109th metaPhorest Seminar

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025, 19:00–21:00

109th metaPhorest Seminar by Shiho Hasegawa

This event will be primarily in Japanese, but questions and comments in English are also welcome.

For the June 17 metaPhorest Seminar, we are pleased to welcome Shiho Hasegawa, whose research explores bioart and biodesign from the perspectives of art history and design history. The seminar will be hosted by metaPhorest member Tomoya Ishibashi.
This session will center on Hasegawa’s 2024 doctoral dissertation, The Formation and Development of Bio Art: The Visualization of Spheres Connected to a Biocentric Genealogy. She will discuss the emergence and expansion of bioart, its prehistory in modern art history and architectural thought, and approaches to theorizing bioart through the concepts of Umwelt and the “sphere.”
We warmly invite you to join us.

Date and Time/Location

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025, 19:00–21:00 Waseda University Research Facility for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns), 3rd Floor, Seminar Room 3 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wy23SqPPMo3P7V8JA

ONLINE

This seminar can also be held online. Zoom Link

Shiho Hasegawa

Ph.D. (Arts and Sciences). Staff member at the Keio Museum Commons (KeMCo). Her specialization is modern and contemporary art theory, particularly in the fields of art history and design studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of artistic expression with technology and science since modernity, with particular attention to visual culture, media art, bioart, and biodesign.
She completed the doctoral coursework in the Graduate School of Cultural Science at Saitama University. Since 2018, she has been involved in the preparatory office for Keio Museum Commons as a research assistant, and now works as a staff member engaged in exhibition projects and contemporary art initiatives at KeMCo.
https://researchmap.jp/s-hasegawa

Tomoya Ishibashi

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1990. He studied biology at university and has developed an artistic practice exploring the boundary between nature and human intervention through interests in selectively bred organisms, writing systems, and artificial intelligence.
He has been a member of the Waseda University Life Aesthetics Platform metaPhorest since 2012, and entered the doctoral program at IAMAS in 2023. His recent exhibitions include IAMAS ARTIST FILE #10: Cocoon—Ecology Through Technology (The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 2025), Omnipresence, Immortality, Metamorphosis (Zuiun-an, Kyoto, 2024), and DISTANT VIEW (Mars Frankfurt, 2024).
https://www.shibashiishibashi.com/