Art Division

Award

Khronos Projector

Alvaro CASSINELLI

Interactive art [Uruguay]

When a viewer touches the screen, in the area indented by the pressure of their finger, time in the screen changes back and forth. The image which changes in real time corresponding to the viewer's action gives a sort of pleasurable sensation as if he or she is manipulating time with perfect freedom.

Jury Selections

Jury Critiques

Head of the Jury

KUSAHARA Machiko

Professor, Waseda University

The energetic activities of Japanese artists are the result of the coming to life of Media Arts

This year, too, it was very difficult to determine which prize should go to whom because the Art Division attracted nearly half the total applications this year and every accepted work was of high quality as well as having different concepts and presentations. Especially, the quality of works among interactive arts and visual images, including those which were applied for installation were very …

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YANOBE Kenji

Artist

[Critique by work category] Interactive art, Others

On one hand, we have a work which blows viewers away with its sophisticated digital technique and quality, on the other hand, we have a work which goes back to the extreme analog mechanism and criticizes technology humorously. Also, we have a progression from a work which is done by personal craftsmanship to a work in which the artist lays out a large scale of collaboration with musicians. I was …

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TOSA Nobumichi

Maywa Denki

[Critique by work category] Installation

Among this year's applications, there were many works in which the characteristics both of "digital" and "analog" such as with plants and fluorescent light tubes, mechanical structure and lenses are present. In the case of an installation work the human body of the person who is visiting the sight, is integral to it. This is different from media arts where human beings' "eyes and brains" …

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KUSAHARA Machiko

Professor, Waseda University

[Critique by work category] Visual Image

In general, the quality of this year's applications was improved and diversification of technique stood out. By being offered technical advantages and a plummet in prices of software which supports making visual images, creators who have their own style in the fields of paintings and photographs have actively begun to create moving images. The lively presentation which is not framed in the …

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ASABA Katsumi

Art Director

[Critique by work category] Still Image

Works of still images are the center-core of the Art Division. In my opinion, one piece of still image can change time. I say this because I have made a discovery which I had never before encountered. The foremost aspects of Japan Media Arts Festival are that thoughts which have been generated from the brains of people who use different languages, live in different cultures, and have different …

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NAKAYA Hide

NHK Commentator

[Critique by work category] Web

This year, we had web works of high quality in general. However, it is regretful that not one of the works stood out among them. That is why the web works could not win a prize even though some were nominated. This year, the festival also attracted many applications from abroad and they are all at a high level. The style of the works has variety and many works challenged a new direction which …

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Award

Khronos Projector

Alvaro CASSINELLI

Six String Sonics, The

KUNO Gil

Spyglass

MURAKAMI Fumiaki

Gate vision

KOBAYASHI Kazuhiko

Anima

HOTCHI Kazuhiro

Conspiratio

HASHIMOTO Yuki / KOJIMA Minoru / MITANI Tomoyasu / MIYAJIMA Satoru / NAGAYA Naohisa / OHTAKI Junichiro / YAMAMOTO Akio / INAMI Masahiko

Jury Selections

3D Display Cube

James CLAR

DriftNet

HIRAKAWA Norimichi

H2O

Electronic Shadow (Naziha MESTAOUI / Yacine Aït KACI)

Khan Artist

Osman KHAN

Mr. Punch

Tilman REIFF / Volker MORAWE

OiTV

Mark HAUSENSTEIN

SGM-Iceberg-Probe | an explorative interface and installation

Agnes Meyer-BRANDIS

Virtual Brownies

AOKI Takafumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology Society for the Study of Robotics)

Open the Blind

KAWASHIMA Takashi

ZENetic Computer

MATSUOKA Seigow / TOSA Naoko

Movie Cards

MIYABARA Mika/SUGIMOTO Tatsuo

path installative concert

UCHIHASHI Kazuhisa / FUJIMOTO Takayuki

SPACE MAESTRO

INOUE Keisuke

UV-Graph

MAKABE Tomo

control

KURIYAMA Hitoshi

las familias - a gambling den

Frank WERNER

MAN OS 1

Seidel / Stiermann

OPNIYAMA

OISHI Akinori

Photon Counting "Bio photon"

ANDO Takahiro

Lasse RAA

Lasse RAA

restriction sight

ONISHI Yasuaki

Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser

Markus KISON

Sensorium.net

WATANABE Keisuke

Shockbot COREJULIO

5VOLTCORE (Christian GUETZER / Emanuel ANDEL)

The Blanket Project

Nicholas STEDMAN

snow mail

Earth Literacy Program (Director: TAKEMURA Shin-ichi) / (Creative Dicretor: ARAKAWA Kensuke)

Dry Flower

TAKAHASHI Keisuke

Allegory of Media Art

TSUSHIMA Takahiro

Aggregation

Andy LOMAS

City of Crocodiles

Soyoung PARK

desktop

SATO Yoshinao

Flight Patterns

Aaron KOBLIN

OH HISSE

YAMAKAWA Hikaru