HIRAKURA Kei

Affiliation

Faculty of Urban Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation

Job Title

Professor

Date of Birth

1977

Research Fields, Keywords

Philosophy of Art, Perception, Animal, Aesthetics, Culture and Representation

Mail Address

E-mail address

Web Site

https://hirakurakei.com



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Education 【 display / non-display

  • 2003.4
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    2009.7

    The University of Tokyo   Interdisciplinary Information Studies   Doctor Course   Completed

  • 2000.4
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    2003.3

    The University of Tokyo   Interdisciplinary Information Studies   Master Course   Completed

  • 1996.4
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    2000.3

    International Christian University   Division of Humanities   Graduated

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  • Doctor of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - The University of Tokyo

  • Master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - The University of Tokyo

Campus Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2026.4
     
     

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityFaculty of Urban Innovation   Division of Urban Innovation   Professor  

  • 2015.4
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    2026.3

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityFaculty of Urban Innovation   Division of Urban Innovation   Associate Professor  

  • 2011.4
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    2015.3

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Education and Human Sciences   Associate Professor  

  • 2010.4
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    2011.3

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Education and Human Sciences   Lecturer  

  • 2026.4
     
     

    Concurrently   Yokohama National UniversityInterfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies   Professor  

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External Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2023.4
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    2024.3

    Victoria University of Wellington   School of Languages and Cultures   Researcher  

  • 2022.4
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    2023.3

    Musashino Art University   Aesthetics and Art History   Lecturer  

  • 2020.4
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    2022.3

    International Research Center for Japanese Studies   Researcher  

  • 2015.6
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    2018.7

    Tokyo University of the Arts   Faculty of Fine Arts   Lecturer  

  • 2014.9
     
     

    Okayama University   Faculty of Letters   Lecturer  

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Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display

  • 2017.6
     
     
     

    Japanese Society for Dance Research

  • 2016.6
     
     
     

    The Japanese Society for Aesthetics

  • 2005.11
     
     
     

    表象文化論学会

Research Areas 【 display / non-display

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetic practices

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Philosophy and ethics

 

Research Career 【 display / non-display

  • Affective Figures: Embodied Power of Art

    Project Year: 2019.4 - 2025.3

  • Art as Extended Mind-Body: Analysis on Embodied Process of Thinking in Art Making

    Project Year: 2014.4 - 2018.3

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  • How Figures Think: Studies of Art Making

    HIRAKURA Kei( Role: Sole author)

    University of Tokyo Press  ( ISBN:978-4-13-010143-1

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    Total pages:335   Language:Japanese Book type:Scholarly book

  • In-Between What Future Awaits with Generative AI?

    Jun Aoki (ed.), Tamayo Iemura, Asako Fujikura, Takahiro Ohmura, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Taichi Sunayama, Kei Hirakura, Rurihiko Hara, Ana Luisa Soares, Filipe Magalhães, Yoko Nose, Shigeru Matsui, Mohsen Mostafavi, Miro Roman( Role: Sole author ,  Figures in Drift)

    Lars Müller Publishers  ( ISBN:9783037788011

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    Responsible for pages:41-52   Language:English Book type:Scholarly book

  • Godard's Method(s)

    HIRAKURA Kei( Role: Sole author)

    Inscript  ( ISBN:9784900997318

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  • A Book to Read When You No Longer Understand "Learning"

    ( Role: Joint author ,  Learning as Bodily Transformation)

    Asama-sha  ( ISBN:9784910827049

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    Language:Japanese Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience

  • Thinking about Painting, Now

    ( Role: Joint author ,  Hands of Painting)

    Suiseisha  ( ISBN:9784801007710

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  • Tracing Shorelines

    Hirakura Kei

    misaki photo exhibition vol. 3: Hideyo Otsuki: retrace   7 - 12   2026.1

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)   Single Work  

  • Drawing a Line Across the Sea: Earthworks shaping Yokohama

    Hirakura Kei

    NEW Days: Documentation   10 - 13   2025.11

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)   Publisher:Art Center NEW   Single Work  

  • ニュージーランド公立小の"自由で刺激的"な日常:移民大国で根付く「ダイバーシティ教育」の実際

    鳥羽和久, 平倉圭

    東洋経済オンライン   2025.1

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)   Single Work  

  • What Makes Us Want to Make Things from Scratch?

    ( 227 )   72 - 79   2024.8

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)   Single Work  

  • Earthmoving, expression, and doubling

    HIRAKUR Kei

    Reciprocal units within Art and Urbanism 2020-2022 Document Book A   38 - 41   2023.3

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  • Dance as Chisel

    KAMIMURA Megumi, HIRAKURA Kei, TSUDA Michiko

    2019.3 - 2019.4

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:Mori Art Museum  

  • Traverser la route

    SHINODA Chiharu, HIRAKURA Kei, et al.

    2018.5

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:Institut français du Japon - Tokyo  

  • Building a cave

    SHINODA Chiharu, Yokohama Architectural and Urban Studies F, HIRAKURA Kei, FUJIWARA Teppei

    2018.3

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:BankART Studio NYK 2F  

  • Mapping to Diagrammatic Explanation ("Moving Pictures of Thought")

    HIRAKURA Kei

    2016.5

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:3331 Arts Chiyoda  

    A Poster on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, mapping the way of helicopter shooting.

  • Folding Different Species

    Kei HIRAKURA, Takuya INABA , Yuya KOYAMA , Tomomi SANO , Hiroko TANABE , Yui NAKAMURA , Hiroki+h YAMAMOTO , Kenichiro WATANABE

    2016.1

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:blanClass  

    Exploring the art of folding different species -- human and nonhuman -- to look for and embody the different ways of life. Exhibition and Performance by the participants of the workshop: Thinking outside Body, Folding Different Species organized by Kei Hirakura.

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Awards 【 display / non-display

  • The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation Award

    2011.7   The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation   Godard's Method(s), Inscript, 2010.

    Individual or group name of awards:HIRAKURA, Kei

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Presentations 【 display / non-display

  • Entering Others' Expression: Two Samples (with a Mini-Workshop "Seeing with the Body: Through the Cut-Paper Works of Chieko Takamura")

    Hirakura Kei  [Invited]

    Workshop on Skill Science, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 

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    Event date: 2025.12

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (keynote)  

    Venue:Tokyo University of Technology  

  • Entangled Hands: Writing and Drawing in the Correspondence of Arakawa/Gins

    Hirakura Kei  [Invited]

    Symposium: Correspondence-Poetry or Letters and Affects - Shuzo Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa/Madeline Gins 

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    Event date: 2025.5

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Keio University Art Center  

  • Cleaving Left and Right: Arakawa / Gins / Takiguchi

    HIRAKURA Kei  [Invited]

    Papier Plié 02: Shūzō Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa / Madeline Gins - Letters, or Margins and Blanks  Keio University Art Center

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    Event date: 2024.12

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Keio University  

  • Diagramming Ghosts: The Use of Movements-Images-Words in the Film For Example by Arakawa and Gins

    HIRAKURA Kei

    AGxKANSAI 2022 Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century After ARAKAWA+GINS  2022.3  Studies of the Architectural Body Research Group at the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University

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    Event date: 2022.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan   Country:Japan  

  • Dancing with other species: Typography in Miyazawa Kenji's "Annelid Dancer"

    Hirakura Kei

    Avidya on a Spider's Web: Toward the Future of the Somatic Experience under the Ecology of Social Network System  International Research Center for Japanese Studies

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    Event date: 2020.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Zoom  

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Past of Collaboration and Commissioned Research 【 display / non-display

  • Avidya on a Spider's Web: Toward the Future of the Somatic Experience under the Ecology of Social Network System

    Offer organization: International Research Center for Japanese Studies   International Cooperative Research  

    Project Year: 2020.4  -  2021.3 

 

Charge of on-campus class subject 【 display / non-display

  • 2026   Advanced Theory of Moving Image

    Graduate School of Urban Innovation

  • 2026   Contemporary Art Theory Ⅱ

    Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies

  • 2026   Contemporary Art Theory Ⅰ

    Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies

  • 2026   Film and Performance Studio F

    Graduate School of Urban Innovation

  • 2026   Film and Performance Studio S

    Graduate School of Urban Innovation

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Charge of off-campus class subject 【 display / non-display

  • 芸術学講義

  • 表象文化論入門

  • 欧米映画史2

  • 形の宇宙誌

  • メディア研究

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Committee Memberships 【 display / non-display

  • OPEN SITE 7, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS)

    2022.4 - 2023.3  Jury

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    Committee type:Municipal 

  • The Awards of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation

    2021.4 - 2023.3  Selection committee member

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    Committee type:Academic society 

  • Artist in Residence Program, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre

    2019.3  Guest judge

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    Committee type:Other 

Social Contribution(Extension lecture) 【 display / non-display

  • Dialectical Landscape (Original Exhibition Concept)

    Role(s): Planner

    Art Center NEW  2026.6 - 2026.8

  • Perception, the Underground, and Newness

    Role(s): Lecturer

    Art Center NEW  2025.6

  • まだ言葉のない芸術への批評はいかに可能か 清水知子 × 平倉圭

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    伊藤道史  ./MYTH.YOU  2025.3

  • 他なる映画のからだたち 濱口竜介+砂連尾理+平倉圭

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    éditions azert, アテネ・フランセ文化センター  2024.7

  • 福尾匠×平倉圭トークイベント 眼を逸らさなければ書けない

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    代官山蔦屋書店, 河出書房新社  2024.7

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