Events, Updates, and Other Things
The world has lost a great American Landscape photographer in Joe Deal. As part of the New Topographics gang, Deal photographed the physical world in ways unlike his predecessors, revealing, like Robert Adams, new aesthetic methods and subjective choices in Landscape Photography that many of us take for granted “nowadays”. See his monograph West and West
My review of Doug Fogelson’s The Time After is in the new issue of Afterimage V37 no. 6. His work is powerful and theoretically engaging, balancing a criticism (& embracing) of the functionality of the camera and the copiousness of the image/photograph while retaining a sense of beauty.
Afterimage V37 no.6
[**the dates for Guy DeBord's La Societe du Spectacle are 1967 for the book & 1973 for the film**]
An attempt to confuse (pollute?) Badiou's theses in a "wordle" Word Cloud! Is this the counter to Badiou's use of Lombardi?
A Wordle of Badiou's 15 Theses on Contemporary Art
In this interview Paolo Ventura discusses his influences, process and use of photography. He’s engaged in the long history of staging for the camera, or what A.D. Coleman termed the “Directorial Mode”. Wonderful work that plays between memory, mood and fiction. His monograph Winter Stories can be found at Aperture.
Paolo Ventura on Winter Stories from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.
Come see The Rutgers MFA Graduating Class of 2010 at Whitebox next month!! See more at ArtCat!
What: Off The Map (Website Designed by Matt Posey)
Where: Whitebox (Press Release)
When: April 1 – May 2
Opening: April 10, 5-9pm
Off The Wall Announcement Card
A recent studio shot of four Ash pieces from my recent work.
Lately I’ve been really interested in THIS post at Wired’s “This Day in Tech” blog on Tom A. Warner‘s Lightning research and the images/videos that have resulted from the research. It is interesting to think of his research in relation to the history of photography & motion and to these kinds of visual studies that have changed our perception and understanding of the physical world, natural phenomena, time and speed. The slowing down of lightning specifically has me thinking of Eadweard Muybridge and his motion studies from The Attitudes of Animals in Motion.
One of Eadweard Muybridge's Motion Study - 1877
I want to thank everyone who came to the opening, it was a great turnout! A big thank you to all those who could and couldn’t make it to the show for all the wonderful feedback and support. I’d also like to congratulate my fellow colleagues in both thesis exhibitions! I’m proud to have shown and worked with you!
See below for installation photographs of my work in Smoke + Flowers: MFA Thesis Exhibition I
View of Snowfall, Cloud and futuregrove
View of Snowfall and Cloud
View of Dust from Right
View of Rainfall
Panorama of The Show
Smoke and Flowers: the first half of the MFA Thesis Exhibitions opens this tuesday (with the reception taking place on Wed. from 5-7).
Here’s a list of who is in the MFA Thesis Exhibition I:
Poster for Smoke + Flowers designed by Avi LaZare
Below is a quick in progress installation shot. I’ll upload photographs of the show in the near future.
White Empty Earth installation in progress
