Workshop, Lecture, Presentation | Prof. Hiroshi Yoshioka
25.05.: 17.00 until 20.00, part 1
26.05.: 11.00 until 15.00, part 2
27.05.: 13.00 until 16.00, part 3
The workshop is a joint project between the studio for Conceptual Art, the Coded cultures festival, Vienna, and the open source seminar at the studio for Conceptual Art (developed by the students Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Philip Leitner, Ivette Mrova and Santiago Berce Doig).
The workshop by Hiroshi Yoshioka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna will focus on contemporary art and media art from Japan and other Asian countries in order to discuss economic, political and technological issues. The works presented will be those by Asian artists from the Ogaki Biennale in 2006 in Japan, along with experimental animation works, which are completely different from what is accepted as "Japanimation" or "Japan Cool," and with modern computer music projects attempted by Masahiro Miwa and his students.
Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Yoshioka was born in Kyoto, Japan. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Kyoto University. He teaches aesthetics and art theory at Kyoto University, IAMAS. He is the author of The Present Tense of Thought: Complex Systems, Cyberspace, and Affordance Theory (1997), Information and Life: The Brain, Computers, and the Universe (with Hisashi Muroi, 1993) [both books published in Japanese], and many articles on aesthetics, arts, technology and culture. He was the editor-in-chief of the critical journal Diatxt.(vol.1-8, Kyoto Art Center, 2000-2003) and Yorobon: Diatxt./Yamaguchi (YCAM, 2008). He was the general director of Kyoto Biennale 2003, and Ogaki Biennale 2006.