2nd Meeting 

 

Title

"Fine Arts in/ as Mediums, and Literature in/ as Mediums: Reconsidering Arts in Terms of Media Studies.”

 

Time and Place

- Sept 18th (Sun) 15:00-18:00

- MEDIA SHOP, Kawaramachi-Sanjo

 

Speakers

-Panelists

  Satoshi Bamba (Niigata University)

  Mariko Murata (Kansai University)

- Moderator

  Kitano Keisuke (Ritsumeikan Univeristy)

- Chair

  Yorio Kitamura (Ritsumeikan University)

 

Overview and Profile

The second meeting, titled, “Fine Arts in/ as Mediums, and Literature in/ as Mediums : Reconsidering Arts in Terms of Media Studies”, will be a cross-talk session.

 

Mariko Murata has published the book The Museum as Ideology (2014), which one can say is a pioneering work on fine arts with the analytical tools of new materialism and new cultural studies.  A museum materializing itself as a thing collects objects that would at turn materialize themselves as things to represent values, in particular values free from use-value, some of which would then become commodities.  This work looks sharply into the ways in which museums in modernity have been at operation in terms of media studies, even presenting a comparative case study the museum questions of the West and those of Japan. 

Satoshi Bamba, has published the book Dostoevsky and the Question of Novel (2012), which explores the ways in which Dostoevsky challenged the problematic of writing at the birth of novels, which, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, is the one and only art after the proliferation of printing media. In his exploration, Banba mobilizes speech-act theories and contemporary French philosophies, and furthermore employs media studies tools such as Friedrich Kittler’s and others to illuminate those media environments conditioned not just printing but also by photography that Dostoevsky had to immerse himself in.  

  

This session expects that these two scholars, working in their own fields but nevertheless conducting their works with media theories, exchange their views, opening up visions to our research project.