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Finding Time: temporality and photomedia literacy as experienced during the Recovery and Reconstruction Games

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K22994
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section 0101:Philosophy, art, and related fields
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

McLeod Gary  筑波大学, 芸術系, 助教 (70850593)

Project Period (FY) 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
KeywordsTemporality / Photomedia literacy / Rephotography / Tokyo 2020 / Post-tsunami / Reconstruction / Recovery / Iwate Prefecture / Tokyo Olympic Games / Tokyo Paralympic Games
Outline of Research at the Start

A practical study investigating time and visual literacy in uses of photomedia during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games. Visiting locations in photos of regions worst affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, participatory rephotography and a range of photomedia are used to explore changes in affected towns before, during and after the games, and to reflect upon their public reception. Documentation and findings presented to international audiences as an exhibition, photobook and articles aim to promote global public and scholarly awareness of temporality and photomedia literacy.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Use of digital cameras is believed to increase visual literacy, but requires time that contemporary users do not have. Moreover, less familiarity with other photomedia (e.g. film cameras) increases risk of time blindness. In this study, a practical framework using participatory rephotography was developed to give university students exposure to a variety of photomedia and an opportunity to think about temporalities other than their own. In doing so, a visual archive, a series of photobooks, and other media artefacts were created that collectively documented and explored reconstruction and recovery in coastal cities of Iwate Prefecture before and during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

学習環境において、学生がデジタルカメラを使用する機会が増えています。しかし、他のフォトメディア(フィルムなど)が持つ時間性は、難しい薬品やコストのために見落とされがちです。本研究の結果、様々な時間性を考えるためにはフォトメディアリテラシーが重要であることが確認されたが、フォトメディアリテラシーの向上は難しい材料(ピンホールカメラなど)がなくても達成可能であることがわかった。本研究の結果を活用することで、視覚リテラシーを研究する研究者が、デジタルカメラに代わる手段を検討することが期待される。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Visual Literacy and Virtual Rephotography2021

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Journal Title

      Visual literacy in the virtual realm: The book of selected readings 2021

      Volume: 1 Pages: 81-93

    • DOI

      10.52917/ivlatbsr.2021.018

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A time travelling first-person armchair detective adventure into photomedia2022

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      2022 International Visual Literacy Conference-CONNECTING + SHARING-ENVISIONING THE FUTURES OF VISUAL LITERACY
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Slow Glass: Temporality and Photomedia Literacy2021

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      2021 International Visual Literacy Conference-SEEING ACROSS DISCIPLINES: VISUAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Street Re-View: Problematizing Google Street View through Participatory Rephotography in Kamaishi, Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      7th International Visual Methods Conference-DECOLONISING DESIGN
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Learning Not to go There (Again): Virtual Rephotography and Visual Literacy2020

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      2020 International Visual Literacy Conference-VISUAL LITERACY IN THE VIRTUAL REALM
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Some Time in Ofunato, a Desktop Film2020

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      ADADA+CUMULUS 2020 International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Gary McLeod. ‘Reverse’ Ground Truthing: Looking again at rephotographing virtually2020

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      ADADA+CUMULUS 2020 International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Finding Time in Iwate2020

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      IAFOR MediAsia2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Iwate 2020: after 'aftermath' photography2020

    • Author(s)
      Gary McLeod
    • Organizer
      Falmouth University, UK
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2019-09-03   Modified: 2025-03-27  

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