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（Last updated : 2021-03-31 20:04:14）

KITANO Keisuke

Department / Course College of Image Arts and Sciences Department of Image Arts and Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Image Arts and Sciences
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Creative Media Research Center

Research activities
1.		The Japanese Association for American Studies
2.		Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences

Subject of research
1.	Historical, and critical consideration of theories on visual images.

Research summary
A theoretical research on movie culture and visual culture I theoretically investigate the possibilities and limitations of visual media from the viewpoints of the technology, social background, industrial infrastructure and response to the existing expression cultures.

Present specialized field
Aesthetics and studies on art, Art at large, Literature in English (Keyword：Visual image, Image, theory, New Media, Contemporary Art Criticism, Media Art., Aesthetics, Cinema, Film, Japanese Cinema, Intellectual History, Representation and Culture, City, Space, Geography, Media Culture)

Books
1.	2021/03/10	Post-art theories │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2017/11	Japanorama Nouveau regard sur la creation contemporaine │ ,pp.26-30 (Co-authored)
3.	2016/03	Media Theory in Japan │ (Co-authored)
4.	2014/04	On Society of Controls Technologies of Desire and Power │ (Sole-authored)
5.	2012	ecce 3 │ (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	2012/06	Singapore, or the theory of the global cities in the 21th century -- Rem koolhaas's "generic city" and william Lim's "contemporary vernacular │ Journal of College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University │ 1 (5),pp.23-33 (Co-authored)
2.	2010	Between Transparency and Invisibility- The Contemporary Japanese Image Production and its Spatialization of Fluctuating Identity │ Journal of College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University │ 1 (3) (Sole-authored)
3.	2008	Remarks on Technology and Theatre │ 『立命館映像学』（立命館大学映像学会） │ (2008,1),pp.45-58 (Sole-authored)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2016/02/23	THE ENGINE OF ANIMATED BACKGROUND (招聘講演会)
2.	2015/11/12	The Ontological Status of Visual Representation in Japan in the Age of Digitalization: A Case Study of Media Practices in Japan (Visual Culture and Social Mediation in East Asia)
3.	2015/06/06	Animated Body: the Logic of Trans-media Aesthetics in Japan (Life Remade: The Politics and Aesthetics of Animation, Simulation and Rendering)
4.	2013/11/15	Kobayashi Hideo and the Question of media (Media Theories in Japan (Department of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, USA))
5.	2013/04/30	The Logic of the De-cinematic, or Origins of the Japanese cinema: from magic lanterns through 60s Avant-garde to animation (The Birkbeck Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice and the London Asia Pacific Cultural Studies Forum)
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