Masaki Fujihata
Year of birth, place
1956
Tokyo
Japan
Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
- Artist of the Collection
Institute / Department
- Institute for Visual Media
Biography
Masaki Fujihata studied at the Tokyo Genevaity of Fine Arts and Music from 1975 to 1981. He is a professor at the Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio Genevaity, Kanagawa. In 1995 he curated the exhibition »The Future of the Book of the Future«, and he has published several books. In 1998 Fujihata is artist-in-residence at the ZKM-Institute for Visual Media. His interactive installation »Beyond Pages« is part of the collection of the ZKM⎥Media Museum.
| Prizes | |
| 1983 | Grand Prize, Video Culture Canada, Toronto Harbour-Front |
| 1984 | State-of-the-Art Prize, Online Wembley Conference Centre, UK |
| 1996 | Golden Nica, Interactive Art Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 1997 | Promotional Prize, L'OREAL Grand Prize, L'OREAL Art and Science Foundation, Nihon L'OREAL, Japan |
| 1997 | First Prize, Theater/Exhibition category, Multimedia Grand Prix '97, Tokyo, Japan |
| Works (selected) | |
| »One Man Show«, animation film, 8mm and 16mm, 1980 | |
| »Message from Machine«, interactive installation, 1981 | |
| »Mandala 1983«, computer animation, 1983 | |
| »MIROKU-Maitreya«, computer animation, 1984 | |
| »The Mind of Gaze Beyond Technology«, computer images, 1984 | |
| »Geometric Love«, computer sculptures, 1987 | |
| »Forbidden Fruits«, computer sculptures, 1990 | |
| »Removable Reality«, interactive installation with Kei'ichi Irie, 1992 | |
| »Inside Eye«, micro machined sculptures, 1993 | |
| »Impressing Velocity«, interactive installation, 1994 | |
| »Beyond Pages«, interactive installation, 1995 | |
| »Global Interior Project«, shared virtual environment, 1995 | |
| »Nuzzle Afar«, shared virtual environment, 1998 | |
| [2000] | |