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Faculty of Urban Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation |
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Professor |
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Date of Birth |
1977 |
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Research Fields, Keywords |
Philosophy of Art, Perception, Animal, Aesthetics, Culture and Representation |
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HIRAKURA Kei
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The Best Research Achievement in Research Career 【 display / non-display 】
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【Book】 How Figures Think: Studies of Art Making 2019.09
【Book】 Godard's Method(s) 2010.12
【Book】 In-Between What Future Awaits with Generative AI?(Lars Müller Publishers) 2025.11
The Best Research Achievement in the last 5 years 【 display / non-display 】
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【Book】 In-Between What Future Awaits with Generative AI?(Lars Müller Publishers) 2025.11
【Published Thesis】 「この子供を避雷針として使え」──荒川とギンズの映画における身体の使用(表象) 2025.05
【Published Thesis】 To Cleave: Arakawa / Gins / Takiguchi(Correspondence Poems, or Letters and Inspiration: Shūzō Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa / Madeline Gins) 2025.03
【Presentation(International conference)】 Diagramming Ghosts: The Use of Movements-Images-Words in the Film For Example by Arakawa and Gins(AGxKANSAI 2022 Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century After ARAKAWA+GINS) 2022.03
【Book】 Avidya on the Spider's Web: In Search of Psycho-somaticEthics in the Age of Meta- and Multi-verse(Kachosha) 2023.02
Education 【 display / non-display 】
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2003.4-2009.7
The University of Tokyo Interdisciplinary Information Studies Doctor Course Completed
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2000.4-2003.3
The University of Tokyo Interdisciplinary Information Studies Master Course Completed
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1996.4-2000.3
International Christian University Division of Humanities Graduated
Degree 【 display / non-display 】
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Doctor of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - The University of Tokyo
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Master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - The University of Tokyo
Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】
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2026.4
Duty Yokohama National UniversityFaculty of Urban Innovation Division of Urban Innovation Professor
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2015.4-2026.3
Duty Yokohama National UniversityFaculty of Urban Innovation Division of Urban Innovation Associate Professor
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2011.4-2015.3
Duty Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Education and Human Sciences Associate Professor
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2010.4-2011.3
Duty Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Education and Human Sciences Lecturer
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2026.4
Concurrently Yokohama National UniversityInterfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies Professor
External Career 【 display / non-display 】
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2023.4-2024.3
Victoria University of Wellington School of Languages and Cultures Researcher
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2022.4-2023.3
Musashino Art University Aesthetics and Art History Lecturer
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2020.4-2022.3
International Research Center for Japanese Studies Researcher
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2015.6-2018.7
Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts Lecturer
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2014.9
Okayama University Faculty of Letters Lecturer
Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display 】
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2017.6
Japanese Society for Dance Research
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2016.6
The Japanese Society for Aesthetics
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2005.11
表象文化論学会
Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetic practices
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Philosophy and ethics
Research Career 【 display / non-display 】
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Affective Figures: Embodied Power of Art
Project Year: 2019.4 - 2025.3
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Art as Extended Mind-Body: Analysis on Embodied Process of Thinking in Art Making
Project Year: 2014.4 - 2018.3
Books 【 display / non-display 】
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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 )
Total pages:335 Language:Japanese Book type:Scholarly book
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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 )
Responsible for pages:41-52 Language:English Book type:Scholarly book
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HIRAKURA Kei( Role: Sole author)
Inscript ( ISBN:9784900997318 )
Language:Japanese Book type:Scholarly book
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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 )
Language:Japanese Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience
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( Role: Joint author , Hands of Painting)
Suiseisha ( ISBN:9784801007710 )
Language:Japanese Book type:Scholarly book
Thesis for a degree 【 display / non-display 】
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Jean-Luc Godard: Thinking through Editing/Mixing
HIRAKURA Kei
2009.7
No Setting Single Work [Reviewed]
A Doctoral Dissertation
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Jean-Luc Godard
HIRAKURA Kei
2002.3
No Setting Single Work [Reviewed]
A Master Thesis
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What is the Finality without End?
HIRAKURA Kei
2000.3
No Setting Single Work [Reviewed]
A Baccalaureate Thesis
Other Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lilvf70ljsa3a0e/judgement.pdf?dl=0
Papers 【 display / non-display 】
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"Use this child as a lightning rod": the use of bodies in Arakawa and Gins' film
HIRAKURA Kei
Hyosho: Journal of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation ( 19 ) 170 - 187 2025.5 [Reviewed]
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal) Single Work
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To Cleave: Arakawa / Gins / Takiguchi
HIRAKURA Kei
Correspondence Poems, or Letters and Inspiration: Shūzō Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa / Madeline Gins 76 - 92 2025.3 [Invited]
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution) Publisher:Keio University Art Center Single Work
Other Link: http://www.art-c.keio.ac.jp/news-events/event-archive/artarchive27/
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HIRAKURA Kei
Eureka 54 ( 14 ) 106 - 113 2022.12 [Invited]
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal) Single Work
Other Link: http://www.seidosha.co.jp/book/index.php?id=3753
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Fire Goes On: Hatori Yoda Yoshiro, "Lynch (play)"
HIRAKURA Kei
Chiiki Joen (Local Performance) ( 2 ) 5 - 15 2022.10 [Invited]
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal) Single Work
Other Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLHswJbRTRMBrpCq4Iz8nNdxL4ba-Lae/view
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Taking Abstract Painting Seriously: Gerhard Richter's 128 Details from a Picture, Halifax 1978
HIRAKURA Kei
Eureka 54 ( 7 ) 174 - 183 2022.6 [Invited]
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal) Single Work
Other Link: http://www.seidosha.co.jp/book/index.php?id=3691&status=published
Review Papers 【 display / non-display 】
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Hirakura Kei
misaki photo exhibition vol. 3: Hideyo Otsuki: retrace 7 - 12 2026.1
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other) Single Work
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Drawing a Line Across the Sea: Earthworks shaping Yokohama
Hirakura Kei
NEW Days: Documentation 10 - 13 2025.11
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other) Publisher:Art Center NEW Single Work
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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
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media) Single Work
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What Makes Us Want to Make Things from Scratch?
( 227 ) 72 - 79 2024.8
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media) Single Work
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Earthmoving, expression, and doubling
HIRAKUR Kei
Reciprocal units within Art and Urbanism 2020-2022 Document Book A 38 - 41 2023.3
Language:Japanese Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other) Single Work
Works 【 display / non-display 】
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Dance as Chisel
KAMIMURA Megumi, HIRAKURA Kei, TSUDA Michiko
2019.3 - 2019.4
Work type:Artistic work Location:Mori Art Museum
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Traverser la route
SHINODA Chiharu, HIRAKURA Kei, et al.
2018.5
Work type:Artistic work Location:Institut français du Japon - Tokyo
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Building a cave
SHINODA Chiharu, Yokohama Architectural and Urban Studies F, HIRAKURA Kei, FUJIWARA Teppei
2018.3
Work type:Artistic work Location:BankART Studio NYK 2F
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Mapping to Diagrammatic Explanation ("Moving Pictures of Thought")
HIRAKURA Kei
2016.5
Work type:Artistic work Location:3331 Arts Chiyoda
A Poster on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, mapping the way of helicopter shooting.
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Folding Different Species
Kei HIRAKURA, Takuya INABA , Yuya KOYAMA , Tomomi SANO , Hiroko TANABE , Yui NAKAMURA , Hiroki+h YAMAMOTO , Kenichiro WATANABE
2016.1
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.
Awards 【 display / non-display 】
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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
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display 】
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Affective Figures: Embodied Power of Art
2019.4 - 2025.3
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
Grant type:Competitive
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The Expanded Mind-Body: Materialized Thinking Processes in Art Making
2014.4 - 2018.3
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)
Investigator(s):HIRAKURA, Kei
Grant type:Competitive
Other external funds procured 【 display / non-display 】
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2020.4 - 2023.3
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Presentations 【 display / non-display 】
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Hirakura Kei [Invited]
Workshop on Skill Science, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Event date: 2025.12
Language:Japanese Presentation type:Oral presentation (keynote)
Venue:Tokyo University of Technology
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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
Event date: 2025.5
Language:Japanese Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)
Venue:Keio University Art Center
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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
Event date: 2024.12
Language:Japanese Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)
Venue:Keio University
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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
Event date: 2022.3
Language:English Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)
Venue:Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan Country:Japan
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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
Event date: 2020.9
Language:Japanese Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)
Venue:Zoom
Past of Collaboration and Commissioned Research 【 display / non-display 】
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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 】
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2026 Advanced Theory of Moving Image
Graduate School of Urban Innovation
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2026 Contemporary Art Theory Ⅱ
Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies
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2026 Contemporary Art Theory Ⅰ
Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies
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2026 Film and Performance Studio F
Graduate School of Urban Innovation
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2026 Film and Performance Studio S
Graduate School of Urban Innovation
Charge of off-campus class subject 【 display / non-display 】
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芸術学講義
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表象文化論入門
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欧米映画史2
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形の宇宙誌
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メディア研究
Committee Memberships 【 display / non-display 】
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OPEN SITE 7, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS)
2022.4 - 2023.3 Jury
Committee type:Municipal
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The Awards of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation
2021.4 - 2023.3 Selection committee member
Committee type:Academic society
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Artist in Residence Program, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
2019.3 Guest judge
Committee type:Other
Social Contribution(Extension lecture) 【 display / non-display 】
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Dialectical Landscape (Original Exhibition Concept)
Role(s): Planner
Art Center NEW 2026.6 - 2026.8
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Perception, the Underground, and Newness
Role(s): Lecturer
Art Center NEW 2025.6
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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
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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
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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
Media Coverage 【 display / non-display 】
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33 Books covoluted in How Figures Think
Books Tokyodo Books Tokyodo, Tokyo 2019.11