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1minute Projection Mapping Competition

Competition Page	12th 1minute Projection Mapping Competition
Date	2023/9/14 (Sat) ～ 2023/9/16 (Mon)
Venue	Meiji Jingu Gaien Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (1-1 Kasumigaoka-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Access	http://1minute-pm.com/en/access/
Program	During the Projection Mapping International Competition works from all over the world have been strictly judged and the 18 finalist works that have passed the first judgement will be projected.
Projection Time	【September 14th (Sat)】 Open 18:00 1st Session Start 18:30 / End 19:20 2nd Session Start 20:00 / End 20:50 【September 15th (Sun)】 Open 18:00 1st Session Start 18:30 / End 19:20 2nd Session Start 20:00 / End 20:50 【September 16th (Mon)】 Open 18:00 1st Session Start 19:00 / End 20:50 (Award Ceremony)
Admission Fee	※ Application available from the page below. Please wait for a while until it is released. https://tokyolights.jp/en/

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Henry Sugiyama
Harry Sugiyama
Born in Tokyo and raised in the UK, Harry Sugiyama is a multilingual talent fluent in Japanese, English, Chinese, and French. He is active in various roles including host, reporter, model, and actor. In 2023, he was appointed as a “Tokyo Tourism Ambassador” by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
His notable appearances include numerous programs such as CX’s “Nonstop!”, TX’s “Tokyo GOOD!”, NHK BS’s “Ransuma Club”, BS11’s “World Fight CLIP!”, and JWAVE’s “POP OF THE WORLD”, among many others.

Works

◆Finalists Works
※Title of work / Name of creator（Country）

縁 -en- / BBCDesign（Japan）

Kairos / OOOPStudio （Italy）

Fictions / RodarStudio （Chile）

Beyond the Light / AOTOO（China）

“Water Mirror” / Eloi Février（France）

Reflections of Possibility / Svitlana Reinish（Ukraine）

Polarhythm / C.L.V.X（Indonesia）

A Hundred Times / Photonic Tonic（Mexico）

Real Eyes. Realise. Real Lies. / Dreamcatcher Studios（India）

Reflections Between Realms / VLOOPY（Romania）

Title: Reflections: A Tale in the Mirror / Kajiken（Japan）

Eternity / Ari Dykier（Poland）

REFRACTION³ / ruestungsschmie.de（Germany）

Room 808 / Kentaro Tanaka（Japan）

ECHO / Elektrick.me（Bulgaria）

Clone / Wong（China）

Mindflection / St.Frax（Italy）

Reflective Ascension / Machineast（Malaysia & Indonesia）

◆Guest Works

RADIANT / Filip Roca（Spain）

En Garde Avant Garde / Vali Chincișan（Rumania）

Jury

Michiyuki Ishita（Japan）
Representative of Projection Mapping Association of Japan, President of Colors Creation Co.Ltd.
He has been active both in Japan and abroad as an artist who creates spatial effects using images as light.
In 2011, he established the Projection Mapping Association of Japan and has been involved in one of the world’s largest international projection mapping competitions and various other projects. As a creative director and producer with an artistic perspective, he has created many one-of-a-kind projects and is a leading international figure who has been invited to produce, lecture, and serve as a judge for many international festivals and national projects overseas.。

Filip Roca （Spain）
Filip Roca is an independent digital artist known for his highly visually stimulating video-mapping artworks. Based between Barcelona and Lisbon, he spent over a decade working in animation, motion graphics, and art direction. In 2015, he began to work on his personal projects, focusing on architectural video projections, projection mapping, and live generative visuals.
Since then his work has been presented worldwide, he created artworks for festivals and institutions like Signal Festival, Fete des Lumieres Lyon, Illuminate Adelaide, Intervals, Thyssen Bornemisza Madrid, Noor Riyadh, Wonderspaces, Fjord Oslo, Genius Loci Weimar, iMapp, Krug Sveta Moscow, Night Lights, Sharjah Light Festival, Constellations de Metz, Video Mapping Festival Lille… During these years, he collaborated and worked with collectives and artists like Animalux, The Macula, Hyperbinary, Bordos Artworks, and Tigrelab.

Vali Chincișan（Rumania）
Vali Chincișan is a multimedia artist specializing in videomapping, known for his works that blend innovative technology with rich cultural narratives. His art transcends traditional boundaries, integrating elements of light, sound, and visual storytelling to create immersive experiences.
Vali Chincișan has garnered international recognition and numerous awards for his creative prowess.
In 2023 alone, he secured first prizes at prestigious festivals in Dublin, Tokyo, and Weimar, demonstrating his ability to resonate with diverse audiences across the globe. His piece “Astral Pathways” won the first prize at the Dublin Winter Lights, while “Ancient Link” took top honors at the 1minute Festivalin Tokyo.
Additionally, his work “Simetry Unveiled” was celebrated as one of the top three at Genius Loci Weimar. Throughout his career, Vali Chincișan has consistently pushed the boundaries of videomapping. His projects often explore themes of connectivity and transformation, reflected in works like “Life is Eryfg” and “Urban Tree,” which have been acclaimed in Brazil and Spain, respectively.。

Antoine Manier（France）
Director, Rencontres Audiovisuelles

Antoine Manier developed a passion for audiovisual creation at the age of 11, carrying out all kinds of experiments with the family camcorder. The production of several short films led him to a love of cinema, then to an audiovisual high school. He continued to direct and discovered amateur video festivals where he received several awards.

With his baccalaureate in hand, he created the Rencontres Audiovisuelles association in 1998, with the aim of producing and distributing short films; he then began to travel the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region (North of France) with a video projector under his arm to present short film programs.
In 2001, he created the “Rencontres Audiovisuelles” festival, dedicated to digital creation, integrating short film sessions, conferences and audiovisual workshops. The success of the event made it possible to perpetuate the event, which would become the International Short Film Festival from 2004.
Since the beginning of the 2000s, Antoine Manier has been interested in new images and regularly programs VJing, performances, interactive forms, the beginnings of web creation, etc.
In 2002, he created Ciné Soupe, an awareness program for traveling short films in the north french region, supplemented by image education workshops.

Mariko NISHIMURA (Japan)
She started her career as an IT engineer at IBM Japan, where she obtained a patent for global language search taxonomy. Later, she worked as a Field Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems. In 2011, she joined the creative company Bascule as a producer, winning a Cannes Lions Gold Award. She co-founded HEART CATCH Inc. in 2014 and HEART CATCH LA in 2020. Leveraging her tech and creative career, she engages in new business projects, supports startups in Japan and the U.S., and contributes as a J-Startup supporter.

She serves on various committees, including the Japan Open Innovation Awards, organized by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and the Digital Agency’s Web3 research group DAO “Dig DAO.” She’s an instructor at the Art Thinking Collective in Paris, a Forbes Japan columnist, Visiting Professor at Musashino Art University, and a fellow of Hamamatsu and Shizuoka Prefecture.

Tom Kawada (Japan)
AR Three Brothers.
After working for a manufacturer during 10 years in patent development, in 2009 he became the eldest of the development unit AR Three Brothers. He develop his skills into all areas, from entertainment to art, from space to time, from the Roppongi Hills to Nihonbashi.
He is currently broadcasting J-WAVE’s radio show “INNOVATION WORLD” and the development documentary “The Wonderful World of the AR Three Brothers” (AR Sankyodai no Subarashiki kono Sekai) is sometimes broadcasted on the channel BS Fuji. He is currently serializing at the end of a magazine in WIRED, and his books include “Augmented Reality” and “The Proposal of the AR Three Brothers.”。

Keisuke Toyoda（Japan）
Keisuke Toyoda
Project Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, NOIZ, gluon

Born in 1972, Chiba, Japan. Work experience included Tadao Ando Architect & Associates (1996- 2000), SHoP Architects (2002-2006, New York). He founded NOIZ with Jia-Shuan Tsai in 2007, based in both Tokyo and Taipei. Kosuke Sakai has joined since 2016 as a partner. In 2017, he and Mitsuhiro Kaneda founded gluon, a cross-regional platform with the theme of “Architecture/Urbanism x Tech x Business”. He served as an advisor for EXPO 2025 OSAKA venue design for bidding (2017-2018). He founded and now serves as a vice chairman for Architectural Informatics Society (2020-) and advisor for Osaka Common Ground Living Lab (2020-). Founding Director of Metaverse Japan (from 2022-).He has joined the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo as Visiting Professor in 2020.

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