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26.02.03 Media Arts Festival in Tokyo.
On February 27, at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography of Tokyo, will be awarded the Media Arts Festival prizes. A jury has selected the last year's best works, divided in categories. In the 'Digital Art [Interactive] Division', the first prize will be awarded to the installation 'Social Mobiles', by Crispin Jones/IDEO, which featured fine cellphones with different functions and a large dose of irony towards nowaday's cellphone culture. In the same category the 'excellent prizes' will be given to 'CamCam Time', a screensaver by Sony where the passing of seconds is conditioned by the users downloading images, which are then shared on the network, 'Course', by tree-axis lls, where several small icons combine their functions when they are connected together, 'type R', by Shibata Satoshi, where a text is projected on water and it's possible to flip the pages by putting a finger in the fluid and, finally, 'His Master's Voice', by Fur, which features some spheres on a table which move towards the speaker, assuming unpredictable behaviours when there are more voices. The first prize in the 'Digital Art [Non-Interactive] Division' will be awarded to 'TextArc print: Alice's Adventure in Wonderland', by Bradford Paley. Aside from the manga and anime sections, one of the special prizes will be awarded, deservedly, to 'Rez', by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, which programs the dream-like playability of sounds.