culture expert, japanologist, art historian and curator, a graduate of Warsaw University (M.A.) and Polish Academy of Sciences (PhD), associate prof. at the New Media Arts Department, and the Japanese Culture Faculty of the Polish - Japanese Academy of IT, a lecturer at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences. Majoring in Japanese performing and visual arts, The Japan Foundation fellow at the Waseda University, a fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has studied traditional, Japanese nō theatre in the Kanze, Kita and Shimogakari Hōshō schools, produced and performed in nō performances, in Poland, Japan, Germany, Austria and France including Tessenkai Nō Theatre in Tokyo, National Theatre in Warsaw and Odeon Theater in Vienna. Curated artistic projects at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, The Royal Łazienki Museum, The Fryderyk Chopin Institute and the National Film Archive, among others.

Kanazawa Gakuin University,

I was born in Tokyo in 1960. I was graduated from of Department ofAerospace Engineering, College of Science and Technology, NihonUniversity in 1983. After that, I had been designing flight simulatorsfor Japanese defence agency at Mitsubishi Precision from 1983 to 1999.

I got Ph.D in Information Science at JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in 1999. I joined Kanazawa Gakuin University as professor in 2000. Currently, I am teaching Computer Graphics and Media Art etc at Department of Art and Design. In recent years, I was in charge of designing and creating the virtual appreciation system for crafts using VR technology in the National Crafts Museum, as a public project.

Kanazawa Gakuin University,

Born in Niigata Prefecture, graduated from the Department of Art Education, Art and Culture of the Tokyo University of Artistic Education (Tokyo Gakugei University), worked as an art teacher and independent artist in Tokyo. Since 2016 works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Kanazawa Gakuin University, where she is involved in the study of artistic education systems in the intercultural perspective. Her paintings were exhibited, among others, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the National Art Center, and the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. Maki Nagumo has won several artistic awards and is currently a member of the Japanese Association of Women Artists.