Report on exhibition at Tsukuba Media Art Festival 2015
The works of Prof. Hiroo Iwata, Project Leader of the Ph.D. Program in Empowerment Informatics (EMP), and four EMP students (first-year student Takeshi Ozu and third-year students Aisen Carolina Chacin, Masa Jazbec, and Floris Marc Arden Erich) were exhibited at the Tsukuba Media Art Festival 2015, held November 28-December 6, 2015 by the city of Tsukuba at the Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki.
The opening ceremony held on the 28th included remarks from the deputy mayor and Prof. Hiroo Iwata, as representative of the exhibitors. Next, Prof. Iwata introduced the exhibitors and guided attendees around the exhibits, and each of the four EMP students also explained his or her own work and demonstrated it. In addition, EMP faculty member Assistant Professor Fumiaki Murakami described each of the artistic works on exhibit.
Festival attendees young and old could be observed enjoying themselves at the festival, which provided the opportunity to experience freely the surprises and impressions of works of art created using the new science and technology of media art.
Prof. Iwata describes the exhibits
Prof. Iwata explains his work “Big Robot”
Students Chacin and Ozu explain their work “IrukaTact”
Chacin explains “Echolocation Headphones” to attendees
tudents Jazbec and Erich describe their work “idMirror”
Ozu’s work “Negeruisu
Assistant Prof. Murakami describes the artistic works