Philosopher and art historian, born in Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture in 1953. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, majoring in aesthetics and art history. After withdrawing from the doctoral program of the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University, he worked as an assistant professor at Okayama University before becoming a professor at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University in 1991. After his retirement in 2020, he became a professor emeritus and has been a professor at the Faculty of Arts, Kyoto Seika University since the same year. His recent publications include “Philosophy of Contemporary Art: Art and Its Theory” (2023) and “Reconstructing Aesthetics: Exploring Vision and Culture” (2021).
Video artist/theorist, born in 1972 in Osaka and now works in Tokyo. He creates video works in a unique style that offers radical visions of philosophy and politics derived from his consideration of informational society and the essence of media. His exploratory techniques and activities are unconstrained by genres such as film, contemporary art, performance. He also published the first theoretical monograph in Japan about video art, “Reflexion: The Practical Aesthetics of Video Art”. He holds a B.A. in aesthetics and an M.A. in representation and culture from the University of Tokyo.
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