Since the 70s Masaki Fujihata has been experimenting with animation in 8mm and 16mm film. He commenced working with computer graphics in the early 80’s and producing sculpture and interactive installations and sculpture. In the 90s he has exhibited at Spiral Gallery, ICC gallery, Tokyo; and at SigGraph, Ars Electronica, DEAF.
Born in Tokyo in 1956, lives and works in Kanagawa. He 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 was 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.
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