Research on the question of visibility of visual image works under the digital environment

• Project/Area Number: 24520192
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: KITANO Keisuke 立命館大学, 映像学部, 教授 (60303096)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 映像 / ヂジタル技術 / メディア / 芸術 / 哲学 / 技術 / デジタル / デジタル技術 / 現代芸術 / 映画

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project, which is to investigate the ways in which visibility is realized in visual image works of art under the environment provided by digital technology, is conducted to explore the question of the distribution of the invisible and the invisible in works of art using digital images in particular in terms of their constitution of material conditions.
It is done through research on literature on related topics, in particular on theorizations of visual images in new materialism and anthropology, and through research on works of art on the site survey base. This project also seeks to apply what it has gained through those theorizations onto works of art using digital image produced in Japan.

Research Products

• [Presentation] THE ENGINE OF ANIMATED BACKGROUND (2016)
  • Author(s): Keisuke Kitano
  • Organizer: CJRC Lecture Series
  • Place of Presentation: 南カリフォルニア大学（ロサンゼルス・アメリカ）
  • Year and Date: 2016-02-23
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Ontological Status of Visual Representation in Japan in the Age of Digitalization: A Case Study of Media Practices in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Keisuke Kitano
  • Organizer: Visual Culture and Social Mediation in East Asia
  • Place of Presentation: 国立交通大学（新竹市・中華民国）
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-12
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Animated Body: the Logic of Trans-media Aesthetics in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Keisuke Kitano
  • Organizer: Life Remade: The Politics and Aesthetics of Animation, Simulation and Rendering
  • Place of Presentation: ロンドン大学バークベックカレッジ（ロンドン・イギリス）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-06
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] イメージのマテリアリティとサーキュレーション (2014)
  • Author(s): 北野圭介
  • Organizer: 表象文化論学会
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟大学（新潟県新潟市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-08
• [Presentation] The Logic of the De-cinematic, or Origins of the Japanese cinema: from magic lanterns through 60s Avant-garde to animation
  • Author(s): Kitano, Keisuke
  • Organizer: The Birkbeck Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice and the London Asia Pacific Cultural Studies Forum
  • Place of Presentation: The Birkbeck Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice( United Kingdom)
• [Presentation] 核の翻訳
  • Author(s): 北野圭介
  • Organizer: 日本アメリカ学会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京外国語大学（東京都府中市）
• [Presentation] 映像と制御
  • Author(s): 北野圭介
  • Organizer: 日本映像学会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京造形大学（東京都八王子市）
• [Presentation] Kobayashi Hideo and the Question of media
  • Author(s): Kitano, Keisuke
  • Organizer: Project "Media Theories in Japan"
  • Place of Presentation: Media Theories in Japan (Department of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, USA)
• [Book] 制御と社会 欲望と権力のテクノロジー (2014)
  • Author(s): 北野圭介
  • Total Pages: 368
  • Publisher: 人文書院