The Campus Genius Award (Gakusei CG Contest) honors digital artworks created by students. The continuity of this contest, which is held for the 21st time this year, underpins its important role in Japanese Media Arts. Incorporating expression forms of new media and technology that change with the times, the contest forms a gateway not only for computer graphic artworks, but a wide range of diverse genres. Many past award-winners have also won high acclaim in the Ars Electronica, the Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale and the Japan Media Arts Festival and conduct their activities at the first line of several creative fields of society such as art, design and entertainment.