Toshiharu ITO

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Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts / Art Historian

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Born in Akita in 1953. Graduated from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, and completed the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Tokyo (majoring in Western Art History). After serving as a professor in the Department of Information Design at Tama Art University, he is now a professor at the Department of Advanced Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. He is currently a professor emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts, a visiting professor at Tama Art University, and a professor at the Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School. 

 

He has written over 100 books, including "Photographic City" (Fuyukisha), "Diorama Theory" (Libroport/winner of the Suntory Academic Prize), "Machine Art Theory" (Iwanami Shoten), "Electronic Art Theory" (NTT Publishing), and "Introduction to Information Media Studies" (Ohmsha). 

 

He has planned many international art exhibitions, including "Perception of the Fourth Dimension" (Austria) and "CHIKAKU" (Spain). He has previously served as the planner for the Tsukuba Museum of Photography in 1985, the planner for the Osaka Garden and Greenery Exposition Museum of Photography in 1990, the master plan and committee for the NTT InterCommunication Center in 1995, the master planner and master planner for the 2005 Aichi Expo, the planner for the Japan Industry Pavilion (INAX Zone) at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, an advisor for the Shiseido Gallery, and a member of the Nikon Salon steering committee. He has also given many lectures overseas, including at the Louvre Museum's "Museum of the Future" (Paris) and the Pompidou Center's "Virtual Structure" (Paris).