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| 1 |
Expanding digital photography methods for metal objects: Digitisation of the sword furniture in the British Museum collection continued |
| 大英博物館（以下、大英）と立命館大学アート・リサーチセンターは、大英所蔵品のデジタル化の分野において、過去17年にわたる強固な協力関係を構築し、それぞれが作成・運営するデータベースが提供する文化資源情報量を飛躍的に伸ばしてきた。2022年度に本助成を受けて行った刀装具（鐔）のデジタル化は、金工品のデジタル化という大英では初の試みであった。現場における撮影方法の綿密な検討と、日英オンライン・ワークショップ（撮影当事者ならびに、ＡＲＣ教員・学生、他博物館の学芸員が参加）を通じて、安全・効果的かつ効率的な撮影方法の確立に成功し、目的とした鐔のデジタル化の基礎方針づくりを達成した。その成果に基づき、今回は大英所蔵の刀装具（縁・頭・目貫）のデジタル化を継続し、鐔とは異なる形状の刀装具の撮影へと幅を広げることによって、撮影方法の応用と多様化を試みたい。刀装具の包括的デジタル化を完了したうえで、将来的には、日本美術史研究に資する、刀装具のデザインに採用された図像の収集と分析に視野を広げたい。2022年度と同様、英国内のデジタル化を牽引するセインズベリー日本藝術研究所（およびイースト・アングリア大学）とも協力し、イギリスで日本学を学ぶ若手研究者の育成を引き続き促進する。本研究は、在英日本文化資源のデジタル化の意義と方法の検討、実際的な技術修得の機会の提供、将来的な人材の育成という目的も併せもっている。 |
Project Leader: Akiko YANO Mitsubishi Corporation Curator (Japanese Collections), Asia Department, British Museum
Co-researcher: Ryo Akama, Rosina Buckland, Sophie Gong, Ryoko Matsuba |
| 2 |
Hyperrealia: Robot Re-Mix - Re-mixing Japanese Robotic Art and Culture through Extended Reality Technologies |
| Hyperrealia: Robot Re-Mix investigates the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and other virtual technologies as a means of visualizing and accessing Japanese artistic and cultural robotic objects. Hyperrealia is an Australian based media art collective that investigates the potential uses of emerging digital technologies including AR to enable contextualised access to and engagement with artefacts in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) collections. Notable examples of robotic culture will be digitised and brought to life as AR experiences able to be shared through museums worldwide. A key aspect is the multiple remixes of the objects showing different viewpoints and contexts for the robot artefacts. |
Project Leader: John MCCORMICK Associate Professor of Interactive Media, Swinburne University
Co-researcher: Chris Henschke, Donna Kendrigan, Aki Nakamura |
| 3 |
TENJI: Contemporary Japanese Art on Display in Europe |
| In the past decades, mobility has been a crucial aspect for professionals who aimed to develop a career in the art field; international exhibitions gathering the works of artists from geographically distant countries may encourage bridging different cultures, emphasize the need to foster transcontinental connections, as well as offer new perspectives on the contemporary art practices. After the seminal group show Japon des Avant-Gardes held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1986, European art institutions have been dedicating an ever-growing attention to the works realized by Japanese artists in the past 30 years, and the Japanese presence has been growing in global exhibitions taking place in the continent in the latest decades, such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta and Manifesta. However, a tool that collects and organizes this great amount of information and data on the plurality of displays in Europe is still missing. With the project TENJI, we aim to create this instrument, by inspecting the presence of Japanese contemporary visual artists in large-scale exhibitions in Europe since the 1990s.. |
Project Leader: Daniela MORO Associate Professor, University of Turin
Co-researcher: Federica Cavazzuti |
| 4 |
Digitalizing the Japanese Art Collection at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 本研究ではイスラエル首都エルサレムの国立ヘブライ大学所蔵日本美術コレクションをデジタル化し、研究資料として公開する。ヘブライ大学コレクションは狩野派や文人画などの絵画、浮世絵を中心とした版画、和歌断簡、和本等の多様な美術作品で構成されているが、その殆どは研究されておらず未整理のままである。デジタル化と平行して、これらの美術作品を整理分類し、各作品の作者、画題、制作年月を定めて、その作成や需要の背景を解明する。これによって、本コレクションの傾向や学術的価値を検討し、各作品の社会的な位置や意味にも考察を加えたい。 |
Project Leader: Kazuko Kameda-Madar Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-researcher: - |
| 5 |
Connecting Epicenters, Relating Maps in and of the Japanese Christian Century |
| The Italian National Archive in Florence holds a Jesuit Map of Japan dating to the second half of sixteenth century, the so-called 'Christian Century' of Japan. The map is part of the 'Miscellanea Medicea' fund comprising historical artifacts belonging to the House of Medici. The map is a representation of Japan's provinces, each with its name transcribed from the Japanese in medieval Portuguese, with a stylized representation of what may be presumed to be provincial capitals. It also features other textual inscriptions in what is presumedly also medieval Portuguese, numbers whose significance is currently unknown and other distinctive details such as the stylization of province capitals as European-looking cities. Current studies on the map are limited, and many of its mysteries remain unsolved. This project seeks to make the map available to the wider academic community via ARC-iJAC's archive and use it as a springboard for further research efforts. |
Project Leader: Diego CUCINELLI Senior Researcher, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Co-researcher: Camillo Berti, Luca Paolo Bruno |
| 6 |
The Networks of Digital and Non-digital Heritage Infrastructure: A Comparison of Borobudur and Japanese Heritage Projects. |
| This proposed research project extends and adds a different dimension to the on-going ARC's Borobudur digitization and database project, a research collaboration of the ARC and the Research Center for Area Studies of the National Research and Innovation Agency (PRW BRIN) that has been continuing since 2017. The main focus of the ARC Borobudur project is to record point cloud data, visualize 3D models, and create a database portal of the Borobudur temple. This proposed 2024 ARC-iJAC research expands the project and examines the Borobudur project as a system of digital and nondigital infrastructural networks for visualizing and managing the tangible heritage. In FY 2024, we will focus the research on ARC Ritsumeikan's digital laboratories and Borobudur laboratory as important nodes in the digital infrastructural network. This proposed 2024 ARC-iJAC research is an ethnographic study of digitization practices, infrastructure networks, and data traffics that connect the field site (Borobudur) to digital laboratories at the Ritsumeikan University. |
Project Leader: Fadjar Ibnu THUFAIL Head of Research Center for Area Studies, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
Co-researcher: Satoshi Tanaka, Keiko Suzuki, Liang Li, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Upik Sarjiati |
| 7 |
Digital Archiving and Visualization on the Batik of East Java |
| This project aims to create digital archives of Batik. In 2009, Batik received formal recognition and was documented as part of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. East Javanese Batik, with its distinct features like temple reliefs, statues, and ornaments which symbolize ancient kingdoms and religions, will be the primary focus of our project. Our initiative involves developing a web database categorizing East Javanese Batik by region which includes motifs, meanings, and philosophies behind each region's colors and patterns. Subsequently, utilizing this database, we plan to visualize the catalog through virtual galleries and 3D infographics, explaining the relationship between landscape and historical ornaments in batik motifs across different regions. The goal is to provide scientific information into East Java's civilization and the glocalization process through Batik. In addition, as work on this project, we aim to create a comparative field study with other traditional textiles from abroad, such as Japan's. |
Project Leader: Fitriana Puspita Dewi Assistant Professor, Faculty of Culture Studies, Universitas Brawijaya
Co-researcher: Aji Setyanto, I Kadek Yudi Astawan, M. Tibyani |
