Updated on 2026/09/24

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JACK, James
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
Job title
Associate Professor(non-tenure-track)
Homepage URL
https://ecoart.studio/

Research Experience

  • 2018.01
    -
    2022.03

    Yale-NUS College   Arts & Humanities   Art Practice

  • 2020.06
    -
    2021.12

    Archipelagic Artist-in-Residence   Yale-NUS College, Dean of Faculty Office   Artist-in-Residence Program Director

  • 2016.04
    -
    2017.12

    Kyushu University   Social Art Lab   Postdoctoral Researcher

    JSPS

Education Background

  • 2012.04
    -
    2015.03

    Tokyo University of the Arts   Faculty of Fine Arts   Painting  

Research Areas

  • Aesthetics and art studies   Installation Art, Socially Engaged Art, Visual Art Praxis

Research Interests

  • Art, Ecology, More than Human, Environment, Installation

 

Papers

  • Following the stars: Aquapelagic listening

    Oen, K.G., Jack, J.

    Decolonisation in the 21st Century Rethinking Coloniality Resistance and Solidarity    2026.01

    DOI

    Scopus

  • Flow as Method: Artistic Restorying with the Sea

    James Jack, Wei-Hsiu Tung

    Public Humanities   e130   1 - 25  2025.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

  • Tēichigi Colors of Artistic Resistance

    Jack, J.

    Critical Plant Studies   9   79 - 111  2025.05  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

  • DOKYU: INTERSECTIONS OF HISTORY, CREATIVE WRITING, AND ARTS PRACTICE

    Nogues, C., Jack, J., Ypil, L.L., Shimazu, N., Perez, S., Medrano, A., Johandi, H., Dusinberre, M., Chan, Y.Q.

    ASAP Journal   8 ( 3 )  2023.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

    DOI

    Scopus

  • Peripatetic in the Pandemic

    Christa Donner, James Jack, Karin Oen, Andrew Yang

    art journal OPEN    2022.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

  • The (im)Possibilities of Cultural Collectivity: American Artist in Setouchi

    James Jack

    American Art in Asia    2022.03  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

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    Citation
    (Scopus)

  • Dirt stories: Củ Chi & Temasek

    James JACK

    antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture   2 ( 54 ) 53 - 61  2021.07  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Spirits Of Tsureshima: Creative Storytelling with Islanders

    James Jack

    Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures   12 ( 1 )  2018.04  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

  • KHAYALAN ISLAND |pəˈlou ˈhäyālan|

    James Jack

    ISSUE    2014  [International journal]

    DOI

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Books and Other Publications

  • DRIFT ISLANDS

    Sun Woo Yoon, Qiutong Zhai, James Jack( Part： Joint author)

    Islanders  2026 ISBN: 9789887069416  [Refereed]

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    This book brings together three islands: Shodoshima, Lantau, and Yeonpyeong-do through the intertwined voices of the sea, crabs, and humans. Created by a collective of three artists, it reflects on island life as a shared ecology shaped by currents, migrations, and human activity, inviting readers to think and feel beyond a human-centered perspective.

  • The Art of Upcycling in the Seto Inland Sea

    James Jack

    Routledge  2023.04 ISBN: 9781003302155  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • The (im)Possibilities of Cultural Collectivity: American Artist in Setouchi

    James Jack

    Routledge  2022.03 ISBN: 9781003130284  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • Is Sharing Possible? An Artist's Reflection on Collectivity

    ( Part： Contributor)

    Suiyosha  2018.07 ISBN: 9784880654461

Research Projects

  • Arts of Upcycling: Informal Economies of Sharing

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2024.04
    -
    2027.03
     

  • Socially Engaged Art in Pacific Islands

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2016.04
    -
    2018.03
     

 

Syllabus

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Teaching Experience

  • Intermedia Art & Science

    Waseda University  

    2022.04
    -
    Now
     

  • Arts practice

    Yale-NUS College, Singapore  

    2018.01
    -
    2022.03
     

 

Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering   Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

Research Institute

  • 2024
    -
    2026

    Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering   Concurrent Researcher

  • 2024
    -
    2026

    Waseda University Mission-oriented Research and Education Center   Concurrent Researcher

Internal Special Research Projects

  • Artistic Thinking with Sea as Center

    2022  

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    This projectengages with the sea asa source, resource andcenter for artisticthinking.Its methodology relieson ocean currents and other wet cartographies that decenter the authority of land-basedknowledge in current systems of thought. Artistic research actively inserts “a seascape epistemology” (Amimoto Ingersoll 2016) to expand the lexicon of discourse with diverse perspectives from the sea. Interisland networks of solidarity focused on justice (Chinen 2010) are sustained with creativework in colors of red ochre, burnt sienna and mud taupe. Ancestors live onin active weaving of teachings from islandertraditions, botanic richnessand more than humanspecies. In resistanceto hierarchical forms of diplomacy, we engagewith “the muddled journey of decolonialization” (Yamashiro 2022) to healtraumas of colonialism. Seeds nourished with love on “points in the Pacific”(Izumi 2013) including Tokunoshima, Shōdoshima and Hawai‘i Island impact other places(Toshi 2014). Exhibitions, publications and onlinefeatures share these imaginative perspectives with diverse communities.