Awards and Honors
IAMAS students and faculty members receive awards every year in a variety of fields. The activities of our graduates have received increasing attention in recent years.
2017
Professors Masahiro Miwa and Shinjiro Maeda
Masahito Miwa + Shinjiro Maeda Monologue Opera “Atarashii Jidai”
the 17th Keijo Saji Award in 2017
Taro Yasuno (class of 2004)
THE MAUSOLEUM.
Art Award IN THE CUBE 2017 Genichiro Takahashi Prize
Sho Minase (class of 2012)
Demo Depo IN THE CUBE Shiten
Art Award IN THE CUBE 2017 Kiyokazu Washida prize
Takahisa Senaga (class of 2016),Yasuhiko Nishimura and Ryosuke Sone
HBD / RIP.
Live Contents Category at the third Geo Cosmos Contest Contest
Kazuo Soma (class of 2001) and Yosuke Hayashi (class of 2008)
Emotions
Live Contents Category at the third Geo Cosmos Contest Contest
Kouhei Kawasaki (class of 2004)
Singing Nature
Media Lotus Gold at ADFEST 2017
Arisa Wakami (class of 2000) (Planning?General management?Production)? and Yuichi Matsumoto (class of 2004) (Music direction)
Birth-odoruinochi
Eibunren Award 2017: Award for Excellence, Individual Award
Koichiro Shibao (class of 2004), Toshiyuki Nagashima (class of 2002) and Rina Okazawa (class of 2004)
Kashika Hougaku
Lined Open Data challenge: Award for Excellence in the Idea Category
Producer: Akikazu Takeuchi, Vice President of the Chiba Institute of Technology Software Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory Directors: Yusuke Okamura and Takeshi Iwata (class of 2008) + Kyoko Kuno of Surface&Architecture Designers: Takeshi Iwata (class of 2008) and Tomoya Makino of Surface&Architecture Hananona
2017 Good Design Award
Producer: Executuve Officer of the Digital Communication Division of Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten Co., Ltd. Director: Keita Hatakeyama of Goodpatch Inc. Designer: Takahiro Miyake (class of 2010) of Goodpatch Inc., Satori Maru, Elaine Westra, Seishi Hozuki, Yasuto Murai
Sanchi ? Explore Japan through Regional Crafts ?
2017 Good Design Award for “Crafts,” 2017 Good Design Award Best 100 Selection
Soichiro Mihara (class of 2006)
imaginary rhetoric
Prix Ars Electronica 2017 – Hybrid Art Categoru Honorable Mention
Satoshi Fukushima (class of 2004)
gladiolus white
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Installation Music Contest
Makoto Maruyama (class of 2009)
Phal. Sogo Yukidianⅰ- b、Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian – Multiple front view – b
2017 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka: Asia Digital Art Award/Fukuoka Governor’s Award/The Minister of MEXT Award
Takemi Watanuki (2nd year student)
Node Hands
2017 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka: Student Category, Grand Prize for Interactive Art
ISCA (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD) Excellence Award for Digital Contents
Kitakyushu Digital Creator Contest 2018 selection
Ayumu Nagamatsu (2nd year student)
Solid Substance Jockey
2017 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka: General Category, Prize in the video category
Junichi Kanebako (class of 2008) and Risako Ishigami
Gakki wo Matou
2017 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka: General Category, Prize in the video category
Junichi Kanebako (class of 2008), Kouta Minamizawa (in cooperations with JST-ACCEL “Shintaisei Media Project,” device design: Kazuya Yanagihara) Kanagawa Prefecture / Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
Touch the Sound Picnic
2017 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka: General Category, Prize in the entertainment (industrial application) category
Takuro Oshima (class of 2017)
PLAY A DAY
23rd Campus Genius Award, Award for Excellence in Art
Ayumu Nagamatsu (2nd year student)
Leaves
ISCA (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD) 2017: honorable mention in the Digital Contents category
Mariko Sakamoto (class of 2008)
Ishi no Koe
HAPTIC DESIGN AWARD 2017: recognized as an excellent work (selected by Tamae Hirokawa)
Created by MATHRAX (Shozo Kuze and Mariko Sakamoto)
So Kanno (class of 2009) / Yang02
Avatars
21st Japan Media Arts Festival: award for excellence in Art
“COCOLORS” Production Team Director: Toshihisa Yokoshima, CG Animartion Director: Hidehiko Ishiguro, others COCOLORS
21st Japan Media Arts Festival: award for excellence in animation
21th?Fantasia International Film Festival?Best Animation Award (short section) and?Satoshi Kon prize
Nao Tokui / Shoya Dozono (class of 2014)
AI DJ – A dialogue between AI and a human
21st Japan Media Arts Festival: commended by judges in the Art category
Taro Yasuno (class of 2004)
“Daireibyou” I+II
21st Japan Media Arts Festival: commended by judges in the Art category
The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (member Ken Furudate graduated class of 2002)
The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay, The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA in the depths and A Wave
21st Japan Media Arts Festival: commended by judges in the Art category
Taro Yasuno (class of 2004)
Daireibyou II
Honorable mention, Kitakyushu Digital Creator Contest 2018
Akihiro Kato (2nd year student)
TRUSTLESS LIFE
Judge’s prize, Hide Nakaya, Kitakyushu Digital Creator’s Contest
2016
Mitsuhito Ando (class of 2016), Kiyoshi Suganuma (class of 2009), Takayuki Ito (class of 2003), Kazuhiro Jo (lecturer at IAMAS until 2015)
Paper: “ofxEpilog: An openFrameworks addon for controlling an Epilog laser cutter”
Best Paper Award, ICDF 2016: 2nd International Conference on Digital Fabrication
Shotaro Kosaka (1st year student)
upland
Grand Prize, Tokorozawa Gakusei Eigasai
Keisuke Shimakage (class of 2016)
OTON GLASS
3rd place nationally, International Engineering Award, “11th James Dyson Award 2016”
Award for Excellence, GUGEN 2016
Selection, God Job! Award 2016
Grand Prize, Yamaha Prize, YouFab Global Creative Awards
Yukio Shinoda (2nd year student)
color2vibs
5th place nationally, International Engineering Award, “11th James Dyson Award 2016”
Yukio Shinoda (2nd year student)
Teaching Material Makers Club
Selection, Good Job! Student Award
Yukio Shinoda (2nd year student)
Teaching Material Makers Club
Selection, Good Job! Student Award
Moe Ikeda (class of 2012)
Polymelody by Unripe Dadogado
Selected work, open call for pieces, Les Pois Music Office “Mirai no Classic”
Asami Takami (2nd year student), Yusuke Gushiken (2nd year student), Ryota Goto (2nd year student), Masahiro Ichino (class of 2014), Yoshitaka Oishi (2015)
trans-floor! – play ground
Ase kaku Media Award, Art to Asobi to Kodomo wo Tsunagu Media Program 2016
Arisa Wakami (class of 2000) (planning, general supervision)
Yuichi Matsumoto (class of 2003) (music supervision)
Birth – Tsumugu Inochi
Award for Excellence in planning, JAAP International Short FIlm Festival
Grand Prize, Miyagi?Sendai Animation Grand Prix 2016
Best Director, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festical (USA)
Grand Prize, West Tokyo Film Festival
Best Female Director, Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (India)
Moe Ikeda (class of 2012)
Imaike Project
Project A selection, Open Pragram, “Open SIte 2016-2017”
Takemi Watanuki (1st year student)
A/D Clock
App Art Award 2016 Prize Nominated, 22nd Campus Genius Award
Motoki Ohkubo (class of 2016)
“’Daily Life Elsewhere’ for 4 speakers and an operator”
Nominated, 22nd Campus Genius Award
Kazuya Sano (class of 2016)
NxPC.LIVE 360°
Nominated, 22nd Campus Genius Award
Kohei Kawasaki (class of 2004)
Kit Mail Hologram
Music SPike (Gold) Prize, Music Category, Spikes Asia 2016
Tomoe Koyama (class of 2015)
Smartphone Candle
JUDGE’S PICK Selection, NHK “Techno Eizo no Kyoshitsu” Techno ID Award 2
Takemi Watanuki (1st year student)
iPod Jockey
Award for excellence, Digital Contents Category, International Students Creative Awards 2016
Scott Allen (class of 2016)
spring
Selection, The 20th Okamoto Taro Contemporary Art Award
Keisuke Shimakage (class of 2016)
Speculate Japan
Judge’s prize – Nobuaki Doi, 22nd Campus Genius Award