Started in 1998 by dancer Ayako Kato and musician Jason Roebke, Art Union Humanscape creates music and dance performances that vary from duos to ensemble works. As a duo, Kato and Roebke have performed in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Fall 2010, AUH++, an expanded version of the group, performed in the opening program of Chicago Jazz Festival at Jay Pritzker Pavilion of Millennium Park. In 2007, Art Union Humanscape and cornet player Josh Berman received the Crosscut sound and movement collaboration grant from Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall. The project toured Japan in 2009.

Ayako Kato is a dancer and choreographer originally from Yokohama, Japan. She was selected as one of 14 indispensable female artists, The Dynamic Women of Chicago Dance in 2010 in Time Out Chicago. Summer 2010, Kato premiered fifty-one minute dance-piano duo Dear BACH - Goldberg Variations with pianist Ayako Yoshioka in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, her recent video collaboration, Maria's List, was featured at WTTW Image Union and she was also picked as "People to Watch" in dance in Chicago Reader. She was selected for the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award to present Ten Nights Dream: Sound and Movement Mandala in 2008 as the culmination of her Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream Series (Tokyo in 2004 and 2005, Chicago in 2007). In 2006, she created Land the land -9, a peace of idea and performed in Chicago and Tokyo. Her works has been presented at International Series of Die Pratze Dance Festival, Tokyo, Japan; Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks, NYC; Joyce Soho, New York City; Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France; The Other Dance Festival, Chicago; Links Hall, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center and other festivals and venues. She is a former LinkUp performer in residence at Links Hall and DanceBridge artist in residence funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Since fall 2010, she is an artist in residence at Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater as part of Chicago Moving Company's Dance Shelter Program. Kato organizes a dance series, currently called Dance Union, in Chicago since fall 2008. Having classical ballet background in Japan, Kato started to receive her modern dance training since 1996 in the United States and received MFA in dance from the University of Michigan in 1998. Kato has also trained herself in Tai-Chi, Noh Theater dance, and butoh. Her experimental dance works focus on creating space of furyu, being as it is.

Her interdisciplinary collaborators include Yuji Miyao (artist), Haruo Higuma (video artist), musicians such as Michiyo Yagi (koto), Stephen Rush (live electronics), and Brian Labycz (electronics, koto). She also improvised with musicians such as Michael Zerang (percussion), Jim Baker (piano), Kent Kessler (double bass), Darin Gray (double bass), Megumu Nishino (taiko), Taku Sugimoto (guitar), Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), Haco (voice, electronics) and Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar) and Jorrit Dijkstra (saxophone).

Jason Roebke is a double bassist working in the field of jazz and improvised music. Since coming to Chicago in 1999, he has become one of the cities most active musicians. The Chicago Reader described his work as "a carefully orchestrated rummage through a hardware store." He regularly works with a wide range of ensembles: Mike Reed People Places and Things, Jason Stein Locksmith Isidore, Jeb Bishop Trio, Steve Dawson, overova, James Falzone Klang, Keefe Jackson Quartet, Jason Adasiewicz Rolldown, Jorrit Dijkstra, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Valentine Trio. He was the recipient of a 2009 Artist Fellowship in Music Composition from the Illinois Arts Council, Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago (2007).