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Tetsuo Kogawa 

  
 

Internet Address: tetsuo@goethe.or.jp

Academic Address: Tokyo Keizai University, 1-7-34, Minami-machi, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo 185, Japan

Born: August 15, 1941, Tokyo, Japan

Citizenship: Japan

Education:

Sophia University, B.A., Philosophy, 1966
Waseda University, M.A., Philosophy, 1969
Waseda University, courses for Ph. D., 1969-72 [not completed]

Language:

Japanese, English, reading knowledge of German, French, some of Italian

Fellowship:

Research Fellow of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (November 1976-May 1977) on the American social impacts of the Yiddish theatre in New York.
Research Fellow of American Council of Learned Societies (August 1978-April 1980) on social functions of the New York Popular theatre.
Research Fellow of Australia-Japan Foundation (February 1982-April 1982) on new trends on Australian urban cultures. Artist in residence for The Banff Centre of the Arts (March 1992) Artist in residence for Western Front (January 1994)

Teaching Experience:

April 1994 on, Professor of Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University, Department of Communications
April 1989 to 1994, Professor of Communication Studies, MusashinoArt University, Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences
April 1972 to 1989, Lecturer of Phenomenology, Wako University, Department of Humanities
April 1975-March 1976, Visiting Lecturer of Social Philosophy, Seijo University, Department of Literature
April 1985-March 1986, Visiting Lecturer of Media and Performance, Tokyo University, Department of Liberal Arts
April 1986-March 1987, Visiting Lecture of New York urban culture, Rikkyo University, Department of Literature

Experience:

Directing June 1989 on, Director of Goethe Gallery Tokyo
Every year since 1995, guest curator for "Art on the Net" of Machida
City Museum of Graphic Arts

WRITINGS by Tetsuo Kogawa

Books in Japanese:

  1. Changing the Subject, Miraisha, Tokyo, 1978
  2. New York Street Theatre, Hokutoshuppan, Tokyo, 1981
  3. Critical Circuit, Sojusha, Tokyo, 1981
  4. Prison-house of Media, Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1981
  5. Flaneur City, Tojusha, Tokyo, 1983
  6. This is $B!R(BFree Radio$B!S(B, Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1983
  7. Paradoxes of New Media, Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1984
  8. Memory of City, Sorinsha, Tokyo, 1984
  9. Essay on New York Informational Environment, Shobunsha, Tokyo,1985
  10. Stage of Ideas (with Shunsuke Tsurumi), Tabatashoten, Tokyo,1985
  11. Critique of Informational Capitalism, Chikumashobo, Tokyo, 1985
  12. Future of Electronic Human Being, Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1986
  13. Electronic State and Emperor-System, Kawadeshoboshinsha, Tokyo,1986
  14. Micropolitics, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1987
  15. Images for Ruins, Seidosha, Tokyo, 1987
  16. Ideas to Live in Space, Chikumashobo, Tokyo, 1987
  17. Using the City, Kobundo, Tokyo, 1989
  18. Confusion of Babel, Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1989
  19. Kafka and Informational Society, Miraisha, Tokyo, 1990
  20. In <fluctuation> of "Internationalization", Iwanami-shoten, Tokyo, 1991
  21. Channels of Information, Hnashi-no-tokushu, Tokyo, 1991
  22. Critique Machine, Miraisha, Tokyo, 1992
  23. Cinema Politica, Sakuhinsha, Tokyo, 1993
  24. IF the Internet will change the World...., Shobunsha, Tokyo, 1996

Edited books:

  1. Dictionary of communications, eds. with Shunsuke Tsurumi, Heibon-sha, Tokyo, 1988
  2. Critical Writings by Kiyoteru Hanada, Iwanami-shoten, Tokyo, 1993

Translations:

  1. Husserl' Phenomenology (from French by Ludvic Robberechts and Kraus Held), Serikashobo, Tokyo, 1971
  2. Franz Kafka, Storyteller (from German by Friedrich Beissner), Serikashobo,Tokyo, 1976
  3. Paradoxes of Capital (from English by Paul Piccone), Serikashobo, Tokyo, 1981

Articles in English:

  1. Adorno' Strategy of Hibernation, Telos, no.46, Winter 1980-81, pp.147-153
  2. Japan as a Manipulated Society, Telos, no.49, Fall 1981, pp.138-140
  3. Urban Culture in Australia, Continum '83, pp.20-21
  4. Beyond Electronic Individualism, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, vol.viii, no.3, 1984, pp.15-20
  5. Japan's National Illusion Machine, Conversation with Douglas Lummis, AMPO, vol.16, no.4, 1984, pp.28-35
  6. The State of the Arts, Flash Art, no.122, April/May 1985, pp.62-63
  7. Free Radio in Japan, Culture in Contentions, eds. by Douglas Kahn & Diane Neumaier, The Real Comet Press, 1985, pp.116-121
  8. New Trends in Japanese Popular Culture, Telos, no.64, Summer 1985, pp.147-152
  9. Japan Takes Leave of "Asia", Conversation with Douglas Lummis, AMPO, vol.17, no.1, 1985, pp.50-55
  10. The Psychology of "Travel", Conversation with Douglas Lummis, AMPO, vol. 17, no.2, 1985, pp.52-55
  11. The Political Economy of Marriage, Conversation with Douglas Lummis, AMPO,vol.17, no.3, 1985, pp.48-53
  12. Japanese Corporatism's Dirty Mind, Conversation with Douglas Lummis, AMPO,vol.17, no4, 1985, pp.62-66
  13. Japanese Block-wide Radiocats, World Paper, March 1987, p.10
  14. Al di la della <<famiglia>> elettronica (Beyond Electronic Family Web), L'Umana Avventura, Special issue on Japan, Jaca Book, Milan, Estate-Autunno, 1988, pp.4-7
  15. New Trends in Japanese Popular Culture, The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond, ed. by Gavan McCormack, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp.54-66
  16. Toward Polymorphous Radio, Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission, ed. by Dina Augaitis and Dan Lander, The Banff Centre for the Arts, 1993, pp.287-299
  17. Free Radio in Japan: The Mini FM Boom, Radiotext(e), ed. by Neil Straus and Dave Mandl, Semiotext(e), 1993, pp.90-96
  18. The Electronic Body at the End of the State: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Japanese Emperor System, Body Politics Disease, Desire, and the Family, eds. by Michael Ryan and Avery Gordon, Wesview Press, 1994, pp.209-221
  19. Toward a Reality of "Reference". the Image and the Era of Virtual Reality, trans. by Jeffrey Isaacs, Documentary Box, no.8, 1995, pp.1-5
  20. Video: The Access Media, Resolution: Essays on Contemporary Video Practices, ed. by Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg, University of Minnesota Press, 1996, 51-60

Art/anti-art Works by Tetsuo Kogawa

 

Internet experiments:

Polymorphous Space, October 26, 1995
Lecture and workshop on micro radio in "Hearing is Bekieving", March 2-3, 1996 at Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre, University of Sunderland
A Multimedia Installation "Topology of Censorship", March 16-31, 1996 at The 31st 'Artist Today's Exhibition, Yokohama Citizons' Gallery
Body Electric or Electronic. Part 1. ( a performance piece for the Internet, micro radio and body), May 17, 1997 at Video In Studio, Vancouver, Canada

Adele Eisenstein

Internet Address: tetsuo@goethe.or.jp

Biography:
Born 1964 in New York. Studies at the University of Rochester (Psychology, =46ilm Studies); University of Paris - Sorbonne (French Literature, Art History); and Parsons School of Design (Architecture, Interior Design). Emigrated to Budapest in 1990, where she worked for the Balazs Bela Studio (experimental film studio) for three years, and as a freelance film programmer, as well as being a curator of alternative art spaces. Conference Director of MELEG: Budapest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and POZITIV: World AIDS Day and Film Programme. 1995-1997 ProgramCommunication, Coordinator for C3: Center for Culture & previously SorosProduced Media & Center for Contemporary Arts - Budapest, Soros Foundation Hungary. Ethics of the contemporary critique symposium incurating a Moscow Helsinki, September 1996. Currently programme forand on the Digitale97: Digital Dialects with the Academy of Media Arts in Koeln, OSTranenie97 team at the Bauhaus, Dessau.

See
http://muu.lib.hel.fi/me/texts/eisen.html
http://muu.lib.hel.fi/me
http://www.misa.uni-magdeburg.de/ostranenie/
http://www.c3.hu/c3/events/flusser
http://www.c3.hu
http://www.khm.de

Pierre Bonjovanni
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