Join MIYAVI! Oasis TOKYO creator contest results announcement event held on March 3 | coindesk JAPAN

The Oasis TOKYO x The Sandbox “Experimental Liberation Zone” creator contest winner announcement event will be held online from 19:00 on March 3rd.

As judges, world-famous guitarist MIYAVI, voxel artist VEN Mashu of The Sandbox, and Oasis project owner Coincheck managing director Kensuke Amaha took the stage to comment on entries and announce award-winning works. I do.

The contest is a call for works to be exhibited in an area called “Experimental Liberation Zone” in the Metaverse “Oasis TOKYO” (in The Sandbox), which is attracting worldwide attention. Under the theme of “Release yourself and express who you want to be!”

Candidate works are Twitter hashtag “#OasisTOKYO Creator Contest(Click here for contest details).

Talk session by the judges

After the announcement of the contest results, the three judges will hold a talk session on the theme of “The true value of the creator economy connected by Metaverse and NFT – Top creators talk about the potential of Web3.” Expectations are high for a must-see talk for industry insiders and fans about what kind of future the world’s most active artists see in Web3.

Also at the event, a video message will be delivered from Mr. Yuki Ota (International Olympic Committee Athlete Commissioner, Director of the International Fencing Federation), who is also a judge, and Mr. Kenji Kohashi, Creative Director of OasisTOKYO.

Click here to watch today. No pre-registration or application is required.

A great opportunity to learn about the spread of the Metaverse and Web3, the world of voxel art, and the thoughts of creators working on creating works in the digital world. Not only contest participants, but also those who didn’t know about the contest can easily participate and enjoy it.

Event overview

Oasis TOKYO × The Sandbox “Experimental Liberation Zone” Creator Contest Award Announcement
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023
Implementation time: 19: 00-20: 10 * Scheduled
Holding format: Online
Viewing URL: https://youtube.com/live/uq2hROYJ01k?feature=share

MIYAVI | Samurai Guitarist

MIYAVI, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of his major label debut on October 31, 2022, has attracted attention from around the world as a guitarist for his unique “slap playing method” in which he plays the electric guitar entirely with his fingers without using a pick. They have performed more than 380 performances in 30 countries and successfully completed 8 world tours. He has been highly acclaimed by artists and creators in Japan and overseas, such as arranging the theme song for the Japanese version of the movie “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, providing music for HONDA CM, providing music for SMAP, and participating in various artist works. is recieving.

In 2019, the national anthem performance at the first ball ceremony of the Major League Baseball held at Dodger Stadium fascinated the audience, and attracted a lot of attention in Japan and the United States, showing his presence as a guitarist. In 2021, she received a great response from all over the world with a free dedication live from Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, a world heritage site, with prayers for world peace and peace. The single “Futurism” released in June 2022 was used as a new commercial for Dell’s “Expand Your Youniverse”. In July, when Paris Saint-Germain FC came to Japan, he gave a full-fledged performance in front of a large crowd of over 60,000 at the New National Stadium. He also caught the eye of football fans.

He made his Hollywood debut in the movie “Unbroken” directed by Angelina Jolie (released in Japan in 2016) and started his career as an actor. Appeared in Maleficent 2. He will also appear in the movie “Helldogs” (Director: Masato Harada / Starring: Junichi Okada) to be released on September 16, 2022. As his model, he made his Paris collection debut in the 2018 “Yohji Yamamoto” collection, and was the first Japanese celebrity to be used as an advertisement for the 2020 GUCCI global collection “Gucci Off the Grid collection”. In 2017, he became the first Japanese to become a UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Goodwill Ambassador.​

And the other day, he formed a new band “THE LAST ROCKSTARS” with YOSHIKI of X JAPAN, HYDE of L’Arc~en~Ciel, and SUGIZO of LUNA SEA/X JAPAN. He is a[samurai guitarist]who continues to challenge the world, and is one of the most promising Japanese artists who will continue to be active worldwide in the future.

VEN Mashu | TheSandbox Voxel Artist

voxel artist. He entered cryptocurrency in 2017. He is a founding member of TheSandbox Japan, a voxel artist who leads the Japanese creative team in the blockchain game “The Sandbox”. The sandbox evangelist conveys the charm of voxel art to viewers with his toy-like world view and surprising ideas unique to a former toy designer. Currently focusing on expanding the creator economy originating in Japan. He is working to create jobs in Web 3.0 and raise the resolution of the Metaverse world through a generational approach and collaboration with companies.

Mr. Kensuke Amaha | Managing Executive Officer, Coincheck Co., Ltd.

After graduating from university, joined Recruit Co., Ltd. in 2007 after working at a trading company. After experiencing multiple new business development, he joined Coincheck Co., Ltd. in 2018. He mainly oversees the department responsible for new business development, new handling of crypto assets, and negotiations with industry groups. Since 2020, he has created new businesses such as Japan’s first NFT marketplace and Japan’s first IEO as an executive officer. Appointed as Managing Executive Officer in June 2022. He leads the NFT business, Metaverse business, etc. as the business manager of the Web3 area at our company. He is Chairman of the Japan Crypto Asset Business Association (JCBA) NFT Division. Author of “Textbook of NFT” (Asahi Shimbun Publishing)

Yuki Kamimoto | CEO, N.Avenue
moderator

Joined Yahoo Japan Corporation (now Z Holdings Corporation) in 2013. After engaging in media and advertising business development centered on Yahoo! News, he was in charge of launching new businesses with overseas tech venture companies. Since 2018, he has been engaged in research and business development in the blockchain area at Z Corporation, a group investment fund. Since 2018, he has been responsible for the launch of N.Avenue Co., Ltd., a media company that disseminates information in the next-generation financial field, established by the company’s investment, and is currently the president. He manages “coindesk JAPAN”, the Japanese version of CoinDesk, one of the world’s leading digital asset media outlets, and “btokyo”, one of the largest blockchain conferences in Japan.

｜Text: btokyo members
| Editing: coindesk JAPAN
｜Photo: N.Avenue