This experimental project brings together landscape photography, archival analysis, and critical reflection while exploring how social media can be used in the university setting to promote dialogue about the campus as a site of inquiry.
Authored by Amy Scott Metcalfe, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
100 Views in the title of this project references the art and legacy of Hiroshige (1797-1858), a Japanese ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist, whose scenes influenced Western Impressionist and Post-impressionist artists in the 19th and 20th centuries. As a project, 100 Views responds to the aesthetic Orientation of Impressionism and modernism in Western art as a cultural appropriation, affecting vision as much as artmaking. Metaphorically, 100 Views resides in the Imperial tastes of the university’s imperial project, in part and problematically reflecting 100 years of the iconography and viewpoints of the university’s power elite.