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 Studio)

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

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) — Blockchain × Web3 / DePIN

Examining the impact of blockchain, NFTs, and decentralized infrastructure on urban development and creative economies.

Speakers:

• Takeo Yatabe (Mawari, Co-Founder & Global Marketing Director)

• Kensuke Amo (CEO, Animoca Brands Japan)

16:30–17:15 (English) — Keynote: Luis Oscar Ramirez, Mawari

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.

L’Effet Québec: An initiative of Xn Québec, in collaboration with MUTEK Montréal, SODEC, the Canada Media Fund, the Québec Government Office in Tokyo, and MUTEK. JP featuring a Québec delegation of studio producers, creators, presenters, distributors, and cultural venues in digital creativity to take part in MUTEK.JP 2025, on the occasion of the event’s 10th anniversary.