JMAF 2008

japanese media arts festival @ singapore art museum.

went on friday with gecko and insane on a sudden whim, since it was the last possible day to go without having to pay $1.50 to get in.

it was ... interesting.

for those who haven't even seen the ad on tv, go here.

we ended up viewing the exhibits in a screwed-up order, jumping from zone to zone (and skipping the exhibits that were too cheem).
some of them are super fun/cool, especially the interactive and high-tech ones! i've never played with high-tech art before.
there was also one on the first gundam series, and there were shelves of manga (including FMA) which no one seemed to dare to touch. XD
also, PSPs and Wiis with different games!
in the end, though, we spent most of the time watching the animation short clips.

listed below are the stuff we watched!
"49" by Iwano Ichiro
"Birthday" by Hanzaki Toshiaki
"BLOCKMAN" by Murrakoshi Youhei
"BONEHEADS" by Chida Hiroshi
"Burning Safari" by Team Burning Safari, Gobelins
"HOW TO COOK BREAKFAST?" by Yamazaki Ryoko
"LOST UTOPIA" by Mizue Mirai
"Love Rollercoaster" by Horie Hiromasa - we left to go see the other exhibits when this started and when we returned, this was playing. miraculously, we returned after the whole sequence of videos looped once! :D
"THE CLOCKWORK CITY" by Kato Ryu
"Magnetic UFO" by Nishimi Shojiro
"A Tale of Carefree King" by Misumi Yoshiko

the video system shut down in the middle of "A Tale of Carefree King" at 9.00pm sharp. D: then the guard started to shoo people out. we spent 2 hours there but i think it's possible to play with the exhibits all day! especially with all the consoles and manga around.


i really like BLOCKMAN, by this ungoogleable Murakoshi Youhei. it's so simple and so amazing.

it's about a cube planet in the middle of space (seen through a telescope) made of small cubes and the cubes come together to make cute shapes that move/fly/roll/wriggle around on the cube. but i like the back where they all burst into small cubes and drift away. like ... very pretty apocalypse.
also "THE CLOCKWORK CITY" took up 25 minutes of our precious time, but i remember that the music sounded a bit like ajikan's. (like the start of 或る街の群青 on a 25-minute loop.) :D
most of them are cute! i want to see all of them!!!
but most of them are also ungoogleable. don't know what the artists have been doing.


for a feel of things, i give you this!

"Dice" by Akayama Hitoshi.

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Monday, December 15, 2008 3:44 PM