9th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

Outline

  • Entry Period

    2005.8.1(Mon) - 10.20(Thu)

  • Organizer

    Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee

    [Agency for Cultural Affairs / CG-ARTS]

  • Chair

    KAWAI Hayao(Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs)

  • Operating Committee

    NAGATA Keiji(Chairman, CG-ARTS)

    HAMANO Yasuki(Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School)

Exhibition

  • Dates

    2006.2.24(Fri) - 3.5(Sun)

  • Awards Ceremony

    2006.2.23(Thu)

  • Venue

    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

    Yebisu Garden Place

  • Admission

    free

Jury / Major

Jury

Art Division

KUSAHARA Machiko

ASABA Katsumi

TOSA Nobumichi

NAKAYA Hide

YANOBE Kenji

Entertainment Division

NAKAJIMA Shinya

ISHIHARA Tsunekazu

SAITO Yutaka

SUZUKI Yu

MIYAZAKI Mitsuhiro

Animation Division

TOMINO Yoshiyuki

KATAYAMA Masahiro

KAMIMURA Sachiko

TERAI Hironori

HOSODA Mamoru

Manga Division

SATONAKA Machiko

KIMURA Tadao

KUROGANE Hiroshi

TAKEMIYA Keiko

Monkey Punch

Award-winning Works

General comment

  • HAMANO Yasuki

    Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School

    The technology has matured and the quality of networks based works and moving images have especially improved

    The common opinion held by the jurors of all divisions is that the quality of the image and networking works has drastically improved from all previous works. It is because the technology and the network of the image expression have finally matured enough to respond to an author's desire of expression.
    In short, we can say that from the various technologies of expression digital technology became available to everyone. Flow, which was selected as the grand prize winner in the Animation Division after a long and heated debate, is a good example of this. Also a clear accomplishment of networking Flipbook! is which has become the first work developed on network to win the grand prize in the Entertainment Division in the history of the Japan Media Arts Festival.
    I wish to express my gratitude to the jurors and the staff of the secretariat office who corresponded to the ever-increasing number of works so sincerely. Although we currently screen all the submitted works with the multiple eyes of the jurors before entering into the final evaluation by all the jury members, the workload is reaching the limit.
    The recognition of Japanese pop culture abroad keeps rising and the Japan Media Arts Festival is a valuable occasion to present the axis of assessment in Japan. This year we have received applications from as many as 43 countries throughout the world and this shows that the past effort of the jury and the staff of the secretariat office is now sufficient.