“Award Winners Symposia” with award winners and Jury members of 2007 [11th] Japan Media Arts Festival. Introduce backgrounds, concepts, and untold stories of production of award-winning works; also sum up this year’s Festival by division.
[Award Winners Symposium: Art Division]
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6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Friday, February 8, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | HARADA Daizaburo (Art Division Head of Jury / Professor, Tama Art University) |
| Panelist | : |
Sonia CILLARI (Excellence Prize / Se Mi Sei Vicino, the Netherlands) Effie WU (Encouragement Prize / Super Smile, Germany) |
© Effie Wu
[Award Winners Symposium: Entertainment Division-1]
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Monday (National Holiday), February 11, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | MIZUGUCHI Tetsuya (Entertainment Division Head of Jury / Producer) |
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OTA Keizo (Grand Prize / Wii Sports) TSUJIMOTO Ryozo (Excellence Prize / MONSTER HUNTER FREEDOM 2) KOJIMA Hideo (Excellence Prize / METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS) |
© 1987-2007 Konami Digital
Entertainment Co., Ltd.
[Award Winners Symposium: Entertainment Division-2]
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1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Saturday, February 16, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | FUKUI Shinzo (Entertainment Division Head of Jury / Creative Director) |
| Panelist | : | TANAKA Hideo (Excellence Prize / Have you seen it?) |
© BMW Japan, Corp.
[Award Winners Symposium: Animation Division]
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1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Sunday, February 17, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | SUZUKI Shinichi (Animation Division Head of Jury/Animation Director) |
| Panelist | : | HARA Keiichi (Grand Prize / Summer days with Coo) YAMAMURA Koji (Excellence Prize / Franz Kafka's A COUNTRY DOCTOR) TSUJI Masaki (Special Achievement Prize / Animation Scriptwriter, Mystery Writer) |
© 2007 Masao Kogure / Summer Days with Coo Committee
[Award Winners Symposium: Manga Division]
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1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Monday (National Holiday), February 11, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | Monkey Punch (Manga Division Head of Jury/Manga Artist) Shiriagari Kotobuki (Manga Division member of the Jury/Manga Artist) |
| Panelist | : | GOUDA Mamora (Grand Prize / Mori No Asagao) TAKETOMI Kenzi (Excellence Prize / Suzuki Sensei) |
© Mamora Gouda / FUTABASHA
Theme Symposia – discussions on a variety of themes related to media arts. Artists, technical experts, researchers, curators, educators, and others participate and talk.
[Cultural Power from Asia – Potentiality and Perspective of Art Festivals in Asia]
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursday, February 7, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | HASEGAWA Yuko (Art Division member of the Jury / Curator) |
| Panelist | : | Ilho PARK (Director of 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale) ZHANG Ga (Director of SYNTHETIC TIMES -media art CHINA 2008) |
»MEDIA ART CHINA 2008 |
* An image from Japan Media Arts Festival in Shanghai.
[Fusion of Art and Technology – What have they created? What will they create?]
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Date: Presenter: Panelist: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| Presenter | : | HARASHIMA Hiroshi (Art Division member of the Jury/Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School) |
| Panelist | : | SAKANE Itsuo (President Emeritus, Institute of Advance Media Arts and Sciences / Visiting Professor, Tama Art University) SUZUKI Yasuhiro (Special Appointment Assistant, The University of Tokyo Research Center for Advance d Science and Technology) KUNOH Kyoko (Media Artist) |
[Why did Japanese Manga overtake the world?]
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6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| Panelist | : | SATONAKA Machiko (Manga Artist) MATSUTANI Takamasa (President of Tezuka Production Co.,Ltd.) HAMANO Yasuki (Member of the Japan Media Arts Festival Operating Committee / Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School) |
* An image from Japan Media Arts Festival in Shanghai.
* The Symposium is going to take place at the Auditorium on the 3rd floor.
* Tickets will be handed out in order of arrival in the reception area of the Auditorium on the 3rd floor at 10:00 p.m. on the day the Symposium is scheduled.
