Gary McLeod is a visual communicator and artist, who has lived the life of a foreigner for ten years in Japan, India and Turkey. During this time, he has continued to practice photography (and rephotography) as a means of gathering and managing visual information in order to learn from his immediate environs.

For this lecture, which follows a three-day rephotography workshop, he will talk about his practice and experience within the context of Vilém Flusser's aesthetics of familiarity.

Flusser spoke of foreignness being synonymous with creativity, a relationship which McLeod knows very well. As such, he will speak of the importance of living the role of the outsider, the foreigner, the gaijin, the yabanci, or indeed the alien, within a practice-based approach to visual communications.

Gary McLeod, from the Dep. of Visual Communication Design/Izmir University of Economics, in Turkey, will be at ESAD under the Erasmus Teaching Mobility within Design.

https://vimeo.com/105001575 Conference - Gary Mcleod