Prof. Gary McLeod will host an exhibition of work from the Finding Time project at the TETTO Kamaishi Civic Hall in Kamaishi (Iwate Prefecture). The project is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K22994).

At the T+ Gallery at the University of Tsukuba, lab member and M1 student Misaki Kawahata exhibited ‘Turn’ a work-in-progress display of seeing and tracing.

At the T+ Gallery at the University of Tsukuba, Prof. Gary McLeod held an experimental display of photographs from the Finding Time project, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K22994)

Prof. McLeod will present a new short film called ‘Virtually Once in a Lifetime’ at the 2021 International Visual Methods Conference (held online and in Cape Town). Making use of Google Street View and VR tools, the ‘VR desktop documentary’ observes an everyday ‘walk’ around Kamaishi, one of many cities on Japan’s north-eastern coast decimated by the 2011 tsunami. At risk of erasure through future updates, this impossible and arguably unrepeatable walk describes an experience of being guided by the city’s topography but led by a temporally dispassionate algorithm. The professor will also present a paper looking at GSV for rephotography.

The lab presented a work-in-progress paper at the 2021 Asia Digital Art and Design Association + Cumulus conference (held online) about the Past Street View project. Check out the project site to learn more.

PhD student Marita Ibañez participated in the University of Tsukuba 18th Doctoral Course exhibition where she exhibited two new photomedia works: ‘Is this a landscape?’ and ‘Mended Landscape’. ; both part of an ongoing practice-led research inquiry into migration, landscape and photomedia.

Two of Prof. McLeod’s images from the series Finding Time were included in the "SEEING ACROSS DISCIPLINES" AN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL ONLINE JURIED ART EXHIBITION organised by the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). The virtual exhibition is available until Aug 31st 2022

Prof. McLeod gave a presentation at the 2021 International Visual Literacy Association conference – Seeing Across Disciplines: Visual Literacy and Education, hosted by the University of Toledo and the Toledo Museum of Art (November 4-6th, 2021). His presentation was titled, Slow Glass: Temporality and Photomedia literacy.

Prof. McLeod took part in a roundtable discussion about communication of the International Linear Collider project hoped to be built in Iwate Prefecture in North Japan. He reported on the need to respect challenges facing photomedia education today and possible ways to overcome them.