Akihiko Taniguchi interrogates the conceptual border between virtual and real worlds. He employs Google Sketchup as a tool to repetitively represent, replicate, and express complicated daily lives. His works come in multiple forms including installation, performance, and video. He also produces technological apparatuses and software for the works. Big Browser 3D, created with software of the artist’s own invention, provides a virtual world where the audience can act as a protagonist. Viewers can control the VR characters by having them move or jump. They can also use a web browser or search engines. The browser window is as large as the character’s size; this leads us to reconsider the browser of the post-internet era and the changed mode of the windows through which we look at the internet.
