McLEOD Gary Roderick

Affiliation
Institute of Art and Design
Official title
Assistant Professor
ORCID
0000-0002-3302-8937
Sex
Male
KAKEN ID
70850593
URL
Research fields
Art at large
Research keywords
Photomedia (history, theory and practice), visual literacy and visual methodologies.
Research projects
The formation of applied science and the development of a "new cultural heritage paradigm" in the fusion of arts, sciences and engineering: the post-war heritage of Germany and Japan2024-04 -- 2029-03Ikeda MarikoJSPS/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)46,540,000Yen
Expanding the theory of sculptural expression based on tactile sensation: Seeking active appreciation guided by spatial understanding and physicality2025-04 -- 2029-03Miyasaka ShinjiJapan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)18,850,000Yen
An archive of rephotography projects along Tohoku’s recovering coast2023-01 -- 2024-12Gary McLeodDNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion/800,000Yen
Landscape Loading: a study of anticipated change, trust and photomedia literacy in "New Tohoku"2022-04 -- 2026-03Gary McLEODJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN)/Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists3,770,000Yen
Re-examining the role of Google Street View in visual methodologies2021-07 -- 2022-03Gary McLeodUniversity of Tsukuba/Research Grant for Faculty of Art and Design200,000Yen
Rephotographing Uncertainty in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics2020-06 -- 2021-03Gary McLeodUniversity of Tsukuba/Research Grant for Faculty of Art and Design249,000Yen
Finding Time: temporality and photomedia literacy as experienced during the "Recovery and Reconstruction Games"2019-10 -- 2022-03Gary McLeodJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN)/Research Activity Start-up2,470,000Yen
Finding Time in a Can: Time Poverty and Photomedia2019-06 -- 2020-03Gary McLeodUniversity of Tsukuba/Research Grant for Faculty of Art and Design294,000Yen
Career history
2019-04 -- (current)University of TsukubaFaculty of Art and DesignAssistant Professor
2016-09 -- 2021-09Falmouth UniversityInstitute of PhotographyLecturer
2017-04 -- 2019-03Hosei UniversityGlobal and Interdisciplinary StudiesAssistant Professor
2012-09 -- 2015-01Izmir University of EconomicsFaculty of Art and DesignLecturer
2011-07 -- 2012-07Raffles Design InstituteVisual Communication DesignLecturer
2011-01 -- 2011-05Canterbury Christ Church UniversityDepartment of MediaLecturer
2010-10 -- 2011-05Loughborough UniversityVisual Communication DesignLecturer
Academic background
2009-09 -- 2016-06University of the Arts London Photography Doctoral Program
2006-09 -- 2008-07University of the Arts London Digital Arts Post-graduate Program
1998-10 -- 2001-06Wimbledon School of Art Fine Art Undergraduate Program
Degree
2016-06Ph.DUniversity of the Arts London
2008-07MAUniversity of the Arts London
2001-06BA (hons)Wimbledon School of Art
Academic societies
2020-09 -- (current)International Visual Literacy Association
2018-07 -- 2021-03Royal Photographic Society
2018-06 -- 2019-06International Visual Sociology Association
2018-06 -- 2019-06Society for Photographic Education
Articles
Books
Conference, etc.
  • A Quest for Photomedia Literacy in Japan: a cursory report
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    48th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Art Education/2026-03-14--2026-03-15
  • Maps of everywhere with nowhere to go: a (frank) self-assessment of participatory research and challenges facing photomedia literacy
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    International Visual Literacy Association Online Symposium 2026/2026-03-11--2026-03-11
  • Beyond Action: Possibilities of thermal imaging for understanding rephotographic gestures
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    23rd International Conference of Asia Digital Art and Design Association/2025-12-01--2025-12-03
  • A Forest of Any Sign: A provocation about AI and the future photomediated landscape of the International Linear Collider
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    23rd International Conference of Asia Digital Art and Design Association/2025-12-01--2025-12-03
  • Other Days, Other Ways: an introduction to rephotography
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    REPHOTOGRAPHY × TOHOKU’S RECOVERING COAST – Online symposium/2024-12-14--2024-12-14
  • A Landscape in Waiting: collaborative thoughts on change, trust, and photomedia literacy in and around Japan's proposed ILC
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    56th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Illuminating Perspectives through Critical Visual Literacy/2024-10-06--2024-10-09
  • Yokai in the Machine: reconsidering a gesture of 3D scanning in modelling formative qualities of artwork for the visually impaired
    McLeod Gary Roderick; Miyasaka Shinji
    Helsinki Photomedia 2024/2024-04-11--2024-04-13
  • Welcome to Neo-Tohoku: Rephotography and Models of Uncertain Change
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    Helsinki Photomedia 2024/2024-04-11--2024-04-13
  • Between Lay and Me: Navigating representations of change in rephotographing Challengers Japan
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    Beyond the Ocean Depths: Revisiting the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876)/2023-11-07--2023-11-08
  • Caffenol in the Darkroom: Exploring its Potential as a Tool for Teaching Visual Literacy
    McLeod Gary Roderick; Ibañez Sandoval Marita
    55th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Ways of Seeing/2023-10-02--2023-10-08
  • Seen being made: the magic in photomedia literacy
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    55th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Ways of Seeing/2023-10-02--2023-10-08
  • Coffee in the Dark: Environmental Impact of Caffenol and its Importance in the Search for Eco-friendly Darkroom Practices
    McLeod Gary Roderick; Ibañez Sandoval Marita
    2023 Photographic Society of Japan Annual Conference/2023-07-17--2023-07-19
  • Rephotography and uncertainty in the Tohoku landscape of the ILC
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    2023 Photographic Society of Japan Annual Conference/2023-07-17--2023-07-19
  • Magic that Works: three photomedia literacy strategies for digital art and design education
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    20th International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2022/2022-11-26--2022-11-27
  • Between Dimensions: an alternative tactile approach for visually impaired art appreciation
    Miyasaka Shinji; McLeod Gary; EMURA Tadahiko; Takemoto H...
    ICOM Prague 2022– International Committee for Education and Cultural Action/2022-08-20--2022-08-28
  • A time travelling first-person armchair detective adventure into photomedia
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Seeing Across Disciplines‒Visual Literacy and Education/2022-08-10--2022-08-12
  • Street Re-View: Problematizing Google Street View through participatory rephotography in Kamaishi, Japan
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    The 7th International Visual Methods Conference: Decolonizing Design/2021-12-13--2021-12-14
  • Slow Glass: Temporality & Photomedia literacy
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    53rd Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Seeing Across Disciplines‒Visual Literacy and Education/2021-11-04--2021-11-06
  • Shared Glass: Photomedia And Visual Communication At The ILC
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    ILC workshop experiments 2022/2021-10-26--2021-10-29
  • ‘Reverse’ Ground Truthing: Looking again at rephotographing virtually
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    18th International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2020/2020-12-14--2020-12-16
  • Finding Time in Iwate
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    The 11th Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film (MediAsia2020)/2020-11-12--2020-11-14
  • Learning not to go there (again): virtual rephotography and visual literacy
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    52nd Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Visual Literacy in the Virtual Realm/2020-09-24--2020-09-26
  • Art and Design through Corona: The Role of Art in Global Issues
    Fujita Naoko; 貴広 森尾; 美希 山本; McLeod Gary
    Tsukuba Global Science Week 2020/2020-09-18--2020-10-18
  • The ‘Decommissioning’ of SNS Challenger: a Case Study of Contemporary Obstacles Facing Collective Use of Archival Imagery in the Age of Participatory Media
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    ICOM Maizuru Meeting 2018/2018-09-30--2018-09-30
  • Right Here, Right Now: Teaching rephotography in an era of post-truth.
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    Helsinki Photomedia 2018: Reconsidering the “Post-truth Condition”: Epistemologies of the photographic image/2018-03-26--2018-03-28
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Works
  • [FINDING TIME IN KAMAISHI VOL.4] Photomedia Installation, 釜石市展ホールTETTO Exhibition, Gary McLeod & Others (2025)
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
  • [OSHIKA PENINSULA REPHOTOGRAPHED] Photomedia Installation, Sendai Mediatheque Group Exhibition "Starry Sky and Road: To Remember March 11", Gary McLeod & Others (2025)
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
  • [SLC: An Archive of Rephotography along Tohoku’s Recovering Coast] Photomedia Exhibition, University of Tsukuba Art Space, Gary McLeod & Others (2024)
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
  • [LANDSCAPE LOADING 1.1] Photomedia Installation, Gallery AN Exhibition, Gary McLeod & Others (2024)
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
  • [FINDING TIME IN KAMAISHI VOL.3] Photomedia Installation, 釜石市展ホールTETTO Exhibition, Gary McLeod & Others (2023)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [WALL ENDINGS] EPSITE Epson Imaging Gallery, Photograph exhibition, Gary McLeod (2024)
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
  • [SUNBURN] University of Tsukuba Art & Design Street 2023, Photomedia Installation, Gary McLeod & Others (2023)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [LANDSCAPE LOADING] 2023 Photographic Society of Japan Annual Conference Salon(ONLINE), VIDEO, Gary McLeod & Others (2023)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [TELL 'EM I TRIED] Photomedia Installation, University of Tsukuba Art Space, Gary McLeod & Others (2023)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [FINDING TIME IN KAMAISHI VOL.2] Photomedia Installation, 釜石市展ホールTETTO Exhibition, Gary McLeod & Others (2023)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [ダイヤ乱れ (Schedule Disruption)] Short film, IVSA exhibition 2022: What is an Image? Gary McLeod (2022)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [GSV REPHOTOGRAPHS] Virtual exhibition, IVLA Expo 2022: Views and Visions: Connecting and Sharing the Visual, Gary McLeod & Others (2022)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [FINDING TIME IN KAMAISHI VOL.1] Photomedia Installation, 釜石市展ホールTETTO Exhibition, Gary McLeod & Others (2022)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [ONCE IN A LIFETIME] Short film, 7th International Visual Methods Conference, Film Festival, Gary McLeod & Others (2021)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [FINDING TIME] Virtual exhibition, IVLA Expo 2021: Seeing Across Disciplines, Gary McLeod (2021)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [Tokyo 2020+0] Virtual Exhibition, IVLA Expo 2020: Visual Messages, Gary McLeod (2020)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [SHARED SIGHT/S] Photomedia Exhibition, 1839 Gallery, Taipei, Gary McLeod & Others (2016)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [AT HOME WITH OTHERS] Photomedia Installation, Siggraph Aisa 2015, Kobe, Gary McLeod & Others (2015)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
  • [IZMIR WITH MARK KLETT] Photomedia exhibition and catalogue, Izmir University of Economics, Mark Klett, Gary McLeod & Others (2013)
    McLeod Gary Roderick
Teaching
2025-04 -- 2025-06Museum Exhibition IUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-11 -- 2025-12Design Produce Studio CUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-10 -- 2025-11Design Produce Studio BUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-07 -- 2025-08Design Produce Studio BUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-04 -- 2025-07Design Produce Studio AUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-10 -- 2026-02Graduation Thesis and Production B (Visual Communication Design)University of Tsukuba.
2025-04 -- 2025-08Graduation Thesis and Production A (Visual Communication Design)University of Tsukuba.
2025-04 -- 2025-08Special Workshops on Creative Reconstruction: Local Design IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-04 -- 2025-08Special Workshops on Creative Reconstruction: Local Design IUniversity of Tsukuba.
2025-04 -- 2025-08Workshops on Creative Reconstruction: Local Design IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
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Other educational activities
2026-02 -- 2026-02Messy Magic: a photomedia literacy workshopKamaishi High School
2025-07 -- 2025-07High School Talk: Seeing SlowlyKamaishi Compass
2025-02 -- 2025-02Messy Magic: a photomedia literacy workshopKamaishi Technical High School
2025-02 -- 2025-02Messy Magic: a photomedia literacy workshopIwaizumi High School
2025-02 -- 2025-02Messy Magic: a photomedia literacy workshopKamaishi High School
2024-11 -- 2024-11High School Talk: Seeing SlowlyKamaishi Compass
2024-02 -- 2024-02Messy Magic: a photomedia literacy workshopKamaishi High School
2023-10 -- 2023-10High School Talk: Seeing SlowlyKamaishi Compass
2023-06 -- 2023-06High School Talk: Introduction to Photomedia LiteracyUniversity of Tsukuba
2022-12 -- 2022-12High School Talk: Seeing SlowlyKamaishi Compass
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Talks
  • All I want for Christmas is a Particle Collider
    McLEOD Gary Roderick
    Falmouth University/2025-10-29--2025-10-29
  • Finding Time in Kamaishi
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    Izmir University of Economics/2021-05-21--2021-05-21
  • Virtual Rephotography
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    Falmouth University/2020-04-29--2020-04-29
  • The Past is a Different Time Zone
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    MEDIT Seminar/2018-03-29--2018-03-29
  • Participatory Rephotography: expanding conversations about place over time
    McLeod Gary Roderick
    Hosei University/2017-11-07--2017-11-07
Message
I am a practice-led visual researcher specializing in the study and implementation of rephotography, rephotographic gestures, and rephotographic archives. I am also an advocate for visual and photomedia literacies.

(Last updated: 2026-05-06)