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Five finalists have been selected!
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Study: Science Art Award Supported by ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.
Finalist Exhibition "Creating the Future through the Fusion of Science and Art"
Date: Monday, July 21, 2025 to Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Time: 11:00-18:00 (until 16:00 on the 23rd) *Last admission is 30 minutes before closing
Venue: Osaka International Convention Center (Grand Cube Osaka), 10th floor, Conference Room 1008 (inside the "Study × PLAS: Asia Art Fair" venue)
Admission: A ticket for the Joint Japan-Korea international art fair "Study × PLAS : Asia Art Fair" is required to enter this exhibition.
About
About Study: Science Art Award
"Study: Science Art Award Supported by ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd." is calling for exhibition plans that propose artistic expression, or science art, that uses the latest scientific and academic knowledge, such as technology and science.
The aim of this award is to explore new creativity born from the fusion of science and art, and it covers media art using IT such as computers, the Internet, video and audio, programming, and AI, as well as bio-art using organisms, ecosystems, and nature in general, and bio-engineering such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning. We are looking for work plans that will open up new possibilities for expression, with an emphasis on artistic quality and concept.
The five finalists selected from the first round of judging will each be awarded a prize of 1 million yen and will hold an exhibition called "Finalist Exhibition" at Grand Cube Osaka (Osaka International Convention Center). In the second round of judging, the judges will inspect the exhibition and select the award winners. At the same time, the international art fair "Study × PLAS: Asia Arts Fair" will be held at the same venue, attracting many visitors from Japan and abroad, providing a valuable opportunity for the works to be widely introduced.
Finalist
Finalists
KADOTA Yu "Moya"
KADOTA Yu "Moya" 2023
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KADOTA Yu
The main theme of my work is the visualization of invisible physical phenomena. I have tried to visualize phenomena such as radiation, heat, and chaos. For example, one of my works that attempts to visualize heat is a video work that uses a technique called the Schlieren method, which captures changes in gas density, to record the state of air fluctuating due to heat. Here, I dealt with the heat of small movements we make in our daily lives, such as reading a book, writing a sentence, and having a conversation. There is surprisingly a lot of heat radiated from the body, and this video work makes you feel dramatic invisible movements even in everyday scenes that seem quiet. Through my work, I aim to make invisible phenomena visible, giving you a vague but tangible sense of materiality, and a sense that it is clearly there, even though it is not clear. I then consider the appearance of this materiality to be sculpture and create it.
KUMO (Yuki Morita & Ryudai Misawa) "Mist"
KUMO (Yuki Morita & Ryudai Misawa) "Mist" 2025
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KUMO (Yuki Morita, Ryudai Misawa, and deriba)
KUMO formed in 2025
KUMO members: YUKI MORITA, RYUDAI MISAWA & deriba
Current affiliation: YUKI MORITA (Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Media and New Media), RYUDAI MISAWA (Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Department of Environment and Information Studies, Wakita Rei Laboratory), deriba (Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Doctoral Program)
Activities: KUMO was formed in 2025 by YUKI MORITA and RYUDAI MISAWA, and aims to play with the world through art and build new relationships.
The members are dynamically organized for each project as they go about their production.
NAGATA Kazuki
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NAGATA Kazuki
Consider the “new landscapes we have seen someday” with a sense of mediocrity and déjà vu due to the development of information technology. The suburbs and cyberspace (learned AI) each have their own editable and boring landscapes, and the development of information technology has deprived us of the “outside” of the world, such as newness and surprise. The artist explores such mundane and boring landscapes by moving back and forth between real and information space.
Using AI and family restaurants as specific techniques and motifs, the artist will present new and familiar landscapes from the mundane landscapes of our daily lives and media environments. He uses a variety of media/methods for his output, including installation, video, photography, text, the Internet, and SEA.
Major awards include a prize in a student CG contest, a bronze prize in the Nittelei Maginarium Award, and an audience award in the Terrace Art Shonan AWARD 2024. He has also presented his work at international conferences such as SIGGRAPH AISA, and is active in academia.
https://linktr.ee/kzk_aui
MANTLE (ISAKA Shu + NAKAMURA Soushi) "simulation #4 -The Thunderbolt Odyssey-"
MANTLE (ISAKA Shu + NAKAMURA Soushi) "simulation #4 -The Thunderbolt Odyssey-" 2023
(21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2023) Installation view ©Kenji Agata
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MANTLE (ISAKA Shu + NAKAMURA Soushi)
An art collective formed in 2022 by ISAKA Shu and NAKAMURA Soushi. They access all kinds of site specificity and simulate phenomena that cannot be seen directly, as well as long-term and short-term events that transcend the human timeline. They incorporate even the coincidences and errors that occur in the process into their works, using a playful approach to find points of contact between the present and unseen space-time. Their works include "DXP - Towards the Next Interface" (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2023-2024) and "PINEAL GLAND SASHIMI" (Gou Museum of Contemporary Art, China, 2024).
https://www.mantle.works/
https://www.instagram.com/mantle2022/
MORI Koichi + MASHITA Takehisa "Breathing Sky"
MORI Koichi + MASHITA Takehisa "Breathing Sky" 2025
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MORI Koichi + MASHITA Takehisa
MORI Koichi and MASHITA Takehisa began joint research on media art around 2002. Since then, they have been presenting experimental media art works using data based on the viewer's physiological phenomena, such as brain waves, cerebral blood flow, posture control, and breathing. From Horizontal/Vertical in 2007 to Rendezvous in 2014, they presented many bite-feedback works incorporating the viewer's brain wave analysis (measurement of brain wave patterns by EEG), and in 2010 they presented Light, Sound, and the Brain, a biofeedback work of emotional responses based on the viewer's brain blood flow analysis (measurement of hemoglobin concentration by fNIRS). At the between exhibition in 2018, they presented a work in which two viewers jointly generate scents, music, and light patterns based on the viewer's posture control (measurement of head position and movement by glasses-type sensors). Since 2020, we have aimed to realize an experience that touches the origin of life nurtured by the earth by connecting with oneself, others (plants), and the environment (atmosphere) through breathing, mainly based on the viewer's breathing (measurement of breathing with a depth camera). For example, in the 2024 "breathing garden", the viewer's breathing was converted into light and irradiated on eight types of plants to promote photosynthesis, and the change in CO2 concentration around the plants was converted into eight types of sound. In addition, the viewer's breathing was converted into sound, creating an acoustic space where the sounds of both parties blend together. The ensemble of the sounds of people who need oxygen and plants who need carbon dioxide became an overlap of the "rhythms of life" between people and plants, demonstrating a new relationship in which the two parties mutually penetrate each other. Our goal is to show new relationships between the diverse life forms that have been born on earth, including humans, or between life and the environment through the intervention of technology as art.
Schedule
schedule
Applications accepted until May 25, 2025
Early June 2025: The five finalists from the first round of judging will be notified of the results.
July 20, 2025: Delivery and setup of works, second round of judging, award ceremony
July 21st - 23rd, 2025 Finalist Exhibition (open to the public)
July 23, 2025 Work removal/transportation
*The schedule may be subject to change due to unavoidable circumstances.
Outline
overview
Organized by: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival Executive Committee
Operation cooperation: Artlogue Inc.
Partner Cities: Matsubara City
Exhibition Venue: "Study × PLAS: Asia Art Fair" Venue (Osaka International Convention Center (Grand Cube Osaka) 10F Conference Room 1008) (10F, 5-3-51 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)
Virtual tour of the venue here >
Exhibited works: 1 plan
* "Finalist Exhibition" (displaying works by the five finalists)
Exhibition period: Monday, July 21st to Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Judges
Judges
Phase 1: The Selection
Judges (1st round)
Kishimoto Mitsuhiro (Curator)
Miyake Atsuhiro (Co-representative of the Curatorial Collective HB.)
Okura Yusuke (Independent Curator)
Phase 2: The Final Judgement
Final Jury
Tatehata Akira
Art critic, poet, director of Kyoto Art Center, director of Yayoi Kusama Museum
We look forward to seeing unique, imaginative challenges that go beyond the boundaries of existing media and art.
Yamagiwa Juichi
Director of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Art appeared in the human world as something that cannot be reconciled with the logic created by words, something that transcends logic. It embodies the history of humankind's dialogue with the universe throughout its evolutionary history spanning seven million years. It is also sought to be a creation that foreshadows the future as a form that differs from nature. As living organisms with a foothold on this earth, and as subjects that think beyond the limits of the planet, I have high hopes for the kind of artistic challenges that will unfold.
Suzuki Daisuke
General Producer of Study: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival
CEO of ARTLOGUE Inc.
We are looking forward to receiving works that evoke a vision of the future and raise social issues by reintegrating art and science, or fragmented wisdom.
We welcome applications from a wide range of genres, including not only artists but also scientists and business people.
Kurosawa Hiromi
CEO of anemos Inc.
Curator
Specially Appointed Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts
Benefits
Finalist Benefits
1. Five finalists will each receive a prize of 1 million yen
- Five finalists will each receive a prize of 1 million yen (including planning and production costs, materials costs, exhibition setup and removal costs, travel expenses, and accommodation costs).
- Works based on the submitted plans will be exhibited at the "Finalist Exhibition."
- You may be asked to give talks or workshops.
2. Grand Prix 1 Group
- Second prize (to be determined)
3. Rohto Pharmaceutical Special Award 1 group
- Prize money: 100,000 yen
4. Common benefits
- Article introducing the winners will be published in "ARTLOGUE"
Application Guideline
Application details
Eligibility
Media art using IT such as computer technology, the Internet, video and audio, programming, and AI; bioart using bioengineering such as living things, ecosystems, and nature in general, genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning.
Application requirements
- Individuals or groups such as artists, researchers, engineers, etc. active in the fields of art, science, etc.
・No restrictions on nationality, background, gender, age, etc. *Students are also welcome
- Be able to participate in the finalist exhibition (including setup and removal) and the award ceremony
Number of applied plans
One piece per person (group)
*Submit in either Japanese or English
Rules for submissions
A plan for a work to be exhibited in Conference Room 1008 on the 10th floor of the Osaka International Convention Center (materials and techniques are free, regardless of whether it is two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or video).
- Please plan your exhibit so that it fits into the U-shaped booth space (W3,600 x D2,700 x H2,700mm) made up of temporary walls. *Please check the floor plan.
- Limited to new work plans (plans for reconstructing previously created or published works with a new concept or shape are acceptable).
- Works that do not emit unpleasant odors, excessive noise or light.
Important Notices for Exhibitions and Setups
- You cannot hang the light from anything other than the temporary wall. ※You cannot hang the light from the ceiling of Conference Room 1008.
- About temporary walls
Wood panel (white, edge finished with paper thread)
Wall thickness: approx. 30 mm
Maximum load capacity is 20kg (please contact us in advance if the load exceeds 20kg)
- In principle, each finalist must prepare all items necessary for the exhibition, such as video equipment, wiring devices, internet lines, and exhibition stands.
- Time for loading and setting up: Sunday, July 20th, 8:30 to 15:00
・ Time for removal and removal: Wednesday, July 23rd, from 16:00 to 18:00
- After removing your artwork, please return the site to its original state.
Judging Criteria
- Is it an artistic expression that makes use of technology, science, etc.?
- What is the concept?
- Is it feasible?
Taking the above into consideration, each judge will evaluate the entries based on their own individual criteria.
How to Apply
Application deadline: May 25th, 2025 (Sunday) 23:59 (must arrive by this date) * Applications cannot be brought in or sent by mail.
Please fill out the necessary information in the application form below and submit it. When applying, you will need to submit documents. Please use services such as Google Drive or Gigafile to submit documents, and enter the issuance URL in the application form. Please note that we cannot accept applications sent by mail or in person.
Documents to be submitted
A. Profile (any format): A4 size, single-sided, 1 page—PDF format
B. Portfolio (any format): A4 size, 3 pages or less (including photos or images showing past works and exhibition scenes)—PDF format
C. Exhibition plan (prescribed format): A4 size, 3 pages or less (single-sided)—PDF format
- Title and concept of the work
- Exhibition plan: A detailed plan of the exhibition method, materials, size, production schedule, etc.
Please use drawings, photographs and graphics to clearly describe your design so that the final image can be conveyed as clearly as possible.
- Lighting plan
Specify the number of arm-type spotlights (arm length: approx. 30 cm) required and their installation locations
- Power supply plan
Electricity is always available. If you require a power source, please indicate the desired location of the outlet. If you require more than 1.5kw, please contact us in advance.
Due to the construction schedule, we are unable to accommodate contractors handling the wiring (such as running the cables along the wall or attaching covers). We will adjust the length of the power cable to the desired location, but if wiring is required, we ask that each finalist handle it themselves.
Please download the exhibition plan (prescribed format) here.
*No documents other than A, B, and C above are required.
*Submitted documents will not be returned.
*The production and exhibition methods of the works may be adjusted in consultation with the organizers.
Selection Results
The five finalists who pass the first round of judging will be contacted by email.
The second round of judging will take place at the Finalist Exhibition, and the final winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. The results will also be announced on ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and ARTLOGUE's Facebook, Twitter, and email newsletters.
Please note that we cannot answer inquiries regarding the screening results or screening criteria.
Ownership and Copyright
- Ownership and copyright of the work will belong to the finalist.
- Finalists will grant the organizers and operational collaborators the right to reproduce and otherwise use the completed work, including photographing it and publishing it in various media for publicity purposes, indefinitely and free of charge.
- After the exhibition period in the 10th floor conference room of the Osaka International Convention Center (Grand Cube Osaka) has ended, the works will be returned to the winners.
Handling of Personal Information
Upon submission of application documents, personal information will be provided to the Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival Executive Committee, the organizer of this program. Personal information collected will be used only for the selection process and will not be provided to any third parties. However, please note that due to the nature of this program, the names of the winners and any other information separately agreed upon between the winners and the organizers/operational collaborators will be made public.
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Contact
inquiry
[Inquiries regarding this award]
E-mail: scienceartaward@artlogue.org
(To the ARTLOGUE Science Art Awards Office)