The jury has been selected! Introducing the 8 members of the jury consisting of domestic and international experts!
2022.9.14
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)
As a creative director, producer, curator and consultant, he has over 30 years of experience in directing festivals and large-scale events. He has directed and contributed to major events and programs 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 over 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 Gifu City, 1958. He received the Grand Prix at the 3rd Japan Graphic Exhibition in 1982, the Grand Prize at the 30th ADC Award in 1983, the Grand Prize at the 1986 Sydney Biennale, the Grand Prize at the 1995 Venice Biennale, the Grand Prix at the Mainichi Design Award in 1999, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize at the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2015, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize at the Art Encouragement Division of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2015. He has been a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts since 2007. On April 1 of this year, he was appointed President of Tokyo University of the Arts. Other major 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 reinterpreting and combining familiar phenomena and materials from different perspectives. Rather than aiming for rich expressions such as high resolution and high realism, he focuses 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 works in a variety of fields.
◆ MELISSA WEIGEL｜Moment Factory (Canada)
Melissa has been with Moment Factory since its inception and is the Creative Director of the company, As Creative Director, Melissa has worked on projects ranging from underground club scenes to some of the world's biggest shows and events. She specializes in immersive multimedia design and entertainment, combining 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, 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 judge 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 shared human emotion and empathy. He has been attempting 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 that won the Grand Prix in the previous competition. Founded by two friends from school days, Fajar Kurnia (visual artist) and Rafiko Linga (animator). THE FOX, THE FOLKS' characteristic 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 Projection Mapping Association, Representative Director of Color's 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, and jury member. He has become a world-renowned expert on projection mapping.
