Center Plaza Exhibits and Events

NEW CHITOSE 30 Seconds
Competition Selected Films Screening

Date and Time:: October 5th – November 5th

Eight selected works for the NEW CHITOSE 30 Seconds category will be screened and exhibited.
For more details, please click here.

Venue:: Domestic Terminal Building 2nd floor, Center Plaza,
digital signage throughout the airport facility at New Chitose Airport.

AKETARA Sirome – Illustrated Mural

Date and Time:: October 20th – November 5th

An illustrated mural that painted live by AKETARA Sirome (this year’s festival main visual artist) at the Airport Art Festival held on October 20th 2024, will be on display.
For more details about the NEW CHITOSE 2024 POSTER https://airport-anifes.jp/en/about/poster/

Artist

AKETARA Sirome

Born in 1988. A monochrome painter and the father of two. He is working on a story about Shiro and Melo, twins living on a futuristic Earth. He also created a dictionary with drawings to communicate with people who don’t speak the same language.
He was selected to participate in the Music Illustration Awards in 2020, Motion Graphic Creators 100 in 2022, and for a special exhibition at Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators in 2024.
https://www.sirome.net/

Venue:: Domestic Terminal Building 2nd floor, Center Plaza

AR Coloring Workshop

Date and Time:: November 2nd and 3rd, 10:00-16:00

AR Coloring Animation Workshop – You can draw, then animate multiple coloring pictures with ‘Kitpas,’ crayons made from rice bran. Enjoy the experience of having your drawings come to life.
*Kitpas is a product developed by Nihon Rikagaku Industry (Kanagawa Prefecture).

Participating Artists

AR workshop designers：TOCHKA

In 1998, they formed the filmmaker/creative duo “TOCHKA”. They invented the animation production method “PiKA PiKA”, which combines the techniques of long exposure photography and stop motion animation. By using light to draw lines in the air, anyone can create animation. TOCHKA’s fields of activity range from experimental animation to contemporary art.

Their film “PiKA PiKA Lightning Doodle Project” won the Grand Prix in the Lab Competition at International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand 2008. Their film “TRACK” won the Grand Prix in the non-narrative short category at Holland Animation Film Festival 2016

Coloring Illustration: AKETARA Sirome

Born in 1988. A monochrome painter and the father of two. He is working on a story about Shiro and Melo, twins living on a futuristic Earth. He also created a dictionary with drawings to communicate with people who don’t speak the same language.
He was selected to participate in the Music Illustration Awards in 2020, Motion Graphic Creators 100 in 2022, and for a special exhibition at Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators in 2024.
https://www.sirome.net/

Workshop Sponsor

Venue:: Domestic Terminal Building 2nd Floor, Center Plaza

NEWVIEW PORT SHOWCASE 2024

Date and Time:: November 1st – 5th, 10:00-18:00

NEWVIEW PROJECT was born in 2018, the dawn of virtual reality.
NEWVIEW has been pioneering the frontiers of XR expression with various artists.While looking back on those collaborative works create, they will present the trajectory of creative expression and experience design in 3D space, which has been updated along with the evolution of digital expression over the past six years.

About NEWVIEW

DESIGN YOUR ULTRA EXPERIENCE -超体験をデザインせよ-
“NEWVIEW” is a world-wide, simultaneous occurring, experiential project/community where people who embody modern culture such as fashion, music, film, graphic and etc., come together to develop and spread the design of experience and creative experience in a three-dimensional space.

VR ARTWORKS

○NEWVIEW Artist Collaboration Works 2018

–“Pale Ball’s Landing Life” by Takuro Tamayama
–“Strange Swamp Beat” by VIDEOTAPEMUSIC
–“Virtual University” by Kazuki Takakura
–and other works…

○VR Works from NEWVIEW AWARD/OPENCALL/CYPHER

AR ARTWORKS

○NEWVIEW Artist Collaboration Works 2020

–“NEW YOKU VIEW” by Saigo no Shudan feat. EVISBEATS
–「禮崩樂壞 When Rites Collapse and Music Spoils」by Teom Chen
–and other works…

○AR Works from NEWVIEW AWARD/CYPHER

Apple Vision Pro ARTWORKS

○NEWVIEW SCHOOL 2024

URL：https://newview.design/

Venue:: Domestic Terminal Building 2nd floor, Center Plaza

“Airport Piano” Live Drawing

Date and Time:: November 2nd, 13:00-

New Chitose Airport’s street piano, the “Airport Piano,” appears in the Centre Plaza for a limited time.
On 2 November from 13:00, artists will perform live drawings on the piano itself and play the piano.

Participating Artists

AKETARA Sirome

Born in 1988. A monochrome painter and the father of two. He is working on a story about Shiro and Melo, twins living on a futuristic Earth. He also created a dictionary with drawings to communicate with people who don’t speak the same language.
He was selected to participate in the Music Illustration Awards in 2020, Motion Graphic Creators 100 in 2022, and for a special exhibition at Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators in 2024.
https://www.sirome.net/

YUKI Yoko

She creates video arts and painting in a variety of materials inspired by everyday events. Her current short　”In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket/Mini-Mini-Pokke no Okina Niwa de” premiered in 75th Locarno Film Festival in Pardi di domani section, and has been selected for the 40th Sundance Film Festival and others.
https://www.yoko-yuki.com/

AOIKE Mayuko

Grew up in Sapporo. After graduating from Musashino Art University’s Department of Crafts and Industrial Design with a major in glass, she worked as an assistant to traditional craftsman Yasuhiro Hirakawa at the Osaka scissors blacksmith “Sasuke,” while also performing music (gamelan, improvisation, singing with the guitar, etc.).
Currently, as a designer and artist at “Design Atelier BLUEPOND,” she creates with glass materials with the aim of “adding light to life,” and develops accessories, small items, and sound-related objects. She is a composer and singer in music group “Wataame.”

Venue: Domestic Terminal Building 2nd Floor, Center Plaza