Matsunaga Shinji

マツナガシンジ | Matsunaga Shinji

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate professor
Other affiliations (1)：

Ritsumeikan University The Kinugasa Research Organization Visiting researcher

Homepage URL (1)： https://9bit.99ing.net/

Research field (2)： Aesthetics and art studies , Philosophy and ethics

Research keywords (15)： aesthetics , analytic aesthetics , philosophy of art , analytic philosophy , aesthetic judgment , game research , game studies , games , play , video games , fiction , pixel arts , fashion , narratology , media geijutsu

Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：

2019 - 2022 The Philosophy of Depiction Meets Modern Popular Culture
2011 - 2013 A Research for Aesthetic Methods in Videogame Studies
2010 - 2011 The Judge's Actions in Games: A Perspective for the Comparison between Computer and Non-computer Games

Papers (19)：

Shinji Matsunaga. Simulation Stylized: Explaining "Unnaturalness" in Japanese Role-playing Video Games. Shun-Shyo Yao, Jian Deng, and Kentaro Matsumoto (eds.), Cultural Studies of Games in Japan, China, and Korea: A Game Criticism Anthology from East Asia (Shin-yo Sha). 2024. 144-181
Shinji Matsunaga. Maintenance Ruins Ruins: Why Preserving Ruins Is Impossible. PhilCul. 2022. 7. 2. 24-42
Shinji Matsunaga. Depicting the Philosophy of Depiction. PhilCul. 2020. 5. 2. 48-58
Shinji Matsunaga. A History of Game Research. Nobushige Kobayashi (ed.), An Introduction to Digital Game Research (Minerva Shobo). 2020. 13-36
Shinji Matsunaga. Verbs and Patterns: On the Relation between Games and Simulation. Ecrit-o. 2019. 11. 221-236

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MISC (47)：

菅俊一, 松永伸司. 同じ道では帰らない:楽しく暮らすために考える「遊びとルールの関係性」. XD MAGAZINE. 2023. 7. 96-101
Shinji Matsunaga. Play, as Earnest, as Playful. Kohkoku. 2023. 417. 121-159
Shinji Matsunaga. A Philosophy of Pixel Art #3: Representing Characters in Pixel Art Narrative. Media Arts Current Contents Project Report 2022. 2023
Shinji Matsunaga. The Aesthetics of Pixel Art (3): Pixel Arts and Character Representations. Media Arts Current Contents. 2023
松永伸司. アート(担当:序文 / Passage / The Marriage / McDonald's Video Game / GIRP / The Longing). 田中 “hally” 治久・今井晋監修『インディ・ゲーム新世紀ディープ・ガイド:ゲームの沼』Pヴァイン. 2022. 132-147

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Books (4)：

Play Matters
Film Art, Inc. 2019 ISBN:9784845918010
The Aesthetics of Video Games
Keio University Press 2018 ISBN:9784766425673
Languages of Art
Keio University Press 2017 ISBN:9784766422245
Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
New Games Order 2016 ISBN:9784908124082

Lectures and oral presentations (53)：

ビデオゲームからインタラクティブ表現を再考する
(IAMAS 2024: 情報科学芸術大学院大学第22期生修了研究発表会 2024)
When Fiction Becomes Vivid
(The "Into Fiction: Aesthetics of Immersion" Workshop 2024)
ゲームの「二周目」について
(大岩雄典個展「実効|Work」ガラトークイベント 2023)
わかりあうこと、読みあうこと
(PARA「共有の知恵」レクチャーシリーズ 2023)
『広告』文化特集号発売記念トークイベント「文化の生成と更新」
(2023)

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Education (3)：

2010 - 2015 Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts PhD course of fine arts
2008 - 2010 Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts MA course of aesthetics
2004 - 2008 Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts BA course of aesthetics and art history

Professional career (1)：

PhD (Tokyo University of the Arts)

Work history (9)：

2021/04 - 現在 Kyoto University The Department of Media and Culture Studies, Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
2015/06 - 現在 Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Research Organization Visiting Fellow
2021/10 - 2022/03 Sophia University Faculty of Humanities Part-time lecturer
2020/04 - 2021/09 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Visiting lecturer
2020/04 - 2021/03 Tokyo Metropolitan University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting lecturer

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Awards (2)：

2016/02 - 日本デジタルゲーム学会若手奨励賞
2010/07 - 東京芸術大学平山郁夫奨学金

Association Membership(s) (2)：

Japanese Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy , THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS

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