Tomohiro Aka – 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.

]]> Skeletonics https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/skeletonics/ Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:39:34 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=2313 Continue reading →]]> Reyes Tatsuru Shiroku (JP), Tomohiro Aka (JP), Keiju Nakano (JP)
THU September 4, FRI September 5, 2014 noon, 2 PM, 4 PM
SAT September 6, 2014, 5 PM
SUN September 7, 2014, noon
Akademisches Gymnasium, Inner City

This 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. The suit is entirely powered by the wearer and has no actuator (a mechanism for converting energy into physical movement), with the load on the wearer in proportion to the enlargement rate of the mass of the suit.

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