Eight judges for the 2022 1minute Projection Mapping Competition have been selected!

This year, eminent experts in the fields of art, visual production, and large-scale festivals from Japan, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, and other countries will gather to judge the competition from a strict and international perspective and select the Grand Prix and other prizes.

◆ Gill Minervini(Australia)

Creative director, producer, curator, and consultant with over 30 years of experience directing festivals and large-scale events.
Major events such as the Lunar New Year Festival, the largest Chinese New Year celebration outside of China; Art & About Sydney, an international public art festival; and Sydney's Christmas Celebration, which attracts more than 2 million people annually In March 2021, he was appointed Festival Director of Vivid Sydney, where he directed the 2022 festival, attracting more than 2.5 million visitors.

Katsuhiko Hibino(Japan)

Born in 1958 in Gifu City. Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts.
1982 Grand Prize at the 3rd Japan Graphic Exhibition
1983 30th ADC Award, Grand Prize 1986 Biennale of Sydney
Exhibited at the 1995 Venice Biennale.
In 1999, he won the Mainichi Design Award Grand Prix,
Awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize, Art Encouragement Category, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2015
Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts since 2007.

On April 1 of this year, he was appointed President of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Other key positions include Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Director of the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, and Chairman of the Social Contribution Committee of the Japan Football Association.

Daito Manabe(Japan)

Artist, programmer, DJ. Established Rhizomatiks in 2006.
He creates works by rethinking and combining familiar phenomena and materials from different perspectives.
Rather than aiming for rich expressions such as high resolution and high realism, they focus on the intrinsic interest of phenomena, the body, programming, and computers themselves, which can be discovered through careful observation, and on the relationship and boundaries between analog and digital, real and virtual, and are active in various fields.

◆ MELISSA WEIGEL｜Moment Factory (Canada)

Moment Factory, a multimedia entertainment studio based in Montreal, Canada, integrates various disciplines such as video, lighting, architecture, sound, and special effects to create memorable experiences.
Since founding Moment Factory, Melissa has worked as Creative Director on projects ranging from the underground club scene to some of the world's biggest shows and events. Specializing in immersive multimedia design and entertainment, Melissa has fused live performance with digital art.

◆ YURI KOSTENKO (Ukraine)

Co-founder and CEO of Front Pictures, a creative studio that provides immersive experiences and video technology for stages, museums and planetariums around the world.
Major clients include Ferrari, Mercedes, LG, Coca-Cola, MasterCard, Eurovision Song Contest, and America's Got Talent.
In 2017, he co-founded Kyiv Lights Festival, Ukraine's largest outdoor festival of light and media art. As a member of the community promoting immersive media entertainment, he is a frequent speaker and juror at events and festivals around the world.

Haruka Furuya(Japan)

He is involved in comprehensive productions that fuse the body, space, and technology around the theme of common human emotion and empathy.
He has been trying to "implement imagination into society" in various fields such as experience design integrating real and virtual, direction of advertisements, educational programs, playground equipment, and music video production. He has directed "Taiga Drama Onna Jôshu Naotora," "TWICE Dome Tour," etc.

THE FOX, THE FOLKS(Indonesia)

A multimedia team based in Bandung, Indonesia, which won the Grand Prix in the previous competition.
THE FOX, THE FOLKS was founded by Fajar Kurnia (visual artist) and Rafiko Linga (animator), who have been friends since their student days. THE FOX, THE FOLKS' signature style of pursuing "2D style" and "storytelling" has led them to work on a wide variety of animation projects, including music videos, advertisements, and projection mapping, both in Japan and abroad. With their fresh visuals, they aim to tell stories that everyone can enjoy.

Michiyuki Ishita (Japan)

（Representative of the Projection Mapping Association, Representative Director of Colors Creation Inc. and NIGHT WAVE Inc.
He is widely active in Japan and abroad as an artist who perceives images as light and expresses space dynamically and fantastically. He has been involved in many unique projects as a producer and director with an artist's perspective, and has been invited to participate in international projection mapping competitions since 2012, as well as international festivals and national projects overseas, as a production commissioner, lecturer, judge, etc. He has become a world-renowned expert on projection mapping.