Upcoming Evnets

　HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 !!
May this year turn out to be the best, a better, or at least a nice one for all of us!

• Intesive Lecture on Contemporary Art at Kobe University
  

  January 6/7, 2010, at Kobe University

• Gutai * Carmetn * AU
  

  January 7, 17:00, at : KOBELCO Dai Hall, Hyogo

  A miraculous combination of the Opera Carmen and Gutai performance piece originated from 1950s!

• Research Project on "Mono" and "Kankau-Kachi" Studies (Weibsite in Japanese)
  

  Date Saturday 30, January 2010, 13:00~18:00 Place: 3F, Inamori Memorial Hall, Kyoto University/p>

  I will give a talk at the symposium organized by Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University.

  For the location of Inamori Memorial, look at the Campus map of Yakugakubu

• "Review: Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reefs (the Gallery Track 16, Santa Monica)"

  Shikaku no Gemba: Shiki no Hokorob, Daigo Publishers, 12/05/2009

• "Hyakunengo no Jinrui e" ("For Humans in 2109")

  MUSEUM NEWS, Kawasaki City Museum, 21/03/2009

• "Geijutsu wa Kne ni Narunoka? " ("Does Art Make Money?")

  Series [Human and Social Sciences for the Future] 17Bungaku Geijutsu wa nanno tameni arunoka?, Toshindo Publishers, 10/3/2009

• "Bungaku Geijutsu wa nanno tameni arunoka? ("What are Art and Literature For?", a talk with Masahiro Miwa and Akeo Okada)

  Series [Human and Social Sciences for the Future] 17Bungaku Geijutsu wa nanno tameni arunoka?, Toshindo Publishers, 10/03/2009

• "Okogamashii Hanashi" ("A presumtous Story")

  Tadasu Takamine [BIG REST] Gardening for the Future 1,095m², Sendai Mediatheque, 01/03/2009

• "Mohou to Souzou" (Reproduction and Creation)

  Fukufukuseini Sinrowo Tore: 60 Years of Kiyoshi Awazu, Kawasaki City Museum, 24/01/2009

• "Arietakamo shirenai "Ongaku'" ("'Music' as It might have been")

  Kozui, for Poetry and Music, vol.3 "The Method: Masahiro Miwa" Kozui Kikaku, 01/01/2009

• Intesive Lecture on Contemporary Art at Kobe University
  

  December 27/28, 2009, and January 6/7, 2010, at Kobe University

• Dialogue with Gisèle Vienne
  

  December 6, 2009, 13:00 -16:30 at Kyoto Art Center

  I will talk with performance artist Gisèle Vienne, who is going to present her latest work next year.

• Live with "Dodoitsu," by the Formant Brothers, at Doshisha University
  

  December 8, 18:30, at Clover Hall, Kambai-kan, Doshisha University

  This is a live performance by the Fromant Brothers (Masahiro Miwa + Nobuyasu Sakonda), with their recent work The Tomb of Freddie: International, and a new piece." Highly recommended for students at my class: Contemporary Art Theory, at Doshisha University. The concert is free for all Doshisha students.

• Lecture at Tokyo Geidai
  

  November 10, 2009, Tokyo University of the Arts ("Toride" Campus)

  Details are to come.

• Coded Cultures, Yokohama
  

  October 14-18, 2009, Tokyo University of the Arts ("Bashamichi" Campus)

  I gave a talk on media and complexity, referring to works by artist Shozo Shimamoto, on the 18th.
  
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  CODDED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences
  
  CODED CULTURES is a binational festival (Austria – Japan) as part of the official »Austria-Japan Year 2009«. Its aim is to explore new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related arts, focusing on Japan and Europe.
  
  2009.10.14 – 2009.10.18
  Tokyo National University for the Arts (Yokohama / Bashamichi Campus)
  Yokohama Creativecity Center / YCC (Yokohama / Bashamichi)
  Club UNIT (Tokyo / Ebisu)
  
  Yokohama Creativecity Center (Yokohama / Bashamichi)
  Opening Reception: 2009.10.16, 6 pm
  Artist Presentations: 2009.10.17, 1 pm - 10 pm
  
  Cub UNIT (Tokyo / Ebisu),
  Party: 2009.10.16, 11:30 pm
  Special Guest: Christian Fennesz (AT)
  Hosted by: MINIMAL TOKYO
  
  Tokyo National University for the Arts (Yokohama / Bashamichi Campus)
  Symposium: 2009.10.18, 1 pm - 8 pm
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  the website of Coded Cultures.

• Symposium: "What is Media Art?: Regeneration of Critique"
  

  Date: Saturday 10, October 2009 Venue: Fukutake Hall, Tokyo University (Hongo Campus)

  The Graduate School of Film and New Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts (Japanese)

• The 60th Conference of Bigakukai(Japan Society for Aesthetics)
  

  November 10-12, 2009, Tokyo University ("Hongo" Campus)

  I will chair the panel on Film and Video in the afternoon of the 11th.

  the Conference Website (Japanese)

  
  
• The 10th World Congress of Semiotics

  September 22-26, 2009, in the City of A Coruña, Spain

  SEMIOTICS OF "JAPAN COOL"
  Day: 22/09/2009 Hour: 17:30-19:30
  Venue: Fac. Derecho-Aula 6/Fac. Law-Classroom
  
  Presidente/Chairman: Hisashi Muroi (Yokohama National University)
  Autors: Hisashi Muroi (YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY) Ryuta Koike (YONEZAWA WOMEN'S JUNIOR COLLEGE, JAPAN) Kyoko Koma (VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY JAPANESE STUDIES CENTRE, LITHUANIA) Noriko Onohara (UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO, JAPAN) Miki Ohkubo (KYOTO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN / PARIS UNIVERSITY VIII, FRANCE) Hiroshi Yoshioka (KYOTO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN)
  
  I gave a brief presentation: "Edible Signs: The World of 'Chara-ben'."
  Discription of this Round Table Japanese pop culture, such as "manga," animations, computer games, fashion, "otaku" mentality and "kawaii" aesthetics, has already penetrated into the urban young life style in many areas on the planet, in various different ways. Nearly 40 years after Roland Barthe called Japan as "Empire of Signs", the country appears to realize its full power of diversification, mutation and dissemination of cultural signs over the world, largely due to the development of information technology.
  In contrast to this undoubted popularity of Japanese pop culture or "Japan cool," however, there seems to be few serious investigations or discussions from academic point of view on this issue, especially those attempted by Japanese researchers. This round table will focus on semiotic analysis and study about contemporary Japanese culture, inviting distinguished Japanese experts in this field, who are based on both inside and outside the country.

  the website of the Congress.

• Art & Science talk series vol.2 On Tombeau de Freddie
  

  September 12, 2009 18:30, Nagoya, at Café Parlwr

  　 A talk event organized by Mayu Tsusaka, a IAMAS graduate now working at Aichi Prefectural College of Arts. I had a talk with the Formant Brothers (Masahiro Miwa and Nobuyasu Sakonnda) who composed the multi-media musical piece Tombeau de Freddie, which was awarded honorary mention by Ars Electronica 2009.
  
• Lecture at "Geijutsu Kanrengakkai Rengo" Symposium

  Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, 13/06/2009 14:00-17:00

• Workshops and Lecture in Vienna

  Vienna, 18/05 - 01/06/2009

  I will stay two weeks in Vienna, giving workshops and lectures at The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna , and a keynote at the festival: Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences" (May 27th - 31st, 2009). I will be talking on the the 29th, after the session titled: "Designing Complexity."
• The 29th Annual Conference of JASS

  Tokai University, Isehara Campus, 16-17/06/2009

  Japanese Association of Semiotic Studies will have a conference focusing on the issue of contemporary medical treatment system from semiotic point of view.
• Seminar "The Demons of Comparisons"

  Amsterdam University Doelenzaal, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam(SMBA), 04-05/04/2009

  I visited Amsterdam and joined discussions at the seminar "The Demons of Comparisons," which took place in relation to the exhibition under the same title held at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam(SMBA). See the website of Electric Palm Tree for details.
• "Whom does Art belong to?" JSPS Symposium

  KOKUYO Hall, Shinagawa, Tokyo, 07/03/2009 10:30-18:30

  I joined a symposium titled "Whom does Art belong to?" in Tokyo. I talked at the session III "Whom is Art and Literature for?", with Masahiro Miwa and Akeo Okada.
• "Media and Intimacy", a presentation at Bigakukai West Division

  Kwansei Gakuin University, 28/02/2009

  In the 272th meeting of Japanese Society for Aesthetics (Bigakukai), West Division, I gave a lecture titled "Media and Intimacy." I discussed how today's digital media environment can be understood differently from the viewpoint of "a new representation of intimacy." I mentioned Marcia Vaitsman's interactive work "The One Made of Light Stuff"(2003), photographic series "Hiroshima" by Miyako Ishiuchi, and a latest computer music piece by Formant Brothers (Masahiro Miwa and Nobuyasu Sakonda).
• IAMAS Graduate Show at Softopia Japan, Ogaki

  Softopia Japan, Ogaki city, 19-22/02/2009

  Here is the website of IAMAS Gradutate Eshibition which I visited on the 19th.
• 25/01/2009 Yorobon: Diatxt./Yamaguchi was reviewed on Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper!
  　This is a book I edited with a group in the city of Yamaguchi. It is a result of the project "meets the artist 2007" organized by Yamguchi Center of Arts and Media(YCAM).
• 20-29/01/2009 I went to California after 20 years.
  I gave a lecture on my curatorial and publication projects at San Francisco Art Institute on the 23rd, and at UCLA on the 27th. I met and talked with photographer Laurie Toby Edison, Wayne Macedo (who taught at IAMAS) in San Franscisco, and Trinh T. Minh-ha and Lynn Kirby teaching at CCA at Berkley. I visited SFMOMA to see "Art of Participation," and Museum of African Diaspola (MoAD). On the 25th I flew to LA. Painter Alexandra Grant invited me to dinner. On the 26th I gave a lecture at Broad Art Center, UCLA, where my friend Erkki Huhtamo, and Peter Luncefeld are teaching. I visited an interesting exhibition "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reefs at the gallery Track16, Santa Minica.

• Space in CyberSpace (where you are) is the personal website of Hiroshi Yoshioka
• I started it back in 1998, when I taught at Konan Uinversity, Kobe. It was a time when I felt the internet was being more and more exploited by industrial and bureaucratic forces, and there was less and less "space" for unpredictable encounters and experiences. Hence the title of the website. I also hoped it to sound like "spacing cyber space." During my time at IAMAS (2000-2006) I almost abandoned it because my work at school was too hectic, but after moving to Kyoto I tried to find time to update it little by little.
• I am using CSS pseudo-frames for the new website pages. Characters are encoded in utf-8. My environment is Mac OSX 10.5, I write codes with Jedit-X and prove them with Safari 3.2. So the pages look best with Mac OSX+Safari. I try to check them with Opera 9, Mozilla Firefox 5 and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Vista. It seems OK at this moment.
• Chez Nous is a blog maintained by a non-human friend of mine. She is a nutria with the nickname "Nu." She writes in an outspoken, sometimes harsh Kansai accent, commenting on various issues ranging from political gossips to metaphysical questions, but always keeping her critical view over how humans wrongly understand and treat their companions of other species on the planet. ("Chez Nous" is a pan coming from her original blog title "Nu-chan no Ie" ("The House of little Nu").