2023 Winners

Asia Digital Art Award/The Minister of METI Award

My Inner Ear Quartet

Director: Koji Yamamura/ Original Author: Yoko Ogawa
Screenplay: Yoko Ogawa, Koji Yamamura
Producer: Kenji Ishimaru
Executive Producer: Yoshinobu Noma
Sound Director: Masataka Ota
Music: Koji Ueno
CG Director: Gee Yeung
Lead Unity Engineer: Jorge Pedrero Reyna
Line Producer: Yumiko Kano
Production Manager: Yui Tamanaha
Planning and Production: Kodansha VR Lab, Ltd.

The Minister of MEXT Award

Burning With Fire

Xu Qiucheng / Tokyo University of the Arts

The Minister of MIC Award

Grasp(er)

Kanata Yamagishi / Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences

Fukuoka Governor's Award

Hallucination Puppet

Experiment Tokyo (Takahiro Anno, Yukiya Yamane)

Fukuoka Mayor's Award

RadiantVR: Immersive Heat Experience

Hikaru Hamada, Taisei Omine / Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University

General Category

Still Images

Grand Award

Knot #1A/ Knot #1B/ Knot #1C

Kolle

Excellence Awards

Potential Forms

Kazuki Abe

Finalists' Awards

PUPA

GIDNIUM

Force of nature

Shigeki Miyama

What a beautiful world

Seiichiro Maki

Shinkaihukaisei

Tomoyuki Kimiyama

The fish mixed machine

Yuya Okazawa

ANIMA.

Moving Images

Grand Award

SEPIA NOTES

Video: Fumiko Kumagai
Composed by Pedestrian
Song: Shion Haruka

Excellence Awards

Incomplete Landscapes: An Architecture of Co-production

Eugene Tan

National University of Singapore

SHAN SHUI

JIANGHONGBO

Finalists' Awards

Kiss/Crash (Video)

Adam Cole

Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London

X-NEEDLE2

HARINKODO (Yasuo Hisamoto)

Inari Center

Fumihiko Tada

FMC Illustration Studio

BABY FORCE

Yuki Kubo

Interactive Arts

Grand Award/Fukuoka Governor's Award

Hallucination Puppet

Experiment Tokyo (Takahiro Anno, Yukiya Yamane)

Excellence Awards

Compose Cell

FANCY Future Instruments ltd.

Finalists' Awards

Fukushima – The Home That Once Was

Director: Timo Wright
Co-Director: Kohei Okada-Skogorev
Assistant Director: Junko Takahashi
Producer: Ada Johnsson
Co-Producer: Khora, Peter Fisher

Blooming Boundary

Junichi Kanebako, Arisa Hirashima, Keisuke Shuto, Hiroyuki Nagayoshi, Miki Yamamura, Hiroko Uchiyama

Kobe Design University, Joshibi University of Art and Design

A fable of a fable ‹Black-tailed gull›

couch (Reiko Asao, Hiroki Miyazaki)
With support from NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC]
Technical Cooperation: yang02
Grants: Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation

Tonight, I will sleep with this dream in my memory.

Yohey Ukai, Ayano Takahashi, Shiruba Hama, Toshifumi Suzuki, Daichi Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Iwata, Jun Ishikawa, Kaede Eto, Kohei Ito, Fumika Kitamaru, Shu Yujia, Ryosuke Kon

PYRAMID FILM QUADRA INC.

Informalized Void

Futa Takezawa
Production assistance: Arata Mukunoki, Daisuke Hiramoto, Shota Shiozumi, Yota Naruse

Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences

Entertainment

Grand Award

This work was selected for the 2023 Asia Digital Art Award.

Excellence Awards

Give me toilet paper!

Takahiro Miyazawa

Finalists' Awards

GIANT 3D CAT Project

Synichi Yamamoto, Masakazu Kagami, Hirokazu Aoyama, Tetsuji Ohno

OMNIBUS JAPAN INC., Nagaoka Institute of Design, studioBLT inc., Intercity-Express

Calligraphy Experience System That Coveys the Relationship Between Kanji and Nature

Kei Kobayashi, Kazuma Nagata

END START

Producer: Yusuke Sagawa
Director/Editor: Kosuke Inai
Video Photography: Yotaro Hirahara
Assistant Video Photography: Ryo Nakamura
CG: Shino Watanabe
Design: Akane Yokoyama
Color Grading: Whaetbool Kim
Online Editing: Kenta Saito
Music: PONCH!
Executive Producer: Keisuke Satoh

Focus

Student Category

Still Images

Grand Award

The Radiance of The Wings

Hayato Shinoda

Aso Pop Culture College

Excellence Awards

The Negative Aspects Of Fashion Industry

ATHUL KRISHNA N

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

white chaos

Haruki Nagae

Kyushu University

Finalists' Awards

The tears of android

Kong kyeonghee

Kyoto Seika University

Fruit Park

Ryousuke Eto

Aso Pop Culture College

STELLIO, INC. Plan No.001

Saya Kawamura, Haruka Arizono

Musashino Art University

Birth

Keiichiro Fukuda

Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University

Moving Images

Grand Award/The Minister of MEXT Award

Burning With Fire

Xu Qiucheng

Tokyo University of the Arts

Excellence Awards

The Stranger

Shota Shimura

Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences

Hitori

ajisa

Graduation work of Kanazawa College of Art 2022

Finalists' Awards

PIROPIROPUU

Iyo Matsumoto

Graduation work of Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts 2022

The Absolutely Running Frog

Kohei Nagasaka

Tokyo University of the Arts

KITSUNETSUKI

Kitsunebiyori (Nanami Fujii, Ayumi Mizuno, Nene Minoura, Azumi Mita, Kosei Oishi, Shota Kaneko)

Graduation work of Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences 2022

Two man cell Episode1 "Cokking Show"

Aoki Yusaku

Department of Industrial Art, Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University

The Story of My Meat Life

Mai Ishikawa

Graduate School, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences

Interactive Arts

Grand Award/The Minister of MIC Award

Grasp(er)

Kanata Yamagishi

Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences

Excellence Awards

common

media design Lab. (Miku Sakamoto, Daiki Iizumi, Tsuyoshi Obara, Wakana Kuda, Maimi Kobari, Yuna Iwai, Qiu Yao, Wang Meng, Moemi Takiguchi, Haruka Yoshikawa, Daijiro Katsumi)

New Media Course, Faculty of Media Studies, Josai International University

I work, therefore I am

Sze Man Chiu, Daisy

Goldsmiths, University of London

Finalists' Awards

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Arata Matsumoto

Osaka University of Arts

Drawing on hearbeat interference (n=500)

Motoaki Tsukeshiba

Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University

wave1.0

μ // interactive (Browning Aaron Michael, Elly Fitriana Soedjito, Yui Okuda, Naoki Kameyama, Ryu Fujisaki, Aika Yamashita)

Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University

Ocean Pandaemonium -The Noisy Plasticscape-

Ayaka Sakakibara

Keio University

Matata-ki

Rinta Tsujii, Rino Otaki, Yuto Nakajima, Rina Katsube, Toshiaki Uchiyama, Shigeru Ozaki

University of Tsukuba

Entertainment

Grand Award/Fukuoka Mayor's Award

RadiantVR: Immersive Heat Experience

Hikaru Hamada, Taisei Omine

Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University

Excellence Awards

Sancoro Bingo

Sakura Mizobuchi, Hiroshi Suzuki

Kanagawa Institute of Technology

Finalists' Awards

Alone Time

Kai-Ting Kao

National Taiwan University of Arts

ShiginoAlice

Hibiki Sato, Sora Watanabe, Shun Okada, Yuto Shimamura, Seiya Suzuki, Akitada Meto, Seiya Yoshida, Nana Matsuzaki

Japan Electronics College

Mech Simulator

Takumi Matsuoka

Kyushu University

MOjiULE

Nihongo Design Lab Shiro (Wataru Ishizaki, Ren Aramata, Kohina Ogawa, Risa Yoshioka, Midzuki Ito)

Sapporo City University