Shin Osaka

Maibara

Ogaki

30min. 30min.

30min.20min.

40min.

10min.

100min.

Gifu HashimaShinkansen

Nagoya

ChubuInternational

Airport

Tokyo

By car

RIST Student Dorm

Located in a residential area about 1.3km away from the

campus. The individual dorm rooms include: unit bath, bed,

and electric cooker; creating a living space that provides

comfort and functionality at a price suited for student life.

Address: 1 Chome 1-7, Fujie-cho, Ogaki-shi

Number of rooms: 40 (Western style)

Room layout: 1 room apartment with kitchen

Rent: 22,800 yen (Communal charges separate)

LibraryThe IAMAS Library has a collection of approximately 40,000

books and magazines, with the primary focus being on topics

in information, science and technology, and art. There are

a wide variety of DVDs and other audio-visual materials

available for viewing and listening. We also provide a

research material search service. It is also possible for those

not affiliated with IAMAS to use the Library.

RCIC (Research Center for Industrial Culture)

The Research Center for Industrial Culture is an institution

attached to IAMAS that seeks to broadly apply IAMAS’s

research achievements to society through industry-

government-academia alliances and cultural activities, and

make various contributions.

4-1-7 Kagano, Ogaki-shi, Gifu 503-0006 Japan

TEL +81-584-75-6600 / FAX +81-584-75-6637

info@ml.iamas.ac.jp

www.iamas.ac.jp

Workshop 24Workshop 24 is the cultural base of IAMAS.

Included within: RCIC & R-Cafe, Library, student

& staff research project facilities, and the

Loft; creative studios for students’ academic

life. Also included are the IAMAS prototyping

& fabrication spaces: the Innovation Studio,

metalworking & woodworking rooms.

Softopia Japan Center BuildingLocated at the center of the Softopia area are:

administrative offices, lecture rooms, exhibition

facilities, theatre, and various specialized

studios, including sound, design, etc.

From Ogaki StationTaxi: Approx. 8 min. from JR Ogaki Station South EntranceBus: Take bus from JR Ogaki Station South Entrance, get off at [Softopia Japan] (approx. 10 min.)

From Gifu Hashima StationTaxi: Approx. 25 min. from JR Gifu Hashima Station North Entrance

Methods of Transportation

From Tokyo AreaTokyo → Nagoya: 100 min. by ShinkansenNagoya → Ogaki: 30 min. on Limited Express train on JR Tokaido Line

From Osaka AreaShin-Osaka → Maibara: 40 min. by ShinkansenMaibara → Ogaki: 30 min. on JR Tokaido Line

From Chubu Centrair International Airport100 min. to JR Ogaki Station passing through either Nagoya or Gifu

The features of IAMAS’s research education

are its social implementations that use projects

as their linchpins, team-teaching by faculty

from various disciplines, and its curriculum

where students obtain specialized as well as

practical knowledge and techniques.

Also, the collaborations between students

from various disciplines (art and design, science

and technology, humanities, etc.) helps the students

stimulate one another, letting them broaden

their individual skills and knowledge. The

research environment with its elite selected

few is also quite enriched, with the strength

of its network of graduates being another of

IAMAS’s appealing points.

Education Advancement

Gifu University, Graduate School of Engineering,

Doctorate Program | Tokyo University of the Arts,

Doctoral Program in Film and New Media Studies |

Nagoya University, Graduate School of Information

Science, Doctoral Program | Kyoto City University of

Arts, Graduate School of Arts – Doctoral Course |

Linz University of Art and Industrial Design, Doctoral

Program (Austria) | Royal College of Art (England)

Part-time Lecturers

Fuminori Akiba

Andreas Schneider

Keiichi Irie

Kenji Kumasaka

Yukiko Shikata

Atsuhito Sekiguchi

Tomoko Tagawa

Faculty

For IAMAS, as a trailblazing school where people study advanced media expressions, many

graduates are finding employment at new educational institutions and cultural facilities.

In addition, other career choices include IT affiliated businesses, web, graphic and product

designers, engineers, artists, starting a new company, advancement to doctoral programs, and

other various advancements.

Shigeki YoshidaPresidentNetwork Engineering

Kyo AkabaneInteraction Design

Shigeru KobayashiInteraction Design

Akira SegawaGraphic Design

Masahiro MiwaDeanComposition/Modern Music

Masayuki AkamatsuMedia Art

Tomoko KanayamaDirector of the RCICCommunication Design

Yasuhiko AndoContemporary Art

Masahiro KobayashiLibrary DirectorFormative Culture

Masami HirabayashiCommunication Systems

Shinjiro MaedaVisual Expression

Koji YamadaInformation Engineering

Shigeru MatsuiPoetry/Visual Media Studies

Akitsugu MaebayashiMedia Art

Ryota KuwakuboMedia Art

Takahiro KobayashiInformation System Engineering

James GibsonDesign

Kazuhiro JoAcoustics/Interaction Design

Nobuya SuzukiInformation/Design Engineering

IAMAS PEOPLE WEB SITE

Let’s take a look at the inner thoughts of

some graduates on the IAMAS website.

www.iamas.ac.jp/iamaspeople/

IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), a Master’s level graduate school. Combining progressive technological development and cultural trends to propose advanced artistic expressions, design innovation, and new manufacturing techniques.

IAMAS, a Master’s level graduate school launched

by Gifu Prefecture in 2001. It enjoys an international

reputation as a limited enrollment graduate program,

with a full complement of highly qualified instructors.

Founded on the principle of exploring the convergence

of arts and sciences. A school that combines progressive

technological development and cultural trends to propose

advanced artistic expressions, design innovation, and new

manufacturing techniques. Aiming to educate socially

aware creatives through an intensive research and hands-

on practice. Relocating to the Softopia Japan area in 2014,

developing activities around a ‘field-style’ campus; open to

both local and regional communities. Thus creating unique

open space research and educational institution.

OUTLINE & IDEA FEATURE

Main Advancements for Graduates Employment/Standard Corporations

IMG SRC Group | Infofarm co.,Ltd. | KAYAC Inc. |

KORG INC. | CyberAgent, Inc. | Shinto Tsushin Co.,

Ltd. | Bascule Inc. | Sony Corporation | TAK CO., LTD.

| TEAMLAB INC. | HAKUHODO i-studio Inc. | Nintendo

Co., Ltd. | YUKAI ENGINEERING INC. | SK telecom

(South Korea)

Employment/Education & Research Institutes

Joshibi University of Art and Design | Seian University

of Art and Design | Tama Art University | Tokyo

University of the Arts | Nagoya University of Arts and

Sciences | Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design |

Hiroshima City University | Musashino Art University

Employment/Cultural Facilities

NTT InterCommunication Center | The Museum of

Art, Kochi | Shizuoka Performing Arts Center | sendai

mediatheque | National Museum of Emerging Science

and Innovation | Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media

Business Founding

ALLIANCE PORT, LLC. | aitia | Ag Ltd. | GOCCO. |

Semitransparent Design | soneru | MATHRAX, LLC.

| trigger device Y.K. | Douga Mawari | Matilde inc. |

METAPHOR Inc. | rhizomatiks co., ltd.

Workshop 24

! Project Space

@ Wood Working Room

# Innovation Studio

$ Metal Working Room

% Loft

^ R. Cafe

& System Office

Softopia JapanCenter Building

1 Design Studio

2 Visual Studio

3 Sound Studio

4 Theater

5 Gallery 1

6 Gallery 2

7 Sleeping Rooms

Dominic Chen

Yasuhito Nagahara

Hide Nakaya

Masahiko Furukata

Hisashi Muroi

Hiroshi Yoshioka

Enhanced Experience EnvironmentIt is predicted that, in a world that has reached the Technological Singularity (where artificial intelligence has surpassed the intellectual power

of all mankind), there will be a large change in the paradigm. We will conduct research for creating an environment where our experiences will be enhanced while taking into account the impacts the Singularity will likely bring about. We will actualize expressions and systems, particularly those that deal with real-time time and space, as well as intelligence robots.

Prototyping tomorrowBy extracting topics from real society, and through the realization of a prototype aimed at future societies, we aim to create a vision of the future. Using even our own design process as a research theme, we undertake collaborative research with companies. We aim for the realization of experience-focused prototypes and news proposal for society.

Re-inventing the WheelThrough hands-on practice, we will change history and create a “present” that might have been. In this project, instead of fantasizing about the future and reminiscing on the past for the current present, we will decipher the history of media, and search for an ideal state based on present materials, processing technology, and social situations.

Craft, Fabrication and SustainabilityUsing the IAMAS Innovation Studio as a base, we conduct our activities while collaborating with TAB, an architecture and design firm based in Ogaki. We research the potential of, and implement, small-scale yet sustainable businesses and communities that utilize digital fabrication, as well as the tools that make them possible, in the Maker Movement age.

PROJECT

Mino HouseThe Mino Project, which began in 2011, and has borrowed an old Japanese-style house in the “town of udatsu” since 2013, doesn’t simply introduce IAMAS’s activities; it implements various expressions and creative activities together with the people of the region on the basis of thought and perspective that is rooted in the livelihood of the region.

［Other Projects］■ A Platform for Creation in the Future■ Manufacturing Open Method■ Media and Local Railways■ IAMAS Library■ NxPC.Lab

Art ThinkingIn this project, we critically debate the current state of art in modern culture and society, as well as modern culture and society themselves through art practices. Specifically, we conduct the creation of works and exhibition planning, with a focus on seminars for reading literature. This year, in collaboration with other projects, we participated in cooperative projects with the city of Ogaki.

Research project for expressions that utilize high definition video technologyAccording to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, in 2016 they will begin a test broadcast for 8K TVs which will number 16 times the current amount. This kind of transition to high-resolution images is not just a realization of portrayals that are finer than existing ones, it is bristling with the potential of a previously unheard of visual expression being born. Pursuing that is the objective of this project.

Technology for WelfareUsing welfare as the theme, each participant will attempt to solve a problem that they have found. Welfare has a wide range, spanning from matters affecting disabled people, to problems for the elderly, social welfare, and support for developing countries. We will think about what problems there are from each perspective, as well as consider solutions and what is necessary after said solutions, and seek better methods.

Neo Co-creationThis is a project where, while having our external, creative members interact with the local residents, who for hundreds of years, have created and carried on a variety of arts of living in the Neo district (formerly Motosu Village) of Motosu City in Gifu Prefecture amongst an approaching transition from a bloating civilization that continues to break what it has and create new things, to a civilization that continues to grow, we think about what a sustainable regional society is, and what living in said society is.

IAMAS Projects are a social testing ground for media creation. Students and faculty members gather

together and, through joint activities, aim to create advanced and unique research. And, by working

together with government offices, businesses, and other universities, the Projects are also involved with

sharing research results with the public.(In addition to the Projects listed here, there are various other Projects being carried out.)

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In the first semester of their first year,

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aster’s work and thesis

In the first year, we implement projects, and, cultivate student’s knowledge and applied

skills through classes that will become the foundation of student’s research. In the second

year, we continue with projects, working mainly with each student’s Master’s research as the

focus, whereupon students will put together their Master’s works and theses as the results of

their research, in the goal to

obtain their Master’s degree.

IAMAS students enroll from various specialized fields, and from

various regions. Crossing beyond the walls of nationality, age, and

disciplines (art and design, science and technology, humanities, etc.), students

empathize with and discuss one another’s way of thinking, and in

the course of doing so, enhance their own research.(Data collected from students enrolled in 2014)

STUDENT PROFILE

SCHEDULE MASTER’S RESEARCH

In order to complete the Master’s degree in Media Creation after 2 years, each student must

determine their personal research topic in consultation with multiple instructors. Students

are required to produce a Master’s Work and Master’s Thesis or Master’s Thesis only.

EVENT Ogaki Biennale

Ogaki Mini Maker Faire

The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu: IAMAS ARTIST FILE

IAMAS Graduation and Project Research Exhibition

IAMAS OPEN HOUSE

Works

1Takuya Ishikawa | 2015 Graduate | eat & plot

2Chiaki Ishizuka | 2015 Graduate | <Form>Synthesis

3Seira Uchida | 2015 Graduate | Do Your Yohaku shoten (DYY!) project member's tool No.1

"Notes of TEAKA"

4Hiroki Tomita | 2015 Graduate | The desk which causes an act

5Adilijiang Nuermaimaiti | 2015 Graduate | Tili Bayawan

6Aina Yamaguchi | 2015 Graduate | THE SOLDERING WORKSHOP

7So Yamada | 2015 Graduate | Looking at a stone

8Yuki Kimpara | 2014 Graduate | CuttingBoxTool

9Hisashi Imai | 2013 Graduate | Self-Help Devices for Mr.K

blYoung-Hyo Bak | 2013 Graduate | TRAVITA

Theses

Yuta Mizuno | 2015 Graduate | Google Maps as images

Yumiko Kawai | 2014 Graduate | The field for finding oneself – body and space

Koichiro Sahara | 2012 Graduate | The counterpoint of power:

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in “logic of sensation”

Native area

At time of Enrollment

Age / Gender

3Kyushu / Okinawa

1Chugoku / Shikoku

6Kinki

13Kanto

3Tohoku

2Hokkaido

14Chubu

5Overseas

(Mexico, Russia, China, South Korea)

24 and under

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30-34

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40-45

46 and over

Male Female

Students Member of Work-Force

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