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JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2019

The Japan Media Arts Festival honors outstanding works in a wide variety of media in four categories: art, entertainment, animation and manga. This program consists of various excellent films singled out for recognition by the 2019 Japan Media Arts Festival.

VH AWARD

by Hyundai Motor Group (KR)

The VH AWARD’s purpose is to uncover promising Korean artists creating media art. It seeks to support the art-making process of these young media artists but to also help them gain international recognition. To guarantee a fair evaluation, award winners will be selected by highly celebrated curators from all around the world. In addition, the winners will have the opportunity to display their works of art through the 24.4-meter-long media wall, located at the Hyundai Motor Group University.

STUDIO FEATURE: PLATIGE IMAGE

Platige Image is an award-winning film production, VFX, animation and post-production company based in Warsaw, Poland. They work for the biggest brands in the world, the best video game publishers and some of the finest film directors. They started out as a studio composed of a dozen or so people producing mainly commercials and music videos. Gradually, they developed their team and expanded their portfolio with short films, cinematics, 3D live theatre sets, VFX for live action movies and special projects, such as museum installations.

CREATE YOUR WORLD Award Ceremony

u19-create your world

The Award Ceremony brings together all winners of this year's Prix Ars Electronica u19–create your world. The young winners are the heart of this event, because not only are their projects presented, but they also get the opportunity to pass on their own enthusiasm directly to us in a short interview. Immediately afterwards they will be awarded the respective prize.

Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Phytoteratology

Špela Petrič (SI)

Špela Petrič received an award for her three-part series Confronting Vegetal Otherness in which she deals with different forms of exchange between humans and plants. Her project Phytoteratology is a molecular performance in which plant embryos are grown in artificial wombs in lieu of seeds.