Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Aesthetics and History of Arts
Past lectures, symposiums and meetings To be pdated by: 20/07/2009
Research meeting on Representations of "Intimacy" in Art
Kyoto Uiniversity GCOE Program for "Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public spheres in the 21st Century Asia."
International Collaborative Research: "Representation of the Family, Women and Children in the Eastern and Western Arts."
"Modern paintings in the East and the West: How intimate spheres have been represented in art?"
Date: August 1, 2009. 15:00
Place: Lecture Room 5, New Building, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
Research presentation by Kayo Hirakawa (Associate Professor).
West branch meeting of the Japan Art History Society
Date: July 18, 2009. 13:30
Place: Green Hall, Egawa Museum of Art
Research presentation by Seo Nangyong (DC).
The 274th West branch meeting of Japan Society for Aesthetics
Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009. 13:30
Place: Lecture Room 3, New Building, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
"Geijutsu Kanrengakkai Rengo" Symposium on "Art and Interactivity"
Date: 13/06/2009 14:00-17:00
Place: Kyoto National Museum of Modern ArtPresentation on the Symposium by Hiroshi Yoshioka (Professor).
Keynote speech at the festival: "Coded Cultures," Vienna
Date: Friday, May 29, 2009
Museum Moderner Kunst Stifting Ludwig, Wien
Hiroshi Yoshioka gave a keynote lecture at Coded Cultures: Exploring Creative Emergencies.
The 62nd Annual Conference of the Japan Art History Society
Date: Friday 22/05/2009 - Sunday 24/05/2009
Venue: Kyoto University
The conference website will be available in early April. Visit JAHS homepage.
The 29th Annual Conference of Japanese Association of Semiotic Studies
Date: Saturday 16/05/2009 and Sunday 17/05/2009
Venue: Isehara Campus, Tokai University
Visit JASS homepage.
Seminar: "The Demons of Comparisons"
Date: Saturday 04/04/2009 11:00-18:00
Venue: Doelenzaal, University of Amsterdam (Singel 421-427, 1012 WP Amsterdam)
Seminar "The Demon of Comparisons" with Michele Faguet, Patrick D. Flores, Vit Havranek, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Ahmad bin Mashadi, David Riff. Curated by Cosmin Costinas in collaboration with Kyongfa Che and Binna Choi.
The seminar is conceived of as a space for dialogue among a number of writers, researchers, philosophers and curators who in their practice have been committed to questioning underlying processes of history writing in a
shifting canon and a changing geography of artistic practice. Working on narratives and practices that lie on the borders of a (Western) canonic representation of art and its political dimensions, often at the fault line between forms of modernism, avant-garde urgencies and the articulations of the political in the different cultural landscapes they are interested in, the speakers share an interest in the critical tools to be employed in their endeavors. Focusing on spaces with histories as different as Latin America, Eastern Europe and South East Asia, the seminar will explore the ambivalence of comparative approaches, with all their strategic promises and critical traps.
Seminar on Media Arts by Prof. Spielman
Yvonne Spielman (Chair of New Media at The University of the West of Scotland)
Aesthetics of media convergence: Examples of Eastern-Western perspectives in media arts.
Date: Friday 27/03/2009 15:00 - 17:30
Room: Seminar Room 2 (2F New Building), Graduate School of Letters
Moderator: Hiroshi Yoshioka
Professor Yvonne Spielmann (Ph.D. habil.) is Chair of New Media at The University of the West of Scotland, previously Professor of Visual Media at Braunschweig School of Art.
She is author of the German langauge monographs "Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde" (1991), "Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway" (1998), and "Video. Das reflexive Medium" (2005). The Engish edition "Video. The Reflexive Medium" is published with MIT Press, 2008. She is currently writing a new book on hybridity in digital media.
Research grants and fellowships include the Getty Center (1989/90), The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2000/2001), The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study & Conference Center (2002), The Daniel Langlois Foundation (2003 and 2004), the Japan Foundation (2005), and the National University of Singapore (2007).
website: http://www.yvonne-spielmann.com
"Geijutsu wa dareno monoka? (Whom does Art belong to?)" Symposium organized by JSPS
Time: 10:30 - 18:30
Date: Saturday 07/03/2009
Venue: KOKUYO Hall, Shinagawa
10:40 -12:05 Session 1 "Geijutsu wa nani wo koete yukunoka? (Transgression of Art?)"
Chair: Kan Nozaki (Tokyo University)
Keynote: Mitsuyoshi Numano (Tokyo Univsersity)
Commentator: Keijiro Suga (Meiji University)
13:15-14:40 Session 2 "Geijutsu to Kokka (Art and the State)"
Chair: Yukiya Kawaguchi (National Museum of Ethnology)
Keynote: Naoyuki Kinoshita (Tokyo Univsesity)
Commentator: Toshiharu Omuka (Tsukuba University)
Yoshiharu Katayama (Keio Univsersity, ex-governer of Tottori Pref.)
15:10-16:35 Session 3 "Geijutsu wa nonno temeni arunoka? (What is Art for?)"
Chiar: Akeo Okada (Kyoto University)
Keynote: Hiroshi Yoshioka (Kyoto University)
Commentater: Masahiro Miwa (IAMAS, composer)
16:35-17:05 Screening of "Enquete Art"
Composer: Yuichi Matsumoto (Tokyo University of Arts, media artist)
17:05-18:30 Final Discussion by keynote speakers
Chair Akeo Okada
Visit the symposium page in JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science).
Contact Hiroshi Yoshioka for further information.
The 272th Meeting of Nihon Bigakukai Nishibukai (the Japanese Society of Aesthetics, West Division)
TIme: 13:30
Date: Saturday, 28/02/2009
Venue: Kuwansei Gakuen University Building F Room102
"Ogyu Sorai no reigaku shisou: sono Shisho Reigaku wo megutte"
(Ogyu Sorai's philosophy of etiquette and music: on the development of Shī Shū)
Chen Zhenzhu [陳 貞竹]（Hiroshima University）
"Media to shinmitsusei"（Media and intimacy）
Hiroshi Yoshioka [吉岡 洋] (Kyoto University）
About Nihon Bigakukai (JSA), visit JSA homepage.