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FUJIHATA, Masaki
Professor - Department of New Media |
1 April, 2011 |
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| Interview in Lauterburg, a border town between Germany and France, summer 2002 |
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| 1956 | Born in Tokyo |
| 1979-81 | Tokyo University of the Arts (BFA in design in '79 and MFA in '81) |
| 1990-98 | Keio University (Assistant Professor in '90, Associate Professor in '92, and Professor in '98) |
| 1999-06 | Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 2005-11 | Director, 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
| 1980 | Solo 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 |
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