Art Division

Award

Interface I

Ralf BAECKER

Media installation [Germany]

Interface I is a kinetic installation that visualizes the interaction of two different systems using 192 motors. Vertically hung strings are each pulled from both sides by a pair of motors like a tug of war, and at the same time these strings are interconnected horizontally by a web of red rubber bands. Geiger-Muller tubes in this work capture naturally occurring radiation, and …

Jury Selections

Jury Critiques

ISHIDA Takashi

Painter, Film Artist and Associate Professor, Tama Art University

Some Thoughts from My Experience as a Juror

In the course of the screening process, I frequently had to ask myself what exactly this thing called "art" is. I think this owed not just to the overwhelming volume of submissions and diversity of artistic forms, but also to how the four divisions have been delineated in this festival as well as to the sheer breadth of the term "media arts." This breadth is by no means a negative thing: The fact …

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Head of the Jury

SATOW Morihiro

Historian of Visual Culture and Professor, Kyoto Seika University

Invisible Systems

This is my third year as a juror for the Japan Media Arts Festival. In my comments the first year, I addressed the issue of medium/media,★1 and the second year I discussed old or dead media.★2 Both were topics that I have had occasion to study in my scholarly research, which has centered mainly on the visual culture of Japan's modern period. The specific subjects of my research are of a different …

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NAKAZAWA Hideki

Artist

A Progress Report on My Criticism of “Media Arts"

Let me begin with a word to those who did not get selected, or who did not win the award they had hoped for: Do not be overly discouraged, and do not do anything rash with the work you submitted. It's said that Paul CÉZANNE was rejected by the Paris Salon every year and even complained to the chief judge about it.It should be noted that there was an important change in the 20th Japan Media Arts …

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FUJIMOTO Yukio

Artist

Subdued Works

In comparison with last year, my sense was that there were fewer submissions whose primary objective seemed to be to assault the retinas with stimuli. I consider this a very good thing.In looking at the full gamut of works, from those that made use of primitive media to those taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies, the ones that I found most appealing shared a common characteristic: they …

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MORIYAMA Tomoe

Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Media Art / Media Arts: Looking to the Next 10 Years

With the selection of awardees behind us, I feel more than ever that "media art / media arts" is following the usual path all new cultural domains traverse in establishing themselves, having completed an initial period of "dissimilation" and "leaping away" from conventional ways of looking at things, and now proceeding through a longer process of transformation.Japan's media art has its roots in …

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Award

Interface I

Ralf BAECKER

COLONY

YOSHIHARA Yukihiro

Alter

“Alter” Production Team (ISHIGURO Hiroshi / IKEGAMI Takashi, Representatives)

Jller

Benjamin MAUS / Prokop BARTONÍČEK

The Living Language Project

Ori ELISAR

You would come back there to see me again the following day.

TSUDA Michiko

DCT: SYPHONING. The 1000000th interval.

Rosa MENKMAN

The Wall

Nina KURTELA

Jury Selections

Asemic Languages

KANNO So / yang02

Ghost in the Sellotape

KATAOKA Junya

Short Trees are Short

KOBAYASHI Muku

Doboku Orchestra ‶DOBOLERO"

‶Doboku Orchestra ‘DOBOLERO’" Production Team (HISHIKAWA Seiichi, Representative)

Emergence of Vibro-language

‶Emergence of Vibro-language" Production Team (WATANABE Junji, Representative)

The Logical Constitution

ONO Mutsuaki

Agora(s)

Nicolas CLAUSS

AMYGDALA

‶AMYGDALA" Production Team (Mattia CARRETTI, Representative)

Any Road

Boris LABBÉ / Daniele GHISI

A quiet desert failure

Guido SEGNI

ASSAULT

Dani PLOEGER

BIRD SONG MIMIC

Victoria VESNA / Charles TAYLOR / IWATA Hiroo / IKEGAMI Takashi / SUZUKI Reiji

BUMPY

GOSHIMA Kazuhiro

cellF

Guy BEN-ARY / Nathan THOMPSON / Andrew FITCH / Darren MOORE / Stuart HODGETTS / Mike EDEL / Doug BAKKUM

cellroid

FUJIKI Jun

chains

MANABE Daito / TOMOTO Yusuke / ISHII 2 bit

Circling the Mountain

Louis-Jack HORTON-STEPHENS

Death will come

Matteo CRIVELLA

dist.solo

Kenny WONG Chi-Chuen

Drawn Yourself

YAMADA Hiroki

Either/or

Müge YILDIZ

Fleeting

Gijs VAN BON

H OM E OMOR PH ISM Dome A/V Performance

Ferdi ALICI / Eylul DURANAGAC

Hypergradient

Andreas LUTZ

It looks like it's heard

YE Hui

Ka-Ta-Ka-Ta

MONNO Kazue / NAGATA Takeshi

LISTEN

MAKIHARA Eri / DAKEI

Optical Marionette

ISHII Akira / SUZUKI Ippei / SAKAMOTO Shinji / TAKAZAWA Kazuki / OCHIAI Yoichi

Person #25

Karin FELBERMAYR

Roads to Rome

Benedikt GROSS / Philipp SCHMITT / Raphael REIMANN

Robot Opera

Wade MARYNOWSKY