アートの分野に特化した翻訳・通訳団体Art Translators Collectiveを共同設立者、ディレクター。東京芸術祭の人材育成プログラムAsian Performing Arts Farm 2020のコミュニケーションディレクター。日英翻訳・通訳に携わり、アーティスト等と連携しながら、国際協働の可能性を拡張・探究していくことを目指し活動。2017年にはAsia TOPAのストーリーテリングイベント「Stories for the Dead」に出演。幼少期に渡米し、これまでロサンゼルス、シカゴ、ハロゲイト(英国)に滞在。慶應義塾大学総合政策学部卒業。東京大学超域文化科学専攻表象文化論コース中退。
Nobuko Aiso is a Tokyo-based Japanese-English translator and interpreter working in the field of arts and culture. She is also the co-founder and director of Art Translators Collective, an organization dedicated to exploring the potential of translation and interpreting as a means to communicate and expand creative practices, and Communication Design Director of development initiative Asian Performing Arts Farm 2020 held under the Tokyo Festival. Working closely with artists and arts practitioners, Nobuko seeks to expand and explore the possibilities of intercultural artistic practices through her work. Nobuko spent her formative years in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Harrogate (North Yorkshire), before returning to Tokyo. She received her BA from Keio University and attended the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has spoken at the Asia TOPA 2017 storytelling gala Stories for the Dead.