Masaki Fujihata

             This piece of  artwork of the Japanese media artist gives the impression of being lost in a digital world, rather than of being lost in a dream. Morel’s Panorama, which sees real time images of the viewer integrated with images of the artist, stretched and filtered through a strange cylindrical shape, was more intriguing.

           There's something confusing and alien about the work of the artist, Masaki Fujihata. And though it certainly has a very surreal Japanese aesthetic – with its playful take on technology that sees avatars chatting nonsense to each other – there is also something slightly subversive and almost Dada about it. But though this artwork is very intriguing and impressive, the cool, detached quality of a world dominated by technology seems far from perfect.