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Takuya Ishikawa

Ishikawa is an educator, researcher, and director. Lecturer at Kyoto University of the Arts. He worked in UI/UX design before studying at the Institute of Advanced Media

Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) from 2013. In 2016, he was appointed educator at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), where he produced music programs, as well as educational and regional programs such as RADLOCAL. He was appointed to his current position in 2020. He produced Koshiro Hino‛s GEIST, directed music events and art production, and conducted research on the cultural history and commons of club culture. Co-author of New Generation Editors File: Editing Across Borders—from the Digital to Communities and Government.

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On Space, Professions, and Parties as Poetic Technologies

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This research investigates the appearance and interfacing of poetic technologies in the everyday through such elements as the act of selecting tracks, the profession of DJ and event organizer, and the spatiality of a club event. Poetic technologies is a term coined by the late David Graeber, referring to the mobilization of knowledge for implementing self-indulgent fantasies that may seem impossible, as opposed to bureaucratic technologies that only permit things that adhere to the rules. The research methodology comprises interviews with DJs and club event organizers and the creation of a kit for exploring the possibilities of parties while wandering around the city.

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