MUTEK.JP PRO | Day 2

Immersive Futures, AI in Performance, and Decentralized Infrastructures

Day 2 focuses on technologies and methodologies driving the next generation of creative expression. From immersive storytelling and AI-driven performance to Web3, blockchain, and DePIN infrastructures, this day examines how artists and innovators are navigating hybrid physical-digital environments. Sessions highlight cutting-edge projects from Québec and Japan, exploring how AI, XR, and decentralized systems are reshaping creation, experience, and distribution of art in 2025 and beyond.

Pro Conference Overview

• Dates: November 20–21, 2025

• Venue: Hikarie Hall B, Shibuya Hikarie

• Hours: Doors 11:00 / Start 11:30 / Close 17:30

• Admission: Free (Advance Registration Required)

Day 2 Registration / Info

Day 2 Program

12:30–13:15 (English) — What’s Next in Immersive? – Québec Innovation Showcase

Highlighting new immersive storytelling projects, this session features Québec artists, studios, and cultural institutions showing rapidly evolving technologies, methodologies, and audience engagement.

Speakers:

• Charlie Leroy & Sébastien Samyn (Co-Founders, Après Minuit)

• Sébastien Grenier Cartier (Partner & CEO, Normal Studio)

• Myriam Achard (Chief, New Media Partnerships & PR, PHI)

• Charles Stéphane Roy (CEO & Co-Founder, Scintilla

Speakers Profiles HERE

13:30–14:15 (English) — Performing AI: Worldly Enactments, Material Agencies, and Situated Actions

Exploring AI in creative practice, this panel examines AI as relational, performative, and situated across stage, studio, and everyday contexts.

Speakers:

• Takashi Ikegami (ALIFE researcher, University of Tokyo)

• Alexandre Saunier (Research-creator, LUCA School of Arts)

• Pia Baltazar (Intermedia Composer)

Moderator: Maurice Jones (MUTEK / Concordia University)

Focus:
How AI enacts realities, co-creates with humans and materials, and produces emergent sounds, images, and performances shaped by context and improvisation.

14:30–15:15 (Japanese) — The Future of Cities and the Metaverse

Explores Shibuya Digital Twin Project and Meta Osaka’s urban vision, merging physical and virtual spaces for next-generation cities.

Speakers:

• Daisuke Minezaki (Tokyu Corporation, Shibuya Development Division)

• Hideaki Mouri (CEO, Meta Osaka)

Moderator: Mariko Nishimura (HEART CATCH Inc)

15:30–16:15 (Japanese) — Post-Trump Era of Web3: The Turbulent Token Economy, Japan’s DePIN Movement, and the Potential of Japanese IP

With Trump’s re-election reshaping the Web3 landscape, this session explores the global trends in cryptocurrency, the cutting edge of blockchain-driven business, and the limitless potential of Japan’s homegrown IP in the token economy.From DePIN’s emerging business models to the accelerating wave of deregulation, we examine what lies ahead for the next phase of decentralized innovation — and whether Japan is poised to lead this new era.

Speakers:

• Mawari Team
  
• Kensuke Amo — Animoca Brands Japan CEO
  
• Shunpei Tatebayashi — Deputy General Manager, Open Innovation Promotion Division at KDDI Corporation
• Atsushi Mizoguchi — MyAnimeList Co.,Ltd. CEO

16:30–17:15 (English) — Keynote: Mawari Team

Press Play on Reality: How Mawari bridges blockchain, XR, and DePIN

Mawari presents real-time XR streaming through decentralized networks, integrating blockchain for transparent routing, rewards, and monetization of scalable immersive 3D experiences.

MUTEK.JP PRO is possible through the generous support of:

Sponsors: TRIAD Inc. | MAWARI Inc. | TOKYU CORPORATION | Ghost in the Shell Exhibition Production Committee | Panasonic Projector & Display Corporation

Subsidy: JAPAN CULTURAL EXPO 2.0 (Japan Arts Council / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)

L'Effet Québec —an initiative of Xn Québec— in collaboration with MUTEK Montréal and MUTEK Japan is organizing a Québec delegation of studio producers, creators, broadcasters, distributors, and cultural venues dedicated to digital creativity to participate in MUTEK Japan 2025, marking the event's 10th anniversary. The delegation receives financial support from the SODEC and the Canada Media Fund, and is organized with the support of the Québec Government Office in Tokyo (DGQT).