Academic
Staff

Title of course : Studies on Asian Performing Arts
From 1999 until 2016, Ken Takiguchi had been based in Malaysia and Singapore, working as a vice-president of Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, a councillor of The Necessary Stage, and a research fellow at Division of Theatrical Studies, Department of English and English Literature National Singapore University. His recent publications include Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre (Kuala Lumpur: Five Arts Centre, Singapore: Epigram Books, 2018, co-edited). He currently works at Setagaya Public Theatre and teaches at Tokyo University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer.

Title of course : Methodology of Art and Culture Critique
Ren Fukuzumi is an art critic born in 1975. His single-authored books include Marginal Art Today, co-authored books include Biennial Nowadays, edited books include Catalogue of the Exhibition Kosei Sasaki. While contributing his articles to artscape and Kyodo Tsushin, Fukuzumi curated a series of exhibition The Marginal Art of the 21 Century at Gallery Maki in Tokyo. He is currently a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and Joshibi University of Art and Design.

Title of course : Theory on Artistic Administration : Art Activity and Accounting
Born in 1957. He graduated from Tokyo University’s Faculty of Law. Graduated the master’s program at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law. Master’s degree in law. He completed his doctoral course in Graduate School of Business Administration at Kokushikan University. PhD in business administration. After working as a professor at Bunkyo Gakuin University and Hosei University, Yoda is currently a professor at Faculty of Business Administration at Toyo University, and a visiting professor at Graduate School of Business Administration at Bunkyo Gakuin University. In the meantime, he was a part-time lecturer at Graduate School of Music Tokyo University of the Arts (Division of Musicology and Music Studies) from April 2003 to March 2017. His major is accounting and studies on tax law. His major publications include The Basic and Application of Theory of Financial Accounting, Introduction to Studies on Tax Law, Essentials Tax Law, Essentials of Corporate Tax Law (New Edition), Essentials of Income Tax Law (all co-authored).

Title of course : Global Art Theory and Criticism

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Ryosuke Kondo is an artist, art critic, and Research Associate at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, the University of London, and his M.A. from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2014-16) and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016-17). 

Specializing in Aesthetics and History of Landscape, his research primarily focuses on the theory of painting and gardening in modern Britain, America, and Japan. In addition to academic articles, he writes reviews for art and culture magazines, such as Bijutsu Techo and Ohararyu SOKA, and organizes contemporary art exhibitions, including Individual Sansui (Komagome SOKO, 2020) and The Genius Loci of Kudan and the Niki of the Japanese Garden (kudan house, 2018).

Title of course : Studies on Curatorial and Art Theory II

Futoshi Hoshino is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University. He received his M.A. (2007) and Ph.D. (2014) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His publications include Rhetoric of the Sublime (Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2017), The Sublime and the Uncanny (co-edited, Tokyo: UTCP, 2016), Diversities in Aesthetics (co-authored, Beijing: Social Sciences Press, 2013) and Contemporary Art Theory (co-authored, Tokyo: EOS, 2013). He has translated books and essays by continental philosophers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Catherine Malabou, Quentin Meillassoux and so on.

Title of course : Studies on Curatorial and Art Theory I

Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka dj sniff) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music.
His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation. His collaborations include Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tetreault, Paul Hubweber, Tarek Atoui, and Senyawa.
He has been invited to perform and exhibit at CTM Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Flow Festival Helsinki, REDCAT LA, March Meeting Sharjah, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon, MOCA Taipei. In 2022, he released his latest LP Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice which deals with Japan’s historical broadcast at the end of WW2 and its reception in Taiwan.
Takuro holds a B.A. in aesthetics and art history from Keio University, M.P.S. from NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, and Ph.D. from De Montfort University Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media.
From 2007-2012, he was Artistic Director of STEIM – Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music leading the institution’s research, artist in residency program, and concert series. Between 2012-2017, he was Visiting Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media and served as Associate Professor at Kyoto Seika University Global Studies Course from 2020 to 2022. Takuro is currently the Co-Director of Asian Meeting Festival (AMF), coordinating member of Shared Campus Journal for Global Pop Cultures and Telematics Summer School, and guest music programmer for Taipei Biennial 2023.