Prix Ars Electronica Winners 1987-2009 from Japan

1987

COMPUTER ANIMATION

HONORARY MENTIONS

CG Town

Eihachiro Nakamae (JP) (*)

Ecology II: Float II

Yoichiro Kawaguchi (JP)

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Morning Glory

Naoko Motoyoshi (JP) (*)

1988

COMPUTER ANIMATION

HONORARY MENTIONS

Bau

Hiromi Watanabe (JP)(*)

1989

COMPUTER ANIMATION

HONORARY MENTIONS

Pibos

Motohiro Hayasaka (JP)(*)

Scenes at a Street

Eihachiro Nakamae (JP)(*)

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Desire

Atsushi Satoh (JP)(*)

1990

COMPUTER ANIMATION

HONORARY MENTIONS

A Passing Shower

Eihachiro Nakamae (JP)(*)

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Communication Dawn

Yoshiyuki Abe (JP)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Fuji

Kyoko Abe (JP)(*)

1991

COMPUTER ANIMATION

DISTINCTION

Eggy

Yoichiro Kawaguchi (JP)

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

DISTINCTION

Innocent

Yoshiyuki Abe (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Onyx on Torus

Sui Morita (JP)(*)

1992

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Legend III

Yoshiyuki Abe (JP)

1993

受賞者なし

1994

COMPUTER ANIMATION

HONORARY MENTIONS

Artificial Life Metropolis CELL

Yoichiro Kawaguchi (JP)

Rhapsody in Light and Blue

Hideo Yamashita (JP)(*), Eihachiro Nakamae (JP)(*)

Ab Ovo

Akemi Ishijima (JP)

1995

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Interface / Eros III IZUTU

Mihoko Kosugi (JP), Asuhiko Ando (JP)

1996

INTERACTIVE ART

GOLDEN NICA

Global Interior Project

Masaki Fujihata (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Inter Dis-Communication Machine

Kazuhiko Hachiya (JP)

Cross-active System

Hiroo Iwata (JP)(*)

Three Men Three Legs

Nobuya Suzuki (JP)

WORLD WIDE WEB

HONORARY MENTIONS

Global Clock Project

Masaki Fujihata (JP)

1997

.NET

GOLDEN NICA

Sensorium

Taos Project (JP)

Ocean Walk

Ryoichiro Debuchi (JP)(*)

COMPUTER ANIMATION

HONORARY MENTIONS

Sakuratei

Taku Kimura (JP)(*)

INTERACTIVE ART

GOLDEN NICA

Music Plays Images X Images Play Music

Ryuichi Sakamoto (JP), Toshio Iwai (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Seeing is Believing

Kazuhiko Hachiya (JP)

Moppet

Toshihiro Anzai (JP), Tamio Kihara (JP)(*)

1998

.NET

DISTINCTION

Post Pet

Kazuhiko Hachiya (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Net Rezonator

Koji Ito (JP)(*)

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

DISTINCTION

Runners

Kazuma Morino (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Ellipsoid

Nobuo Takahashi (JP)(*)

Zaijian

Nobuta Ochiao (JP)(*)

Pinka

Kaori Saito (JP)(*)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Audible Distance

Akitsugu Maebayashi (JP)

1999

.NET

HONORARY MENTIONS

Ginga

Fumio Matsumoto (JP)(*), Shohei Matsukawa (JP)(*)

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Polygon Family

Jun Asakawa (JP)(*), Polygon Pictures (*), Toshifumi Kawahara (JP)(*)

The Fly Band!

Polygon Pictures , Seiji Shiota (JP)(*), Tohru Patrick Awa (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

DISTINCTION

Birthday

Ikue Mori (JP)(*)

HONORARY&? MENTIONS

Metabolic Speed Perception

Zbigniew Karkowski (PL) (*), Masami Akita (JP)(*)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Sound Creatures

Kouichirou Eto (JP), Canon ArtLab (JP)

2000

.NET

HONORARY MENTIONS

@2000

Ichiro Aikawa (JP)(*)

Discoder

Kensuke Sembo (JP), Yae Akaiwa (JP), exonemo (JP)

Network Communicate Kaleidoscope

Kazushi Mukaiyama (JP)

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

DISTINCTION

Zen

Yasuo Ohba (JP)(*)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Loop

Makoto Sugawara (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

0°C

Ryoji Ikeda (JP)

Wounded Man'yo 2/2000

Yasunao Tone (JP)(*)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Unconscious Flow

Naoko Tosa (JP)(*)

Watashi-chan

Tomoko Ueyama (JP)

RoboCup

Hiroaki Kitano (JP)

2001

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

GOLDEN NICA

Matrix

Ryoji Ikeda (JP)

INTERACTIVE ART

GOLDEN NICA

polar

Carsten Nicolai (DE), Marko Peljhan (SL) キャノンアートラボと制作

DISTINCTION

Remain in Light

Haruki Nishijima (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Floating Eye

Hiroo Iwata (JP)(*)

Rakugaki

Keiko Takahashi (JP)(*), Shinji Sasada (JP)(*), Koichi Nishi (JP)(*)

NET VISION / NET EXCELLENCE

DISTINCTION

Phantasy Star Online

Sonic Team (JP)(*)

ImaHima

Neeraj Jhanji (JP / IN) (*)

2002

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Polygon Family: Episode 2

Hiroshi Chida (JP)(*)

Kikumana

Yasuhiro Yoshiura (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

GOLDEN NICA

Man'yo Wounded 2001

Yasunao Tone (JP)(*)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

PLX - parallax of the game

Ryota Kuwakubo (JP)

Rez

Tetsuya Mizuguchi (JP)(*), United Game Artists

Globe-Jungle Project

Yasuhiro Suzuki (JP), NHK Digital Stadium

Global String

Atau Tanaka (JP)

2003

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

DISTINCTION

Atama Yama ("Mt. Head")

Koji Yamamura (JP)(*)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Justice Runners

Satoshi Tomioka (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

GOLDEN NICA

astro twin / cosmos

Ami Yoshida (JP), Utah Kawasaki (JP) , Sachiko M (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Journal de Tokyo

Yuko Nexus 6 (JP)

Hard ni sasete

Tujiko Noriko (JP)(*)

pieces of air

Toshiya Tsunoda (JP)

Foldings

Toshimaru Nakamura (JP), Taku Sugimoto (JP), Tetuzi Akiyama (JP)

INTERACTIVE ART

DISTINCTION

Tsukuba Series

Maywa Denki (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Block Jam

Henry Newton-Dunn (JP)(*), Hiroaki Nakano (JP)(*), James Gibson (JP), Ryota Kuwakubo (JP)

Hyperscratch

Haruo Ishii (JP)(*)

Streetscape

Iori Nakai (JP)

NET VISION / NET EXCELLENCE

HONORARY MENTIONS

Flow

Wiggle (JP)(*)

Sinplex Show

Shinya Yamamoto (JP)(*)

2004

[the next idea]

ART AND TECHNOLOGY GRANT

moony

Akio Kamisato (JP), Satoshi Shibata (JP), Takehisa Mashimo (JP)

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Microcosm

Joe Takayama (JP)(*)

Onimusha 3

Mikitaka Kurasawa (JP)(*), Takashi Yamazaki (JP)(*)

Winning Eleven Tactis

Morio Kishida (JP)(*) , Yoshihiko Dai (JP)(*), Hiroshi Chida (JP)(*)

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES

DISTINCTION

Open-Clothes - 6 billion ways of producing fashion for 6 billion people

Open Clothes (*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Phantom Orchard

Ikue Mori (JP)(*)

The Sine Wave Orchestra Static

Ken Furudate (JP), Jo Kazuhiro (JP), Daisuke Ishida (JP), Mizuki Noguchi (JP), Sine Wave Orchestra (JP)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

1000 Deathclock in Paris

Tatsuo Miyajima (JP)(*), Hajime Tachibana (JP)

2005

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

HONORARY MENTIONS

KASHIKOKIMONO

Takahiro Hayakawa (JP)

Tokyo City

Yusuke Koyanagi (JP)(*)

Monotreme

Koji Yamada (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Stereo Bugscope

Haruko Mizoguchi (JP)(*)

DoraVideo

Yoshimitsu Ichiraku (JP)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

gravicells

Mikami Seiko (JP), Ichikawa Sota (JP)

Bondage

Atau Tanaka (JP)

NET VISION

DISTINCTION

Yugop.com

Yugo Nakamura (JP)(*)

HONORARY MENTIONS

NetROBOt NetAibo Project

NetROBOt Team

2006

COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS

DISTINCTION

Negadon: The Monster From Mars

Jun Awazu (JP)(*)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek

Shuhei Morita (JP)(*), Daisuke Sajiki (JP)(*), Yamatoworks (JP)(*)

Shinsatsu-Shitsu (Consultation Room)

Kei Oyama (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

february sessions

Yoshihisa Suzuki (JP), Kensuke Tobitani (JP), Satoshi Fukushima (JP)　Mimiz

Zap Meemees

Satanicpornocultshop (JP)(*), *Es , Lisa , Vinylman , Ugh , Liftman , Frosen Pine & Meu

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

The Khronos Projecto

Alvaro Cassinelli (JP)(*)

S.U.I.

Ryota Kimura (JP)

Vexations

Yuko Mohri (JP), Soichiro Mihara (JP)

NET VISION

GOLDEN NICA

The Road Movie

exonemo (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

COLORS Project

h.o (JP)(*), Hide Ogawa (JP)(*)

2007

COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFX

HONORARY MENTIONS

Lost Odyssey Opening Cinematics

Mikitaka Kurasawa (JP)(*),Hironobu Sakaguchi (JP)(*)

Renkan

Nobuo Takahashi (JP)(*)

DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART

GOLDEN NICA

Reverse-Simulation Music

Masahiro Miwa (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

filmachine / filmachine phonics

Keiichiro Shibuya (JP), Takashi Ikegami (JP)

HYBRID ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

public conVENience

Tabaimo (JP)(*)

Unreflective Mirror

Masaki Fujihata (JP)

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Freqtric Project

Tetsuaki Baba (JP)(*)

White Lives on Speaker

Yoshimasa Kato (JP) , Yuichi Ito (JP)

2008

COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFX

DISTINCTION

Kudan

Taku Kimura (JP)(*) / Links DigiWorks inc. (*)

INTERACTIVE ART

DISTINCTION

a plaything for the great observers at rest

Norimichi Hirakawa (JP)

HONORARY MENTIONS

Optical Tone

Tsutomu Mutoh (JP)(*)http://mutoh.imrf.or.jp

Extended Cognitive Tools

Jun Fujiki (JP)(*)http://imp.ossible.jp/fujiki/applications_e.html

It’s fire, you can touch it

Yoko Ishii (JP)(*), Hiroshi Homura (JP)(*)

HYBRID ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

"Call <-> Response"

tEnt (Hiroya Tanaka + Macoto Cuhara) (JP)(*)http://www.tent-info.com/

Thinking Machine

Martin Riches (DE/GB), Masahiro Miwa (JP)http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~mmiwa/

DIGITAL MUSICS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Klangkapsel / Sound Capsule

Satoshi Morita (JP) http:www.sonicspacelabs.com

breath strati

Yasuno Miyauchi (JP)

d.v.d

Itoken, Jimanica, Ymg (JP)(*)http://www.dvd-3.com/

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES

HONORARY MENTIONS

Nico Nico Douga

http://www.nicovideo.jp

FFFFOUND!

http://ffffound.com

2009

[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant

GOLDEN NICA

Open_Sailing_Crew
https://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/about/about---japanese

HONORARY MENTIONS

Toaster to understand today's weather

Tatsuya Narita (JP) (*)http://www.cutarena.com/

DIGITAL MUSICS

HONORARY MENTIONS

Le Tombeau de Freddie / L' Internationale

Formant Brothers (JP) http://web.mac.com/nsakonda/

Jamming Gear

So Kanno, Kenichiro Saigo (JP)

HYBRID ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

Common Flowers - Flower Commons

BCL / Georg Tremmel (AT), Shiho Fukuhara (JP)http://www.common-flowers.org

Corpora in Si(gh)te

Sota Ichikawa (JP), Max Rheiner (CH ), Akos Maroy (HU) ,Kaoru Kobata (JP), Satoru Higa (JP), Hajime Narukawa (JP), / doubleNegatives Architecture http://doubleNegatives.jp

INTERACTIVE ART

HONORARY MENTIONS

The Physical Value of Sound

Yuri Suzuki (JP) (*) http://www.yurisuzuki.com

Watch Me!

Yasushi Noguchi, Hideyuki Ando (JP) (*)
http://r-dimension.xsrv.jp/projects_e/watch_me/