THU September 4. -MON September 8. 2014
Akademisches Gymnasium,
Artist Talk: SUN September 7, 2014, 3 PM-4 PM, Akademisches Gymnasium
The Japan Media Arts Festival honors outstanding works from a wide range of media, from animation and comics to media art and games. There are four categories of awards: Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. The 17th Festival received a record number of 4,347 entries from 84 countries and regions around the world – an indication of its already firmly established status as an international annual festival and of how it continues to grow.
Aiming to change perception
This year Japan Media Arts Festival appreciates Ars Electronica’s Festival theme C…what it takes to change, and collaborates again to present two Award-winning works of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival, iPhone Quick-Draw System by Shota Mori (JP) and Skeletonics by Reyes Tatsuru Shiroku (JP), Tomohiro Aka (JP), Keiju Nakano (JP) – works that aim to change our perception.
Draw! The iPhone Quick-Draw System that the Japan Media Arts Festival is presenting in the Future Innovators Exhibit will add a whiff of the Wild West to the high-gloss world of modern media.
EThis work is a movement magnification suit, using link mechanisms that work in tandem with arm and leg actions, amplifying the motions of the wearer’s four limbs, and realizing dynamic arm and leg movements that ordinarily cannot be expressed by the human body.
Artist Talk
Meet the artists of the Japan Media Arts Festival on Sunday, September 7, 2014, 3 PM-4 PM, during an Artist Talk at the Akademisches Gymnasium.