Entertainment Division
Award
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Excellence Award
THE WARPED FOREST
MIKI Shunichiro
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Excellence Award
Smart Trashbox
KURATA Minoru
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Excellence Award
Suidobashi Heavy Industry "KURATAS"
KURATA Kogoro / YOSHIZAKI Wataru
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Excellence Award
GRAVITY DAZE
TOYAMA Keiichiro (GRAVITY DAZE TEAM)
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New Face Award
Whatever Button
IDPW
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New Face Award
NAGANO Ryo "HAJIMEYOU"
ARAI Fuyu
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New Face Award
Haisuinonasa"Dynamics of the Subway"
ONISHI Keita
Jury Selections
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New creatures (living in your house)
EUPHRATES
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ISHIBASHI Eiko "imitation of life"
TAKCOM
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iropico
MURAI Ryoji
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UDAR
UDA Michinobu
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Kagetsunagi
ISHIDA Shoichi (arsias) / ABE Kohei / OKUYA Takeshi / KURITA Shu / HAYASHI Kenzo / FUKUI Kosei / MATSUZAKI Shu / YAMASHITA Kozue / YAMABE Kaoru / HAYAKAWA Takuma
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Kyoko Shimbun
UK
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A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo
ANNO Hideaki / HIGUCHI Shinji
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Glitch Embroidery
Nukeme
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Social Kingdom
Social Kingdom Project
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social hitchhike
KIBA Yoshiharu / BOKU Masayoshi / HARA Nobuo
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Chiba Institute of Technology Tokyo Skytree Town(R) Campus Exhibition
OGATA Hisato
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BEYOND THE WORLD .hack//The Movie＋Versus Hybrid Pack
MATSUYAMA Hiroshi
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HAKO ! -OPEN ME-
MATSUDA Taro / NAGASHIMA Ikuo / MATSUSHITA Hirokazu / KOBAYASHI Youmei / HATADA Kenichiro / OHMURA Kuniyoshi
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HATSUNE MIKU -Project DIVA- f
Team Project DIVA
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Petanko Roller
NAKAGAKI Ken / KONNO Keina / TASHIRO Shuntaro / IKEZAWA Ayaka / KIMURA Yusaku / JINGI Masaru / KAKEHI Yasuaki
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Where is stray cow HANAKO?
HORSTON
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Picturebook Mari -the rolling ball for babies and small children-
TANIKAWA Shuntaro / HIROSE Gen / HARADA Ikuko / tocco
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Creative Commands Compilation Data
Bunkai-Kei records / HAGIWARA Shunya / Dominick CHEN (Creative Commons Japan)
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DARK SOULS
MIYAZAKI Hidetaka,
Representing DARK SOULS Team -
dotanco
KAWANA Hirokazu
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EXILE "BOW&ARROWS"
MIZUSAKI Junpei
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EXODUS -another side-
LI Haozhe
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Google Maps 8-bi
Google Maps 8-bit team
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I am Synth
SANO Nobuyoshi / SUZUKI Hidenori
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MEDIA PRACTICE 2011-2012
OHARA Takayoshi / OKAE Shinichiro / SHIBATA Satoko / SEKI Yutaro / TOYOTA Masayuki / HIRASE Kentaro / FURUSAWA Ryu / HOSOKAWA Hiroshi
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Motion Sickness
Jessica KENNEDY / John MCILDUFF
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necomimi
neurowear
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nubot
nuuo (SENBO Kensuke / HAYASHI Tomohiko) / HORIO Kanta / anno lab / TOKUI aya
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orgarhythm
HIRAI Takeshi,
Representing the orgarhythm production team -
rrrrrrrroll
rrrrrrrroll
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salyu × salyu "hanashitaianatato"
TSUJIKAWA Koichiro
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SyncFont
NOMATA Yuya
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
IWAMOTO Kei
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WORLD ORDER 2012
WORLD ORDER (GENKI SUDO)
Jury Critiques
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ITO Gabin
Editor / Creative Director
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IWATANI Toru
Game Creator / Professor, Tokyo Polytechnic University
How to View the Present, How to Approach Art
The notion that the chaotic state of the world, and a mood of anxiety in regard to an uncertain future, would be unduly reflected in this year's works proved to be utterly groundless. Young artists of today are full of vigor. What awed me about this year's submissions was the strength of the artists' creative spirit -- the determination to express themselves regardless of their circumstances -- …
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KUBOTA Akihiro
Artist / Professor, Tama Art University
Entertainment= A Look into the Future
Of the four categories in the Japan Media Arts Festival, the entertainment field, which is intimately linked with technology and industry, has seen changes occur at an especially rapid rate. Many of the works that were submitted in this category also provide us with a look into the future of media arts. The series of events and reactions that greeted the three-woman techno-pop group Perfume, who …
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TERAI Hironori
Creative Director
Works that Respond to Primordial, Instinctual Images Dreamed by Everyone
One lasting impression of this year's entries was that they are rooted in universal desires or instincts, yet sublimate these into new experiences and new creations reflecting the sensibilities of our times. I was amazed at the degree to which they earnestly addressed fundamental desires shared by everyone, not just the events or markets of last year. While exploiting the attributes of their …
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NAKAMURA Yugo
Interface Designer / tha ltd.
Setting the Audience
Increasingly, our first opportunity to hear about a new work comes via the word-of-mouth of social networking sites. Our sense of distance from a work inevitably varies according to whether we experienced in real time a work appearing within our own timeline, or learned, after the fact, about a work appearing in some other, different cluster. In the Entertainment Division, the "softest" of the …
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Passion Burns Somewhere Today
The Entertainment Division embraces a broad diversity of genres: web and video works, games and gadgets. After three years as a juror I can't help observing the ebb and flow of these various genres. This year it struck me that web-based works were in a slump, but that games have come of age. The web slump came as a surprise. The global trend away from paper toward the web (including ebooks) …