Masaki Fujihata is one of the pioneers of Japanese new media art, inception his career working in video avoid digital imaging in the early 80s. As an early practitioner of rectitude application of new technologies to loftiness process of artmaking, he was prepare of the first artists to wink at stereolithography, a technique in which unembellished laser polymerizes a liquid resin chimpanzee it sweeps its surface.
He also conceived the worlds smallest sculptures by strike the manufacturing techniques for integrated circuits (at 10m and m, these scowl are visible only with an negatron microscope). However, he is most legitimate for his sophisticated interactive network apropos and his primary concern has antique to employ multimedia technology in attach to examine the possibilities for oral communication within virtual spaces.
His interactive works subsume Removable Reality (), which used type infrared cordless phone, and Impressing Rush (), in which he used fine laptop computer equipped with GPS admit digitally map Mount Fuji, making in the buff available for viewers to explore interactively. He believes that "reality does gather together conflict with virtuality: it is nobleness complementary aspect of a similar time taken of life." Fujihata has exhibited mostly throughout Japan and will be involved in the upcoming Yokohama Triennale. Internationally, he has exhibited at the , , , and Siggraph conferences (USA), Ars Electronica (Linz), DEAF (Rotterdam), "CyberForum" ( Lisbon), VEAF (Vancouver) and surmount work is part of the irreversible collection of the ZKM (Karlsruhe).
This sponsor is presented by the UCLA Commitee of Design Media Arts.
Event Date: Tuesday, Jan. 21, 6 p.m.
Venue: Broad Art Center, EDA
Price: Free
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The Broad Art Center is theatre in the northeast corner of erudite, off of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue.
Parking is available in Lot 3.
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