Japan Media Arts Festival – C… what it takes to change https://ars.electronica.art/c/en Ars Electronica 2014 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Japan Media Arts Festival https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/japan-media-arts-festival/ Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:51:11 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=2299 Continue reading →]]>
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.

iPhone Quick-Draw System
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.

Skeletonics
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.

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SAT September 6 - MON September 8 2014 10 AM - 9 PM
Akademisches Gymnasium, New Building, 3rd + 4th Floor

Performances

Akademisches Gymnasium, New Building, I-Center (when it rains: Future Innovators Summit Class Room)
SAT September 6, 2014, noon, 2 PM, 4 PM
SUN September 7, 2014, 10 AM, noon

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. Inspired by the ingenious pistol delivery contraption used by Robert De Niro’s unforgettable character in Taxi Driver, Mori’s system is a holster that instantaneously slides an iPhone out of your sleeve and into your hand. This is a spectacular gesture that’s made a big splash, thanks to the object itself as well as the accompanying video.

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