In Depth

This essay is based on lectures by Professor Bruno Latour as part of the series, Introduction to Art and Culture in Global Age undertaken at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Informed by the lectures by Latour, this essay mainly aims to report “Reset Modernity!”, his most recent curatorial practice at ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. At the end of this essay, it also analyze the different attitudes towards problems of modernity by analyzing and referring to the unique case of the modernization of Japan.

Held on November 17, 2016 Venue: Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno Campus, Lecture Room 5-109

Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Global Arts invited this fall Dr Anselm Franke, Curator and Writer, Head of Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, as a special guest lecturer to our School. Along with a lecture for our all-students’ compulsory course “Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age” and “Art Studies and Curatorial Practices” seminars and workshops with Professor Yuko Hasegawa, he delivered a special lecture open to the general public at our Ueno campus.

Published in The Japan Times on Sunday, August 14, 2016

Professor Bruno Latour who visited us in July was featured in the English language newspaper The Japan Times on Sunday on August 14, 2016. The interview was conducted for about an hour at the lobby of the Tokyo Station Hotel in Marunouchi during his stay in Japan in July. Science journalist, Mike Sunda, wrote a very extensive and fruitful article, using quotes from the interview, where Professor Latour talked about discussions on the new regime surrounding relations between today’s ecological reality and human societies, which he talked about in our class “Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age” and his public lecture. He also mentioned about his thoughts on Fukushima and its disaster-striken area.

Held on July 1, 2016 Venue: Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno Campus, Lecture Room 5-109

The Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Global Arts invited Dr Bruno Latour, Professor at Sciences Po Paris and the Scientific Director of the Science Po Medialab, as a special guest lecturer to our School this summer. He is a Sociologist of Science and an Anthropologist of Science who has been vigorously developing his study since the 1970s, trespassing the boundaries dividing various fields of study such as History of Science, History of Art, History of Mankind, Philosophy, Anthropology and Theology. Along with a lecture for our all-students’ compulsory course “Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age” and “Art Studies and Curatorial Practices” seminars and workshops with Professor Yuko Hasegawa, he delivered a special lecture open to the general public at our Ueno campus.

Held on July 1, 2016 Venue: Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno Campus, Lecture Room 5-109

The Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices at the Graduate School of Global Arts of the Tokyo University of the Arts was pleased to invite Professor Lawrence Grossberg of the University of North Carolina as our special guest lecturer this summer. Unfortunately, his visit to Japan was cancelled just before his departure due to his health concerns, but he sent us a video lecture of approximately 45 minutes and we screened it in public. Here we uploaded the recordings of the lecture.