A record number of visitors attended the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival held in The National Art Center, Tokyo, in February. The 12 day festival was launched in 1997, to promote the creation and development of media arts. This years festival received more than 2,500 works from 54 countries, about 180 award-winning works and jury-recommended works. The festival highlights four art divisions including media based art, entertainment, animation and manga.
- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
- Twitter Plaza / Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Kosuke Kawase “Bearings Glocken II”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Lawrence Malstaf “Nemo Observatorium”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Ei Wada “Braun Tube Jazz Band”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- David Bowen “growth modeling device”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland “Hibi no Neiro”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Makoto Yukimura “VINLAND SAGA”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- © Yukimura Makoto/Kodansha / “VINLAND SAGA”
- Takahiro Yamaguchi “Urbanized Typeface : Shibuya08-09″/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- Reading manga/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
- © Alvaro CASSINELLI / Alvaro CASSINELL, MANABE Daito, KURIBARA Yusaku, Alexis ZERROUG “scoreLight”
- © Junghwan Sung / Junghwan SUNG representing Mr. Lee Experiment creative team “Mr. Lee Experiment”
- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.

























