Discussions
Papers
2024
“Memories of Ground, Memories of Figure―Mediated Memories after the Memory Boom and its Implications―” (in Japanese), The Journal of Communication Studies (59), pp. 63-79.
“Visualizing “Cross-Cultural Experiences”: Designing a College Workshop for a Study Abroad Program,” (in Japanese), The Journal of Communication Studies (59), pp. 215-239., Co-authored with Kana OHASHI, Tomoko MATSUNAGA, Kenta KOYAMA
2023
“NFT as a System for Pseudo-Ownership of Art Works” (in Japanese), The Journal of Communication Studies (57), pp. 113-131.
2022
“Waiting and Media: Rethinking media and everyday-ness” (in Japanese), Takeshi Deguchi and Shunsuke Takeda(eds.), Decoding Society: Sociology of Culture (Shakai no Kaidokuryoku: Bunka-hen, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shinyo-Sha, pp.41-62.
2021
“Screen Studies as a Methodological Framework: Omnipresent screens and its influence on viewing experiences” (in Japanese), Mamoru Ito (ed.), Post-Media Theories: New directions in Media Studies, Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, pp.28-49.
Urban Science Encyclopedia (Toshi Kagaku Jiten, in Japanese), Yokohama National University College of Urban Sciences (eds.) Yokohama: Shumpusha Publishing ( Article: Cities and Screen Media, in Japanese)
“Everyday Life on the Screen: Covid 19 and Its Influence on Media Usage” (in Japanese), The Journal of Communication Studies (53), pp. 171-189.
Critical Words for Media Studies (Critical Word Media-Ron, in Japanese), Takeshi Kadobayashi and Nobuhiro Masuda (eds.), Tokyo: Film Art, pp. 235-241.
2019
Doing Screen Studies in Japan (co-eds., in Japanese), University of Tokyo Press:Tokyo
2018
"Art - From art museums to daily life" (in Japanese), Kohei Kono, Yutaka Iida and Takashi Kashima (eds.), Sociology for Contemporary Culture, Tokyo: Hokujyu Shuppan, pp.101-111.
2017
MUSEUM COMMUNICATRION IN TRANSITION: VISITORS, EXHIBITION SPACES AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES (in Japanese), Serica-Shobo: Tokyo
“A Japanese Art World in the 2010ʼs : Book review on Community Engaged Art Project edited by Naoya Fujita” (in Japanese), The Journal of Communication Studies (41), pp.161-187.
2015
Leisure Studies (in Japanese), Jun Watanabe (ed.), Sekaishiso-Sha: Kyoto, pp. 194-203.
Social Informatics Reader (Yokuwakaru Shakaijyoho-gaku, in Japanese), Toru Nishigaki and Mamoru Ito (eds.), Minerva-Shobo: Kyoto, pp.144-147, pp.202-203.
Media Studies Reader (Yokuwakaru Media Studies, in Japanese), Mamoru Ito (ed.), Minerva-Shobo: Kyoto, pp.157-158.
"Audience on the Move: A Methodological Exploration of Space in Media Studies" (in Japanese), The Journal of Communication Studies (41), pp. 65-87.
"Kobo-Ten for Whom?" (in Japanese), Kyohei Miyairi (ed.), Happyo-Kai Culture: Understanding Amateurs' expressive activities in Japan, Tokyo: Seikyu-Sha, pp.155-178.
2014
"Art Photo Books as a Form of Media" (in Japanese), Yumi Aota and Annu Kobayashi (eds.), 1985 / When Photography Becomes Art, Tokyo: Seikyu-Sha, pp.152-178.
Understanding Communication Studies: A List of Key Books (in Japanese), Tokyo Keizai University Faculty of Communication Studies (eds), NTT Publishing: Tokyo
2013
Museum Communication in Transition: Towards media studies on museums (in Japanese), Doctoral Dissertation, Cultural Resources Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
2012
"The Discourses of Biennial Culture and Their Politics" (in Japanese), Yasuo Ito and Shintaro Fujii (eds.), Art and its Environment, Tokyo: Ronso-Sha, pp.285-299.
"Rethinking ‘Interactivity’ in the Museum: Digital Technology and the Encouragement of Visitors’ Choice" (in Japanese), Theatre and Film Studies 2011 Vol.2, pp.1-19.
2011
"The Museum as a Spectroscope for Cultural Globalization: A Tentative Analysis of the Guggenheim Museum's Global Expansion Strategy" (in Japanese), Theatre and Film Studies 2010 Vol.2, pp.1-20.
2010
"Why study the media through museums? — Roger Silverstone's works on the museum and their possibility" (in Japanese) Journal of Mass Communication Studies (76), pp.119-137.
2009
"Reconceptualizing museum communication: a historical approach" (in Japanese) The Journal of the Museological Society of Japan 35(1), pp.25-45.
2008
"Potentiality of the concept of museum communication: museums in the age of media technology" (in Japanese) Cultural Resources Studies (7), pp.71-81.
2007
Reconceptualising Museums as Media, MA Dissertation, Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Articles
“Recollections on a Variations on a Silence – How to build up an art project in 00s-” (in Japanese) Variations on a Silence website
“Arts on the Globe: Challenges and Prospects under the COVID-19 Pandemic” (planning & supervision, Arts Council Tokyo)
“What is the meaning of ‘post’ in the concept of ‘post-museum’?” (in Japanese) The News Letter of the Association for studies of Culture and Representation REPRE No.21
“From nation to island, via museums” Na+: Critical Journal on Contemporary Art, p.16
Museum Notes (serial essays on museums on Artscape from 2007 to 2009, in Japanese)
First Season Museums as Media
Museum, Museums, Media: A new phase for discussing museums
Twenty Years': An encounter between Museums and Media and their reunion
Describing "Visitors": "Audience" in Museums
Museums: Mediatiors of the City
The Impacts of New Media Intruding into the Museum
Museums are not the Message: The Museum as a Form of Media
Second Season Museums and Architecture
Museum Architecture as a brand
Can the Museum still Stand as a Contemporary Shrine?
Culturally Odourless Interior Design in Museums
Museum Indifferent to Walls
Reviews
2023
“A Review on Takatoshi Yamamura et. al. (eds.) Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences”, Cultural Resources Studies (21), pp.104-105
2022
"A Review on Marc Auge's In the Metro" (The Book Review Press, No.3558)
"A Review on Yukiya Kawaguchi（eds.)'s Museums in the Blues", Cultural Resources Studies (20), pp.132-134.
2020
“A Review on Mamoru Ito (ed.) Communicative Capitalism and the Common: For Analysis of Post Media Ecology”, Social Informatics 8(3), pp.223-225.
2013
AIR as a Benchmark of Social Mobility (Review [2] Res Artis General Meeting 2012 Tokyo)
2009
Hybrid Media, Materiality, Everyday Life (in Japanese)
An Attempt to Describe the Multiple Images of 'the Louvre' (in Japanese)
2006
'Arrogant' Video Installations, and Its Appreciation Form (in Japanese), STUDIO VOICE No.(370)
A Current Spectrum of Museum Studies: Diffusing Platform (in Japanese)
Conversations
2023
November
Joint Talk with Tomoko SHIMIZU, Nobuhiro MASUDA, Ryo OKUBO
What is ‘What is Media Archaeology?’ (in Japanese), Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies, Online
September
Memories Projected Through Museums (in Japanese) , International Symposium: The significance of remembering racism- Towards the establishment of the Museum of the Great Kanto Earthquake Massacre, Fukutake Hall, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
March
Considering Museums as Media (in Japanese), Lecture Series ‘Rethinking on Museum, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2022
February
‘Becoming’ an Artist in Japan: The Formation and Development of Kobo-ten (in Japanese), Competition Kenkyukai, online conference
2021
July
’Everyday Life on the Screen: COVID-19 and Its Influence on Media Usage,’ Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, National Singapore University, Singapore/online
2018
October
Museum Visit as a Media Experience: mobile media use in art museums and its everyday-ness (in Japanese), The Association for the study of Cultural Resources, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
January
Screen as Method: Reframing Visual Experience in the Age of Mobile Media, Towards Post-Media Studies in Asia Conference, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2017
July
Visitor with a Smartphone Camera in Art Museums, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, SunKonghoe University, Seoul
June
Panel Session with Koichi IWABUCHI, Sawako INANIWA and Mariko MURATA
Public Pedagogy and Museums (in Japanese), Cultural Typhoon 2017, Waseda University, Tokyo
2016
December
Locating Screen Studies in the Context of Japanese Media Studies, Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2016, The University of Sydney, Sydney
2015
August
Triennales Built on Empty Imaginations: Understanding "Region" in Japanese Art Festivals, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Airlangga University, Surabaya
2014
June
Joint Talk with Mamoru Ito, Yoshitaka Mouri and various other researchers
Reconsidering Methodological Perspectives of Media Studies in the Digital Age: Replies to After Television Studies (in Japanese), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
2013
November
Do We Still Need Museums of Arts for Visual Arts?: Discussion over transforming art museums in the near future (in Japanese), MAD2013, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo
The Boundary between Culture and Politics: Political aspects inside culture and cultural autonomy independent of politics (in Japanese), KOGANEI ARTFULL ACTION, KOGANEI CIVIC HALL, Musashi-Koganei
Joint Talk with Nozomu OGAWA
Talk on Environments for Supporting Artistic Creation: The potential of region-based art spaces and their festivals (in Japanese), Korekkiri-ennale & KoSAC, KOGANEI ART SPOT CHATEAU 2F, Musashi-Koganei
October
Joint Talk with Hisamitsu MIZUSHIMA, Kenichi HARADA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Masako NAKAMURA and Naoki UENO
Connecting Archives, Archives Connected: The potential of regional visual archives (in Japanese), Tokyo City University, Yokohama
Joint Talk with Yuki HARADA, Hideki NAKAZAWA and Takashi KASHIMA,
Talking about Christian Riese Lassen (in Japanese), KoSAC (Kokubunji Society for Arts and Culture), Musashino Art University, Tokyo
September
Joint Talk with Yutaka IIDA, Kazuto Kondo and Ryo OKUBO
Understanding Omnipresence of Screens: its methodology and potentiality (in Japanese), The Society of Socio-Informatics, Waseda University, Tokyo
Joint Talk with Kyohei MIYAIRI, Takato OZAWA, Umi SATO and Sekiya SONODA
From <Yoka（余暇）> to <Leisure>: Paradigm shift in Yoka Studies (in Japanese), The Association for Leisure and Tourism Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo
2012
September
Joint talk with Ryo Okubo
Omnipresence of screens in the multi-media environment: New approaches from ‘media complex’ and media archaeology (in Japanese), The Society of Socio-Informatics, Gunma University, Maebashi
May
Joint Talk with Yoshiyuki Oshita and Ayumu Saito
Why not ‘Social Archives’? (in Japanese), AAF (Asahi Art Festival) School 2012, Tokyo
Sociology of the Museum of Art- A vision for ever-changing Art Museums (in Japanese), MAD2012, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo
2011
September
Joint Talk with Takashi SERIZAWA and Meruro WASHIDA
Rethinking Japanese Regional Art Scene in the 2000s (in Japanese)
June
Reconsidering the museum of arts in the 2010s (in Japanese), MAD2011, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo
Joint Talk with Yoshitaka MOURI and Mariko MURATA
Museums as Media: A perspective on media culture studies (in Japanese), The Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, Waseda University, Tokyo
2010
June
An experimental study of the museum as a form of media: Based on an interview survey on the exhibition "It's a Tasty World- Food Science, Now!" (in Japanese), The Museological Society of Japan, Meiji University, Tokyo
March
The shift of the concept of museum communication from the 1950s to the 1960s, IOS-IASA Workshop of Young Sociologists, Academia Sinica, Taipei (manuscript available)
2009
December
Joint Talk with Satoshi HAMANO, Futoshi HOSHINO, Noriyuki TSUJI
Thinking about the future of art: Art experience and its architecture (in Japanese), CAMP, Tokyo
November
Joint Talk with Mizuki Endo, Futoshi HOSHINO, Noriyuki TSUJI
Thinking about the future of art: Visual images as an environment and their creativity (in Japanese), CAMP & ZAIM, Yokohama
Joint Talk with Futoshi HOSHINO, Hirofumi SAKAMOTO
Two weeks later: Reconsidering CREAM Forum (in Japanese), CREAM(Creativity for Arts and Media), Yokohama
July
Missionary of Art or Cultural Macdonald?: A Tentative Analysis of Guggenheim's Global Expansion Strategy, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo
June
Geneaology of museum communication studies: the introduction of Media Studies into Museums Studies and its development, (in Japanese) The Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
2008
July
Museums as Media, Media in Museums, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer Camp 2008, Yonsei University, Seoul (manuscript available)
June
Reconsidering the concept of museum communication (in Japanese), The Museological Society of Japan, Meiji University, Tokyo
April
Joint Talk with Kosuke FUJITAKA, Fumihiko SUMITOMO
Social Life of Art Works: Art Works Travelling through Time and Space, 101 TOKYO(An International Art Fair in 2008 and 2009), Tokyo
2007
March
Joint presentation with Taro AMANO, Kosuke FUJITAKA, Sawako INANIWA, Fumihiko SUMITOMO
Museum of Art and Society: Describing the society where the museum of art is located, (in Japanese), Toyota Art Management Forum 2007, Tokyo
Others
Translation (Joint Translation)
Japanese Edition of Jussi Parikka’s What is Media Archaeology?, The University of Tokyo Press, 2023
Translation (Joint Translation)
Japanese Edition of Geoffrey Scott’s The Architecture of Humanism – A Study in the History of Taste, Kajima Institute Publishing, 2011
Translation (Joint translation)
Japanese edition of Adrian Forty's Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, kajima Institute Publishing, 2006