborn Again and Always Starting New" for the first time in 14 years. The music video for "Labyrinth" sung by Hikari Mitsushima has been played more than 32 million times so far.

In 2021, the hits collection ‘MONDO GROSSO OFFICIAL BEST’ traced the trajectory of MONDO GROSSO over the past 30 years.

In the latest album "BIG WORLD", he collaborates with various artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Hikari Mitsushima.
His representative works in charge of the soundtrack are the TV anime "BANANA FISH" and the movie "Diner" directed by Mika Ninagawa

Shanghai-based multimedia artist Lu Yang creates fantastical, often painful, and shocking images which represent an interdisciplinary blend of religion, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and modern technology, as well as allusions to real-life forms and structures of natural and religious origin. The output of Lu Yang’s artistic practice spans game engines, 3D-animated films, video game installations, holograms, motion capture performances, virtual reality, and software manipulation. The artist also collaborates with acclaimed scientists, psychologists, performers, designers, experimental composers, music producers, robotics companies, and pop stars.

Her work has been featured in major museums and institutions internationally including recent solo exhibitions at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark; Spiral, Tokyo, Japan; M WOODS, Beijing; MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; UCCA, Beijing; and Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.

Recent works in large-scale thematic exhibitions include 59th Venice Biennale 2022, Asia Society Triennial 2021, New York; Shanghai Biennale 2018 and 2012; Athens Biennale 2018; Liverpool Biennial 2016; Montreal International Digital Art Biennial 2016; 56th Venice Biennale 2015 China Pavilion; and Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014.

Lu Yang’s work has also been recently curated into exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2020. Lu Yang was recently awarded the BMW Art Journey in 2019, following which he commenced the making of a new digital body of work titled DOKU.

Recently, she was named Deutsche Bank's "Artist of the Year 2022."

yurinasia is a dancer, dance instructor, and choreographer living in Fukuoka Prefecture. She runs a dance school, jABBKLAB, with her husband, a break dancer called ayumugugu. Their "lesson videos" posted on SNS every weekend have become a topic of conversation both in Japan and abroad. She has won many awards, including JAPAN DANCE DELIGHT vol.23 FINALIST.
She has appeared in TV programs, music videos, major corporate commercial CM, doing choreography, and so on; she is expanding her activities to include workshops and appearances at events throughout Japan. Moreover, She won the "BEST CREATIVE PERSON" award at the SPACE SHOWER MUSIC AWARDS 2022.

2001: Was elected as a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), the world's premier design organization.
2004: Works permanently preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as "Books of recent excellence in print and design."
2007: Invited to participate in "Rakki-Rakkusyo" at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, a design facility in Tokyo Midtown. (planned by Issey Miyake) at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, a design facility in Tokyo Midtown. Concurrently, he held an exhibition of his works, "Rakki-Rakkusyo by Issei Kitagawa. 2008: Works exhibited at the Frieze Art Fair 2008, one of the three major art festivals in the world, held in London. 2011: "TOKYO GRAPHIC PASSPORT at CENTRE POMPIDOU" at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
2013: Exhibition "Issei Kitagawa" at "ART FAIR TOKYO 2013".
2018: Works exhibited as a unit of "GRAPH+Spatial Concept" at "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018", an art festival held once every three years.
2020: The Japan Space Design Association and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Environment Design Association will sponsor the "GRAPH + Spatial Concept" unit. 2020 Served as a jury member for the Japan Spatial Design Award, the only and most significant spatial award in Japan, sponsored by the Japan Spatial Design Association and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Environment Design Association.


Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) / Member of Tokyo ADC / Board member of Tokyo TDC / International Committee Chairman of JAGDA Steering Committee / Member of Research Committee for Standardization of High Definition Image Data Exchange Technology [Information Technology Research and Standardization Center(INSTAC), Japanese Standards Association] / Part-time lecturer at Kyoto Prefectural University / Part-time lecturer at University of Tsukuba / Lecturer at Kuwasawa Design Institute Lecturer at Kuwasawa Design Research Institute

Awards
JAGDA New Designer Award (1996) / Tokyo TDC Special Award (2006) / NY ADC Award (2007) / Tokyo TDC Award (2008) / ] JAGDA Award (2011) / Topawards Asia (2017) / ADC Award (2018) / "SAKE COMPETITION Label Design Category 1st Prize (2018) / The 36th SENKEN Distribution Advertising Award Incentive Award (2019) / Japan Space Design Award Gold Prize in Service and Hospitality Space Category (2020) / , Tokyo TDC Award RGB Award (2022)

Qanta Shimizu（CEO of BASSDRUM / Technical director）
Born in Tokyo. He dropped out of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo. After working as a bartender, trombonist, DTP operator, and designer, he learned programming by himself and became a programmer.
In December 2005, he joined IMG SRC/NON-GRID INC. as a creative and technical director. He has been involved in a wide range of content planning and production, from web services and system architecture to display experiences. In April 2011, he became the Chief Technology Officer of PARTY Inc. In 2018, he founded BASSDRUM, a technical director collective.

Luca（Artist）
23-year-old virtual human, born as a moderator for the BASSDRUM 4th anniversary talk "BD Session with XR SQUAD," held in April 2022. As an artist affiliated with BASSDRUM, she will be working on updates by the XR team "XR SQUAD," She plans to establish her personality while gaining experience within BASSDRUM. He will also be actively involved in promotion at events and on social networking services as an icon to promote XR-based production and expression in society.

Daisuke Kobayashi is the General Manager in charge of contents at PARCO Entertainment Division. After working in the direction of music and publishing, currently in charge of the content business. At PARCO, he was involved in the closing project of the former Shibuya PARCO in 2016, "THE TOMATO PROJECT 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION "O,"" "Ken Kagami Retrospective," "KOSUKE KOSUKE KAWAMURA-ARCHIVE-" (both at Ikebukuro PARCO in 2018), "AKIRA ART OF WALL," the opening of Shibuya PARCO in 2019, and "PARCO PRINT CENTER," an art market where art posters are produced and sold in collaboration with artists every year. PARCO PRINT CENTER", an art market where art posters are produced and sold in collaboration with artists every year and other genre-less projects.

Outside of PARCO, he produced and judged the "Kuma Exhibition" and was the managing director of the "Ishiguro Pavilion," one of the theme projects of the Osaka Expo '25.

Nick den Boer is an award-winning director, animator, and digital artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has developed a unique style, combining video remix and animation techniques under his online brand, “Smearballs”. Nick honed his skills working as a writer and bit creator for Conan O’Brien producing and remixing popular culture segments for the show. His groundbreaking short film “The Chickening” (a poultry-infused remix of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”) graced the screens of over 100 film festivals around the world including TIFF and Sundance. Nick’s unmistakable style has found a home in many productions. He has directed and produced award winning ads for Old Spice and KFC, music videos and tour visuals for deadmau5 & Flying Lotus, countless TV shows, films, web and VR projects. Most recently Nick has made a name for himself in the NFT space and has found success selling his own artwork as well as collaborating on groundbreaking NFT projects with the likes of Beeple, Madonna, Eric Andre, and The Wu-Tang Clan.