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Masaki Fujihata

- Year of birth, place
- 1956, Tokyo, Japan
- lives and works in
- Kanagawa, Japan
- Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist, in 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]