Newly established spatial computing department! Global XR Creative Awards “NEWVIEW AWARDS 2024” recruitment begins
*STYLY Co., Ltd.*
Press release: August 21, 2024
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Newly established spatial computing department! Global XR Creative Awards “NEWVIEW AWARDS 2024” recruitment begins
*Jurors include Naohiro Nagaugawa of DOMMUNE, Gerfried Stocke, General Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, and many other global artists* NEWVIEW, a joint project by STYLY Inc. (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), PARCO Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), and Loftwork Inc. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), is an XR (VR/AR/ MR) Global Creative Award “NEWVIEW” soliciting content
AWARDS 2024” will be held, and the recruitment of works will begin from August 21, 2024.
In addition to Jury President Naohiro Ukawa and Ars Electronica General Artistic Director Gerfried Stocke, KEIKEN and David
Renowned global artists such as OReilly, Lu Yang, and Saeborg will participate as judges, and Apple Vision
“Spatial Computing section” that solicits professional content, “Site-specific” that solicits AR works that take advantage of location.
We will open two departments: “AR Department”.
This award is given to next-generation artists and creators who are leading the way in “ultra-experience design” by pursuing new expressions and culture/lifestyles ahead of the near future when all artists and creators will have access to three-dimensional spatial expression. The purpose is to discover and disseminate. Over the past six years, we have received a total of 841 entries from 26 countries around the world, contributing to the production of talent currently active in the XR scene.
This year, “Spatial” will be collecting content for Apple Vision Pro. We have established a new “Computing Department” to pioneer the world in developing use cases for the coming era of spatial computing using the collective knowledge of next-generation artists and creators.
*NEWVIEW AWARDS2024 Overview*
・Official website: https://newview.design/AWARDS
・Application conditions: Spatial computing platform “STYLY” ( The work must be created using https://styly.inc/ja/product/
◆Recruitment period:
・Spatial Computing Department
Application reception period: August 21, 2024 (Wednesday) to October 16, 2024 (Wednesday) 12:00 (UTC)
・Site-specific AR department
Application period: August 21, 2024 (Wednesday) – December 17, 2024 (Tuesday) 12:00 (UTC)
◆Entry form
・Spatial Computing category:
https://awrd.com/award/newview2024-spatial-computing
・Site-specific AR category: https://awrd.com/award/newview2024-sitespecific-ar
* NEWVIEW AWARDS 2024 theme *
* Visions that weave context. – Prospects for reweaving the
relationship between information and people -*
A long time has passed since everyone started owning a smartphone. With a flat screen that fits in your pocket, it connects us with content created in faraway lands and times, and uses AR to create illusions within reality and rewrite what’s right in front of us. . It is the construction of another world through magic.
However, magic that eliminates the relationship between place and time also removes the context that connects things and makes content and information lie on an endless horizon. Where is the depth to connect us with information…?
If you think about it, Apple Vision
Wouldn’t the perspective and tangible information environment brought about by spatial computing, including Pro, help rebuild the good relationship between humans and context? A story without context cannot exist.
The presence of immersive content, windows placed freely in reality, once again speaks to the important context in which we and ourselves exist. What are you knitting or retying in relation to what? If you want to overlay your vision with contextual content that will help you reorganize your business, now is the time.
* About NEWVIEW AWARDS 2024 division *
This year, Spatial is soliciting content for Apple Vision Pro. We have two divisions: the Computing division and the Site-specific AR division, which invites AR works that take advantage of location.
* ◆Spatial Computing Department*
This is a category where you create works that can be experienced with Apple Vision Pro.
We are looking for works that spin future stories through the concept of Spatial Computing and reframing the real world.
In late October, this division will select approximately 10 works from among the submitted works to be eligible for production support, and will provide them with the opportunity to receive technical support from STYLY in the realization of their plans.
The background behind our production support is Apple Vision. Since the knowledge and know-how for creating works in Pro is not well-developed, STYLY will support award applicants in creating their works.
Creators selected for production support will be able to improve their submitted works while receiving production support until 12:00 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 17th.
The content of the production support is as follows.
・Support for materializing plans linked to technology
・Technical support for production (text chat on Discord planned) The finalist works are scheduled to be exhibited somewhere in Tokyo in February 2025.
Spatial Computing will also be used in NEWVIEW SCHOOL 2024 (JP/global) We are creating works for the division, and the works of SCHOOL students will be judged from the finalist screening onward.
◆Site-specific AR section
We are looking for works that take advantage of location and weave future stories through reframing the real world.
By using STYLY’s city templates and Immersal, you can create site-specific works. Works that do not use these functions are also accepted, but since this year’s theme is to “leverage the sense of place to question the relationship with the real world,” when submitting a work, please be sure to ask where you would like to experience it. Presentation required.
If selected as a finalist, the finalists’ works will be exhibited at a certain location in Tokyo in February 2025.
About the judges
Naohiro Ukawa (currently an artist | Director of DOMMUNE)
Born in 1968. Currently an artist. Video work
A versatile artist who has been involved in a wide range of activities since the late 1980s, including working as a freelancer, graphic designer, VJ, writer, and university professor. By erasing the established framework of fine art and popular culture, they are engaging in the most free form of expression in Japan today. He rose to prominence as a graphic designer/videographer in the late 1980s, and in 2001 he was featured in “Buzz Club: News from Japan” (MoMA
PS1, New York), “JAM: Tokyo-London” (Barbican Art
Since joining Gallery London, he has exhibited his work at many exhibitions both domestically and internationally. In 2010, he independently opened Japan’s first live streaming studio and channel “DOMMUNE”.
It attracted attention both domestically and internationally with a record number of viewers, and was selected as a recommended work at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2011. Ukawa is at DOMMUNE studio He considers the act of filming, distributing, and recording the programs that are produced every day at O as his “current works of art.” In 2016, a satellite studio “DOMMUNE” with a stage width of 500 m was opened in the train hall of Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). LINZ!” and in 2019, opened a satellite studio “DOMMUNE SETOUCHI” at the Setouchi Triennale. Both became hot topics.
In addition, DOMMUNE has participated in numerous international contemporary art exhibitions, including London, Dortmund, and St. We have created satellite studios all over the world in Tokholm, Paris, Mumbai, Linz, Fukushima, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Akita, Sapporo, and Sado Island, and we have established satellite studios all over the world, focusing on the meaning of omnipresence (now, here) and omnipresence (anytime, anywhere). At the same time, we continue to explore. Over 14 years, the program has distributed approximately 7,000 programs/approximately 15,000 hours/over 200 tera, with a total audience of over 200 million viewers. In 2019, the studio moved to the renovated Shibuya PARCO 9F.
After the 10th anniversary of the opening in 2020, we will update the future with the most advanced technology after WEB 3.0 for the second chapter, and we will update the evolution form of final media “DOMMUNE” called “SUPER”.
It has evolved into “DOMMUNE”. “Naohiro Ukawa Exhibition” held at Nerima Art Museum in 2023 | FINAL MEDIA THERAPIST
@DOMMUNE” is about where exactly does the artist exist in the creation of a work in the age of generative AI? He asked himself this question and created a spatial painting using an original tuning generative AI and a robot arm equipped with artificial intelligence, and created a historical update on the act of “drawing”, which became a hot topic. In 2021, won the 71st Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Art Encouragement.
Gerfried Stocke (Media Artist | Ars Electronica General Artistic Director) Gerfried
Stocker (Gerfried Stocker) is an Australian-based media artist and telecommunications engineer. In 1995-96, Stocker led a team of artists and technicians to create Ars
Ars Electronica is coordinating the Electronica Center’s pioneering new exhibition policy, and has also established its own R&D
institution within the center.
Founded Futurelab.
He has led the conception and realization of a series of international exhibitions held since 2004, and since 2005 has held the revamped and expanded Ars Electronica
Responsible for planning the Center and resetting the theme. Since 2015, the Ars Electronica Festival has expanded, and in 2019, Ars Electronica
Responsible for a major overhaul of the Center’s content and interior. Stocker serves as a consultant to many companies and institutions in the area of creative and innovation management, and is a guest lecturer at international conferences and universities. In 2019, Aalto in Finland
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University.
KEIKEN (Artist Collective)
An artist collective co-founded in 2015 by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori, and Isabel Ramos.
The Japanese word “experience” is the core of our activities and the origin of our name. Through video, games, installations, XR, blockchain, and performance, he creates to experiment with new social structures, ways of being, and possible futures.
KEIKEN is also a Chanel Next Prize winner and resident at Somerset House, London.
Recent major exhibitions include Amos Rex (Helsinki, Finland) (2024), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan), KANAL-Centre
Pompidou (Brussels, Belgium), Helsinki Biennial (Finland), HAU (Berlin, Germany) (2023), C/O
Berlin (Germany); Wellcome Collection (London, UK); ARKO Art Center (Seoul, South Korea); Julia
Stoschek Collection (Dusseldorf, Germany); Onassis (Athens, Greece) (2022); Thailand
Biennale (Korat, Thailand); HEK (Basel, Switzerland); 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy); Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo, Japan) (2021); FACT (Liverpool, UK); transmediale,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW (Berlin, Germany) (2020); ICA (London, UK); Jerwood
Arts (London, UK) (2019).
David OReilly (Multidisciplinary Artist)
David is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles.
OReilly began his career as an independent animator, working on films such as “Please Say Something” and “The External”.
He has produced a series of cutting-edge short films such as “World”. He went on to write scripts for TV shows such as
“Adventure Time” and “South Park,” and worked on a fictional video game for Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-winning film “Her.” He also created the iconic simulation games Mountain and Everything, and his augmented reality work has garnered over 3 billion views online. Lu Yang (artist)
Lu Yan, a Shanghai-based multimedia artist, uses an interdisciplinary fusion of religion, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and modern technology to create works that hint at the forms and structures of reality derived from nature and religion. , is good at creating fantastic, painful, and shocking images. Lu
Yang’s work spans game engines, 3D animated films, video game installations, holograms, motion capture performance, virtual reality, and software manipulation, and he is a renowned scientist,
psychologist, performer, designer, and experimental engineer. He collaborates with composers, music producers, robotics companies, and pop stars.
Works are exhibited at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (Aarhus, Denmark), Spiral (Tokyo), M WOODS (Beijing), MOCA
His work has been featured in major museums and institutions around the world, including important solo exhibitions at Cleveland (Cleveland, USA), UCCA (Beijing), and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka).
Works in recent large-scale themed exhibitions include the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, Asia Society Triennial 2021 (New York), Shanghai Biennale 2018 and 2012, Athens Biennale 2018, Liverpool Biennale 2016, and Montreal International Digital Art.・Biennale 2016, 56th Venice Biennale 2015 China Pavilion, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014, etc. Lu Yang’s work has also been curated into an exhibition at Center Pompidou in Paris in 2020, and BMW Art in 2019.
Journey, and subsequently began creating a new digital work entitled “DOKU”. Selected as Deutsche Bank Group’s “Artist of the Year 2022”. Saeborg (artist)
Tokyo base
Saeborg is an imperfect cyborg. Half human, half toy. He made his own latex bodysuit as an extension of his own skin and put on a
performance in which he wore it. Driven by a strong desire to transcend fixed identities such as gender and the human body itself, creatures at the bottom of the ecosystem are dressed in toy-like deformed bodysuits of sows and pests. Creating a playful utopian experimental ranch.
Major presentations in recent years include the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award. 2022-24 Award Commemoration Exhibition” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2024), “World Theater Festival 2023” (Frankfurt, Offenbach, Germany), “Ultra
Unreal” (Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022), “Cycle of L” (Kochi Art Museum, Kochi, 2020), “Aichi Triennale 2019
“The Era of Love” (Aichi, 2019), “Dark
Mofo” (Hobart, Australia, 2019), “6th Athens Biennale” (Greece, 2018), etc. TCAA 2022-24 (Tokyo
Contemporary Art Award). Received the Toshiko Okamoto Award at the 17th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award.
* About the prize *
NEWVIEW AWARDS 2024 offers the following prizes.
◆*GOLD*
・One work will be selected for each category
・Prize 5,000 USD
* ◆PARCO PRIZE*
・Select one work regardless of category
・Winners will receive the right to collaborate with PARCO.
(Contents will be decided after discussion)
* ◆AWE PRIZE*
・Select one work regardless of category
・Winners’ works will be exhibited at the exhibition booth of AWEUSA2025 the following year and will be provided with free tickets to participate in AWE. Also, Auggie
We will help with AWARDS announcements, support for work submissions, and event announcements on SNS and newsletters. *If you are involved in exhibiting and would like to travel to the local area, we plan to provide support with some of the expenses.
Other collaborative prizes with sponsors and media partners will be added at a later date.
About sponsors and partners
* ◆Sponsor*
* ◆Collaboration partner*
* ◆Media partner*
*Alphabetical order
Information regarding sponsors and partners will be updated from time to time.
About the NEWVIEW project
Started in January 2018 as an experimental project/community that explores new creative expression and experience design in 3D space. Together with creators who embody culture in urban spaces, such as fashion, music, video, graphics, and illustrations, we will conduct experiments to design next-generation culture/lifestyle experiences that transcend the boundaries of reality and fantasy. We promote the discovery, development, and exchange of next-generation XR creators through lectures and meetups both domestically and internationally. Official website: https://newview.design/
▼Looking for sponsors and media partners
For more information, please contact us below.
NEWVIEW Office: info@newview.design
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