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PRESS RELEASEThe Japan Media Arts Festival Special Exhibition at The Annex Hong Kong

Ubiquitous Humanity
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan organizes participation in various
overseas media arts festivals and other events through projects planned and managed by NHK
international, Inc. The aim is to introduce outstanding works in such fields as media art, video,
the websites, videogames, animations and comics. Exhibitions, screenings, presentations andother activities are arranged at foreign festivals and other venues with their focus on awardwinning works from the Japan Media Arts Festival.
The Special Exhibition will present award-winning works from the past Japan Media
Arts Festival. This edition entitled Ubiquitous Humanity presents works by fourteen artists
from six countries. By amplifying and mimicking people’s gestures, the works examine theboundaries between the human and the machine and question the human condition. Throughthe exhibition, screenings, performances, demonstrations and artists` talks, Ubiquitous
Humanity will supply a unique opportunity for the audience to interact with and enjoy powerful
media art works.
The Japan Media Arts Festival Special Exhibition at The Annex Hong Kong

Ubiquitous Humanity
Venue: The Annex (2/F, Nan Fung Place, 173 Des Voeux Rd Central, Central, Hong Kong)
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
(18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong）

Period: Saturday, 26th to Tuesday, 29th November, 2016
Admission: Free
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Organizer: Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Cooperation: MILL6 Foundation / School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Planning Director: TAKAHASHI Mizuki (Senior Curator, MILL6 Foundation /六廠基金會）
Project Advisor: FURUKAWA Taku (Animation artist)
MOURI Yoshitaka （Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Art）
Administration：NHK International, Inc.

[Inquiries]
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The Japan Media Arts Festival Special Exhibition at The Annex Hong Kong

Ubiquitous Humanity
The Annex in Nan Fung Place is a sophisticated event space located in Central, Hong Kong where
one of major art districts in Hong Kong. Animation films will be screened and comics displayed at
the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media as a satellite venue.

Theme

Planning director: TAKAHASHI Mizuki

When media arts are discussed in relation to advanced technology, the art
works created by artificial intelligence (AI) may often face the most critical scrutiny
since they question humanity's fundamental sensibility and ethics, which are often
the basic foundation of the invention of technologies and tools.
Looking at the award-winning works and jury selections of past Japan Media
Arts Festivals, despite their being created the utilization of advanced technologies,
they address characteristics peculiar of human beings. They expand humanphysical capabilities, evoke complex and subtle emotions such as pathos andmelancholy, and question the boundaries of the human and machines.
This implies two things. Firstly, media arts amplify human sensibility;
secondly, human beings are growing operating systems, and gadgets and devices
are basically invented to have a high affinity with these systems in order to realize
their potentials. Thus, in the production of media arts and exploitation of gadgets,
we require both the ethics, which are acquired through various experiences by theindividual as well as the collective, and the diverse critique and discussion forchecking the ethics.
In this special exhibition, the works exploring these issues are specificallyselected. In addition to the exhibition, there will be demonstrations, performances,
and artists’ talks that emphasize similar topics to enhance our understanding ofthese complex subject matters.
TAKAHASHI Mizuki（Senior curator, MILL6 Foundation in Hong Kong）
After completed MA in School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, Takahashi served
as a founding staff member at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo from 1999-2003. From 2003 to 2016, Takahashi
worked as a senior curator at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, and realized numerous
transdisciplinary exhibitions addressing various artistic forms including outsider art, manga, moving image,fashion, performance and visual art. Her curated exhibitions in and outside Japan include ’KITA!!: Japanese
Artists Meet Indonesia’ (2008); ’Eight Days : Beuys in Japan’ (2009); ’Quiet Attentions: Departure from
Women’ (2011); ’Tadasu Takamine’s Cool Japan’ (2012); ’You reach out – right now - for something: Questing
the Concept of Fashion’ (2013) ; and ’Jung Yeondoo: Just Like the Road across the Earth’ (2015). Takahashi
writes and gives lectures in Asia and Europe.

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Artists

and the possibility of their mutual interaction.
http://www.codact.ch/

IKEUCHI Hiroto [Japan]
Born in 1990 and graduated from the
Department of Interactive Design, Tama Art
University. He built a hybrid diorama withplastic models for his graduation project,inspired by the idea that the inside of a computer
resembles a secret base.
http://ikeuchi-products.tumblr.com/

KANNO So [Japan]
Born in 1984. Completed the Media Creation
Course at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts
and Science(IAMAS). He uses electronic circuits
and programming to create works that have atool-like nature. http://kanno.so/

Ka Fai CHOY [Singapore]
Artist and performance maker. He is inspired by
the histories and theorizations that together
contain the uncertainties of the future. His
research springs from a desire to understand theconditioning of the human body, its intangible
memories and the forces shaping its expressions.
http://www.ka5.info/

HUANG Yintzu [Taiwan]
Born in 1985. A video artist based in New York.
http://www.huangyintzu.com

CHUNG Waiching Bryan [UK]TAGUCHI Yukihiro [Japan]
Born in 1980, Osaka. Graduated from theFaculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of theArts. Currently, he presents performative
installations and film works using stop-motion
to highlight bodily movements at many
exhibitions, mainly in Germany.
https://yukihirotaguchi.wordpress.com/

yang02 [Japan]
Born in 1984. Completed the Graduate Programin Design at Tama Art University, specializing
in Information Design. He carries out researchand creation activities focused on characterbased expressions with a corporeal nature and"public nature" as major keywords.http://yang02.com/

YASUNO Taro [Japan]
Born in 1976 in Tokyo. A composer, he has beencreating ZOMBIE MUSIC performances atvarious locations since 2012. http://taro.poino.net/

Cod.Act (Michel DÉCOSTERD /André DÉCOSTERD) [Switzerland]
Combining their know-how, André and Michel
have together developed performances andinteractive installations. At the root of theirapproach is a reflection on sound and movement

Born in 1964 in Hong Kong. He is a media artist
and currently teaching in the Academy of VisualArts, Hong Kong Baptist University, withsubjects on interactive art and multimedia.
http://www.magicandlove.com/

LAU Hochi [Hong Kong]
Hochi Born in Hong Kong in 1990, is currently
working as a research assistant at the School of
Creative Media in Hong Kong, where he received
a B.A. in Creative Media in mid-2013. He isinterested in human perceptions and machinery.
http://lauhogi.com/

LEUNG Chi Wo [Hong Kong]
Born in 1968 in Hong Kong. He is a visual artist
based in Hong Kong. http://leungchiwo.com

Sougwen CHUNG [Canada]
Canadian-born, Chinese-raised, New York
based. She is an artist and research affiliate at
MIT Media Lab, in Cambridge.
http://sougwen.com

Tom WRIGGLESWORTH /Matt ROBINSON [UK]Wriggles & Robins are the London-based
directors and creatives Tom Wrigglesworth andMatt Robinson. http://www.wrigglesandrobins.com/

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EXHIBITION■Asemic Languages[2016 / Interactive Installation］

KANNO So ＋ yang02[New Face Award winner at 15th Art Division]

Characters are a means of visual communication andrecording a language. Civilizations throughout the world
have created various characters, which convey theirculture and history. This project focuses purely on theform of the characters rather than their meaning. The
characters have been learned by artificial intelligence (AI)not for their meaning but for their shape and patterns. AI
has created and drawn lines that look like characters but© So KANNO / Takahiro YAMAGUCHI

Photo: Kikuyama
do not have any meaning. This work was publicized at theinternational art festival “Aichi Triennale 2016”. It was
implemented by collecting handwritten artist statement or description of work of an extremelyinternational group of 10 participating artists. By learning handwriting with one writer in eachlanguage, artificial intelligence collected information on the shapes of each character system, as
well the idiosyncrasies of each writer, of a AI, to possess a plotter. The generated lines are
written as if they meant something important, also look like trying to deceive.

■Movement in Time Part 2
CHUNG Waiching Bryan[2016 / Live computational video］[Grand Prize winner at 19th Art Division]

The project analyzed the fighting
sequences in traditional Chinesemartial art films. The results will
match against the brush stroke datafrom the famous Cursive style
Chinese calligraphy text – the One
Thousand Characters Classics ( 千 字 文 ). In the end, the fight©2016 Bryan Wai-ching CHUNG

sequences will automatically generate a piece of unique text from thecharacter database. They can be considered as unique signatures of the film clips they represent.
Note that the relation between the original film clips and these simulated gestural paintings.
The actions are actually representations of the character movements, cinematography, andediting works.

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http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/■Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1, Sougwen CHUNG[2015 / Interactive Installation / Excellence Award at 19th Entertainment Division]

This work is an ongoing collaboration between the artist
and a robotic arm. The behavior of the robotic arm wasdesigned to mimic the drawn gesture in real timethrough the use of a ceiling-mounted camera andcomputer vision, resulting in a synchronous, interpretive
performance. Through this project, the artist
investigates the ideas of automation, autonomy, andcollaboration as an exercise in behavioral empathy.
Sougwen CHUNG and her Drawing Operations Unit:

Generation 1 explores mimicry and procedural mark-© Created on the occasion of the exhibition: Japan Media Arts
Showcase at Tokyo Art Center, Tokyo February 2016
.Photo: courtesy of the artist

making as a simple drawing performance between ahuman and mechanical agent.

■ZOMBIE MUSIC , YASUNO Taro[2013 / Media Performance / Jury Selections at 17th Art Division]

The music in this work is the automated, self-createdsound made by a robot blowing air into a recorder with an
air compressor. There are propositions that question how
close machines can get to being human. But the machinein this work does not perform like a person and for thisreason, we cannot properly call it a robot. Yasuno calls
this still less than human robot the Zombie and uses it
for his performances. The machine (zombie) points to theantithesis of living humanity (i.e., death), performing
this ZOMBIE MUSIC.

■patch pass

©Taro YASUNO
Photo: Rody Shimazaki[Work-in-progress / Interactive Performative Installation]

TAGUCHI Yukihiro[Excellence Award winner at 12th Art Division]

Collaborate with HUNG Ming kin
Performances on the motif of a broken umbrella on the streets of Hong Kong will be held about
town and a photographic record made for the production of a stop-motion animation. In
addition to the images of urban spaces, there will be artistic collaborations during the term at
the exhibition venues as well and the record of these will be added as an extra work. Aside fromthe video images, an installation will also feature the umbrella and umbrella materials.

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http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/■wasd human
LAU Hochi[2016 / Interactive Art]
[New Face Award winner at 17th Art Division]

wasd human is a wearable interface for instructing humanbeings how to move. It enables theuser to interpret each instruction intuitively through vibrations around waist. An instruction
may come from a computer or another human being (when paired with the suitable input
interface). With multiple users, this system can synchronise or choreograph sequences ofmultipul user movements.

■Fantasy Captured in Plastic Models: A Desk Diorama, IKEUCHI Hiroto[2013 / Diorama, Gadget / Excellence Award at 17th Entertainment Division]

This work takes the theme of a “fantasy captured inplastic models”, utilizing and rebuilding computers andtheir peripheral devices with plastic models to make adiorama, creating a world about which all of us havesurely once daydreamed. With a personal computer – a“building” for preserving an individual’s memory – here
becoming a fortified base for protecting those memories,
and a mouse that can move around freely as a defensive“tank”, IKEUCHI’s work embodies ideas acquired from
intrinsic forms and how things are used, bringing their© Hiroto ikeuchi

special qualities and possibilities into sharp relief.

■Sign[2008 / Video Installation]

LEUNG Chi Wo[Artist selected by Jury in 19th Art Division]

Sign is a 2-part video work by Leung Chi Wo exploring
the idea of non-mainstream communication and themeaning of human reality overloaded by mass media.
Part I is an educational video featuring deaf teacher andher shadow about the idea of baby signs in Auslan(Australian Sign Language) and the demonstration ofbasic signs with which parents can actually learn to©Leung Chi Wocommunicate with their children whoever deaf orhearing.
Part II is a fictional video showing a young mother in communication with her babyin Auslan. Though taking place in a peaceful and pleasant atmosphere, the mother tries toconvey the words that she comes across every day, which can be harsh or discomforting. The
juxtaposition of loving expression and hostile meaning depicts a surrealistic scene of ourschizophrenic world. (13 min.)
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http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/■APHASIA, HUANG Yintzu[2014 / Video Installation / Jury Selections at 18th Art Division]

APHASIA is a video installation consisting of four
separate vertical screens side by side that display
performances by four characters. These videos portray
Taiwanese women from different historic periods.
Playing all the roles herself, Yintzu made this project inorder to bring attention to a cultural identity crisis andperpetuating “aphasia” afflicting Taiwan.
(11 min. 34 sec.)

All Right Reserved ©Yintzu Huang■Pendulum Choir, Cod. Act (Michael DÉCOSTERD / André DÉCOSTERD)[2012 / Music performance / Grand Prize at 16th Art Division]

Pendulum Choir is an original choral piece for 9 a cappellavoices and 18 hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting
platforms, constituting a living, sonorous body. That body
expresses itself through various physical states. Its plasticity
varies at the mercy of its sonority. It varies between abstract
sounds, repetitive sounds, and lyrical or narrative sounds. The
bodies of the singers and their voices play with and against©Cod.Actgravity. The technological complexity and the lyricism of themoving bodies combine into a work with Promethean accents.
(12 min. 31 sec.)■Prospectus for a Future Body, Ka Fai CHOY
[2011 / Media Performance / Jury Selections at 15th Art Division]

This is a research project focusing on the relationship between
body movement in dance and digital technologies. The project ismade up of four parts exploring the theme of digital muscle
memory. In the first part, based on the movements of dancers
in Summer Storm (1973) by Japanese Butoh artist Tatsumi,
Hijikata the contractions of dancers’ muscles as they move areconverted into electrical signals and digitally stored, thenreproduced in the bodies of experimental subjects. Through theuse of cutting-edge digital technologies, the project speculates
on the possibilities of motor areas that can become part of bodymemory. (4 min.)©Ka Fai Choy

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http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/■Travis "Moving", Tom WRIGGLESWORTH / Matt ROBINSON[2013 / Music video / Excellence Award at 17th Entertainment Division]

Wriggles & Robins directed the music video for the single
Moving by UK band. Filming in temperatures cold enough thatyou could “see your breath”, Wriggles & Robins projectedanimations into the mist from the warm breaths of the band
members using a projector. This technique enabled them toanimate a story without the need for any CGI or special effects
whatsoever, as the visual effect was created “in camera”.

©2013 Red Telephone Box(4 min. 28 sec.)■Japanese School Girl Chase, Japanese School Girl Chase project team[2014 / Video work / Jury Selections at 18th Entertainment Division]

In this video work two perfectly ordinary female high school
students race around all the corners of their town like ninja.
These girls have breathtaking physical abilities and whilechasing each other they perform lots of impressive action stunts.
Produced as a Web commercial, the footage is made to look likeit was shot by the girls with a phone camera. It created a lot of
buzz, achieving 6 million views in one month after it was©2014 Suntory Beverage and Food Limited
All Rights Reserved.

published online. (3 min. 26 sec.)

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RELATED EVENT

Venue: The Annex■Opening Performance
Performers: YASUNO Taro, TAGUCHI Yukihiro, LAU Hochi, Sougwen CHUNG
Date & Time: Saturday 26th November

16:00－■Curator Talk: Language, Gesture and Emotion: Ubiquitous Humanity in Media Art
Speakers:

CHUNG Waiching Bryan (Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)
TAKAHASHI Mizuki (Planning Director)

Date & Time: Sunday 27th November

14:00－15：00■Artists’ Talk: Failed Works
Speakers:

YASUNO Taro × LAU Hochi × IKEUCHI Hiroto
KANNO So × Sougwen CHUNGLEUNG Chi Wo × TAGUCHI Yukihiro

Moderator:

15：30―17：00

17：30―18：30
19：00―20：00

TAKAHASHI Mizuki

Date & Time: Sunday 27th November

15:30－20:00

We live in an era of the mass production of many different things by machine. As human beings,
we expect perfection in machines. Artists, on the other hand, produce and perfect their works
through a series of failures. For the human being, failure is a prerequisite for perfection, andthe works that we see in exhibitions are only the completed artwork. In this session, the artists
recall their own diverse experiences of failure prior to exhibitions.

■Closing Performance
Performance: YASUNO Taro, TAGUCHI Yukihiro
Date & Time: Tuesday 29th November

18:00－■Demonstration
Artist: Sougwen CHUNG, Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1
Date & Time:

Sunday 27th November 12:30―
Monday 28th November 14:00－, 15:00―
Tuesday 29th November 16:00－

Artist: LAU Hochi, wasd human
Date & Time:

Sunday 27th November 13:30―
Monday 28th November 14:30－, 15:30―
Tuesday 29th November 17:00－

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SATELLITE VENUERun Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）
Future Cinema Studio (M6094), Screening Theater (M1052)
Date： Sunday 27th to Tuesday 29th November■SCREENING
Date & Time: Sunday 27th November 15:00－17:00

Venue： Future Cinema Studio 6F (M6094)

WOLF CHILDREN, HOSODA Mamoru[2012 / Animated feature film / Jury Selections at 16th Animation Division]Hana, a 19-year-old university student, was predestined to fall in lovewith a wolf boy. In time she gives birth to two wolf children, Yuki (Snow)
and Ame (Rain), but not long afterward their father suddenly dies.
Clutching her still young children to her breast, Hana decides to raisethem in a beautiful and remote region, where they can pursue two waysof life — that of a human and that of a wolf. This story, depicting thelove between a mother and her children, follows Hana, Yuki, and Ameover a 13-year period.
（116 min. 54 sec.）©2012 “WOLF CHILDREN”
FILM PARTNERS■SCREENING
Date & Time: Sunday 27th November 17:30－18:30

Venue: Future Cinema Studio 6F (M6094)

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - border:1 Ghost Pain, KISE Kazuchika[2013 / Animated feature film / Jury Selections at 17th Animation Division]

SHIRO Masamune’s manga has already been adapted into a featurelength animated film and TV series, and this, the first episode of four, isthe latest animated version. Set in a future society where theadvancement of information networks and cyborg technology has madeit possible to connect people’s wills by “cyberbrains”, it tells the story ofcyborg heroine Motoko Kusanagi and the foundation of Ghost in the
Shell, which has the objective of preventing heinous crimes.
(58 min. 17 sec.)©Shirow Masamune . Production I.G / KODANSHA .
GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE COMMITTEE

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http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/■SCREENING and TALK
Speakers: JUNG (Original author / Animator / Director)
WALICZKY, Tamas (Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of HK)
Date & Time: Monday 28th November 16:00－17:15 SCREENIG
17:30―19:00 TALK
Venue：

Future Cinema Studio 6F (M6094)

Approved For Adoption, JUNG / Laurent BOILEAU[2012 / Animated memoir film / Grand Prize at 17th Animation Division]

Following the Korean War, many Korean children left their
homeland as adopted children. As one such individual, JUNG was
welcomed to a family in Belgium as “family”. Living with parents
and four siblings with a skin color different from his own, JUNG
learned French, forgot Korean, and was able to forget the life he had
led in the orphanage. It was then that a Korean foster girl came tojoin the “family”. Upon seeing her, JUNG began for the first time tobecome aware of who he was… Using film footage of modern-day©Mosaïque Films - Artémis Productions Panda Média - Nadasdy Film - France
3 Cinéma – 2012
Seoul, 8mm film and video recordings showing JUNG at the time in
the 1970s, and diverse techniques such as 3D animation combining
hand-drawn images and CG, it opens up the expressive possibilities of the animated medium.
It tells of a “family” filled with love despite differences in skin color and differing blood ties. (75min.)■SCREENING: Ubiquitous Humanity ーAnimated Short films
Date & Time: Monday 28th November 15：00－15：45

Venue: Future Cinema Studio 6F(M6094)

COMBUSTIBLE, OTOMO Katsuhiro 〔2012 / 16th Grand Prize〕
The Sense of touch, Jean-Charles MBOTTI MALOLO 〔2014 / 16th Jury Selections〕
Here, There and Everywhere, KABUKI Sawako 〔2013 / 17th Jury Selections〕
Rainy Days, Vladimir LESCHIOV 〔2014 / 16th Jury Selections〕
I am alone, walking on the straight road., OKAMOTO Masnori 〔2012 / 16th Jury Selections〕■SCREENING:

The Japan Media Arts Festival Screening Program

Date & Time: Tuesday 29th November

Venue: Screening Theater M1052(LG1)

15:00－16:00「Focus in Japan Selection 2016」

16:30－18:10「Award-Winning Program 2016」■Manga Showcase
Date & Time: Sunday 27th to Tuesday 29th, November

15:30－18:30

Venue: Entrance at the theaterAward-winning works from Manga Division of 19th Japan Media Arts Festival
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REFERENCE

Affiliation Event
MILL6 Foundation 「'TECHSTYLE SERIES1.0: ARIADNE'S THREAD'」‘TECHSTYLE Series 1.0: Ariadne’s Thread’ is a two-part series comprised of a video art
exhibition and an international discussion forum that seeks to exchange and generateknowledge to support the changing landscape of textile today. ‘Ariadne’s Thread’ will survey theintersection of women and technology, a vital component of the industry’s continued evolution.
The exhibition features 9 female artists from around the world, presenting video works that
explore women’s engagement in technology across multiple disciplines. Artists Dara Birnbaum,
Cao Fei, Tina Havelock Stevens, Vvzela Kook, Rachel Maclean, Natacha Nisic, Sputniko!,
Magdalen Wong, and Ji Hye Yeom will explore the thus far under-researched topic via a seriesof new media works. From a journey into the depths of space, to an aspiring genetic engineer
who seeks to determine her own fate, to a reenactment of the textile production line upon theclosure of a cotton mill, the selected works form a layered narrative that reveals theempowerment of women, and their intimate relationship. with technology, and the connections
formed through shared history and heritage.
「'TECHSTYLE SERIES1.0: ARIADNE'S THREAD'」
website http://mill6.org.hk/events/

MILL6 Foundation is a non-profit arts and cultural institution and a charity
in Hong Kong. Established in 2015 and as part of The Mills heritage
conservation project, the space is expected to be completed in 2018. Centeredon textile arts and culture, MILL6 is establishing the permanent collection
while curating a series of pre-opening programs consisting of: Exhibition,
Community Engagement, Learning, Heritage, Artist-in-Residence andPublic Art.
MILL6 Foundation website http://mill6.org.hk/

About School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
The region’s first such institution, the School of Creative Media(SCM) was founded to nurturea new generation of interdisciplinary artists and creative media professionals, and to develop
new ideas and technologies for the creative industries in Hong Kong, mainland China, andabroad. In September 2009 Shaw joined City University
in Hong Kong as Chair Professor of Media Art and Deanof the SCM.
SCM website http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/

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REFERENCE

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive
festival of Media Arts (Japanese: Media Geijutsu) that
honors outstanding works from a diverse 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 Awardwinning and other notable works. Since its inception in
1997, the festival has recognized significant works of high artistry and creativity and in addition
to a yearly Exhibition of Award-winning Works has held other events, such as symposiums,
screenings, and showcases. Last year, the 19th Festival received 4,417 entries from 87 countries
and regions around the world, demonstrating is continuing evolution as an established annualinternational festival. Award-winning Works are exhibited both within Japan and abroad
through various projects and events organized by The Agency of Cultural Affairs, Governmentof Japan which aims to develop and promote the creation of Media Arts by focusing primarilyon the new generation of artists.

■Project for Participation in Overseas Media Arts Festivals
The aim is to introduce outstanding works in such fields as
media art, video, the websites, videogames, cartoons andcomics. Exhibitions, screenings, presentations and so on arearranged at overseas media arts festivals and other facilities
with their focus on award-winning works from the JapanMedia Arts Festival.
Exhibition View of the MATADERO MADRID 2016

20th Japan Media Arts Festival
Announcement of Award-winning Works: Mid-March 2017
Awards Ceremony / Exhibition of Award-winning Works: September 2017
Website: http://festival.j-mediaarts.jp/en/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JapanMediaArtsFestival
Twitter: @JMediaArtsFes_e
NHK International, Inc. is responsible for planning and running the events for the Project for
Participation in Overseas Media Art Festival.
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