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The purpose of this Master's degree by thesis and project is to investigate a body of lens-based imagery generated while living in Tokyo. Through this investigation, the thesis investigates how meaning is derived from the cognitive, perceptual and emotional experiences of living in different cultural and built environments as experienced by this American national, while living in Toyko, Japan and later Melbourne Australia. The cognitive, perceptual and emotional experiences are defined theoretically before being explored within a wider analysis of historical and contemporary perspectives of Japan's built environment and its evolving technological infrastructures, and how these factors shape daily experiences. This thesis proposed that the different, latent spatial and temporal experiences of living in and negotiating Tokyo's built environment with its interfacing technological networks, including transport and communication, unconsciously affected not only my technical approach to image making but also the choice of subject matter, the composition, and more complexly a new exploration of temporal and spatial consciousness. As this thesis illustrates, Tokyo, the city where I worked, lived and generated a body of imagery over a four-year period, provided the initial impetus for a body of lens-based imagery. IT later provided inspiration for the cultural and theoretical framework of this thesis, which seeks to critically review my image-based projects in terms of cultural displacement, which I was experiencing anew in Melbourne, my new city of residence. Drawing on research into the effects that constructed spaces and technological infrastructures have on people's day-to-day activities, and in turn their spatial and temporal consciousness, I created a new project within a Melbourne train underground, that revisited spatial and temporal experiences in the urban environment. A review of this installation, which explores possibilities for the physical and sensory integration of digital information, including web-based content, into the transitory spaces of city travels, forms the conclusion of this thesis.
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