Manabe Daito (まなべだいと)
He is a Tokyo-based media artist and programmer, and launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. His end goal is not simply rich, high-definition realism by recognizing and recombining these familiar elemental building blocks. Rather, his practice is informed by careful observation to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelationships and boundaries delineating the analog and digital, real and virtual.
As the Japanese art critic Fumihiko Sumitomo described:
“visiting a western museum would make you believe, whether you are an artist or a mere observer, that art did not root in Japan. But it would be more accurate to say that we identify art as an autonomous genre which was imported from the West and that, starting from this premise, a sort of dualism has manifested itself in our culture.”
We know that art should be no geographical boundaries and language difference. As we hear about art, the first image in our mind always is western fine art. In this generation of global and interdisciplinary, we should take more attraction on eastern culture and possibility. Thus, with very special aesthetic and art sense, Japan should be a good option to do the study further on new media art. Manabe Daito is one of the representative person for japanese art. If the studied we have discussed presented the beginning of new art media, I think the final hyperessay what I can do is to discuss about our future.