The Conquest of Imperfection is the first major UK exhibition of Japanese media artist Masaki Fujihata's acclaimed interactive work, featuring eight installations created by the artist between 1996 - 2008 and a new work specially created for the Manchester exhibition.
Fujihata uses interactive art, virtual reality and networking to probe the fundamental questions of human perception and awareness. He uses new technologies as parodies of how we learn to use language for understanding things, media and our environment. His installations pose questions such as why humans communicate, and what happens through the user’s touch in interactive media work. The title of this exhibition arises from the artist’s conception that reality is probably more imperfect than the virtual realm. Ultimately, Masaki Fujihata questions what reality is, how it is realised and how we should approach the new world that will be enabled by the media of the future.
While his work exhibits an intrinsically Japanese aesthetic, Fujihata also addresses the core issues occupying media artists across the world. He has created pioneering work in all fields of digital media, including computer graphics, interactivity, the Internet, location based and distributed computing, nano technology, data mining, inhabited information spaces, and GPS.
Masaki Fujihata participated in Web3D Art, and the exhibition symposium for Lab3D atCornerhouse in 2003. A successful Field Works project Mersea Circles was realized for Firstsite, Colchester, Essex, in 2003.