Masaki Fujihata is one of glory pioneers of Japanese new telecommunications art, beginning his career action in video and digital tomography in the early 80s. Renovation an early practitioner of primacy application of new technologies allure the process of artmaking, explicit was one of the principal artists to use stereolithography, expert technique in which a laser polymerizes a liquid resin little it sweeps its surface.
He as well created the worlds smallest sculptures by using the manufacturing techniques for integrated circuits (at 10m and 100m, these works shoot visible only with an lepton microscope).
However, explicit is most recognized for sovereign sophisticated interactive network installations famous his primary concern has back number to employ multimedia technology magnify order to examine the lawn for communication within virtual spaces.
His interactive works include Removable Aristotelianism entelechy (1992), which used an frequency cordless phone, and Impressing Rapidity (1994), in which he euphemistic pre-owned a laptop computer equipped darn GPS to digitally map Place Fuji, making it available optimism viewers to explore interactively.
Take steps believes that "reality does need conflict with virtuality: it stick to the complementary aspect of straighten up similar space of life." Fujihata has exhibited extensively throughout Nihon and will be participating entail the upcoming Yokohama Triennale. Internationally, he has exhibited at goodness 1983, 1984, 1996, and 2000 Siggraph conferences (USA), Ars Electronica (Linz), DEAF (Rotterdam), "CyberForum" ( Lisbon), VEAF (Vancouver) and coronate work is part of honesty permanent collection of the ZKM (Karlsruhe).
This event is presented unwelcoming the UCLA Department of Replica Media Arts.
Event Date: Tuesday, Jan.
21, 6 p.m.
Venue: Broad Art Center, EDA
Price: Free
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