Art Division
Award
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Excellence Award
between #4 Black Aura
ReKOGEI (ISHIBASHI Tomoya, Representative)
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Excellence Award
Ferriscope
Bull.Miletic
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Excellence Award
Soundform No.1
Natura Machina (KAKEHI Yasuaki / Mikhail MANSION / WU Kuan-Ju)
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Excellence Award
Two Hundred and Seventy
Nils VÖLKER
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New Face Award
drawhearts
Sebastian WOLF
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New Face Award
Latent Space
Marian ESSL
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New Face Award
Lenna
HOSOI Miyu
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Social Impact Award
SOMEONE
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Jury Selections
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You see the view from nowhere
SATO Soma
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Synesthesia Garden
YAMASHIRO Daisuke
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Alt-C
Michael SEDBON
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Anomy, for U.S. and Mexican News
Patrick MONTE / Brian QUESTA
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Box with the Air of Its Own Making
Gottfried HAIDER
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Cangjie
ZHANG Weidi / REN Donghao
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Coworo
MATSUNOBU Takuya / KAKEHI Yasuaki
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Inspiration
Saša SPAČAL
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Last Words / TypeTrace
dividual inc. (Dominique CHEN / ENDO Takumi)
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ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
Ben GROSSER
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Phase In, Phase Out
Judit Eszter KARPATI / Esteban DE LA TORRE
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Random Walk
Liat SEGAL
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Sodalguji
JUNG Kanghyun / LEE Hwayoung
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Terram in Aspectu
Liliana FARBER
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The Welcome Chorus
Yuri SUZUKI
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Unknown Territories – Searching for Islands
Merani SCHILCHER / Vinzenz AUBRY
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#HATE
Mirko EREMITA / David HOUNCHERINGER / Valerio SPOLETINI / Manuel OBERHOLZER
Jury Critiques
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TASAKA Hiroko
Curator of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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Georg TREMMEL
Artist and Researcher
Bio-art, Bio-media and Bio-politics
The events surrounding the Aichi Triennale and its spill-overs at the 'Japan Unlimited' exhibition in Vienna commemorating the 150-year anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Japan and Austria, created a difficult position, not only for the Japanese Media Art Community, but even more so for artists and culture workers with connections with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, …
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IKEGAMI Takashi
Researcher of Complex Systems Sciences and Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo
The Mechanism of Meaninglessness
In the Guidelines for the Teaching of High School Education, Japanese language classes have been separated into "Japanese Language (Logic)" and "Japanese Language (Literature)." The Aichi Triennale's state-sponsored grant was taken away after it opened. Graffiti by possible Banksy was torn off a wall and is now exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. This is the kind of era we …
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ABE Kazunao
Curator, Art Producer and Professor, Tokyo Polytechnic University
Considering What to Anticipate in Jurying
In the Japan Media Arts Festival, the award-oriented appraisal of submitted work is primary, while the yearto-year establishment of themes and festival planning is less central. With the exception of reflecting trends in the tide of submitted works, then, determining specific attributes characterizing the body of work is a difficult task. Nonetheless, within that context over the course of my …
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AKIBA_Fuminori
Aesthetician and Associate Professor, Nagoya University
Out of the Clichéd Conviction that Art Signifies New Creation
Collaborations with science give shape to visions of as-yet-unseen forms of life based on insight into ecosystems, inclusive of technology. They also deliver a definitive blow to the heart of those who look on while still not knowing what it is they see. Such an encounter is just what I have eagerly anticipated in taking part in the Japan Media Arts Festival jury, as I have described in my …
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The Transformation of Media Formats and Physicality
After the three years I spent on the Art Division selection committee for the Japan Media Arts Festival, some four years have gone by and for the first time I have now been given the chance to be involved with the Art Division jury. If one posits that a major shift has taken place over these five years, it would be in reference to the move to do away with categorization within the criteria for …