Fujiko Nakaya is a internationally known Japanese artist who works with pure-water fog extensively to create fog installations, performances, fog stage sets, and environmental park designs. Her first fog sculpture was commissioned by Experiments in Art and Technology for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka Japan. There are permanent installations of her work at: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Foggy Forest in Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo; and Greenland Glacial Moraine Garden in the garden of the Museum of Snow and Ice, Kaga, Japan (architect, Arata Isozaki), a museum in honor of her father, a snow and ice scientist who created the first artificial snow crystal. She has collaborated on dance and performance works with video artist Bill Viola, composer David Tudor, choreographer Trisha Brown, installation works with Shiro Takatani; and media artists group doubleNegatives Architecture. Among her most recent works Nakaya created a huge waterfall-like fog installation under one of the city's main bridges for the Singapore Biennale, an interactive fog landscape controlled by wind for the Yokohama Triennale, "MU: Mercurial Unfolding" at I'institut Franco-Japonais in Tokyo; and a Fog Garden for Japan Industry Pavilion at Shanghai Expo.

Born in 1963, Takatani is one of the founding member of the artist collective Dumb Type, which was established in 1984. Besides Dumb Type, Takatani began a parallel solo career in 1998. In his solo activities, Takatani’s works were presented, among others, Festival de Marseille, New National Theatre Tokyo, National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei, Centre Pompidou-Metz France, Sharjah Biennial UAE. His first retrospective solo exhibition, Camera Lucida, was held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2013. He also worked in collaboration with diverse artists such as Fujiko Nakaya, Mansai Nomura, Raku Kichizaemon XV, among others. The latest theater piece by Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, TIME was premiered at Holland Festival in June 2021. Dumb Type is the Japan Pavilion Artist at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.