EBIHARA Shoko

[2015 / Graphic art / 19th Art Division Jury Selection]

The artist hires a professional photographer from the local area to take her picture in a suit on a platform used for group photographs of travelers in sightseeing areas. Neither negatives nor data remain as the artwork is the process of ordering, purchasing, and receiving a touristic picture. The artist looks like an icon in these photographs, all of which have essentially the same basic structure, and inserts herself into various landscapes all over Japan.
＊Souvenir photos of Singapore will be shown alongside the Japanese photo exhibition.

Angelica VERDAN

[2015 / Video work / 19th Art Division Jury Selection]

Double Click to Open analyzes the form and function of the cursor by removing it from the digital world and placing it in the physical one. The video shows a cursor projected on an image of a closed door, but the doors do not open even if double-clicked. The film explores the human relationship with technology and interface, revealing how we have come to expect various interactions with all types of interfaces.
(3 min. 41 sec.)

Sarah CHOO Jing

[2015 / Video installation / 19th Art Division Jury selection]

Waiting for the Elevator is a multimedia installation that depicts a composite of documented events, projected across the Esplanade Tunnel in Singapore. Building on normally unnoticed, trivial and repetitive actions, the artist reflects upon the social purposes of the “void decks” in Singapore. The composited panorama ultimately exists as a non-space; an accumulation of fragments over time.
(5 min. 22 sec.)

[2012 / Digital photo]

SHINTSUBO Kenshu

[Artist selected at 14th Art Division Jury selection]

Each landscape is a present space which bears the accumulated traces of those who live within it; a layer laid down by their actions. Networks connect deposited memories by invisible lines of sight using various landscape photographs, computer-made maps and desktop archives generated from individual viewpoints.

[2008-2010 / Digital photo]

Jens SUNDHEIM

[Artist selected at 9th Art Division Jury selection]

The work 100100 Views of Mount Fuji reverts to webcams available on the Internet. From 2008 to 2010 I archived the image data of a camera, which transmits every three minutes a live image of Mount Fuji. The images appear as a modern version of the images of Hokusai, a version of the 21st century: a fast, unmistakable and unfiltered live transmission.

Rafaël ROZENDAAL

[2011 / Installation]

Rafaël Rozendaal is interested in how mirrors retain both metaphorical and literal meanings for reflection as well as pertain a transience and reliance upon light and movement. Popular Screen Sizes (60”, 55”, 46”, 40”, 32”, 27”, 24”, 21”, 17”, 15”, 13”, 10”, 7”, 3.5”) by Rafaël Rozendaal operates as a reflection on contemporary lifestyles and the extent to which these involve our interface with screens, as well as a mirror to the immediate environment and the viewer.

Joe HAMILTON

[2014 / Video work]

Stream is a work that explores the well known analogy of water flow and the flow of data on the internet. The structure and movement in the browser window becomes a rigid framework that contains and shifts an array of found images and video of water. Waterfalls, torrents, livers, creeks and streams of data flow down the screen. An interplay of fluidity and rigidness.
(1 min. 20 sec.)

TAKAMINE Tadasu

[2011, reconstruction 2017]

This work consists only of a picture frame made from an oil-based modeling clay. It was displayed as a displaced frame together with a blanket laid out like a canvas at the big Too Far to See exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Whereas picture frames traditionally have the role of highlighting and completing a picture, this work uses modeling clay which, with its flexible and unfixed shapes, is more usually chosen for the preliminary models. Everyone has used it in their childhood and this application of a clay which retains clear finger imprints thereby focuses the attention on the frame to question the nature of both media and the work itself.

[2011, reconstruction 2017]

TSUDA Michiko

[2016 / Installation]

The frames hung in the air from the ceiling look like those of paintings or photographs but do not have such images inside. When you get closer to the frames, you find there are three different structures in these frames. Some have mirrors inserted, some have screens onto which the live view of the exhibition space captured by video cameras is projected, and some have nothing inside. Each frame is hung in a position according to a geometric rule.
Once you enter the space, you will get confused and be unable to recognize where you are, standing surrounded by all these frames. You will see the other corner of the exhibition space in the back of a frame. Beside another frame, you may find someone who should not be there. Or you will find yourself inside the other frame. Welcome to the labyrinth where images swap with one another, between here and there.

[2013 / Video Work]

exonemo

[Artist selected at 16th Art Division and 17th Entertainment Division Jury selection]

Fluttering Frame is a crowd-sourced video work created by 54 participants from 31 countries. It was aired on Japanese public broadcasting NHK's program Techne - The visual workshop. NHK typically airs a video of a Japanese flag at the end of each broadcasting day. The artists asked participants from all over the world to air this footage in their living rooms, and collected these video pieces including the living rooms, animating the flying flag by combining fragments from each video. The project started with as a simply query about the relevance of projecting a national framework like this in the age of the internet.

IWAOKA Hisae

[2011 / Manga / 15th Manga Division Grand Prize]

The story is set in a time when the whole of the Earth has been designated as a nature reserve and it is not permitted to descend to the Earth's surface, so humans live in buildings high up in the sky, at a level of 35,000 meters. The protagonist, Mitsu, was born and raised in this gigantic ring system, which is divided into upper, middle and lower levels. Just as Mitsu graduates from junior high school, he takes the same job as his late father, "ring system window cleaner." It is a meticulously-depicted story of Mitsu's growth as he gains in confidence and pride in his work through encounters with his workplace mentor, his neighbors and his clients.

ISO Mitsuo

[2007 / Animated TV series / 11th Animation Division Excellence Award]

The scene is Daikoku-shi in the near future, 202X. A wearable computer denno megane through which the wearer can enjoy a cyber world has a great run among children. In these circumstances, OKONOGI Yuko who is moved into Daikoku-shi experiences a series of strange incidents.

SCREENING: Den-noh Coil SP (90 min.)
Date & Time: Saturday 11th and 18th February 14：00－15：30
Place: JCC exhibition space

[2016 / Animated feature film]

SHINKAI Makoto

[Artist selected at 6th, 9th, 17th Animation Division Jury selection]

Two high school students Mitsuha and Taki have never met each other and live at different places in Japan. One day, Mitsuha wakes up in a body of a young man and believes that she is dreaming. The next day, she turns normal and finds out from her friend that she has been behaving very strangely yesterday. On a certain day of the week, she finds herself waking up in the body of the same young man, and after a series of events, she concludes that she and the boy, who is actually Taki, have been switching bodies quite often. They try to find out the mysterious cause behind their body swap and soon discover that there is an important life-changing reason for it.
(1 h. 46 min.)

HARA Keiichi

[2014-2015 / Animated feature film / 19th Animation Division Jury selection]

This is a feature-length adaptation of the manga Sarusuberi by SUGIURA Hinako, a researcher of Edo Era customs. It is set in the town of old Edo, a community in Edo that is always emotionally turbulent, including fires and troubles with fairies. The story centers on O-Ei (later known as KATSUSHIKA Oi), the daughter of leading ukiyoe woodblock print artist KATSUSHIKA Hokusai, and depicts the lives of people in Edo that also have relevance for us today.
(1 h. 29 min.)

NISHIKUBO Mizuho

[2014 / Animated feature film / 18th Animation Division Excellence Award]

The setting is 1945 on Shikotan, a tiny island off the cost of Hokkaido, which has remained virtually untouched by the rage of war. There innocently live ten-year-old Junpei and his seven-year-old Kanta. But with Japan’s defeat on August 15th, great change comes to their lives. While everybody on the island is expecting American troops to arrive anytime, it is the Red Army that Island on Shikotan instead. Before they know it, the national borders have changed and for the Japanese community, a new life with the Soviet citizens who have moved onto the island begins. The film follows the absurdity and tragedy of war through Junpei’s eyes, depicting friendship among children blossoming beyond language and cultural barriers. Based on true events, this animated feature film was made by an international team including people from Japan. Russia, Argentina, South Korea, Estonia, United States and Italy.
(1 h. 41 min.)

[2016 / Animated feature film]

KATABUCHI Sunao

[Excellence award winner at 14th Animation Division and artist selected at 5th Jury selection]

In This Corner of the World tells the story of the adolescent Suzu, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima to live with her husband’s family. Suzu’s life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II. Her perseverance and courage, however, underpin this heart-warming and inspirational tale of the everyday challenges faced by the Japanese in the midst of a violent, war-torn country.
(2 h. 9 min.)

SHINKAI Makoto

[2013 / Animated feature film / 17th Animation Division Jury Selection]

One rainy day Takao, a high school student aiming to become a shoemaker, encounters Yukino, an enigmatic older girl, drinking a can of beer alone in Japanese garden. Without commitment, they continue to meet only on rainy days, gradually forming a bond… With modern-day Tokyo as its stage, this is a subtle drama telling a tale with an expressive style only achievable through animation.
(46 min. 2 sec.)