The Festival of Technology Art, "Media Ambition Tokyo 2020," is Held

EVENT | Media Ambition Tokyo 2020

Implementing Cutting-Edge Technology Culture in the City Through Experimental Approaches

The event "Media Ambition Tokyo," featuring cutting-edge art, visuals, music performances, and talk shows, will be held again this year at various locations across Tokyo. It presents technologies that will shape the city of the future, especially as the Olympics approach. The event runs from Friday, February 28 to Sunday, March 8, and Saturday, March 14, 2020.

Text by WASEDA Kosaku (OPENERS)

Materializing Movements That Transform the Future

The event "Media Ambition Tokyo" (MAT), now in its eighth year, has been confirmed. MAT is an event where cutting-edge technology culture is implemented in the city through experimental approaches, making the city itself a showcase.

Scenes from Media Ambition Tokyo 2019

At various locations throughout Tokyo, centered around Shibuya, Roppongi, and Ueno, including Ebisu, Iidabashi, Odaiba, and Ochanomizu, cutting-edge art, visuals, music performances, and talk shows will unfold.

Participants include innovators, companies, and exhibitors from various fields active both domestically and internationally. A diverse range of programs will be set up across the city of Tokyo, organically multiplying, expanding, and connecting.

MAT has continued to grow as an encompassing entity for these activities.

Tokyo is evolving significantly with the Olympics on the horizon. As the nature of urban systems, including mobility, communication, and information, is changing dramatically with a view to the future, this is an opportunity to present the potential of technologies that create the future of cities from Tokyo to the world.

We aim for a festival of technology art that materializes movements transforming the future through free-form experiments that transcend genres and categories.

Media Ambition Tokyo 2020
Dates | Friday, February 28 - Sunday, March 8, Saturday, March 14, 2020
Venues | Roppongi Hills [Roppongi] / Shibuya QFRONT [Shibuya] / Tokyo National Museum [Ueno] / Ueno Park [Ueno] EDGEof [Shibuya] / 100BANCH [Shibuya] / FabCafe Tokyo [Shibuya] / au SHIBUYA MODI [Shibuya] Tokyo Midtown [Roppongi] / MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: EPSON teamLab Borderless [Odaiba] Institut Français Tokyo [Iidabashi] / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum [Ebisu] / Digital Hollywood University [Ochanomizu] National Museum of Nature and Science [Odaiba] / Kuwabara Shoten [Gotanda]

Ebisu Film Festival
Dates | Friday, February 7 - Sunday, February 23, 2020
*Closed on Monday, February 10 and Monday, February 17
Venues | Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Maison Franco-Japonaise, The Garden Room, Yebisu Garden Place Center Plaza, various community locations, etc.

Festival of the Future School
Dates | Thursday, February 20 - Monday, February 24, 2020 (Public Holiday)
Venue | Tokyo Midtown

DIGITAL CHOC
Dates | Thursday, February 20 - Sunday, March 8, 2020
Venues | Institut Français Tokyo, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo Midtown, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Shibuya WWW, etc.

Participating Artists |
[Shibuya QFRONT]
Yoichi Ochiai, Rei Wakita, Kozo Takamine, IMG SRC, Qosmo, Ami Miura × Satoru Itasaka, WOW, Shun Onozawa, Naotaka Fujii + GRINDER-MAN + evala, Kojiro Aida, Mai Miki, Yusuke Nakayama, Wyatt Roy, Amir Zobel, Olga, GengoRaw (Takuya Ishibashi / Kento Niikura / Ryuji Yoshida / Kohei Futatsuguchi / Tomoya Yoshida), Tomotoshi, Camila De Ezkauriatza, SUZY SULAIMAN, hysteria collective, Fablab Shinagawa

[Roppongi Hills]
OPEN MEALS, Rhizomatiks Architecture, Chevalvert, Shinichi Takemura, Teruaki Tsubokura

[Ueno Park / Tokyo National Museum]
Hiromasa Komatsu, WOW

[Kuwabara Shoten]
Vegetable Record

[Other]
Ebisu Film Festival, MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM:EPSON teamLab Borderless, Festival of the Future School, DIGITAL CHOC 2020, Digital Hollywood University Graduate School Project Presentation DEFRAGMENT –DHGS the DAY–

Inquiries

Media Ambition Tokyo 2020
http://mediaambitiontokyo.jp/