Board of directors

Staff

Advisory committee

Research Partners

Institutional collaborators

Supporters

Ann Adachi-Tasch
Executive Director, Collaborative Cataloging Japan

Jay Levenson
Director, International Program, The Museum of Modern Art

Barbara London
Former Associate Curator, Department of Performance and Media Art, The Museum of Modern Art

Rosemary Mallory
Executive Director, Corporate Development at Comcast / NBCUniversal

Derek Tasch
Associate Partner, Foster and Partners 

Miwako Tezuka, PhD
Consulting Curator of Arakawa+Gins' Reversible Destiny Foundation, New York; Co-director, PoNJA-GenKon

Michèle Vicat
Founder/Publisher of 3 Dots Water & 1 Project

Ann Adachi-Tasch, Executive Director

Mia Parnall, Online Programs & Communications Lead

Editorial Board
Go Hirasawa
Researcher, Meiji Gakuin University
Julian Ross
Leiden University in LUCAS, the Centre for the Arts in Society; International Film Festival Rotterdam
Ann Adachi-Tasch
Executive Director, Collaborative Cataloging Japan

Research Advisors
Reiko Tomii
Independent art historian; Co-founder, PoNJA-GenKon
Hirofumi Sakamoto
Associate Professor, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University
Hiroko Tasaka
Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Library Resources & Access Advisors
Kuniko Yamada McVey
Chair, NCC; Librarian for the Japanese Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library

Archiving and Preservation Advisors
Rebecca Cleman
Director of Distribution, Electronic Arts Intermix
Mona Jimenez
Associate Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program of New York University (MIAP)
Lori Zippay
Director Emeritus, Electronic Arts Intermix
John Klacsmann
Anthology Film Archives
Peter Oleksik
The Museum of Modern Art

Database Working Group
Laurie Duke
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Ashley Blewer
Independent Consultant
Chad Nelson
Independent Programmer; Temple University Libraries
John Klacsmann
Anthology Film Archives
Peter Oleksik
The Museum of Modern Art

Ann Adachi-Tasch, Collaborative Cataloging Japan
Ann Adachi-Tasch is Executive Director of Collaborative Cataloging Japan, a not-for-profit that supports preservation and archiving of Japanese historical and experimental moving image works. Ann has worked at The Museum of Modern Art where she managed projects for the Museum's global research initiative titled Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), and contributed to the launch of its digital platform, post (post.at.moma.org). In 2009, she organized a touring screening program and publication of Japanese experimental video and film, Vital Signals at Electronic Arts Intermix, a video art archive and distributor where she was the Distribution Coordinator. Ann has given presentations and written about the status of media archiving in Japan, at The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tate Modern (London); Keio University Art Center (Tokyo); and the Archives of American Art (Washington D.C.), among others. 

Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo)
Go Hirasawa is a researcher at Meiji-Gakuin University working on underground and experimental films and avant-garde art movements in 1960s and '70s Japan. His publications include Godard (Tokyo, 2002), Fassbinder (Tokyo, 2005), Cultural Theories: 1968 (Tokyo, 2010), Koji Wakamatsu: Cinéaste de la Révolte (Paris, 2010), and Masao Adachi: Le bus de la révolution passera bientot près de chez toi (Paris, 2012). He has organized more than fifty film exhibitions throughout the world, including Underground Film Archives (Tokyo, 2001), Nagisa Oshima (Seoul Art Cinema, 2010), Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi (Cinematheque Française, 2010), Theatre Scorpio: Japanese Independent and Experimental Cinema of the 1960s (Close-Up: London, 2011), and Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960–1986 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012).

Julian Ross, Leiden University in LUCAS, the Centre for the Arts in Society
Julian Ross is a Lecturer at Leiden University in LUCAS, the Centre for the Arts in Society. His recent publications include book chapters and articles in The Japanese Cinema Book (BFI, 2020), America: Films from Elsewhere (The Shoestring Publisher, 2019) and Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2017). As a curator, he has presented curatorial projects related to Japanese expanded cinema at Tate Modern, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts and Art Institute of Chicago. He was a curatorial advisor for the exhibition Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and is a Core Research Group member of Collaborative Cataloging Japan.

Hirofumi Sakamoto, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University (Wakkanai, Hokkaido)
Hirofumi Sakamoto is Associate Professor at Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuin, Hokkaido, Japan. In 2006, Mr. Sakamoto organized the exhibition A Retrospective Exhibition of Early Video Art, in which he presented works by seminal Japanese video artists. He has been working with filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto to organize and digitize Matsumoto’s archive material and moving image works. He is founder and director of Japan Postwar Moving Image Archive (PJMIA).  

Hiroko Tasaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
Hiroko Tasaka is Curator of Department of Moving Image at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and has co-curated Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions since 2009.   She worked for Processart Inc., managing the artist Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures. She has also designed and produced projects related to the study of the intersection of art and science, the performances in the 1960’s and the 1970’s, as well as video arts. She has curated the following exhibitions: Spelling Dystopia(2012-13); Shiro Takatani Camera Lucida (2013-14), among other projects.  

Japan:
Mori Art Museum
Meiji-Gakuin University
Nihon University College of Art
Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP)

United States:
Asia Art Archive in America
Lightbox Film Center
New York University, Grey Art Gallery
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
Rikumo
Shofuso Japanese House & Garden
Slought Foundation
The Museum of Modern Art
Vox Populi Gallery

2023
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
The Andy Warhol Foundation
Japan Foundation

2022
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Japan-US Friendship Commission
Japan Foundation

2021
Asian Cultural Council
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Pola Foundation Toshiba Foundation

2020
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
WLS Spencer Foundation

2019
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
The National Endowment for the Arts

2018
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission

2017
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Preserving Diverse Cultures
Andy Warhol Foundation
Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund

2016
Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Project Stream

2015
Japan Foundation New York
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts