Colin Edgington: News

The very important and brilliant Patrick Nagatani was Featured on KNME in Artisode 1.6 last December!  Look for his 30yr retrospective in August!

The Smithsonian has launched an interesting online initiative called “click! photography changes everything“. Here’s a bit from the press release:

The goal of click! is to encourage and host a rethinking of photography’s dramatic impact on our culture and our lives.

As digital technologies radically alter the form, content, and transmission of camera images, there is a pressing need to reexamine and reassess the history, practice, and cultural power of photography, click! offers image-makers, educators, and students a unique opportunity – to become actively engaged in an ongoing, online dialog about photography’s past, present and future.

An interesting site with images, text and video. Check it out here.

I have a couple photographs currently on view in the Rutgers Slide Library – They are part of a show titled “Small Scale, Big Ambition”.

Be sure to check them out – they are the two black squares below. There are more images and details HERE.

Small Scale, Big Ambition

There are enormous problems in certain ways of perceiving and treating non-human animals. One of these ways is the perception that they are possessable.  In looking at them this way, they (non-human animals) are seen as merchandise and can be related to other things that are possessable (i.e. handbags, shoes, cars & other “objects of desire”). This line of sight can lead to the thought of them as disposable.  Dogs have become accessories in which people boost their image and ego. It is an amazingly shortsighted view of the physical world. It is absolutely homocentric and ego centric.  Many states retain laws that hold domesticated animals as possessions and therefore disposable. They shouldn’t be considered possessions. Conversely I don’t believe they should be considered human either. They should be considered strictly what they are (dogs, cats, horses, etc.) and the laws (and individual responsibility) should reflect that. Dumping a dog on the side of the road is much different than dumping a couch. Dumping a dog isn’t littering, it’s abandoning.

Abandoned Pit Bull - Pic by Debbie Bonilla

The Rutgers MFA blog, which has info on current & former students, faculty, visiting artists & lecturers, and current events at the School, has made its debut!

So visit the new Rutgers MFA blog!