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Nao Tokui
Artist / Researcher
Founder & CEO, Qosmo Inc. / Founder & CEO, Neutone Inc.
Specially Appointed Professor at Atomi Information Science and Arts Center
Nao Tokui is an artist/researcher, Ph.D. (Engineering). Specially Appointed Professor, Atomi Information Science and Arts Center (AISAC). He explores ways to expand human creativity through AI, both in research and in artistic production. He founded and leads Qosmo, a collective made up of artists, designers, AI researchers/engineers, and others, working on artworks and technology development. He also develops new AI-based “musical instruments” at Neutone, which he founded in July 2023. His works have been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Barbican Centre (London), and NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), and he has performed live at festivals such as MUTEK and Sonar. He published an English translation of his award-winning Japanese book on creativity and AI as “Surfing Human Creativity with AI — A User’s Guide” in 2023. His latest book, “The Act of Making in the Age of AI Reproduction,” was published in Japanese in July 2026.
