Futures of Academic Research and Art
■Day 1 (Jan. 5th Fri. 2024) 14:00-17:30 *ONSITE ONLY
Venue: Commons Café (Room 203), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Workshop "Multimodal Anthropologies across the Pacific"
Driven by recent technological changes, including the widespread use of the Internet, advancements and miniaturization of recording equipment, and the simplification of expression using digital tools, as well as theoretical backgrounds emphasizing people's lived experiences in anthropology, visual anthropology/multimodal anthropology has been expanding its scope. Against this backdrop, this event aims to showcase and discuss various practices and initiatives carried out on different continents.
Scholars of multimodal anthropology from the US, Singapore, and Japan will present their endeavors within their respective fields and areas of practice, such as filmmaking, performance, drone shooting, and art-based workshops. Through these showcases and discussions, we aim to foster new creations and critical thinking.
Titles for Presentation
1. Pero Fukuda (PhD Candidate, Ritsumeikan University) "Violencing, Musicking, Emotioning"
2. Jacob Nussbaum (Interdisciplinary Artist, Musician and PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania) "Performance Interventions: Multimodality as Embodied Method"
3. Ran Muratsu (Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "Capturing the Uncanny: Anthropological Research and Creative Collaboration"
4. Alissa Jordan (Associate Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania) "Seeing Our Bodies Healed: Collaborative Vision States in Film and Sound in a Haitian courtyard"
5. Shu Fujita (Research Associate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "Letting Images Connect: A Multimodal Method for Anthropological Thinking"
6. Leniqueca Welcome (Assistant Professor, George Washington University) "Collage as a Practice of World-Building: Archive, Relation, Speculation"
7. Midori Miyamori (MA Student, Tokyo University of the Arts) "About Instant Acting"
8. Alexandra Sastrawati (PhD Candidate, Princeton University / Young NUS Fellow, National University of Singapore) "Ethics of Proximity: A Visual-Lyric Autoethnography"
9. Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) "Multimodal Cartographies: Excavating the Mexican Landscape through Emerging Visual Media"
10. Maki Kitagawa (Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo) "Vision in Multimodality : Thinking through Drone, Snowmobile and Hunter's Sensibility in Japanese Mountain"
Commentator: Deborah Thomas (R. Jean Brownlee Professor, Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania)
■Day2 (Jan. 6th Sat. 2024) 13:00-18:00 *HYBRID (Onsite＋Online)
Venue: Room 303, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Symposium "Futures of Academic Research and Art"
The realm of academic inquiry not limited by the confines of traditional academic texts as pioneered by visual anthropology/multimodal anthropology, art-based research, and similar approaches, has played a pivotal role in broadening scholarly horizons and rethinking the nature of knowledge. In recent years, these methods have expanded beyond visual media, encompassing works utilizing contemporary art techniques, interactive website creation, VR exhibitions, and various other approaches, thus opening up novel dimensions of thought. Nevertheless, challenges persist in these emerging fields, such as insufficient platforms for exchanging methodologies and ideas, as well as limited space for critique within academia.
Against this backdrop, this symposium aims to facilitate discussions on the experiences of those who have spearheaded collaboration between academia and the arts within the academic sphere. Through such exchanges, we aim to explore both the challenges and possibilities for the future, envisioning the development of advanced organizations and platforms that embody a new holistic form of knowledge.
Program:
13:00. Opening
13:10. Introduction
13:20. Presentation 1
Itsushi Kawase (Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology) "TRAJECTORIA - Expanding the Range Limitations of Scholarship in Audiovisual Practice"
13:50. Presentation 2
Yoshitaka Mōri (Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts) "Art, Research and 'Investigative Aesthetics': Arts-Based Research in the Digital Media Age"
14:20. Presentation 3
Deborah Thomas (R. Jean Brownlee Professor, Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania) "Multi-Modal Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania - Merging Creative Arts and Scholarship"
14:50. Break (15 min.)
15:05. Presentation 4
Sayaka Ogawa (Professor, Ritsumeikan University) "Multimodal Anthropology Using Serious Games: Toward a Collaboration of Business, Education, and Anthropology"
15:35. Presentation 5
Masayuki Okahara (Emeritus Professor, Keio University) "Art-based research Activities in Japan"
16:05. Presentation 6
Chihiro Minato (Director, Institute for Anthropology of Art and Design, Tama Art University) "A Large-scale Arts Festival in Taiwan: Experiences and Endeavors"
16:35. Break (15 min.)
16:50. General Discussion
17:50. Closing
Chair: Ran Muratsu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Discussion Moderator: Pero Fukuda (Ritsumeikan University)
Admission: Free
Pre-registration is required.
Language: English
Jointly sponsored by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)，ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) "Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts", Anthro-film Laboratory, Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Science, Topic-Setting Program "Overcoming Social Division and Achieving Diversity through Embodiment"