Japan Media Arts Festival

From 10 September to 2 October 2011 the HMKV will focus on contemporary art and pop culture from Japan: film, music, games, manga, anime, photography, contemporary art and media culture will make a up a lively and varied exhibition at Dortmunder U.

Each year the Japan Media Arts Festival attracts thousands of visitors in Tokyo with a top-class programme of vanguard media art, entertainment, anime und manga. The most ambitious and excellent works will win awards and be exhibited all over the world. After Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Vienna and Istanbul, the Dortmunder U is the next location for the 6^th Japan Media Arts Festival Overseas Exhibition. Prize-winning works of the last festival will be selected for this show. Among the prize-winners are well known artists such as Hayao Miyazaki as well as newly discovered talents like Shinya Uchida, an iPad magician. Lectures, workshops, talks, guided tours and a comprehensive film programme will complement the festival.

Opening: 9 September 2011

Art
HIRAKAWA Norimichi / QUE Houxo, KUROKAWA Ryoichi, KUWAKUBO Ryota, MIYAMOTO Naotaka, ONISHI Yasuaki, SHINTSUBO Kenshu, SHINTSUBO Kenshu / IKEGAMI Takashi, UKAWA Naohiro

Entertainment
FUJIKI Jun / SUZUTA Ken / SUZUKI Tatsuya, HAYASHI Tomohiko / SENBO Kensuke / KOYAMA Tomohiko, MASE Jitsuro / NAGAE Tom, MIYAWAKI Osamu, MIZUGUCHI Tetsuya, NAKAMURA Haruki, UCHIDA Shinya

Manga
AZUMA Kiyohiko, INOUE Takehiko, IWAAKI Hitoshi, YAMADA Yoshihiro, YAMAMOTO Naoki, YOSHINAGA Fumi, Nichimandoku

Animation
ANNO Hideaki, HARA Keiichi, HOSODA Mamoru, ISO Mitsuo, KOIKE Takeshi, MIYAZAKI Hayao, OSHII Mamoru, SHINKAI Makoto, TANIGAWA Nagaru / ISHIHARA Tatsuya, YUASA Masaaki

Concert
sasakure.UK feat. Hatsune Miku, Momoiro Clover Z

Curated by:
Stefan Riekeles (Les Jardins des Pilotes, Berlin)

Organisiert von:
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund

Schirmherrschaft:
Japanese Consulate General, Düsseldorf

In Kooperation mit:
Japanisches Kulturinstitut
Goethe-Institut Japan
150 Jahre Freundschaft Deutschland–Japan
NHK International