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ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: REPHOTOGRAPHY × TOHOKU'S RECOVERING COAST, December 14, 2024
From: GM tsukuba <gm@geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/12/02
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: REPHOTOGRAPHY × TOHOKU'S RECOVERING COAST, December 14, 2024
Rephotography is the collective name for photographic practices that involve identifying locations in previously made images and photographing them again. Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, various rephotography projects appeared along the east coast of Tohoku. Many such projects have immediate value for illustrating recovery and reconstruction, but recent scholarship suggests they can go beyond 'before and after' comparisons to examine also how that change is understood.
The objective of this symposium is to discuss the value and future of rephotography along Tohoku's recovering coast. As rephotography of the recovering coast of Tohoku extends into a fourteenth year, now is a good time to discuss change in representations of change, and to consider how such changes can continue to be represented as visual culture navigates a post-AI future. For the symposium, we will hear from photographers and institutions who have chosen to revisit a relationship with the recovering region.
PROGRAM (Japanese-English consecutive translation is provided)
16:00-16:05 Opening remarksーWILLIAM ANDREWS (Sofia University)
16:05-16:20 Introduction to rephotography一GARY McLEOD (University of Tsukuba)
16:20-16:40 Speaker 1一MAYUMI SUZUKI
16:40-17:00 Speaker 2一SHIN TOMINAGA
17:05-17:25 Speaker 3一SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE
17:25-17:45 Speaker 4一PENGKUEI BEN HUANG
17:45-18:05 Speaker 5一TOSHIYA WATANABE
18:15-18:55 Moderated discussion一all speakers
18:55-19:00 Closing remarksーGARY McLEOD (University of Tsukuba)
***All times are Japan Standard Time***
Held via Zoom.
All are welcome. Participation is free, advance registration required.
Registration deadline is Thursday, December 12th.
To register, click here: https://forms.office.
An exhibition related to the symposium is being held at University of Tsukuba until December 26th. A digital twin of the exhibition can be visited here: https://matterport.com/
The symposium and accompanying exhibition were funded by a Graphic Culture Research Grant from the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion.
Both events were produced by members of the rephoto lab at University of Tsukuba.
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Asst. Prof. Gary McLeod (Dr.)
マクラウド・ギャリー
Email: gm@geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.
Tel: 070-2838-0171
Rephotography journal: https://
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/
Research profile: https://bit.ly/
Kaken projects: https://nrid.nii.ac.
Recent exhibitions:
2024 --「SEA, LAND, CHANGE」University of Tsukuba Art Space, Tsukuba, 11/06-12/26 https://
2024 --「LANDSCAPE LOADING」Gallery AN, Mizusawa, 09/14-16 https://my.
2024 --「Finding Time in Kamaishi」TETTO, Kamaishi, 08/05-08/07 https://
2024 --「Wall Endings」EPSON Gallery Epsite, Marunouchi, Tokyo, 06/28-07/10 https://my.
Key publications:
2024 -- 'Vilém Flusser: Play/Read/Write/See'. In R. Lopez-Leon, D. Statton Thompson (Eds.): Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory, Routledge, Chapter 2, pp.23-37
2023 -- 'Slow Glass: a case for photomedia literacy'. Journal of Visual Literacy, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/
2019 -- 'Rephotograph (v)', Philosophy of Photography, 10:1, 89-99 https://doi.org/
Faculty of Art and Design, B334/B343
University of Tsukuba,
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki,
305-8574, JAPAN
http://www.geijutsu.tsukuba.
Asst. Prof. Gary McLeod (Dr.)
マクラウド・ギャリー
Email: gm@geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.
Tel: 070-2838-0171
Rephotography journal: https://
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/
Research profile: https://bit.ly/
Kaken projects: https://nrid.nii.ac.
Recent exhibitions:
2024 --「SEA, LAND, CHANGE」University of Tsukuba Art Space, Tsukuba, 11/06-12/26 https://
2024 --「LANDSCAPE LOADING」Gallery AN, Mizusawa, 09/14-16 https://my.
2024 --「Finding Time in Kamaishi」TETTO, Kamaishi, 08/05-08/07 https://
2024 --「Wall Endings」EPSON Gallery Epsite, Marunouchi, Tokyo, 06/28-07/10 https://my.
Key publications:
2024 -- 'Vilém Flusser: Play/Read/Write/See'. In R. Lopez-Leon, D. Statton Thompson (Eds.): Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory, Routledge, Chapter 2, pp.23-37
2023 -- 'Slow Glass: a case for photomedia literacy'. Journal of Visual Literacy, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/
2019 -- 'Rephotograph (v)', Philosophy of Photography, 10:1, 89-99 https://doi.org/
Faculty of Art and Design, B334/B343
University of Tsukuba,
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki,
305-8574, JAPAN
http://www.geijutsu.tsukuba.
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