New director of the SIAF

Interface Cultures congratulates Dr. Hideaki Ogawa, to his appointment as  new director of the Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF) in Japan scheduled for the winter 2023-24.

Ogawa has been involved in advanced media art initiatives for years at Ars Electronica, known as a global cultural institution in art and technology. Today, he is a co-director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, an R&D division of Ars Electronica.

He is also a key lecturer in the Interface Cultures department at University of Art and Design in Linz teaching Social Design and Art Thinking.

Like Sapporo, Linz is designated as a City of Media Arts in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN).