Dialogue on Site: Ogaki Biennale 2006 and Diatxt./Yamaguchi
Professor of Aesthetics and the Theory of Art in the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University, Hiroshi Yoshioka concentrates his research on aesthetics, the cultural theory of media and technology, contemporary arts, and media arts. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Diatxt. and the general director of both the 2003 Kyoto Biennial and the 2006 Ogaki Biennial. In collaboration with a voluntary group in the city of Yamaguchi, he edited Yorobon: Diatxt./Yamaguchi, a version of the journal Diatxt. He is also the editor of the Japanese Association of Semiotic Studies (JASS). The author of many books and articles on the contemporary theory of culture, art, and technology, he serves on the board of New Research Inititatives for Humanities and Social Sciences, a project organized by the Japanses Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Yoshioka's website, Space in Cyberspace, includes electronic versions of some of his essays in English and Japanese.
Ogaki Biennale 2006
