In the Student Category "Interactive Art Section" of the 2025 Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA, the work of Atsuya Tsuchida (3rd year, Faculty of Policy Management) from the laboratory of Professor Akira Wakita of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies won the "Excellence Award," and the work of Fushi Sano (2nd year, Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance) and Mirai Fujimoto (Graduate of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies) from the laboratory of Associate Professor Shinya Fujii of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies was selected for the "Finalist" award.
The Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA (ADAA) started in 2001 as a venue for discovering and nurturing creators with advanced skills and rich sensibilities who will lead the creation of digital content from northern Kyushu. This competition advocates the fusion of logical thinking and artistic sensibility against a background of advanced media technology, and is a world-class open call exhibition for media art works deeply rooted in Asian culture and climate.
Award-winning Works
【Excellence Award】
Gravitation
Atsuya Tsuchida
【Finalist】
Sound Stargazing Project
Fushi Sano, Mirai Fujimoto
【Excellence Award】Comment from Atsuya Tsuchida
I am very honored to receive the Excellence Award in the Student/Interactive Art Section at ADAA. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who has supported this work so far.
This work is an installation piece that attempts to create a new universe using CG and acoustics, based on the law of universal gravitation. By calculating and visualizing numerical analysis in astrophysics not as a realistic reproduction, but in a way that brings the structure itself to the foreground, I aimed to re-examine "gravity" as a principle of relationships that penetrates the world.
I hope that the complexity arising from the calculation process will serve as an opportunity to evoke different sensations and thoughts in each viewer.
【Finalist】Comment from Fushi Sano
I am very honored to receive the Finalist award in the Interactive Art Section. This work is an attempt to connect distant "invisible stars" with "us" on the ground through sound. Beyond mere sonification of data, I focused on the "quality of experience"—how that sound resonates with the human body and senses, and how it changes the act of looking up at the night sky. I am very happy that the new way of relating stars and people that we aimed for has been recognized in the context of digital art. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone involved in this project and to everyone who supports us on a daily basis. Thank you very much.
Source: Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office, General Affairs