Future Ideations Camp Vol.7 | Super Sober Shamanism: Exploring Synchronization, Co-presence, and Mimesis through Theatre and Technology

Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) is a hub for developing your creativity in ways that meaningfully engage with society through art and digital technology. Equipped with creative spaces and studios, CCBT organizes a wide-ranging program of events and projects to serve as a driving force for making Tokyo better through creativity and technology.
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Masato Eguchi is a researcher specializing in theatre, performance, and culture and representation. Following periods as a visiting scholar at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, an assistant professor at the Rikkyo University College of Contemporary Psychology, and working for syuz’gen LLC, he currently teaches at the Rikkyo University College of Contemporary Psychology and Atomi University Faculty of Literature. His main research interest is to investigate, from historical and theoretical perspectives, how the performative turn has influenced artistic practices and society at large in postwar United States. As an actor, Masato’s credits include the original production of chelfitsch’s "Five Days in March"(2004) and a revival of the play in 2018 for the In da House Projects series.

The media artist God Scorpion’s work explores metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, and technology, and themes of changing temporal and spatial frames. His interdisciplinary and multimedia work utilizes extended reality technology and unfolds in various spaces, from the city to outdoors, indoors, and the body. God Scorpion is a founding member and senior art director at STYLY, Inc., which provides the extended reality platform STYLY.

Chiharu Shinoda excels at distinguishing between multiple environments, placing them in a space, and arranging them without closing them off. In 2004, she founded FAIFAI with fellow students at Tama Art University, serving as the core member of the company directing, writing, and planning its productions until her departure in 2012. She then moved to Bangkok and launched a solo practice. In March 2020, she returned to Japan and based herself in Nerima, Tokyo. In 2020, Chiharu produced the online performance "The 5×5×5 Legged Stool" in partnership with the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. In 2022, she directed "no plan in duty", which was performed at a house in Tokyo. At Bigakko, Shinoda teaches a course called How to Quit Acting.

Kishi Yuma reinterprets AI as alien intelligence and proposes the emergent relationship between humans and AI as an alien subjectivity, which he explores through paintings, sculptures, and installations created in collaboration with an AI that he developed himself. Since 2023, the AI model MaryGPT has curated almost all of his work. Kishi’s exhibitions include the solo show Oracle Womb (2025, √K Contemporary, Tokyo) and the group show DXP2 (2024, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa). His awards include the short list for the CAF Award 2024. He is the author of Creating with the Unknown: On the Alien Encounter between Humans and AI (2025, Seibundo Shinkosha).

Born in 1996 in Shizuoka Prefecture, currently enrolled at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences. Works with multimedia including VR/AR, 3DCG, video, performance, installation, and sound, focusing on the natural aspects of the body and the concept of virtual reality through production and research. Also active as a director and curator of art projects. In 2022, used the Shibuya club ‘CONTACT’ for the art project ‘Imaginary Line’. In 2023, co-curated the Video/Sound/Performance program at EASTEAST_TOKYO with QIUYU JIN, and served as the director of ‘ZOR’ held at CALM & PUNK GALLERY.

You Nakai makes music, dance, theatre, haunted mansions, and other forms of performance as a member of No Collective, and also conducts research on experimental electronic music, performance, influentology, and habits. His publications include Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music (Oxford University Press, 2021). Recent artistic endeavors include bringing to life Island Eye Island Ear, a speculative plan conceived by Tudor in the mid-1970s to turn an entire island into a giant musical instrument. Nakai’s translations include Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (2021) by Eyal Weizman and Matthew Fuller. He is currently affiliated with the University of Tokyo, where he hosts the Side Effects Lab and chairs the Department of Avant-Garde Arts.

Madoka researches and practices modern witchcraft culture, and is the organizer of the Future Witches Conference. Her interviews and articles on witchcraft have appeared in the leading Japanese literary magazine Bungei , feminist culture magazine Etcetera , long-running Japanese magazine on the occult and the paranormal MU , Vogue , WIRED , and Tokyo Art Beat. In 2023, she formed a “chimera” collaboration with Donna Haraway scholar Sakamaki Shitone, publishing the zine Cyborg Witch Manifesto under the joint name Madoka Shitone. Her column “Modern Witch” is currently serialized by Shueisha’s Shinsho Plus and “Hello Witches! Witches of the 21st Century” by Kasama Shoin.

Born in 1992, Yamamoto Hiroki is the director of Inu no Senaka-za, a creative collective, publishing house, and design studio. Through a wide range of activities—including writing fiction, poetry, and arts criticism, designing, editing, and publishing books, and producing stage works—he investigates and proposes new possibilities for the relationship between artistic expression and life today. His notable works of fiction include “Without Permission and Soil,” featured in the anthology Best SF 2022. His critical writings includes A New Distance. His design work includes art direction for Quick Japan magazine and the book design for Yoshida Yasuhiro’s Light and Private Language. Yamamoto also served as planner and editor for the autumn 2021 issue of Waseda Bungaku, which featured a special section on the reality of horror.

Born in Niigata in 1990, Wakui Tomohito is a visual and music artist as well as the director and curator of WHITEHOUSE. His major exhibitions include “nonno” (2016, 8/ART GALLERY/Tomio Koyama), “Dark Independants” (2020, online and Tokyo), “JUNK’S PORTS” (2023, ANOMALY), “Electricity-Sound” (2023, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art), and “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo).

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