Kazuya Nagaya & Ali Mahmut Demirel & Maurice JonesJP+TR/DE+CA
© Timothée Lambrecq
Kazuya Nagaya is a Japanese ambient musician and sound artist active since 1999. He released 11 solo albums on domestic and international labels, such as Barcelona’s Indigo Raw and techno artist Dubfire’s label SCI-TEC. Nagaya has been involved in projects ranging from musical collaborations with Tibetan monks in Mongolia to works with Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. He is the author of the books "For All the Radiant Darknesses” and “Nahal’s Bell”, and in 2016 designed his first Stone Circle Garden. Iwakura presents a continuation of his explorations of ancient Japanese culture, including the roots of Japanese Zen-Buddhism and Shintoism.
Ali Mahmut Demirel is a Berlin-based visual and video artist. After studying nuclear engineering and architecture Ali began making video art in the 90s, which took him from his native Turkey to New York to Berlin. After exploring minimalist computer graphics as part of his long-term collaboration with the electronic music producer Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman, he returned to nature as his source of inspiration. Iwakura is a continuation of his previous collaboration with Anthony Linell called Winter Ashes and his solo work Rock Forms.
Maurice Jones is a curator, producer, and critical AI researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. He's a PhD student at Concordia University, Montréal, Artistic Director at Tokyo’s MUTEK.JP, and part of the Forum programming team at MUTEK Montréal.
Ali M. Demirel
1972年トルコ出身。ベルリン（ドイツ）を拠点に活動中。原子力工学と建築を学んだあと，芸術の道に進む。中東工科大学のオーディオビジュアルシステム研究所で研究員をしていた90年代初期に映像とサウンド作品の制作を開始。2000年代に入ると，リアルタイムに変化するCG画像制作を始めるようになり、インタラクティブなライブオーディオビジュアルパフォーマンスに取り組む。その後、ビデオインスタレーションへと活動を戻し、「世界滅亡後のユートピア」をテーマにしたビデオ三部作を作成。これらを2018年にArterIstanbulで開催した個展「ISLE」にて発表した。近年は，神話が創られた地域を調査し、生態学、自然、神話を関連させたシリーズ作に取り組んでいる。これまでに欧米，中東，アジアなど，世界各国の美術館やフェスティバルで作品を発表し続ける。
