Entertainment Division
Award
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Excellence Award
Noramoji Project
SHIMOHAMA Rintaro / NISHIMURA Naoki / WAKAOKA Shinya
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Excellence Award
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KONDO Genta / YAMAURA Hiroshi / KONISHI Tetsuya
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Excellence Award
Kintsugi
APOTROPIA (Antonella MIGNONE / Cristiano PANEPUCCIA)
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Excellence Award
3RD
Hedwig HEINSMAN / Niki SMIT / Simon van der LINDEN
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New Face Award
Auto-Complain
Florian BORN
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New Face Award
Slime Synthesizer
Dorita / Airgarage lab (KAWAUCHI Naofumi / SASAKI Yumi)
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New Face Award
5D ARCHIVE DEPT.
KATSUKI Kohichi
Jury Selections
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*Anzen unten no shiori* (Safe Driving Guide)
AC-bu (ADACHI Toru / ITAKURA Shunsuke)
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A Family Story
UESHIMA Shiro / ASAI Yuki / KANO Akira / KANNO Satoko / AIHARA Sachie / audioforce / IZUMIDA Takeshi / TEKKEN
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HEBOCON – The Robot Contest for Dummies
ISHIKAWA Daiju
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Kuchisaki-bancho
(Word Leader)Kuchisaki-bancho production team (IKEJIRI Daisaku / NISHIZAWA Manabu, Representatives)
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Dear
ITO Seiko / ITO Gabin / ucnv / ISU Taeko / *Dear* production team
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Correct Pronunciations of Internet Terms
SATO Nezi / FUJISAWA Shin / HASEGAWA Tetsuji / NOZAKI Rentaro
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Tabisuru Suzuki
(Traveler Suzuki)SUZUKI Ryosei / SUZUKI Satoko
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Super Denpa Bazooka ver. 2
HAGIWARA Daisuke / SAKAMOTO Ryusei / BITO Teruki / ENDO Takanori / WATANABE Mitsuya / MIZUGUCHI Shota / NANBARA Teppei
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Japanese School Girl Chase
Japanese School Girl Chase project team
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The system substitute reality for delusion
ICHIHARA Etsuko / WATAI Taiki / FUJII Naotaka / WAKISAKA Sohei
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YO-KAI WATCH 2 Ganso/Honke (tentative title)
YO-KAI WATCH development team (HINO Akihiro, Representative)
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little forest – summer/autumn –
MORI Junichi
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LOST DIMENSION
TEAM LOST DIMENSION
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CAVE! CAVE! DEUS VIDET. Episode 0
Claudia MOLINARI / Matteo POZZI
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Concorde "Sons"
Alexis BEAUMONT
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EPILOG – Light and shadows
Sebastian HUBER / Johannes TIMPERNAGEL / Michael BURK
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FAINT
Natalie PLASKURA
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HOLO 1
Greg J. SMITH / Alexander SCHOLZ / Filip VISNJIC / Sherry KENNEDY
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KAWURAS
Hendrik LACKUS / Lars SICHAU / Andreas MEVES
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littleBits Synth Kit
SAKAMAKI Tadahiko / TAKAHASHI Tatsuya / Paul ROTHMAN / Geof LIPMAN / Ayah BDEIR
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lmnarchitecture.com
SAKAI Yasushi / TSUNODA Daisuke
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Metrico
Metrico production team
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P.T.
P.T. production team (KOJIMA Hideo, Representative)
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Patatap
Jono BRANDEL
Shawn James SEYMOUR,Yoshimi SEYMOUR -
Phenox
KONOMURA Ryo / MIYOSHI Kensho
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PixelDrifter – the pixel-sorting app
Dmitriy KROTEVICH
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Power of Optics
KOBAYASHI Tatsuyuki
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Raspberry Pi Model B+
Eben UPTON
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Remember me
HASHIJI Misuzu / Remember me production team (SAKAI Yosuke, Representative)
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rinkak DECOBOCO map
ADACHI Masahiko / INADA Masahiko / OKUBO Ayako / WADA Takuro
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TENGAMI
AGARIE Ryo / Jennifer SCHNEIDEREIT / Phil TOSSELL
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WE ARE OUTSIDE PLAYING IN THE GARDEN
Friederike HOPPE
Jury Critiques
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IIDA Kazutoshi
Game Creator and Professor, Digital Hollywood University
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UKAWA Naohiro
Genzai (Contemporary) Artist and Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design and Representative, DOMMUNE
The Pulse of Alternative Futures
Just what are Media Arts? The more you examine the entries, the less you understand - it's overwhelming. Viewing the torrent of hundreds of works, the mind is painted in the colors of the Media Arts world, and then something emerges on the horizon. Not media or technology; it's raw humanity. Listen carefully and we can hear the breathing of the artists, the scent of the artists remaining as …
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KUBOTA Akihiro
Artist and Professor, Tama Art University
The Power of Design
The Entertainment Division seems to symbolize the recent diversity of media, from video games to video work, gadgets, apps, and websites. As a characteristic from this year's entries, the first thing I would like to proffer is the increased volume and quality of the video works. Today YouTube and Vimeo have surpassed television to become the video medium of the norm, and the accessibility of …
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HIGASHIIZUMI Ichiro
Designer and Creative Director
From the Intelligent to the Physical
Media art methods and expression has passed through all manner of experiments of trial and error from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Eventually it has been consumed and in recent years suddenly arrived at commercial use. Now many things are being produced which attempt to attract attention through gimmicks on a grand scale. On the other hand, under the surface we can …
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YONEMITSU Kazunari
Game Designer
Leaving Home an Hour Early
In the chaotic, extensive categorization that is Media Arts - even dissembled into the seemingly further refined category of the Entertainment Division - the chaos and extensiveness never straightens out, artworks protruding out of categories as diverse as video, video games, websites, and apps. Having gone beyond the bewilderment we faced when the festival guidelines were first set up, pondering …
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Gossip, Scandal, and Entertainment
In the mature information society of today, the negative entertainment of gossip and scandal has become normalized. This has been particularly prominent in Japan this year. Something happens and instantly captures people's attention, with the change in situation shared in real time. There is an attraction here that is hard to resist. As an artist I find something discomforting about creating work …