NEWVIEW AWARDS 2019

Handling the design and production of various characters such as Tanukyun. Her activities cover such as video directing, writing screenplays, writing columns, and writing song lyrics.
▶︎ Graduate of Tama Art University
▶︎ Graduate of Dempagumi.Inc

Keiichi Matsuda is a future-facing designer and film-maker. His work has been widely exhibited, from London's V&A Museum to New York's MoMA, as well as attaining viral success online. He has gained a cult following from acclaimed short films such as HYPER-REALITY, which picked up many awards including Vimeo’s “best drama of the year” in 2016. Next Reality named Keiichi as a top AR influencer, while he was serving as Leap Motion’s VP Design in 2018.
Keiichi sees design as a tool for exploring the future of technology and culture. Whether working through narrative film or concept interaction design for XR, his focus is to define a new vision for reality, that exists at the intersection of virtual and physical.

Nick is a video artist based in Toronto Canada. He has developed a unique brand of VFX comedy, combining video remix and animation techniques to create surreal and often absurd videos. 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 TIFF and Sundance. Nick’s unmistakable style has found a home in many productions. He has directed and produced ads for Old Spice and KFC, music videos and tour visuals for deadmau5 & Flying Lotus, countless TV shows, films, web and VR projects. Nick has carved out a career through remixing and repurposing existing footage to produce new and sometimes ridiculous creations.

Lu Yang is a Shanghai-based multi-media artist, who graduated from the New Media Art Department of the China Academy of Art an. Deeply immersed in the subcultures of anime, video games, and Science-Fiction, the output of her artistic practice spans 3D-animated films, video game, installations, holograms, neon, VR and software manipulation, often with overt pop culture, manga and anime references. Lu Yang has created unique fantasies highlighting the fragility of humankind. Departing from Buddhist teachings that propagate a genderless society, she exploits her own images as a vehicle to reproduce asexual visions of herself. Her work was displayed in exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; M Woods, Beijing; Shanghai Biennale; and Athens Biennale.

As the creator of the videos for Summer Universiade, the Golden Melody Awards and the Golden Pin Award, Liu’s visual excellence and original Asian perspective have attracted global attention. Under his leadership, Bito won two ADC awards. In recent years, Liu has worked on multidisciplinary experiments and hopes to redefine the relationship between motion design and humans.

Works on many television programs including "Downtown DX," "M-1 Gran Prix," "Urasawa Naoki no Manpen", "Ah!! to Sakebu Art Ah!!rt," and the NHK Educational TV children's program, "Shakin!" In the past has worked on "Downtown no Gottsu Ee Kanji," "Itouke no Shokutaku," "Takeshi no Banbutsu Souseiki," "EX Terebi," and more. As an author has written "Kotoba Ehon Ashita no Karuta," "Kuramoto Mitsuru no Cho Kokugo Jiten," and "Warairon 24 Jikan wo Omoroshiku Suru."

He produces works with a "pop" combining a diverse set of production techniques and "inspiration from diagonally above." His core activities lie in commercial video production including music videos and advertising, and in recent years has found a forte in pixel art videography. His recent works include music videos for the tracks “Tatakau Senshitachi e Ai o Komete” by Southern All Stars (2019 Japan Media Arts Festival jury selection) and "Yatara to Synchronicity" by YUKI, and the UNIQLO "UT x STREET FIGHTER" ad. His best-known original creation is the "Silly Running" series (2011 Japan Media Arts Festival jury selection). Together with Ian Shimizu he runs the "NEWW" creative team that specializes in environmental issues.

Keisuke Toyoda, noiz founding partner, holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The University of Tokyo (1996), in addition to Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2002). Work experience includes Tadao Ando Architect & Associates (Osaka, 1996-2000), SHoP Architects (New York, 2002-2006). Keisuke Toyoda founded noiz / architecture, design & planning with Jia-Shuan Tsai in 2007, based in both Tokyo and Taipei (Added Kosuke Sakai as noiz Partner from 2016). Currently holding an adjunct professorship at National Chiao-Tung University (Taiwan), part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts Art Media Center. lecturer at Digital design studio in University of Tokyo school of architecture, and part-time lecturer at Keio University SFC.

Media Arts course lecturer at the Tama Art University Department of Information Design. His artwork has been presented in various forms, such as media art, net art, film, and sculpture. His main exhibitions include "[Internet Art Future] -- Post-Internet Reality" (ICC, 2012) and "SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016" (Seoul Art Museum, 2016), and his solo exhibitions include "board ooze out" (GALLERY MIDORI. SO, Tokyo, 2015) and "Hyper・Here・Now" (CALM & PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo, 2017).