Masaki Fujihata
»Morel´s Panorama «
2003 - 2003
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Description
Digital video installation Custom-made panorama camera, PC, data projector, Macintosh, loud speakers In Morel's Panorama, imagery fed from a panoramic camera (installed in the centre of the gallery) is mapped onto a rendered cylindrical image projected on the walls of the exhibition space in real-time. This imagery is integrated with a pre-recorded set of cylindrical images of Fujihata reading a section of Adolfo Bioy Casares' novel Morel's Invention. This story about a special device which perfectly records images, sounds and sensations (wind, smells, etc.), projecting them as 3-D recreations, and the inventor's encounters with the site of projection, is often used in reference to Virtual Reality. Resembling the panorama paintings of 19th Century Europe and the panopticon (a surveillance device used in prisons), the spectator is immersed in, yet never central to, the work. They wander through a field of realtime and recorded information, like the fictional Dr. Morel, exploring the gap between subjective experience and reproduced reality. (Kathy Rae Huffman, Exhibition Guide "The Conquest of Imperfection")