“Seeing is believing” - reality is often determined by our visual perception, in which we rely on our eyes to tell the “truth”. Nowadays, ultra-real scenery can be easily generated with advanced computer programs, and everything can be virtual or real. Even in “reality”, a sense of virtuality can arise by manipulating the visual perception, or vice versa. Takashi Murakami’s concept of superflat, depth and reality is “created” by compressing layers of meanings and graphics into a flat “surface”, reversing the meaning of reality and virtuality. Reality, therefore, are relative and complementary to virtuality.
Fantasy, on the other hand, is by definition not “real”. However, it opens up infinite space for imagination which enables us to create “reality”, which a subtle flavour of virtuality is camouflaged into the real environment. Reality, hence, is often the resultant of the machinic process of optimising the existing (reality) and the imagined (virtuality) - a hypertextual picturesque. It is the systemic delay between “virtuality” and “reality” which allows our imagination to sprout and extend beyond the realm of reality, creating something truly “fantastic”.
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