In the Art Division that made a new start this year after some system changes, we received more than 900 applications, and most of the applications from abroad were also concentrated in this division. This well demonstrates the international spread of the media arts and, at the same time, that many artists shared or paid attention to the concepts underlying the Media Arts Festival. Most of the …

[Critique by work category] Interactive arts

In general, interactive art means "an art form that gives rise to interactions between the audience and the work via input devices such as sensors." The latest popular trend is a combination of a video projector and a computer. While a projector can easily produce a "space," a computer excels at linking a sensor with images. As there are so many works that adopt this procedure too easily, some …

[Critique by work category] Installations

We received a number of excellent media artworks by artists of the younger generation from here and abroad. However, it seemed to us that the differences among these works largely depended on the quality of the recorded images. In particular, with spatial expressions of installations, interactions between the human body and a space are only possible when you are actually at the site of an …

[Critique by work category] Video works

What was common to the works that received high evaluations, such as E-BABY and GARA was the direction to fully learn long-accumulated techniques and characteristics, integrate these memories using the latest technology, and cross them with the author's own vision. A unique feature of this year's works that deserves special mention is that they try to pick up the primitive physical properties of …

[Critique by work category] Still Pictures

People often associate the word "digital arts" with images and interactive works, and either don't know or have forgotten fascinating features of still pictures. However, through this year's screening process, I was able to fully appreciate the fascination and potential of still pictures. As was the case with other people, I have taken little interest in still pictures in digital arts because of …

[Critique by work category] Web

Lately, there has been a concern worldwide that the Web arts have been deteriorating due to lack of artists, which was brought about by a rapid growth of advanced commercial Web arts. Against such a background, it was really welcome news for the development of this field that we received over 200 applications from here and abroad this year. In addition, we could feel the artists' enthusiasm …