Wyatt Roy "Piece of String", the award winning work for the VR content award "NEWVIEW AWARDS 2019", has exhibited at the Technology Culture Festival "Media Ambition Tokyo"
We would like to announce that Wyatt Roy "Piece of String", the award winning work for the VR content award "NEWVIEW AWARDS 2019", has exhibited at the Technology Culture Festival "Media Ambition Tokyo" and concluded its session in success.
Wyatt Roy "Piece of String" is a VR work that received double awards for "SILVER Prize" and "Media Ambition Tokyo Prize" in "NEWVIEW AWARDS 2019". This time, it will be exhibited as a benefit for the "Media Ambition Tokyo Prize".
NEWVIEW will continue the project in 2020 to discover and nurture next-generation artists who can drive the expression in three-dimensional space as well as support the progress to the next step.
Wyatt is writer, photographer, filmmaker and virtual reality artist who studies new ways to create and share immersive-type stories. His VR stories focus on capturing and communicating human characters with nuances, the space we live in and the emotions embedded in our memories. He is the co-founder of Maku, a film and photography creative group, and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University.
About Media Ambition Tokyo
Media Ambition Tokyo [MAT], which will be celebrating its 8th time this year, is a real showcase of cutting-edge technological culture implemented in cities through experimental approach. Centered in Shibuya, Roppongi and Ueno, cutting-edge art, film, music, performance, talk show, etc., gather in various places in Tokyo such as Keiju, Iibashi, Daiba, Ochanomizu and etc. With participation of innovators, companies and events from various fields inside and outside Japan, various programs will organically grow, expand and connect in various parts of the city, and MAT continues to grow as an activity which encompasses them. Looking to 2020 and the future beyond, the current times when how an urban system should be, including movement, communication and information, is changing drastically, we will present the potential of technology in creating the future of cities from Tokyo to the world, and aim for a festival of technology art that materializes a movement which reforms the future through free demonstrations and experiments without borders which exceed the boundaries of genres and categories.
