Digital exhibition is virtually underwater

Muramatsu is good at creating these virtual worlds, or to put it another way, weaving dreams for people. His previous shows, Flowers by Naked, Sweets by Naked and City Night Fantasia all incorporated both real things and virtual ones to create a magic world for the audience. In total, the shows have attracted more than 1.2 million visitors in Japan.

"The line between the virtual and reality is blurring," says the 47-year-old, who confesses that he is, in fact, afraid of the advanced technology we are now capable of.

He is a juxtaposition, an artist who seems to contradict himself. On one hand, all of his work relies heavily on technology, yet on the other, he refuses to employ too much technology in his daily life. He loves to touch real things and sense the moment.

"People should go back to the real world and live in the moment, no matter how wonderful the virtual world is," says Muramatsu.

That being said, the mixture of art and technology is an inevitable trend, with which Muramatsu strongly agrees. It is an ethos that he teaches in his role as a visiting professor at Osaka University of Art.

"Technology is just a tool to create art," he says of the relationship between his art and science.