A Message from the Director

Mar. 4, 2016

The world of virtual reality?

So far, printing technology has been developed as a method for reproducing texts and iconographies in various ways. Now, with the advent of digital technology, the methods for representation have diversified marvelously.

"Virtual reality" technology has spread far beyond the horizons of printing. The possibilities are too large to grasp all at once.

This exhibition will introduce the state of virtual reality at its current stage of development. We hope you will visit to study the influences of virtual reality on print culture and the ideas sparked in printing by this world-shaping technology.

I look forward to welcoming everyone.

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

Born in Tokyo in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1965, and after completing the masters degree course at the university became a research assistant at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University in 1969. Became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and later became a professor. Served as the Director-General of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo from 2001, becoming Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo in 2005, a position he still holds. His fields of specialization are Western history and Western cultural history.