
Shinpei Takeda is a visual artist and filmmaker(www.shinpeitakeda.com). His works involve a wide range of themes regarding memories and history. He uses multi-media installations, sound interventions, documentary films, large-scale photography installations, and collaborative community projects in various public contexts.
Shinpei is a co-founder and former creative director of The AJA Project, a nonprofit creating a compassionate space for educators, artists and activists in San Diego, USA. As a filmmaker he works on documentary-fiction hybrid films with titles such as “Hiroshima Nagasaki Download” (2010, 73 mins). He also co-founded Ghost Magnet Roach Motel, a noise performance unit from Tijuana, Mexico. He is the author of “Alpha Decay: How can a contemporary art express the memory of atomic bomb” (2014, Gendai Shokan) among other publications(photo credit: Hartmut Bühler)


Nana Tazuke-Steiniger is an art historian and PhD student living in Cologne. She curated the exhibition “HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: together for and against it”, which focused on historical and contemporary artistic interventions in and from Japan to question restricted freedom of expression, social and political issues and diversity in Japan. She works as a coordinator for the “Forschungsvolontariat Kunstmuseen NRW” at the University of Düsseldorf, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Naoko Tamura-Förster is a linguistic faculty member at University of Bonn’s Japanese and Korean studies. She heads the University of Bonn’s Hiroshima Nagasaki Project and is part of NET-GTAS, a group based in Japan dedicated to translating to the testimonies of atomic bomb survivors.