Japan Media Arts Festival

Art – Entertainment – Animation - Manga

Japan Media Arts Festival, established in 1997, is a unique and original festival from Japan, which includes different categories such as Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. The Festival's main mission is to provide opportunities by bringing new works of excellence into the field of the media arts, fostering and inspiring the process of creativity.

The Japan Media Arts Festival exhibition organized in Istanbul for the first time at Pera Museum focused on two specific aspects of media arts: the Creative Mind and the Narrative Mind. The exhibition catalogue explores these two aspects through award-winning works from past Japan Media Arts Festival exhibitions as well as more recent works. With this catalogue, Pera Museum brings together creative works by Japanese artists that fuse technology and expression in the most extraordinary styles.

Date of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 130
ISBN: 978-975-9123-76-5

7 Foreword
Suna, İnan & İpek Kıraç

8 Foreword
KONDO Seiichi
Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan

9 Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo

16 Mono and Art – A look at Media Arts through Traditional Japanese Culture
Kusahara Machiko

20 Creative Mind

48 Narrative Mind

50 Manga

66 Animation

96 Game

104 Short Videos

127 Japan Media Art Festival Exhibitions in Other Countries

128 The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival 2010

130 The 13th Japan Media Arts Festival 2009