Awarding Ceremony for ASIAGRAPH2019 Tsumugi & Takumi Awards and Talk Session “Neo Cosmos emerging from the Convergence of Art and Science”

This year’s Tsumugi Award will be given to internationally renowned composer, arranger, and music producer Akira Senju who has won numerous awards including Japan Academy Prizes for Music. In 2019, one of his works “Utagoe no hibiki” in which he was involved as composer and pianist, was presented to Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan at Commemoration Ceremony of the Thirtieth Anniversary of His Majesty The Emperor's Accession to the Throne. Takumi Award will be given to Nobuko Nakano who is a neuroscientist, Doctor of Medical Science and cognitive scientist. She is actively engaging in research and publishing books on the subjects of brain and psychology. She published her new book “Onna ni umarete moyatteru !” in June 2019. Her books and talks are acclaimed for shedding light on possible phenomena in human society and people living there from a scientific point of view. Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Artist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo will serve as a moderator for this conference. He is now holding a solo exhibition “Life in Five Hundred Million Years’ Time Yoichiro Kawaguchi : BEYOND AI” at Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. Please enjoy the talks which nobody can expect which way they will go with the theme of “Neo Cosmos emerging from the Convergence of Art and Science”

Title

TC-132Awarding Ceremony for ASIAGRAPH2019 Tsumugi & Takumi Awards and Talk Session “Neo Cosmos emerging from the Convergence of Art and Science”

Dates

Wed 13 Nov

Site

Room201, 2F Conference Hall

Time

12:30 - 13:50

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is required for attending these conferences. Please register from the Inter BEE website hosted by JESA. DCEXPO is concurrently held with Inter BEE.

PRESENTER

• Akira Senju
  Composer
  Akira Senju is widely regarded as one of the most prominent Japanese composers living today.
  
  Senju was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1960. After having studied in the Faculty of Technology at Keio University, he decided to study composition formally and entered the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he studied with Hiroaki Minami and Toshiro Mayuzumi. He completed his master's degree in composition with highest honors. The work for his completion "EDEN for computer" received recognition and was purchased by the university and became part of the permanent collection of the University Art Museum.
  
  Senju started his career as a composer, arranger, and music producer while in school, and since then has been remarkably active and prolific across genres. Probably best known for his orchestral works, he has written wide range of music from concert pieces to soundtracks to operas to pop music. Among them are "Four Seasons" for violin and string orchestra (2004), commissioned by Tokyo International Airport; Japan Symphonic Poem (2005), commissioned by NHK; Opera "Sumidagawa" (2007), commissioned by Tokyo Bunka Kaikan; Choral Suite "Haha Naru Mono e" (2009); Opera "Manyo-syu" (2009, 2011), commissioned by Tokyo Bunka Kaikan; "Calendar Suite" (2015), "Glorious Museum" (2016, Official Theme of Kunst Historisches Museum Wien & TBS 10Years Partnership). His works have been performed in various concerts not only in Japan but also overseas, including two concerts held in Hungary in 2017, which focused exclusively on his works. His newest musical theatre work "Into the White Night" was premiered in Shanghai (sung in Chinese) in 2018 with great success and is holding its nationwide tour in China from 2019 spring.
  
  Senju has also scored numerous soundtracks, including films "226," "The Mystery of Rampo," "Waga Kokoro no Ginga Tetsudo," "Aiwo Kouhito," "Yomigaeri," "Hinokio," "Nada Soso"; TV dramas "Ienakiko," "Seikimatsu no Uta," "Honmamon," "Suna No Utsuwa," "Fūrinkazan (NHK Taiga Drama)," "GOLD," "Japanese Americans," "Kokoro no Ito," "Ashio kara Kita Onna," "Leaders," "Ryusei Wagon," "Flowers for Algernon," "Red Cross -Onna Tachi no Akagami-"; TV documentary "Across the Era," "Nihon Eizo no 20-Seiki," "The Mystery of Stradivarius," "Louvre, La Beauté Eternelle,"
  
• Nobuko Nakano
  Neuroscientist / Doctor of Medical Science / Cognitive Scientist / Professor at Higashi Nippon International University
  Nobuko Nakano graduated from Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1998. In 2008, she completed her PhD in Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. After she worked at NeuroSpin in France from 2008 to 2010, she came back to Japan and spent a few years mainly engaging in research and publishing some books. In 2013, she was appointed to Visiting Professor at Higashi Nippon International University and Visiting Associate Professor at Yokohama City University. She was then promoted to Professor at Higashi Nippon International University in 2015.
  
  She is now actively involved in doing research and publishing books on subjects such as the brain and psychology. Her books are acclaimed for shedding light on possible phenomena in human society and people living there from a scientific point of view.
• Yoichiro Kawaguchi
  Artist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo
  1952: Born in Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
  1976: Graduated from Kyushu Institute of Design (current Kyushu University)
  1978: Graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Education (current University of Tsukuba)
  1998: Promoted to Professor at Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering of the University of Tokyo (after prior teaching at University of Tsukuba as Assistant Professor)
  2000 – Current: Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo
  He has been active as pioneer and world-wide authority of CG art utilizing his unique “GROWTH Model” and is still evolving as proven by such newest creations of his as 8K whole-sky planetarium image, large monuments, futurization of Japanese traditional art, construction of robotic objects, etc.
  He is also the first chairperson of the competition jury committee of Japan Media Arts Festival and the representative artist of Japan at 1995 Venice Biennale.
  He received “Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art” in 2010 from ACM SIGGRAPH, the Ministry of Education Award in the Art in 2013 from the Japanese Government and also given Medal with Purple Ribbon in the name of the Emperor in 2013.
  He had great success in holding solo exhibitions at both Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei) in 2017 and CDA (Centres des Arts numériques) in Enghien-les-Bains in 2018. In the same year, he won a prestigious award in France called Prix D'Honneur at Prix Bains Numériques and was also selected as member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy.