Matt Kenyon: Tardigotchi Awarded at Japan Media Arts Festival

A&D Associate Professor Matt Kenyon’s ​“Tardigotchi” has been selected as a Jury Selection work for the 15^th Japan Media Arts Festival at National Art Center, Tokyo. The Agency for Cultural Affairs has been organizing the Japan Media Arts Festival annually since 1997, with the aim of promoting the creation and development of media arts (comics, animation, game and media art.) The Japan Media Arts Festival now accepts entries worldwide and awards prizes for outstanding creative works in four divisions, Art, Animation, Entertainment and Manga as well as providing opportunities to introduce these works, specifically through the prizes announcements, the Awards Ceremony, and the Exhibition of Award-Winning Works. This year over 1,101 works were submitted in the art category. 

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