Program For the Promotion of Culture and Art
by Utilizing University for the fiscal year 2014

Program For the Promotion of Culture and Art
by Utilizing University for the fiscal year 2014

Intersection Project, College of Art, Nihon University

This project emphasizes experimental creative workshops, which are held, in cooperation with external professions, by academics who are normally teaching in different fields of art, spatial design, music, film, photography, fine arts, performing arts, literary science and cultural anthropology. The project seeks to research in more depth the creative process through this interdisciplinary approach.
In 2014, the project is emphasizing “Exhibiting Music”. The project promotes managers who can apply art technology. Concerts or recorded music aren’t the only platforms for the enjoyment of music. From such aspects the lecture of art management focuses on relation between music and contents. Each profession argues from a wide range of aspects like media art, music informatics and cognitive psychology. Therefore it investigates possibilities on various types of presentation platform and approaches to direction for interdisciplinary production management.

 

Project members

Hiroshi Kawakami［Professor, Department of Music］

Hiroyuki Itoh ［Professor, Department of Music］

Kunitoshi Okuno ［Professor, Department of Cinema］

Tomoko Mukai［Associate professor, Department of Design］

Satomi Tanaka［Professor, Department of Photography］

Julian Manning  ［Professor, Department of Liberal Arts Education］

Hiroshi Aikawa［Professor, Department of Liberal Arts Education］

Nobuhiro Masuda ［Associate professor, Department of Cinema］

Kenta Nomura ［Assistant professor, Department of Cinema］

Yuki Mito［Assistant professor, Department of Music］
 

 

Program For the Promotion of Culture and Art
by Utilizing University for the fiscal year 2013

Program For the Promotion of Culture and Art
by Utilizing University for the fiscal year 2013

 
Nihon University College of Art provides a practical curriculum for the development of human resources for comprehensive production management in the arts. We offer Lectures on Art Management, Lectures on Art Theory and Experimental Creative Workshops as part of this program. It was made possible with funding from the ‘Program For the Promotion of Culture and Art by Utilizing University for the fiscal year 2013’.

Lectures on Art Management of this year focused on “process, documentation, description, distribution and archive of the project”. It put on a series of 10 lectures including three public talks in the cooperation with 7 external professionals such as art manager, curator, producer, journalist, publicist and academics from the field of media studies and science of design.

Lectures on Art Theory illustrated cultural and historical background of art fields involved with this project to verify the social position of art production.

The project emphasized Experimental Creative Workshops, which were offered by teachers from various fields based at the Nihon University College of Art together with specialists from outside. Its process and outcome were presented to the public in the “Project Showcase #0” and the exhibition “Parallel Crossing: Performative Architecture”.

For activities of this year external trainees from the fields of performing arts, music and design participated in this project. The period and length of their participation and the way of their commitment varied by individual. It depended on each interest, ability and career. How to engage in the project was different such as management assistance, redaction of resources and distribution of archive.

For the publication of this booklet three trainees from fields of performing arts and design were involved with redaction or writing.

 
 

 
 

Nihon University College of Art Intersection Project

How are creative expressions born? Specialists from various fields have gathered to explore more deeply the means by which ideas emerge and how space in which creative processes can flourish may be constructed. The Intersection Project is an attempt by teachers from various fields based at the Nihon University College of Art together with specialists from outside the college to develop a methodology for creative production by working closely with each other and learning from the various approaches people from different fields bring to the creative process.

 

Project members

Hiroshi Aikawa［Professor, Department of Liberal Arts Education］

Hiroshi Kawakami［Professor, Department of Music］

Yasuhiro Kumagai［Professor, Department of Theatre］

Julian Manning  ［Professor, Department of Liberal Arts Education］

Tomoko Mukai［Associate professor, Department of Design］

Kunitoshi Okuno ［Professor, Department of Cinema］

Satomi Tanaka［Professor, Department of Photography］

［alphabetical order］