Award-winning Works

Introducing award-winning works in 2005 [9th] Japan Media Arts Festival.
* Click the image to read the detailed information of the work.

Art Division

maginary・Numbers 2006

Khronos Projector

Artist:Alvaro CASSINELLI

[Summary] When a viewer touches the screen, in the area indented by the pressure of their finger, time in the screen changes back and forth. The image which changes in real time corresponding to the viewer’s action gives a sort of pleasurable sensation as if he or she is manipulating time with perfect freedom.

Entarteinment Division

Flipbook!

Flipbook!

Artist:Juan Carlos Ospina GONZALEZ

[Summary] A website in which anyone can easily create a simple animation. After simply drawing lines in several frames as instructed, the drawings instantly start moving in vivid action. Viewers can enjoy cutoff animations registered each and every second from all over the world.

Animation Division

Flow

Flow

Artist:SAKAKIBARA Sumito

[Summary] A composition in which a fixed observing point from high above looks down on seasons in a town where people are repeating daily activities peacefully. As a viewer watches, before long, he or she will take notice that a drama of growth and development of a woman is slipped into the screen. A piece of work which shows the time of one’s life quietly.

Manga Division

Artist:ADUMA Hideo

SHISSOU NIKKI /The Great Escape of the Comic Writer

Artist:ADUMA Hideo

[Summary] A nonfiction work which depicts the roller-coaster daily affairs of the artist himself from his sudden disappearance to a suicidal attempt, life on the streets, physical labor, habitual intemperance, and forced hospitalization. Through the writer’s capability of creating a manga, the reader is enabled to read a work which has a heavy theme in a detached manner.

special achievement prize

MIYAWAKI Osamu

special achievement prize

MIYAWAKI Osamu

 

MIYAWAKI has raised miniatures and models, which Japan has excelled in making, into an art. It was done not only through his high technology, but by adding the creative liberty of an original molder and even giving the products his own name. He has also established a new field of molding expression by making 3D figures of characters of cartoons and animation and has nurtured them into one of the representative arts of Japan. Although these figures are usually very cheap products called "Shokugan" - originally a free gift coming with food or candies, sold at convenience stores, they keep the tradition of Japanese artistic handcrafts with bold figures and high quality. Together with his son, Shuichi, he has enchanted the world simply by the appeal of his products. MIYAWAKI Osamu, and his contribution to the development of a new field of Japanese media arts is significant.