"Nonsense Machines"

Maywa Denki is an art unit produced by Nobumichi Tosa. It was named after the company that his father used to run bygone days. Its unique style is indicated by a term he uses: for example, each piece of Maywa Denki's work is called "a product" and a live performance or exhibition is held as "a product demonstration." The products produced so far include "NAKI Series," fish-motif nonsense machines, "Tsukuba Series," original musical instruments, and "Edelweiss," flower-motif objet d'art. Although Maywa Denki is known and appreciated as an artist, its promotion strategies are full of variety: exhibition, live stages, performances, producing music, videos, writing, merchandising toys, stationery, and electric devices. As Nobumichi is still looking for a new scheme for a different approach to the public, Maywa Denki now in earnest begins to extend its activities to overseas, holding exhibitions in Europe (Paris, London) and selling Na-Cord in the United States in 2001. Maywa Denki is organized in 1993 as an art unit of two members (brothers), Masamichi (elder brother) and Nobumichi (younger brother) Tosa.

"Ryota Kuwakubo "

Known as a "device artist", Ryota Kuwakubo focuses on electronics yet produces work that lies on the boundary between digital and analog. He develops games for portable game machines and arcade games and his interactive creations include toys such as Bitman and Heaven Seed, gadgets that respond to different actions.