Yasuo Kobayashi is Professor, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, the University of Tokyo (Culture and Representation Major) He is Director of the the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (as 21st Century COE Program) and Ph.D. in Semiotics from the University of Paris X
Publications: The Optics of Representations, The Opera of Light, Origin and Root, Literature as Event, Poetics of Architecture, Body and Space, Art History of Blue, etc.
Translations: works of J. Derrida, M. Duras, JF Lyotard, E. Levinas, etc.
He is also Screening Member of The L'Oréal Art & Science of Color prizes and Awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques by the Republic of France