THE JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL IS A COMPREHENSIVE FESTIVAL OF MEDIA ARTS(=MEDIA GEIJUTSU) THAT HONORS OUTSTANDING WORKS FROM ADIVERSE RANGE OF MEDIA – FROM ANIMATION AND COMICS TO MEDIA ART AND GAMES. THE FESTIVAL GIVES AWARDS IN EACH OF ITS FOUR DIVISIONS:ART, ENTERTAINMENT, ANIMATION, AND MANGA. IT ALSO PROVIDES A PLATFORM FOR APPRECIATION OF THE AWARD-WINNING AND OTHER NOTABLE WORKS.

THE JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL AT ARS ELECTRONICAThursday 5–Monday 9 September 2013Admission: 23 eurosBrucknerhaus, ARS ELECTRONICA Center and other venues in LinzJAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL CURATED PROGRAM

Perfume “Global Site Project” ©Rhizomatiks co.,ltd.
+ AMUSE Inc. + UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC

varies according to ticket type and date

“A New Platform for New Memories”

Glitch Embroidery ©Nukeme

Whatever Button ©IDPW

A few ©SANO Yuki

The ARS Electronica Festival, known as the world’s biggest media arts festival with a history of thirty years, and the Japan Media Arts
Festival are cooperating on a joint exhibition on the theme of “A New Platform for New Memories”.
Linking with the overall theme of ARS Electronica 2013, “Total Recall – The Evolution of Memory”, the exhibition will focus on
representative trends of the present Japanese creative scene and the works emerging from it, introducing progressive modes ofexpression nurtured by Japan’s media arts across the boundaries of art and entertainment. The cultural background will also beexplained. With the main venue, Brucknerhaus, at the core, satellite exhibitions will be held around the city in order to bring the JapanMedia Arts Festival to widest possible range of visitors.
ORGANIZER: ARS ELECTRONICA GmbH CO-ORGANIZER: The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan PLANNING DIRECTOR: MORITA Nae (President, maart Ltd.)WORKSHOP

Glitch Embroidery | LECTURER: Nukeme
Date: Thursday 5 and Saturday 7 September from 13:00 | Venue: FabLab, ARS Electronica Center

GUIDED TOURPARTICIPATING ARTISTS: HORII Satoshi, SANO Yuki, WADA Ei
Date: Friday 6 September 14:00-15:00 | Venue: Foyer, Brucknerhaus

PRESENTATION

Scenes and Structures | MORITA Nae

Date: Saturday 7 September 13:00-16:00 | Venue: Sminner room, ARS Electonica Center

RELATED EXHIBITIONThe Toki Ori Ori Nasu –Falling Records installation | WADA Ei (Open Reel Ensemble) Installation
Date: Thursday 5-Saturday 7 September | Venue: Foyer, Brucknerhaus

RELATED SCREENING

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2013 ANIMATION PROGRAM
Date: Sunday 8 September from 15:00 and Monday 9 September from 16:00 | Venue: Mediendeck, OK Center

EXHIBITION “A New Platform for New Memories”
Date: Thursday 5-Monday 9 September, from 10:00
Venue: Brucknerhaus
Japan
Perfume “Global Site Project” |MANABE Daito / MIKIKO / NAKATA Yasutaka / HORII Satoshi / KIMURA Hiroyasu

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division Grand Prize Website, Source code, Performance, Choreography, Music©Rhizomatiks co.,ltd. + AMUSE Inc. +UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC

The project commemorated the overseas debut of techno-pop group Perfume. The site distributed exclusive video caps of thesinging and choreography free of charge for creative secondary use by fans worldwide. This installation enables users to accessthe fans’ graphics on the browser and reproduce the three members’ figures in roughly 15cm scale
Exhibition figure: Project Summary / Installation

BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW |SOL CHORD (MAEDA Shinjiro / OKAZAWA Rina)

Japan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division Excellence Award Web-based work
©MAEDA Shinjiro

The web-based movie project BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW was launched two weeks after the Great East Japan Earthquake,
which occurred on March 11, 2011. Based on a set of instructions provided by MAEDA Shinjiro, each filmmaker produced a fiveminute film that was released on the Internet as soon as it was completed. On the website, informat ion on the filming date andlocation of each work was collected in an archive along with a sampling of the news that occurred on that day.
Exhibition figure: Project Summary / WebA few | SANO YukiJapan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division Jury Selection Graphic art©SANO Yuki

The work describes the mountains of rubble produced by the Great East Japan Earthquake on the human scale. Real photos arecolored with oils to express the reality of the waste through both object and image. This overpowering, 4.5 x 7.2m work also questions how our memories have changed in the two and a half years since the disaster

Whatever Button | IDPW

Japan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division Jury Selection Website, Videowork©IDPW

The Whatever Button is an extended feature for the Google Chrome web browser that can be added to Facebook, the world’slargest social networking service. The Facebook “Like” button, which carries the ultimate in low-res information (clicking it allows
you to share your approval of content appearing on Facebook), has overrun the Internet at astonishing speed. By installing thisfree online feature, you can “Like” everything — the good, the bad, the things you think you ought to like.
Exhibition figure: Project Summary / Web

Google Maps 8-bit | Google Maps 8-bit teamJapan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division Jury Selection Website©GoogleThis adventure-themed entertainment product transforms Google Maps into a world reminiscent of the Dragon Quest games ofchildhood. When it was released on April Fools Day, 2012, users worldwide accessed it via the Google Maps menu, and shared
map coordinates and promotion clips via social media.
Exhibition figure: Project Summary / Web

rrrrrrrroll | rrrrrrrroll

Japan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division Jury Selection Website©rrrrrrrroll

The rrrrrrrroll project produces animated GIF images in which some part of the photo endlessly rotates: usually a young woman,or some object near her, against various backdrops — a sea, mountains, a city. The creators regularly upload these images to themixed-media blog service tumblr.
Exhibition figure: WebVenue: FabLab, ARS Electronica Center

Glitch Embroidery | Nukeme

Japan16th Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division Jury Selection Digital fabrication©NukemeUsing rewritten binary-code embroidery data (.pes) from a computerized sewing machine, the work causes glitches in theneedle’s movement. The English word “glitch” refers to “damage to data or machinery, or the condition of data that is damaged butstill useable.” This work was created by intentionally damaging data, then outputting the results of the damage.
Exhibition figure: Installation / RiCOMA Embroidery Machine / Glitch Embroidery TWORKSHOP

Glitch Embroidery | LECTURER: Nukeme
Date: Thursday 5 and Saturday 7 September from 13:00 | Venue: FabLab, ARS Electronica Center*accept a reservation from Sep. 5 at FabLab

GUIDED TOURPARTICIPATING ARTISTS: HORII Satoshi, SANO Yuki, WADA Ei
Date: Friday 6 September 14:00-15:00 | Venue: Foyer, Brucknerhaus
PRESENTATION

Scenes and Structures | MORITA Nae (President, maart Ltd.)
Date: Saturday 7 September 13:00-16:00 | Venue: Sminner room, ARS Electonica CenterRELATED EXHIBITIONThe Toki Ori Ori Nasu –Falling Records installation | WADA Ei (Open Reel Ensemble) Installation
Date: Thursday 5-Saturday 7 September | Venue: Foyer, Brucknerhaus
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (Participation in Overseas Media Arts Festivals)

An homage to the analog tape recorder and a pleasure to behold-old-fashioned audio technology placed on classic pedestals, from which the played-our tapes
cascade down into a glass display case where they twist and fold into fascinating layers, pattern and interwoven forms.

RELATED SCREENING

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2013 AWARD-WINNING WORKS –Animation Program (90min.) –Date: Sunday 8 September from 15:00 and Monday 9 September from 16:00 | Venue: Mediendeck, OK CenterA 90 minute program consisting of 12 award-winning works and jury selections from the Japan Media Arts Festival 2013 Animation Division
Programmed by MURAKAMI Hiromitsu (Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation)

awaiting | KIM Hakhyun

South Korea

Jury Selection 3 min. 30 sec. Animated short film

©Hakhyun Kim

A man in a small boat is waiting for someone. This work depicts the loneliness of waiting — why or for whom isn’t particularly important. We
all yearn to catch a slightly longer glimpse of happiness, a formless entity that tends to vanish in an instant.

crazy for it | KUBO Yutaro

JapanJury Selection 3 min. 37 sec. Animated short film

©KUBO Yutaro

In the midst of our daily lives, we are sometimes overtaken by unexpected impulses. These instants can bring about changes utterly outof proportion to the temporal axis of reality. By visualizing the personal sensations and images that arise during such an instant, this work
gives shape to these significant times that are divorced from reality.

Futon | MIZUSHIRI Yoriko

JapanNew Face Award 6 min. 2 sec. Animated short film

©MIZUSHIRI Yoriko

In bed at night, our thoughts turn the past and future and sexual desire, and all merges together as a warm feeling. The body seeks sensation.
This animation owes its soft texture to drawings traced from paper. Futon (Quilt) examines how movement and the senses are linked.

I’m also a bear. | GODA Tsuneo

JapanJury Selection 5 min. Animated short film

©NHK/dwarf ©dwarf

Makuma-kun examines an encyclopedia of the animals. There is a different animal on each page, and then he comes to the bears. “Hey, I’ma bear, too,” he thinks, and is sad. This coming-of-age story features a character who first appeared in UTADA Hikaru’s song, “I’ m a Bear.”

Deposit of Sentiment | SUZUKI SaoriJapan

Jury Selection 6 min. 14 sec. Animated short film

©SUZUKI Saori

This work expresses a variety of ideas and attitudes through dance-like movements and images that brim with vitality, conveying a visuallyand emotionally affirmative message about life to reassure viewers that, despite their worries, everything will be okay. Cut-paper figures andthree-dimensional models are set in motion directly atop a bed of multi-planar backgrounds.

NEW TOKYO ONDO | NuQ

JapanJury Selection 5 min. Animated short film
A man stretches out his arm and grasps the night view of a distant city. He and a female companion rush down the length of his arm toward
the city lights. The work is defined by a speedy style and comical pictures that express the sense of omnipotence derived from coming intoa large sum of money and the folly of letting happiness slip through your hands.

©NuQKiyaKiya | KONDOH Akino

JapanJury Selection 6 min. 39 sec. Animated short film

©KONDOH Akino ©Akino Kondoh/ Courtesyof the artist and Mizua Art gallery

The title of this work, KiyaKiya, derives from an old Japanese expression that the artist discovered in an essay, “On Childhood Experiences”,
in SHIBUSAWA Tatsuhiko’s book Introduction to a Collection of Girls. The expression describes a sense of “inexplicably nostalgic anxiety” or akind of dejavu. The film sets out to examine this feeling.

Recruit Rhapsody | YOSHIDA Maho

JapanJury Selection 7 min. 27 sec. Animated short film

©Maho Yoshida / Tokyo University of the Arts

A short animation about job hunting. A very ordinary college student finds that her friends have recently begun to behave strangely. It turns
out they are in the throes of job-hunting fever. She never quite gets it but is sucked into the vortex of Japanese-style recruitment even so.

The Great Rabbit | WADA AtsushiJapanExcellence Award 7 min. 12 sec. Animated short film

©Sacrebleu Productions - CaRTe bLaNChe- Atsushi Wada – 2012

Co-produced by French firms Sacrebleu Productions and CaRTebLaNChe, this animation features a gang of children, humanoid rabbit,
bespectacled child, marten, bird and hungry rabbit god – and a ball. Using thin lines and subdued colors, it’s all about disobedience really.

The Sakuramoto broom workshop | TSUGEHATA Aya

Japan

Jury Selection 9 min. 16 sec. Animated short film

©Aya Tsugehata ©2012 Aya Tsugehata /Tokyo University of the Arts

A puppet animation produced through a succession of single-frame shots, this work focuses on an elderly couple in a Japanese village who
make brooms for a living. They have worked side-by-side for many years, but the wife is beginning to show signs of illness, and the husband
notices that this is causing problems in their work.

Sunset Flower Blooming | HU Yuanyuan

China

Jury Selection 10 min. 19 sec. Animated short film
An old woman rests in her garden in sixties China. It’s sunset and the evening primroses have started to come out. The flowers remind her ofher own youthful dreams and beauty. The animation uses Chinese cutouts to accentuate the soft texture of the paper and brilliant colors.

©HU Yuanyuan

COMBUSTIBLE | OTOMO Katsuhiro

Japan

Grand Prize 12 min. 43 sec. Animated short film

©SHORT PEACE COMMITTEEGRAND PRIZE OF
THE 16TH
JAPAN MEDIAARTS FESTIVAL

Owaka, a merchant’s daughter in 18th century Edo (Tokyo), loves Matsukichi. The boy is disowned, though, by his family because he wants
be a fireman, and Owaka’s family is looking for a suitable boy. Distraught, Owaka reacts by burning down the town. The two lovers meet in themiddle of the blaze.

Art Division Grand Prize
Pendulum Choir
Cod.Act (Michel DÉCOSTERD / AndréDÉCOSTERD)©Cod.ActEntertainment Division Grand Prize
Perfume "Global Site Project"
MANABE Daito / MIKIKO / NAKATA Yasutaka / HORII Satoshi /KIMURA Hiroyasu©Rhizomatiks co.,ltd. + AMUSE Inc. + UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC

Animation Division Grand Prize
COMBUSTIBLEOTOMO Katsuhiro©SHORT PEACE COMMITTEE

Manga Division Grand Prize
Les Cités ObscuresBenoît PEETERS / François SCHUITEN©Benoît Peeters, François Schuiten, Casterman,Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd.

17TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Thursday, July 11– Thursday, September 12, 2013
EXHIBITION OF AWARD-WINNING WORKS OF
THE 17TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

Wednesday, February 5– Sunday, February 16, 2014*closed on Wednesday, February 12

venue: National Art Center, Tokyo

Enquiries: NHK International Inc. Section of Participation in Overseas Media Arts Festivals | mail jmaf-info@nhkint.or.jp

http://j-mediaarts.jp/
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