International Forum

Huei is a marketing & business professional in gaming, XR and emerging tech. She has been a co-founder, founding partner at VR and Web3 gaming companies, where she led marketing, business, and partnerships.
She has spearheaded numerous international collaborations across APAC, the US, and Europe. Her work spans marketing, community, product design, production, launches, and fundraising in the gaming, public institutions, culture, and education fields. Her deep interest in human behaviour drives her passion for creative product design, crafting unique interactions between products and audiences. Outside of work, she enjoys diving, social dancing, and the gym, and dedicates her free time to advising indie developers.

Hails from Tokyo. Born in 1972. Graduated St. Cloud State University in Minnesota in 1998. Joined CoMix Wave Inc., the predecessor of CWF, in 1999 In charge of overseas implementations for works directed by Makoto Shinkai since “Voices of a Distant Star” (2002); accompanies Director Shinkai on his world tours as well as Middle East workshops. Appointed to the post of Director at CoMix Wave Films Inc. in 2007. Currently administers business developments at the company, and supports domestic and overseas business.

Production Assistant

Background: Worked as a production assistant at an animation company, joined the company and participated in production as a Key Animator starting with “Suzume”.

Participated works
2022: Key Animator for “Suzume”
2024: Set Producer for “Motoyama Engineering Works 100th Anniversary Commemorative Commercial - Connecting to the History”
2024: Set Producer for “Motoyama Engineering Works 100th Anniversary Commemorative Commercial - Connecting to the Future”

Jaehwan RYU
Speciality: VFX Supervisor
Works : The Witch Part 2 / Hunt / Along with the Gods:The Two Worlds / Okja

(Now) VA CORPORATION | Vice President
STUDIO VIRD | Business DirectorWYSIWYG | VFX Director
4thCreative Party | VFX Director

Top VFX industry veteran, from professional supervisors to company management.
Works: “The Restless,” “Sunny,” “Flu,” “Tazza: The Hidden Card,” “Swing Kids,” “Bargain,” and “Boston 1947,” Etc.
Winner of the Best Visual Effects award at the 44th Grand Bell Awards and the 28th Blue Dragon Film Awards.

Speciality: VFX Producer, Immersive Media Contents(CEO)
Works: The Wailing / Ode to My Father / Sunny / 71-Into the Fire / Reign of Assassins (John Woo)

(Now) VA CORPORATION | Director of New Media Dept.
(Now) MORPHEUS STUDIO | CEO
KYUNGSUNG UNIVERSITY | Adjunct Professor
STUDIO 2L | CEO
4thCreative Party | VFX Producer

18 years of experience as a VFX Producer, contributing to over 80 top-tier domestic and international films such as “The King and the Clown,” “Peninsula,” “The Restless,” “The Forbidden Kingdom,” “Stoker,” “Kundo: Age of the Rampant,” “Flu,” and “The Berlin File.”
Proven creative planning and development skills through continuous development of video technology and innovative immersive content initiatives.

Emiko Ogawa is a Japanese curator and artist based in Linz, Austria. Since 2013, she is Head of Prix Ars Electronica which is known as the world’s most time-honored media arts competition organized by Ars Electronica. She has worked for the launch of the new Ars Electronica Center in 2008 and since then she has curated the exhibition for the Ars Electronica Center, Ars Electronica Festival and Ars Electronica Export. She has also been involved in many of Ars Electronica’s art thinking programs for educational institutions, companies, and governments, where essential questions are discussed and shaped as a starting point for the future. She is a visiting professor at the Osaka University of Arts - Art Science Department, and jury of the LINZ_media_arts 2024-2027. She also contributes many articles on media art such as wired.jp and the Nikkei.

Escher TSAI devotes himself into digital art research, promotion and creation. He is the Creative Director of Dimension Plus and Hello World, and Director of Arts and Technology: Creative Innovation and Counseling Project, and 5G Computing Art Project. He also curated 2024 TTXC《 G.A.M.E.》,《Hello, Human》at MoCA Taipei, 《The Era of Human-made》and 《RE:CAVE》at, National Taichung Theater, 《LIVES》at Jut Art Museum, 《Taoyuan Art and Technology Festival》, and , 《C-LAB Future Media Arts Festival》.

Born in 1971.
Gained numerous awards with self-produced animated films, with official debut as a commercial film director in the multi-segment film “Killers” in 2003.
Handled many high-entertainment works, including action, Tokusatsu, and animation.
Notable directorial works include “Hard Revenge Milly” (2008), “The Next Generation Patlabor” (2014), and “Resident Evil: Vendetta” (2017).
Participation in the Tokusatsu series Ultraman with “Ultraman X” (2015), and his latest work, “Ultraman Arc” (2024), marks his debut as the main director.

Daito Manabe, Artist, interaction designer, programmer, and Composer.
Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006, followed by Studio Daito Manabe in 2022. Specially-appointed professor at Keio University SFC.

Manabe’s work, which ranges into a variety of fields, takes a new approach to everyday materials and phenomena. 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 humans and machines, the analog and digital, and the real and virtual.
A prolific collaborator, he has worked closely with a diverse roster of artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk,OK Go, Nosaj Thing, Squarepusher, Andrea Battistoni, Mansai Nomura, Perfume and sakanaction. Further engagements include groundbreaking partnerships with the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics in Manchester, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
He is the recipient of numerous awards for his multidisciplinary contributions to advertising, design, and art. Notable recognitions include the Ars Electronica Distinction Award, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Titanium Grand Prix, D&AD Black Pencil, and the Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize.

Maywa Denki
The art unit produced by Novmichi Tosa.

While wearing blue working clothes, which is a typical style of small businesses that supported Japan’s high economic growth, they develop and introduce various nonsense machines all over the world in forms of concert and exhibition.
In 2003, it received the Semi Grand Prix Prize in the Interactive Art category at the Ars Electronica. Also, they develop mass products such as a note shaped electronic musical instrument "Otamatone" in 2021. Currently, they are successfully holding "Maywa Denki Nonsense Machine Factory Exhibition" in Beijing (China) with all exhibits set up remotely in 2023 debut 30th anniversary.

Joel Kwong, a media art curator, producer, transmedia specialist, writer and educator based in Hong Kong, with over 18 years of curatorial & project management experience. Graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, received her MA in 2010. She is currently the Programme Director for Microwave International New Media Arts Festival (www.microwavefest.net), and the founder of SIBYLS, a creative consultation & production company since 2018. She has been curating numerous media art, design and advertising campaigns in many different cities, recent projects include Urban Canvas: On & On screen-based curation 2023/2024 at Airside HK, Encounter Across Culture – touring exhibitions in HK, Chengdu, Beijing & Shanghai 2023/2024, Out of Thin Air – Hong Kong Film Art & Costume Design Exhibition (2023), Reimagines Heritage – experimental media art projects 2023 etc. She is also devoted into education, has been given talks and lectures in schools, festivals and universities, including Shenzhen Media Art Festival, ACT Festival in Gwangju/Korea, Transmediale in Germany, Ars Electronica in Linz, National University of Taiwan and the University of Eletro-communications in Tokyo, International Symposium - Future Crisis, etc. Currently, she is also a part-time lecturer for various institutions in Hong Kong, for their MA & BA programmes, e.g., HKDI, HK CityU, HKAPA, PolyU, HSU etc.