Art Division
Award
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Excellence Award
TH-42PH10EK x 5
Stefan TIEFENGRABER
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Excellence Award
See by Your Ears（代表：evala)
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Excellence Award
Bricolage
Nathan THOMPSON / Guy BEN-ARY / Sebastian DIECKE
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Excellence Award
Acqua Alta – Crossing the mirror
Adrien M & Claire B
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New Face Award
VOX-AUTOPOIESIS V -Mutual-
KOMIYA Chiku
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New Face Award
Ether – liquid mirror
Kaito SAKUMA
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New Face Award
The reluming apparatus
KOBAYASHI Hayate
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Social Impact Award
Google Maps Hacks
Simon WECKERT
Jury Selections
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2D Painting [7 Objects, 3 Picture Planes]
YOF (OHARA Takayoshi / YANAGAWA Tomoyuki / FURUSAWA Ryu)
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The Gesturewriter
Joseph KNIERZINGER
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Signifié on the Web
ISHIBASHI Tomoya / NIIKURA Kento / FUTAKUCHI Kohei
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ROW
Aleksandr LIKHACHEV / Alexander SINICA / Klim SUKHANOV / Semen PEREVOSHCHIKOV
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On Framing Textile Ambiguities
Nathalie GEBERT
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Movings in rotating motion
PANTOGRAPH (INOUE Masayuki)
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Meandering River
Julia LAUB / Cedric KIEFER
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InkFlux – Flowin’ In The Wind
h0nh1m (Chris CHEUNG)
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Feeding
CHANG Hsin Yu
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Disruptive Devices
Neil MENDOZA
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Barricade
SUZUKI Elico
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Artificial Botany
fuse* (Mattia CARRETTI / Luca CAMELLINI / Samuel PIETRI / Riccardo BAZZONI)
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Sotetsu totetsumonaku nami
(Cycad, inordinate ordinary)KOBAYASHI Muku
Jury Critiques
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AKIBA Fuminori
Aesthetician and Associate Professor, Nagoya University
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IKEGAMI Takashi
Researcher of Complex Systems Sciences and Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo
Firsthand Experience and Media Art
It is great seeing diverse and international entries every year. Since artists put a lot of time and energy into their works, it is also true that the judging process is very exhausting every year. For this year, there was much debate over works that can't be fully understood without experiencing them in person. The Grand Prize-winning Prometheus Bound and the Excellence Award-winning Sea, See, …
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Georg TREMMEL
Artist and Researcher
Cultural Amnesia and Self-expression of Media
My final year as a jury member gave me time to reflect on not only the past few years, but my journey within Media Art which started around the same time the Japan Media Arts Festival began. Twenty-four years are roughly one generation for media artists, which may as well be seen as one epoch in the history of media art. I am curious to observe how the field of media art changed and evolved, how …
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TASAKA Hiroko
Curator of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
The Age of Transition
The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed the landscape of the world this year. Political and social unrest was discussed on social media worldwide, and virtual activities became a part of the daily lives of the majority of people. Museums, movie theaters, and even cultural programs including the Japan Media Arts Festival and other art festivals were forced to turn to virtual events. …
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HACHIYA Kazuhiko
Artist and Associate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts
My Fist Art Division Judging
I was involved in the Japan Media Arts Festival around 2013-15, and I thought being a jury member for the Art Division would be tough because of the large number of entries. This year, I finally got to be a jury member for the Division. The judging process was not as tough as I expected, maybe because it has been improved over time, yet I found another difficulty. Since I believe giving frank …
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From a Possible View of Life
The total number of submissions for the Art Division saw a slight decrease compared to the 23rd, with the reduction mainly from overseas. Meanwhile, the number of submissions for video works increased. Whether they can be directly associated with the coronavirus pandemic or not is uncertain. At least the first half of the application period was unaffected. In any case, it is noteworthy that the …