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Japan Creative Centre Admission: Free

4 Nassim Road, Singapore 258372
https://www.facebook.com/ JMAF.JCC.SINGAPORE
Screening Venue: Shaw Theatres Lido 5 (350, Orchard Road, 5th Floor, Shaw House, Singapore 238868) | 5(Sunday) & 12(Sunday) February, 2017
Organizer: Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Co-organizer: Japan Creative Centre, Embassy of Japan in Singapore
Planning Director: exonemo (SEMBO Kensuke, AKAIWA Yae)

1. Untitled, TAKAMINE Tadasu
2. Stream, Joe HAMILTON
3. Den-noh Coil, ISO Mitsuo
4. 100100 views of Mount Fuji, Jens SUNDHEIM
5. ＼ landscape, SHINTSUBO Kenshu
6. Saturn Apartments, IWAOKA Hisae
7. The souvenir photographs, EBIHARA Shoko
8. Waiting for the Elevator, Sarah CHOO Jing
9. You would come back there to see me again the following day., TSUDA Michiko
10. Double Click to Open, Angelica VERDAN
11. Popular Screen Sizes, Rafaël ROZENDAAL
12. Fluttering Frame, exonemo

Theme:Landscapes: New vision through multiple windows

In recent years, we have become connected to the world throughour computer and smartphone displays, discovering reality
through these screens. It is as if the display screens are “windows”
onto new landscapes. Thinking about windows, however, we
realize that the conventional media of television as well as printed materials such as photographs, paintings, and actual windows
in walls likewise have the function of connecting the viewer to a“landscape beyond”. In particular, the miniaturization/portabilityof devices in recent years and practicality of continuous Internet
connection have drastically increased the time we spend gazing
through these windows and the images of the world outside that
we picture in our minds are being reset accordingly. The Internet

has made the spreading world beyond (such as Japan as viewed
from Singapore) seem as close as if we have actually been tothese places ourselves. But how far are the landscapes we see
through these digital windows actually linked to the real world?
This exhibition reexamines the modern global landscapes now
viewed not from windows on our walls but through windows in
our pockets. This is an experiment in which we seek to discover
the whereabouts of the world we sense to be real by reconsidering the landscapes spreading out before our eyes. By gathering
works which examine this moment in time and interpret the
future from wide-ranging perspectives, this exhibition reveals thediverse possibilities of the media arts.
Planning director:

exonemo (SEMBO Kensuke, AKAIWA

Yae) [Japan]

The artist unit exonemo was formed in
1996 by Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa. Their experimental projects are typically humorous and innovative explorations of the paradoxes of digital andanalog computer networked and actual
environments in our lives. They have beenorganizing the IDPW gatherings andInternet Yami-Ichi since 2012. Currently
they live and work in New York.
http://exonemo.com.

EBIHARA Shoko [Japan]
Photographer, Artist. Born in Tokyo.
Lives and works in Tokyo.
http://shokoebihara.com/

ISO Mitsuo [Japan]
Animator, Director. Born in Aichi, 1966.
Original work and director of Den-noh
Coil.
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~iso-000/

exonemo (SEMBO Kensuke, AKAIWA Yae)IWAOKA Hisae [Japan]

TSUDA Michiko [Japan]

Joe HAMILTON [Australia]

Manga artist. Made her debut in 2002
with Yume no Soko, which won the Honorable Mention Prize in the Kodansha
Afternoon Four Seasons Award. In 2005,
her Saturn Apartments manga began to beserialized in the monthly magazine Ikki.
http://moinmoin.fc2web.com/

Born in 1980. Lives and works in Kanagawa and Tokyo. Completed PhD of Filmand New Media Studies at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013.
http://2da.jp/

Born in 1982 in Tasmania, Australia.
Lives and works in Melbourne. Joe
Hamilton makes use of technology andfound material to create intricate andcomplex compositions online, offline andbetween.
http://joehamilton.info/

SHINTSUBO Kenshu [Japan]

Video artist. Born in 1992 in Washington DC, currently living in Virginia.
Angelika Verdan is interested in the
integration of the digital and physicalworld and how people interact with theinterface.
https://angelicaverdan.wordpress.com/

Photographer. Born in Tokyo in 1968.
Together with video, still photography
and field recordings, Shintsubo also
crosses the borders into architecture,
literature, music, computer design andother sectors in diverse collaborative documentary works.
http://www.kenshu-shintsubo.com/

TAKAMINE Tadasu [Japan]
Artist, Artistic director. Born in Kagoshima in 1968. Associate professor, Akita
University of Art. Takamine works indiverse media such as installation, sculpture, video etc. Currently he’s also active
as a stage director.
http://www.takaminet.com/

Angelica VERDAN [United States]

Jens SUNDHEIM [Germany]
Freelance photographer, visual artist.
Born in 1970 in Germany. Lives andworks in the Ruhr area, Germany.
http://www.jens-sundheim.de/Sarah CHOO Jing [Singapore]
Multidisciplinary fine artist. Born in
1990. Focusing on the relationshipbetween space and time, Choo’s work
depicts identifiable moments and characters within contemporary society.
http://www.sarahchoojing.com

Rafaël ROZENDAAL [Brazil]
Born in 1980. Dutch-Brazilian. Lives andworks in New York. Rafaël Rozendaal
is a visual artist who uses the internet as
his canvas. His artistic practice consistsof websites, installations, lenticulars, lectures and haiku.
http://www.newrafael.com/

The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Japanese: Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works froma 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 Award-winning 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 ofAward-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 annual international
festival. Award-winning Works are exhibited both within Japan and abroad through various projects and events organized by The Agencyof Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan which aims to develop and promote the creation of Media Arts by focusing primarily on the newgeneration of artists.
Twitter: @JMediaArtsFes_e

http://festival.j-mediaarts.jp/en/

Inquiries:
Office of Project for Participation in Overseas Media Arts Festivals (c/o NHK international, Inc.) | jmaf-info@nhkint.or.jp

http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/

The souvenir photographs [2015 / Graphic Art / 19th Art Division Jury Selection] |EBIHARA Shoko

The artist hires a professional photographer from each local area to take her picturein the suit on a platforms used for group photographs of travelers in sightseeing
areas. Neither negatives nor data remain as the artwork is the process of ordering,purchasing, and receiving a touristic picture. The artist looks like an icon in thesephotographs, all of which have essentially the same basic structure, and inserts
herself into various landscapes all over Japan.
*Souvenir photos of Singapore will be shown alongside the Japanese photo exhibition.

©Shoko EBIHARA

Double Click to Open [2015 / Video Work / 19th Art Division Jury Selection] |Angelica VERDAN

Double Click to Open analyzes the form and function of the cursor by removing it from thedigital world and placing it in the physical one. The video shows a cursor projected on animage of a closed door, but the doors do not open even if double-clicked. The film explores
the human relationship with technology and interface, revealing how we have come to
expect various interactions with all types of interfaces. (3 min. 41 sec.)©2015 Angelica Verdan

Waiting for the Elevator [2015 / Video Installation / 19th Art Division Jury Selection] |Sarah CHOO Jing

Waiting for the Elevator is a multimedia installation that depicts a composite of
documented events, projected across the Esplanade Tunnel in Singapore. Building
on normally unnoticed, trivial and repetitive actions, the artist reflects upon the social
purposes of the “void decks” in Singapore. The composited panorama ultimately
exists as a non-space; an accumulation of fragments over time. (5 min. 22 sec.)©SARAHCHOOJING

landscape [2012 / Digital Photo] |＼SHINTSUBO Kenshu [Artist selected at 14th Art Division Jury Selection]
Each landscape is a present space which bears the accumulated traces of those who live
within it; a layer laid down by their actions. Networks connect deposited memories byinvisible lines of sight using various landscape photographs, computer-made maps anddesktop archives generated from individual viewpoints.

©Kenshu Shintsubo

100100 views of Mount Fuji [2008-2010 / Digital Photo] |Jens SUNDHEIM [Artist selected at 9th Art Division Jury Selection]

The work 100100 Views of Mount Fuji reverts to webcams available on the Internet.
From 2008 to 2010 Sundheim archived the image data of a camera, which transmits
every three minutes a live image of Mount Fuji. The images appear as a modern
version of the images of Hokusai, a version of the 21st century: a fast, unmistakable
and unfiltered live transmission.

©Jens Sundheim

Popular Screen Sizes [2011 / Installation] |Rafaël ROZENDAAL

Rafaël Rozendaal is interested in how mirrors retain both metaphorical and literal meanings for reflection
as well as pertain a transience and reliance upon light and movement. Popular Screen Sizes (60”, 55”,46”, 40”, 32”, 27”, 24”, 21”, 17”, 15”, 13”, 10”, 7”, 3.5”) by Rafaël Rozendaal operates as a reflection oncontemporary lifestyles and the extent to which these involve our interface with screens, as well as a mirror
to the immediate environment and the viewer.
©Rafaël Rozendaal

Stream 2014 [2014 / Video Work] |Joe HAMILTON

Stream is a work that explores the well known analogy of water flow and the flow of data on theinternet. The structure and movement in the browser window becomes a rigid framework that
contains and shifts an array of found images and video of water. Waterfalls, torrents, livers, creeks andstreams of data flow down the screen. An interplay of fluidity and rigidness. (1 min. 20 sec.)©Joe Hamilton

Untitled [2011, Reconstruction 2017] | Bride [2011, Reconstruction 2017] |TAKAMINE Tadasu

This work consists only of a picture frame made from an oil-based modeling clay. It was displayed as a displaced frame
together with a blanket laid out like a canvas at the big Too Far to See exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Whereas
picture frames traditionally have the role of highlighting and completing a picture, this work uses modeling clay which, with
its flexible and unfixed shapes, is more usually chosen for the preliminary models. Everyone has used it in their childhood andthis application of a clay which retains clear finger imprints thereby focuses the attention on the frame to question the natureof both media and the work itself.
©Tadasu Takamine photo: Tomoki ImaiYou would come back there to see me again the following day. [2016 / Installation] |TSUDA Michiko©Michiko Tsuda Photo: Tadasu Yamamoto

The frames hung in the air from the ceiling look like those of paintings or photographs but do not havesuch images inside. When you get closer to the frames, you find there are three different structures inthese frames. Some have mirrors inserted, some have screens onto which the live view of the exhibition
space captured by video cameras is projected, and some have nothing inside. Each frame is hung in aposition according to a geometric rule. Once you enter the space, you will get confused and be unable torecognize where you are, standing surrounded by all these frames. You will see the other corner of theexhibition space in the back of a frame. Beside another frame, you may find someone who should not be
there. Or you will find yourself inside the other frame. Welcome to the labyrinth where images swap with
one another, between here and there.

Fluttering Frame [2013 / Video Work] |exonemo [Artist selected at 16th Art Division and 17th Entertainment Division Jury Selection]
Fluttering Frame is a crowd-sourced video work created by 54 participants from 31
countries. It was aired on Japanese public broadcasting NHK's program Techne The visual workshop. NHK typically airs a video of a Japanese flag at the end of eachbroadcasting day. The artists asked participants from all over the world to air this footage
in their living rooms, and collected these video pieces including the living rooms,
animating the flying flag by combining fragments from each video. The project started
with as a simply query about the relevance of projecting a national framework like this in
the age of the internet.
©exonemo

Saturn Apartments [2011 / Manga / 15th Manga Division Grand Prize] |IWAOKA Hisae©IWAOKA Hisae

The story is set in a time when the whole of the Earth has been designated as a nature
reserve and it is not permitted to descend to the Earth's surface, so humans live inbuildings high up in the sky, at a level of 35,000 meters. The protagonist, Mitsu, wasborn and raised in this gigantic ring system, which is divided into upper, middle andlower levels. Just as Mitsu graduates from junior high school, he takes the same job as hislate father, "ring system window cleaner." It is a meticulously-depicted story of Mitsu's
growth as he gains in confidence and pride in his work through encounters with his
workplace mentor, his neighbors and his clients.

Den-noh Coil [2007 / Animated TV Series / 11th Animation Division Excellence Award] |ISO Mitsuo

The scene is Daikoku-city in the near future, 202X. A wearable computer denno megane through which the wearer canenjoy a cyber world has a great run among children. In these circumstances, Yuko Okonogi who is moved into Daikokucity experiences a series of strange incidents.
*SCREENING: Den-noh Coil SP (90 min.)Date & Time: Saturday 11th and 18th February 14:00—15:30
Place: JCC exhibition space©MITSUO ISO / TOKUMASHOTEN,
Den-noh COIL SEISAKUIINKAI

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12. In This Corner of the World, KOUNO Fumiyo[2009 / 13th Manga Division Excellence Award]© Jiro Taniguchi 1998

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Den-noh COIL, ISO Mitsuo[2007 / 11th Animation Division Excellence Award]
Animated TV Series / 25 min. x 26 episodes

Japan Media Arts Festival Screening ProgrammesAward-winning Program 2016 / Focus in Japan Selection 2016 / Beyond the Technology
Portrait of Japanese Animation / The Medium as Somatic Impulse—Drawing Animations

Related Event

Venue:

Guide Tour

Guide Tour by Planning Director, exonemo
Artists’ Talk

Session 1 “Landscapes of Japan and Singapore”
Artists: EBIHARA Shoko × Sarah CHOO Jing

Japan Creative Centre
3 February (Friday) 19:30—

4 February (Saturday) 13:00—14:30

A talk by two artists of the same sex and generation, one from Japan and the other from Singapore, who each view their own country and city from new
perspectives.

Artists’ Talk

Session 2 “Landscape from unstable window”
Artists: TAKAMINE Tadasu × exonemo

4 February (Saturday) 15:00—16:30

Tadasu Tamakime exhibits a picture frame made from an unfixed material, modeling clay; exonemo, Fluttering Frame, an unstable, flickering video frame.
What do they see through this shared theme of the unstable window? A talk by two artists who take a critical approach to the media and its frames.

Screening

Den-noh Coil SP

Place: Exhibition space

11 February (Saturday) 14:00—15:30 & 18 February (Saturday) 14:00—15:30

Shaw Theatres Lido 5
Screening
Admission: Free
Japanese Scenery in Animation
5 February (Sunday) & 12 February (Sunday)
Venue:The screenings will feature a rich program of renowned, full-length animation films
set in beautiful, timeless Japanese town and landscapes, all made for cinema releaseby popular Japanese directors. This is an animation journey through the Japaneselandscape.

(350, Orchard Road, 5th Floor, Shaw House, Singapore 238868)

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Your Name. [2016 / Animated Feature Film] |SHINKAI Makoto [Artist selected at 6th, 9th, 17th Animation Division Jury Selection]©2016 TOHO / CoMix Wave Films / KADOKAWA / JR Kikaku /AMUSE / voque ting / Lawson HMV Entertainment

5 February (Sunday) 12:30—

Two high school students Mitsuha and Taki have never met each other and live at different places in Japan. One day,
Mitsuha wakes up in a body of a young man and believes that she is dreaming. The next day, she turns normal andfinds out from her friend that she has been behaving very strangely yesterday. On a certain day of the week, she finds
herself waking up in the body of the same young man, and after a series of events, she concludes that she and theboy, who is actually Taki, have been switching bodies quite often. They try to find out the mysterious cause behind
their body swap and soon discover that there is an important life-changing reason for it. (1 h. 46 min.)Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai [2014-2015 / Animated Feature Film / 19th Animation Division Jury Selection] |HARA Keiichi©2014-2015 Hinako Sugiura·MS.HS / Sarusuberi Film Partners

5 February (Sunday) 14:50—

This is a feature-length adaptation of the manga Sarusuberi by Hinako Sugiura, a researcher of Edo Era customs. It
is set in the town of old Edo, a community in Edo that is always emotionally turbulent, including fires and troubles
with fairies. The story centers on O-Ei (later known as Oi Katsushika), the daughter of leading ukiyoe woodblock
print artist Hokusai Katsushika, and depicts the lives of people in Edo that also have relevance for us today. (1 h. 29
min.)Giovanni’ s Island [2014 / Animated Feature Film / 18th Animation Division Excellence Award] |NISHIKUBO Mizuho©2014 JAME

In This Corner of the World [2016 / Animated Feature Film] |KATABUCHI Sunao©Fumiyo Kono / Futabasha/ Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni Project

5 February (Sunday) 16:50—

The setting is 1945 on Shikotan, a tiny island off the cost of Hokkaido, which has remained virtually untouchedby the rage of war. There innocently live ten-year-old Junpei and his seven-year-old Kanta. But with Japan’s defeat
on August 15th, great change comes to their lives. While everybody on the island is expecting American troops
to arrive anytime, it is the Red Army that Island on Shikotan instead. Before they know it, the national borders
have changed and for the Japanese community, a new life with the Soviet citizens who have moved onto the island
begins. The film follows the absurdity and tragedy of war through Junpei’s eyes, depicting friendship among children
blossoming beyond language and cultural barriers. Based on true events, this animated feature film was made by aninternational team including people from Japan. Russia, Argentina, South Korea, Estonia, United States and Italy.
(1 h. 41 min.)

12 February (Sunday) 15:00—

Original manga In This Corner of the World, KOUNO Fumiyo [13th Manga Division Excellence Award]
In This Corner of the World tells the story of the adolescent Suzu, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kurein Hiroshima to live with her husband’s family. Suzu’s life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during
World War II. Her perseverance and courage, however, underpin this heart-warming and inspirational tale of theeveryday challenges faced by the Japanese in the midst of a violent, war-torn country. (2 h. 9 min.)

The Garden of Words [2013 / Animated Feature Film / 17th Animation Division Jury Selection] |SHINKAI Makoto©Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave Films

12 February (Sunday) 17:40—

One rainy day Takao, a high school student aiming to become a shoemaker, encounters Yukino, an enigmatic older
girl, drinking a can of beer alone in Japanese garden. Without commitment, they continue to meet only on rainy
days, gradually forming a bond… With modern-day Tokyo as its stage, this is a subtle drama telling a tale with an
expressive style only achievable through animation. (46 min. 2 sec.)

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https://www.facebook.com/ JMAF.JCC.SINGAPORE
Main Venue: Japan Creative Centre (4 Nassim Road, Singapore 258372) | 3(Friday)—18(Saturday) February, 2017
Organizer: Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Co-organizer: Japan Creative Centre, Embassy of Japan in Singapore
Planning Director: exonemo (SEMBO Kensuke, AKAIWA Yae)

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1. Your Name., SHINKAI Makoto
2. The Garden of Words, SHINKAI Makoto
3. Giovanni’ s Island, NISHIKUBO Mizuho
4. In This Corner of the World, KATABUCHI Sunao
5. Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai, HARA Keiichi