![2009 [13th] Japan Media Arts Festival Symposia Information](/english/festival/2009/images/h1_symposium.gif "2009 [13th] Japan Media Arts Festival Symposia Information")
Award winners and Jury members of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival will introduce the background, concepts, and untold stories of the production of award-winning works. They will also sum up this year's Festival by division.
[Award Winners Symposium: Art Division](bilingual)
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18:00-19:30 Friday, February 5, 2010 |
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David BOWEN (Grand Prize: growth modeling device) Lawrence MALSTAF (Excellence Prize: Nemo Observatorium) WADA Ei (Excellence Prize: Braun Tube Jazz Band) SATO Taku (Art Division Head of the Jury/Graphic Designer) SHIKATA Yukiko (Art Division Juror/Media Art Curator) |
[Award Winners Symposium: Entertainment Division]
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13:00-14:30 Saturday, February 13, 2010 |
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NAKAMURA Magico / NAKAMURA Masayoshi (Grand Prize: Hibi No Neiro) TANAKA Hideyuki (Excellence Prize: DENKI GROOVE / Fake it!) MATSUYMA Hiroshi (Excellence Prize: NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM) KAWAZU Akitoshi (Entertainment Division Head of the Jury/Game Designer) MASUYAMA Hiroshi (Entertainment Division Juror/Contents Producer) |
[Award Winners Symposium: Animation Division]
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16:00-17:30 Sunday, February 7, 2010 |
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HOSODA Mamoru (Grand Prize: SUMMER WARS) TACHIBANA Masaki (Excellence Prize: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0) SUZUKI Shinichi (Anmation Division Head of the Jury/Animation Director) |
[Award Winners Symposium: Manga Division]
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13:00-14:30 Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
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YUKIMURA Makoto (Grand Prize: VINLAND SAGA) Shiriagari Kotobuki (Manga Division Head of the Jury/Manga Artist) HOSOGAYA Atsushi (Manga Division Juror/Associate Professor, Tokyo Polytechnic University) |
[Award Winners Symposium: Special Achievement Prize]
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15:00-16:15 Friday, February 5, 2010 |
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MIYAMOTO Shigeru (Special Achievement Prize/Game Creator) KAWAZU Akitoshi (Entertainment Division Head of the Jury/Game Designer) |
[Award Winners Symposium: Memorial Achievement Prize]
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16:00-17:30 Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
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HIKAWA Ryusuke (Animation Critic) Rintaro (Animation Director) |
Main theme is "What are media arts?" Artists, technologists, curators and others discuss the ever-changing Media Arts from various perspectives.
[When manga and art meet]
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16:00-17:30 Wednesday, February 3, 2010 |
| Panelist | : | KANAZAWA Kodama (Kawasaki City Museum Curator) Shiriagari Kotobuki (Manga Artist/Manga Division Head of the Jury) MORIKAWA Kaichiro (Associate Professor, Meiji University) |
[Creating a new culture](bilingual)
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16:00-17:30 Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
| Panelist | : | AOKI Tamotsu (Former Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs) Alessio CAVALLARO (Australian Centre for The Moving Image, Senior Curator, Australia) Amanda McDONALD CROWLEY (Eyebeam Executive Director, U.S.A.) SAKANE Itsuo (President Emeritus of IAMAS; Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences) |
Directors and curators of foreign festivals and museums, and cultural interpreters discuss "culture" from a global perspective. This symposium looks at the shape of culture, which is changing to keep pace with development of technologies, and the diversity of culture in an era of globalization. It seeks what should be done to create a new culture and considers the question of cooperation on a global scale.
[Nurturing ∞ future possibilities − media, art, and children −]
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16:00-17:30 Monday, February 8, 2010 |
| Panelist | : | HARASHIMA Hiroshi (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo) KISHI Keisuke (Artist/CG Creator/Grand Prize Winner of the 3rd Japan Media Arts Festival) KUWAKUBO Ryota (Media Artist/Grand Prize Winner of the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival) TSUTSUMI Yasuhiko (Representative of NPO Artists meet Children) |
Encounters between art and media technologies are generating new impressions and forms of originality in each field. How can we pass this down to children, who will play the most important roles in the future? The symposium discusses the future shape of media arts from the standpoint of media, art and those responsible for passing them down to children.
[Media Arts and Museums]
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18:00-19:30 Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| Panelist | : | ABE Kazunao (YCAM Artisitic Director) UCHIDA Maholo (Miraikan Curator) SHIMIZU Kento (Sendai Mediatheque Curator) HATANAKA Minoru (ICC Curator) MATSUMOTO Tohru (Deputy Director, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) |
Curators of museums in Japan who are active in the field of media arts discuss the relationship between media arts and museums. How do they assess genres that have not been evaluated? What is the role of museums in the new cultural sphere? Taking these as its topics, the symposium seeks new possibilities in exploring the relationship between media arts and museums.
[What is media? What is art?]
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13:30-15:00 Sunday, February 14, 2010 |
| Panelist | : | OKAZAKl Kenjiro (Art Division Juror/Professor, International Center for Human Sciences, Kinki University) MIZUKOSHI Shin (Professor, The Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo) MORI Tatsuya (Film Director/Documentary Filmmaker) |
This symposium considers the nature of media arts by splitting the name into its two components -- "media" and "arts" -- and rethinking each of them. What is media? What is art? Taking these as its subjects, this symposium discusses the relationship between new media and society, and the relationship between new technologies, media, and art.
* The information on symposia, panelists, and schedule is provisional and subject to change without notice and will be updated on this website.
The Exhibition and presentations will be held at the exhibition hall on the 2nd Floor, and Symposia and Screenings will be held at the Auditorium on the 3rd floor. Please check the Festival Guide for more information.
| Organizer | : | Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee [Agency for Cultural Affairs / The National Art Center, Tokyo / CG-ARTS Society] |
| Date | : | From Wednesday, Feb. 3rd to Sunday, Feb. 14th, 2010 (Closed on Tuesday, Feb. 9th, 2010) 10:00 - 18:00 (open until 20:00 on Friday) |
| Place | : | The National Art Center, Tokyo 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan |
| Admission fee | : | Free |
The relationship between manga and art is cross-disciplinary, and is discussed from the individual point of view of each participant. What role does manga play in contemporary Japanese culture? What sort of influence has manga had on contemporary art? Can manga be art? Through the discussion of a variety of topics, this symposium will seek a new relationship between manga and museums.