Profile
Update: 01/07/2009
- My profile and recent photos
Hiroshi Yoshioka (吉岡 洋)
- He is the professor of aesthetics and art theory at the Faculty and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University.
- He also teach at IAMAS, Konan University, Doshisha University and Kobe University.
- He is the author of Shiso” no genzaikei: Fukuzatsukei, dennokukan, afodansu (The Present Tense of Thought: Complex Systems, Cyberspace, and Affordance Theory, Kodansha, 1997) and Joho to seimei: No, kompyuta, uchu (Information and Life: The Brain, Computers, and the Universe, with Hisashi Muroi, Shin’yosha, 1993).
- He has also published translations of works such as Mark Poster’s The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Context, Bruce Mazlish’s The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines, and Hal Foster’s The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture.
- He was the editor of Diatxt., the critical quarterly of the Kyoto Art Center, and head of the editorial board of the Japanese Association of Semiotic Studies.
- He was the general director of the Kyoto Biennale 2003 (Kyoto Art Center), which featured artists from Brazil, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Germany, the United States, and Japan. In 2006 he was the direcor of Ogaki Biennale (in the city of Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture) on the topic of "Janaken: The Power of Chance," featuring new media artists from Asian countries including Korea, China, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Recent photos
Akademie der bildenden Künste, May 27
I gave three-day seminar-workshop at the course "post-conceptual art practice" at Akademie der bildenden Künste, where Professor Marina Grzinic (next to me) teaches. The class is very relaxed, as you see, but with good and motivated group of students.
This time I was lucky to have stayed over two weeks in Vienna, in a very nice guest house of the Akademie. Besides seminars and lectures, I also enjoyed life in Vienna. After the workshop at Akbild, I joined the Festival "Coded Cultures." On the 29th I gave the keynote with Marina.
Amsterdam, April 4
I stayed four days in Amsterdam. My place is at Keizergracht, a flat owned by a lady working on theator. It was a really nice and quiet place, only ten minutes walk from the Central Station.
I talked at an open seminar on contemporary arts, had a dinner with the participants, and saw this on the way back to my hotel. A temporary amusement park installed at the Dam square, full of loud music and screams from thrill rides. It was over midnight. Crazy city.
26/01/2009, UCLA
I gave a lecture on my publication and curatorial activities in Japan at the Department of Design and Media Art, UCLA, where my friend professor Erkki Huhtamo (the third from left), and Professor Peter Lunenfeld are teaching. I had a very good group of students working on media arts. The atmosphere of the school is close to that of IAMAS.
(C)Hiroshi Yoshioka