JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVA in Ishigaki-Jima Island
2017 Nov 19th - Dec 17thVenue: City of Ishigaki, Okinawa, JAPANJapan Media Arts Festival in Ishigaki-jima Comitee
http://mediaarts-ishigaki-jima.okinawa/

EXHIBITION LIST

words and actions of others as if they were in the same

be processed". On the other hand, it is very difficult for

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room, and presages a new video chat-based lifestyle.

humans to separate emotions separately. Who speaks

VENUE = HOTEL EMERALD ISLE

the expression synthesized with computers and living

SHOWING = INSTALATION

Fantasy Captured in Plastic Models: A Desk
Dioramavoice?

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Diorama, Gadget [Japan]

Morph Tower

Interactive art [Japan]

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IKEUCHI Hiroto

Sculpture [Japan]

KUWAKUBO Ryota

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Excellence Award, Entertainment Division – 17th Japan

KODAMA Sachiko

Excellence Award, Art Division – 14th Japan Media ArtsMedia Arts Festival (2013)

Artist of Grand Prize, Art Division -5th Japan Media Arts

Festival (2010)

life-size

This work takes the theme of a “fantasy captured inFestival (2001)

A model train equipped with a light source slowly

scope + HASHIMOTO Norihisa

plastic models”, utilizing and rebuilding computers

Hersixnavigates through various household objects lined on

Excellence Award, Art Division – 8th Japan Media Arts

and their peripheral devices with plastic models toelectromagnets. But, the electromagnets occasionallythe floor, and projects their shadows. Dancing on theFestival (2004)

make a diorama, creating a world about which all of us

prevented people from viewing the moving liquid. To

walls, floor, and ceiling of the room, the shadows of theThe work has visual novelty. We have never seen such

have surely once daydreamed. With a personalsolve this problem and to simplify the work, Iobjects keep changing like a landscape seen througha close projection of the carapaces and joints of insects

computer – a “building” for preserving an individual’s

discovered“Ferrofluid

the carriage windows, surrounding viewers withthat are enlarged to a human size. Due to the size or

memory – here becoming a fortified base for protecting

Sculpture.” This technique enables artists to create

images as if they were passengers riding on the train.

some kind of reasons, they look a little different formthose memories, and a mouse that can move aroundmore dynamic sculptures with fluid materials. One

By exposing them to a repetition of conflicting

their own real beings. Although the images arefreely as a defensive “tank”, IKEUCHI’s work

electromagnet is used, with an extended iron core thatexperiences--immersion and bird's eye view, déjà vu

realistically projected in the size of a human, I feel aembodies ideas acquired from intrinsic forms and how

is sculpted into a particular shape. The ferrofluid

and jamais vu--this work sharpens audiences' senses

new kind of reality rather than the actual reality.

things are used, bringing their special qualities andcovers the sculpted surface of the three-dimensional

and inspires them to share impressions.

Could this visual gap be what the artists has aimed at?

possibilities

remodelediron shape and the movement of the spikes in the fluid

Needless to say, the enlarged still images that arecomputers and PC accessories have been rebuilt asare controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting

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created by scanning of state-of-art technology are

structures that stage a whole worldview, their

the power of the electromagnet.

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outstandingly

electronic circuitry, wiring and mechanisms remaining

The “Morpho Tower” series in 2006 was my first

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intact so the equipment can still continue to be used.

realization of a “ferrofluid sculpture.” Figure 2 shows

beautiful.

Theviewers

willbeemotionally swayed by this visual novelty.

intosharp

relief.

TheThe Tenth Sentiment

first

project

anew“Protrude,techniqueFlow"calledusedthe spiral tower covered with numerous ferrofluid

100 Years Sea [running time: 100 years]

nubotVomoder

spikes. A spiral tower standing on a plate holds theDigital WorkElectronic hand-made robot [Japan]

Gadget [Japan]

ferrofluid. When the magnetic field around the tower

teamLabnuuo (SENBO Kensuke / HAYASHI Tomohiko) / HORIOKUWAKUBO Ryota

is strengthened, spikes of ferrofluid are generated atJury Selections, Art Division -14th Japan Media Arts

Kanta / anno lab / TOKUI aya

Artist of Grand Prize, Art Division -7th Japan Media Arts

the bottom plate and they gradually move upward,Festival (2010)

Jury Selections, Entertainment Division -16th JapanFestival (2003)

trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron

100 Years Sea is a video work with a running time ofMedia Arts Festival (2012)"Vomoder" is an interactive art piece of a fakespiral.

100 years. The work depicts the rising of the sea levels

The nuuo company, which is divided between Tokyo

videophone of Moble phone age that most of people was

beginning in 2009 and continuing for 100 years, basedand Fukuoka, developed *nubot” as a robot to use in its

afraid of video phone chatting, before Smart phone eraon the 2009 prediction of the World Wildlife Fund

office conferences. By fit ting a doll with a smart phone,easy - to - use video chatting. According to the voice of(WWF). The video started on the 10th of December

the company perfected a device to connect people in

the opponent, the face of the screen always laughs

2009 and runs in parallel with the actual sea for 100

distant locations via communication services likeregardless of the content of the story. Computer can notyears. When looking at the original artwork 100 years

Skype and Google+. The robot allows users to enjoy thespeak emotionally like bank ATM 's "This card can notfrom its beginning, what will be the state of the actual

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVA in Ishigaki-Jima Island
2017 Nov 19th - Dec 17thVenue: City of Ishigaki, Okinawa, JAPANJapan Media Arts Festival in Ishigaki-jima Comitee
http://mediaarts-ishigaki-jima.okinawa/sea? Will the rise in sea levels be more serious than thebattle other players in “gyms.” Poké Balls and otherWWF calculated? Or will the sea levels be lower? Thetools needed to catch Pokémon can be acquired atsea in this work continues to rise as we head towardspecial spots on the map known as PokéStops.

that inevitable time. Historically, Japanese artists

Following in the footsteps of the game's predecessor

painted waves using a combination of lines. TheseIngress, Pokémon GO is predicated on the concept ofassembled lines give the impression of the life and“adventures on foot.”energy of the sea as one living entity. Looking at thesea we feel awe, and it is likely due to this awe thatJapanese artists chose to express the sea in this伊原間会場

manner. Japanese ancestors possibly saw the world as

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it is depicted in classic Japanese imagery. Based on

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this idea, teamLab considered recombining thesubjective view of ancient times with the fixed objectiveColloidal Display

view of the modern world. We constructed virtual

Installation [Japan]

waves in a 3-D environment that have the style ofOCHIAI Yoichi

Japanese painting. As a result, we have created a video

Artist of Jury Selections, Entertainment Division -20thartwork that has been converted using what teamLabJapan Media Arts Festival (2016)

calls ultrasubjective space.

The Colloidal Display proposes an innovative solution
which transforms a soap film into the world’s thinnest
screen. This screen’s transparency, texture, and shape

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can be controlled dynamically by using ultrasonic

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sound waves. The screen’s unique material, which

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allows objects to pass through, promotes new ways ofinteraction.

Pokémon GO

It is a common knowledge that the surface of soap

Application [Japan]

bubble is a micro membrane. It allows light to pass

“Pokémon GO” Production Teamthrough and displays the color on its structure. We

Excellent Award, Entertainment Division – 20th Japandeveloped an ultra-thin and flexible BRDF screen

Media Arts Festival (2016)using the mixture of two colloidal liquids.

Pokémon GO is a location-based game application forsmartphones. Staged in the real world, it gets players
to go outside and walk around as they try to capture
Pokémon characters that appear on a map. When aPokémon appears nearby, the player's smartphone
vibrates, and when the player taps the Pokémon on themap, an augmented reality feature displays it againsta real-world background via the smartphone camera.
The player can capture the Pokémon by tossing a Poké
Ball at it. Players also train collected Pokémon and