2025 Winners

Asia Digital Art Award

tap of emptiness

Takemi Watanuki
Supported by Flying Tokyo 2024

The Minister of MEXT Award

find me

Akari Maru / Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

The Minister of METI Award

Hidden ghosts

Toshiki Fujii, Shoji Sunaga / Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University; Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

Fukuoka Governor's Award

Moving Photo collage composed of 30 looping scenes

Director: Akino Nishio
Sound: Mio Matsui

Fukuoka Mayor's Award

Moonlit Plumage

Shota Kaneko / Aso Pop Culture College

General Category

Still Images

Grand Award

At Each Encounter, Imagine a Thousand Things

Giang Nguyen

Behalf Studio, RMIT University

Excellence Awards

FADE OUT (7397/7045/7367)

Matsuhiko Maruyama

Hokkaido University of Science

Threshold Breach

Fujiwara Go

Finalists' Awards

The answer within

Eri Ohata

The Last Human

Renbo Zou

Solo Garlic

roboism

Moving Images

Grand Award / Fukuoka Governor's Award

Moving Photo collage composed of 30 looping scenes

Director: Akino Nishio
Sound: Mio Matsui

Excellence Awards

My Organs Lying on the Ground

Shinobu Soejima

Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program in Film and New Media Studies

Finalists' Awards

Seed of a Star

morph (Yasuhiro Higuchi), cokiyu

AD.PRINTING CO., LTD.

City Hall: The Witness

TAKUMI ITO

Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Yamaguchi Prefectural University

The goldfish

Rion Fukuda

KLAS Co., Ltd.

Interactive Arts

Grand Award

This work was selected for the 2025 Asia Digital Art Award.

Excellence Awards

Sasu 28

Yuichiro Katsumoto

The Utsuroi Lab, Tokyo Denki University

Handoid

Hideki Shimobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Masaharu Hirose

RCAST, The University of Tokyo

Finalists' Awards

《 CORE 》

ARTIFACT(Shimpei Miura, Kenta Anan, Takuro Kawashima, Suho Kim, Rie Tobita, Koichi Hashiguchi, KAIRI)
Mujyuroku Session(Kengo Hayakumo, Akimasa Yamada)
Photo by Ayami Kawashima

Prologue

seph li

Drawing on Space: Shibuya

Koji Shiroshita & Mifuku

Augmented Waves

Masaki Kanayama
Technical Collaboration: Gugenka Inc.

Nagaoka Institute of Design

Parasitic Finger: Coexistence with Artificial Organism

Akira Nakayasu, Saki Sakaguchi, Mina Shibasaki

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Entertainment

Grand Award / The Minister of METI Award

Hidden ghosts

Toshiki Fujii, Shoji Sunaga

Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University; Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

Excellence Awards

IF YOU SEE A CAT

Director: Atsushi Wada
Producer: Kenji Ishimaru

Kodansha VR Lab, Ltd.

Build Your Vision! AI Transform: Cinemato Club

Yohei Ukai, Ayano Takahashi, Kosuke Hayashi, Reiko Morotomi, Shiruba Hama, Ryosuke Kon

PYRAMID FILM QUADRA INC

Finalists' Awards

Be: /Prompt

PatternBased (Siori Kitajima, Joseph Minadeo）

PatternBased

ULANGAN

ARAFURA (Ady Setyawan, Alyssa Putri Azzahra, Calista Zafira Chavik, Emmanuelle Grace Elita, Farhan, Fila Aghnia Anantyo, Namira Cahya N., Maydiko Syafar, Pande Made Anagha Divantara, Puspita H. Tjokronegoro, Yanuar Banu H., Zarril Ghifari, Abd. Rahman Saleh, Ahmad Zaki Haninut Tuqo, Dio Nur Akbar Sulistyawan, Ilham Nurul Fauzan Firdaus, Irham Mulkan Rodiana, Leo Tirto Purnomo, Muhammad Nur Ihkwansyah, Muhammad Tito Yudha Prakasa, Prima Ramanda Wardhana, Safa Alya Nabila, Widyah Puspa Sari)
Curators: Amanda Ariawan, Putra Hidayatullah

ARAFURA

MOJIMO

TENT ( Miku Sakamoto, Suguru Toda, Atsushi Murakami )

Student Category

Still Images

Grand Award / Fukuoka Mayor's Award

Moonlit Plumage

Shota Kaneko

Aso Pop Culture College

Excellence Awards

From Beyond

Ryoji Shibata

Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School

eye

Ko Nakatsukasa

Kyushu University

Finalists' Awards

Fantastical Plants of Equinox

ZHANG HANG

Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University

Whisper of the Valley

Kurama Kageya

Media Design Course, Department of Design, School of Design, Kyushu University

Becoming flowers

Koyo Shigemura

Graduate Schools, Kyushu University

You're never alone

Iida Mayuko

Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts

Moving Images

Grand Award / The Minister of MEXT Award

find me

Akari Maru

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

Excellence Awards

A Recipe for Cat Ghosts

Haruo Saki

More to the Rhythm than Gold

Yusaku Aoki

Graduate School of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University – Industrial Art

Finalists' Awards

A Lover’s discourse

Pang Wen

Tokyo University of the Arts

The Collector

Daichi Oku

Kyushu University

atarimaenokiseki

Kodai Kawasaki

Kyoto University of the Arts

GOOD-MOURNING

Nina Tsuji

Tokyo University of the Arts

Life is the Poem by Psychopaths

Yuanshen YANG

Graduate School of Art, Tokyo Polytechnic University

Interactive Arts

Grand Award

Sphere(s)

Ayaka Sakakibara

Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences

Excellence Awards

Gravitation

Atsuya Tsuchida

Keio University

Down the Rabbit Hole

PAN YU

Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts

Finalists' Awards

Between Spacies

Kana Yamaguchi, Yuga Tsukuda, Yoichi Ochiai

Digital Nature Group, University of Tsukuba

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Rintaro Fujita, Scott Allen, Sugandh Malhotra

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

The Act of Writing, and What Lies Between.

Suzuki Mitsuyasu

IAMAS

Sound Stargazing Project

Fushi Sano, Miku Fujimoto

Keio University, Institute of Science Tokyo

Entertainment

Grand Award

Let's Make Gray

Nami Tanji, Hiroto Ishida

Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media Department of Animation; Department of Systems Innovation,School of Engineering,The University of Tokyo

Excellence Awards

Qoom | Life-ish.

Media Design Lab. (CHIWAKI Kazuki, MIYAJIMA Daijiro, TAKIGUCHI Moemi, KUME Naota, MOMOBAYASHI Yuran, SAITO Yume, NAGANUMA Yoshihide, IMAI Hidenaru, KITAJIMA Suzuna, SHIRADO Yuji, MATSUMOTO Miyu)

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

Brush of Color and Ink

Tang Pui Sim

Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education

Finalists' Awards

ƧHⱯDOM(SHADOW)

Yingying Liu, Xiaoya Huang, Zhishan Ye, Voixx Collective

Royal College of Art

YOKAI MOJIATSUME

NIHONGO DESIGN LAB SHIRO(President: Ogawa Kohina)

Sapporo City University

Monokko

Toshiro Otsuka,Taisei Goto,Ryo Ishiyama

Kyushu University