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With the aim to illustrate how the creative elements could help in making winter pleasant and enjoyable, Sapporo, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in Japan organized three artistic events based on the theme ‘winter art’ from 1 February to 11 February.
These events included Sapporo Winter Change, a programme initiated in February 2019, aimed at encouraging interaction and exchange between artists, promoters and visitors. This year the city used media information in recreating virtual experiences using GPS data and virtual reality....
New residents have arrived in Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio in January.
François Lemieux (Toronto, Canada), Constance Hinfray (Linz, Austria), Elise Eeraet (Belgium), and Madhu Das (India) will stay in the city over a period of two months.
François Lemieux and Constance Hinfray were selected through a specific call targeted at artists with strong connections to one of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Media Arts. As part of the residence programme, the invited artists, as well as the selection committee formed of Japanese artists SHIMABUKU,...
On the first week of February 2019, three art events celebrating winter will be held simultaneously under the common theme of "winter art" in Sapporo, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in Japan.
These events will include Sapporo WInterChange, a new programme that begins at Sapporo Community Plaza, a general cultural facility opened in October 2018, to encourage interaction and exchange between artists, art event promotors and visitors. This programme is collaborating with the Sapporo Icicle Festival 2019, and the snow and light event Sapporo...
From 10 to 14 October, Sapporo, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in Japan, will be hosting the 2018 edition of No Maps. Sapporo Creative Convention No Maps is an event that seeks to cross borders between media arts, music, film, education, urban development, with the aim to draw new ideas for social experiment in Sapporo and Hokkaido.
The Convention targets every and all people who are actively engaged in building the society of tomorrow, through creative ideas and new technology. Several experiments, conferences, exhibitions and meet-ups...
Since 13 September until 21 October, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, together with the City of Sapporo, invite artists in the field of media arts and visual arts to take part in an open call for its winter residency program.
Four selected artists will stay 60 days at the municipal facility for artist in residence from 5 January to 5 March 2019. In their encounters with culture in Sapporo as well as exchange with locals, artists will be invited to develop and explore their ideas through work based on the theme “Winter, Snow, and the Subarctic...
From 2 to 11 February 2018, a new edition of Yukiterrace is taking place in the Creative City of Media Arts of Sapporo, Japan. This year, the event dedicated to combining the power of media arts and the suggestive nature of the city’s winter, is expanding its horizon through a partnership with Linz, the Austrian Creative City of Media Arts.
Sapporo has developed an artistic synergy with the City of Linz and Ars Electronica to foster the link between creativity, media arts and public space through international cooperation in the framework of...
From 5 to 15 October, the Creative City of Media Arts of Sapporo, Japan, has hosted another edition of No Maps, the Japanese creative convention, designed to create new business opportunities from the intersection of cutting edge technologies and to explore the interconnectivity of creative forms.
The worlds of film, music and artificial intelligence having today become borderless; No Maps 2017 has explored new uncharted territories in creative forms, practices and expressions. Through competitions, exhibitions conferences, workshops, short...
Since last 6 August until 1 October 2017, the second edition of Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF) is held in the Creative City of Media Arts. Triennial festival, incepted in 2014, is a unique example uniting not only contemporary art but also design, music and television. Various forms of expression are integrated into this festival including performances, scenic events and projects including the participation of inhabitants.
The multiple venues where the festival takes place allows experiencing the main features of Sapporo, namely...
From 16 to 19 February, Sapporo, a Creative City of Media Arts, is holding an outdoor exhibition displaying the work of the emerging media artist Norimichi Hirakawa, at Moerenuma Park, which will be hosting the 2017 Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF) in a few months. Entitled “Datum”, the art installation brings city dwellers to multi-dimensional experience through a skillful calculation of images and sounds.
In parallel of the exhibition, Akihiro Kubota, Director of ARTSAT x SIAF Lab, will give a lecture on “Media...
From 4 to 12 February, Sapporo joins forces with fellow Creative City of Media Arts Gwangju to bring a multi-media snow experience to one of the city’s main squares. Five distinct artistic installations greet city dwellers, housed inside igloos on the background of the transfigured snowy white of Sapporo Kita 3-jo Plaza “Akapla.”
With the support of the Gwangju Cultural Foundation, artist Seung-Chan Gwon’s work is on display, which visitors can take in while keeping warm over a hot drink from the newly-added ice bar....