Top > Faculty List > Graduate School of Film and New Media > Japanese
FUJIHATA, Masaki  Professor - Department of New Media 1 April, 2011
Interview in Lauterburg, a border town between Germany and France, summer 2002
1956Born in Tokyo
1979-81Tokyo University of the Arts (BFA in design in '79 and MFA in '81)
1990-98Keio University (Assistant Professor in '90, Associate Professor in '92, and Professor in '98)
1999-06Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2005-11Director, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
2006-Professor, Department of New Media, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
2011-Director, Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
Research activities
Selected exhibitions and awards

1980Solo exhibition of animated film (16mm+8mm), Salon Shu, Tokyo
1984"Mandara 1983", computer-animation film, SigGraph, Detroit, USA
1986"Mandara 1983" and "Miroku-Maitreya", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1987"Geometric Love", Computer-generated Sculpture Exhibition, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
1990"Forbidden Fruits", Computer-generated 2D and 3D Works, Gallery MIRAGE, Tokyo
1992"Removable Reality" in collaboration with Keiichi Irie, NTT / ICC, Wacoal Art Center / Spiral, Tokyo
1994"Impressing Velocity", Installation, ICC Gallery, Tokyo
1996"Beyond Pages", "Global Interior Projects #2", Golden Nika Prize, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. "Light on the Net", Softopia, Gifu
1997"Impressing Velocity in Real-time", Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, Hungary
1998-99 "Nuzzle Afar", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam; ICC Tokyo; and Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
"Impressing Velocity with Motion Platform", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000"Experiencing 1-inch Monk" , Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata
"Nuzzle Afar", version 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
2001"Collective Off-Sense", New York Center for Media Arts, USA
"Field-Work@Hayama", Yokohama Triennale, AEC Linz, Austria
2002"Off-Sense", "Small Fish", and "Beyond Pages", One-man show, pre-opening exhibition at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
"Field-Work@Lake-Shinji", Shimane Art Museum, Matsue
"Field-Work@Alsace", Future-Cinema, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Art-Bit Collection", exhibition project, NTT / ICC, Tokyo
2003“Mersea Circle", firstsite, Colchester, UK
"Orchisoid", a collaboration with Yuji Dogane, Maison de la Culture du Japon a Paris.
"Morel's Panorama", Art Space Kimura, Tokyo
2004"Ruska's Room", Art Space Kimura, Tokyo
2005"Friends'Tree", Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
"Landing Home in Geneva", Centre for Image Contemporary, Geneva, Swiss
"Unreflective Mirror", Art Space Kimura, Tokyo
2006"The Conquest of Imperfection", CCGA, Kohriyama
"Off-Sense", Canon Gallery, Tokyo
"Portray the Silhouette", Art Space Kimura, Tokyo
2007"Orchisoid", a collaboration with Yuji Dogane, Silent_Dialogue, NTT / ICC, Tokyo
2008"The Conquest of Imperfection" (Corner House, Manchester, UK)
"Mobilisable" (Ensad, Paris, France)
"Morel's panorama" YOUniverse, Seville Biannuale BIACS3, (Seville, Spain)
2009"Private Room / TV", (KOBO, Ginza, Tokyo) (Entrance Hall at Bunkagakuin, Ochanomizu, Tokyo)
"Simultaneous Echoes", (Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK), (Landscape 2.0, Edith Russ House for Media art, Ordenburg, Germany)
2010"Morel's Panorama", Opem Space, NTT / ICC, Shinjuku, Tokyo)
Receive an Art Encouragement Prize of Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the "Media Arts" category from Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Publications
1987"Geometric Love", PARCO publishing
"Frogs Co.,Ltd.", Kadokawa
1991"Forbidden Fruits", Libro port
1995"The Future of the Book of the Future", Justsystem, Tokyo
"Rewound Futures", Justsystem, Tokyo
1997"Color as a Concept", Bijutsu Shuppan, Tokyo
1998"The Treasure of Computer Graphics", Justsystem, Tokyo
1999"Artintact-5" and "Small Fish", CD-ROM released from ZKM / Cantz, Germany
2003"SENTAN GEIJYUTU SENGEN (Manufest for Cutting edge in Art)", Iwanami publications
2007"The Conquest of Imperfection", Transart
2009"Imperfect Reality", NTT publications
Educational activities
Fujihata teaches master course students and doctor candidates for finding out new possibilities of new media by using imaging technology practically. Between 2004-09 he had run a collaborative research project under Crest, JST with the topic of"Why Human Makes Images in 21st Centuray ?" From 2010, as an activity of the Graduate School of Film and New Media, he initiated a series of symposium "LOOP."
Social activities
Technical advisor for Nihon Kagaku Mirai-kan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation)
Member of jury for Media Art Festival sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Key Words
Media Art, Computer / Media and Expression