Fototazo's How to Start a Project Series

© Brian Ulrich, Marshall Fields, 2009

Another great addition to this series from artist Brian Ulrich.  An excerpt from his contribution is below:

"My advice to students is to work a lot and enjoy working. After a time the project will pick you. Work is also not just using the camera but researching, reading, asking questions, critiquing, etc. Practice. Improvisation. Evaluation. We call it work because it is not easy and doesn’t necessarily get easier. The reward of this is the many small and big discoveries that are outside of what one knows and what one would know by just thinking about it all. I am still amazed by how focus and fidelity can function; I still marvel when I discover something out in the world entirely indicative of the multi-layered moment we live in; at how psyches and expressions change over time."

Click HERE to read the full article.

Live Performance to be viewed on YouTube in Real Time

Nicoline van Harskamp, European English Exercise, 2013. Courtesy the artist.

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room 2013
With Nicoline van Harskamp, Ragnar Kjartansson and Daniel Linehan
19 September, 24 October and 12 December 2013 at 20h BST
Watch live online: www.tate.org.uk/bmwtatelive

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is a pioneering programme of live performances commissioned and conceived exclusively for online viewing and simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones. 

Audiences are invited to enter the online Performance Room via www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive at 20h in the UK and exactly the same moment across time zones on the specified dates—15h on the East Coast of America, 21h in mainland Europe and 23h in Russia. 

Theatrical Fields

Interesting review of an exhibition of film/video incorporating performance.
"Theatrical Fields examines forms of artistic practice that make use of the theatrical in performance, film and video. Developed as a research project by the curator Ute Meta Bauer, Theatrical Fields explores the analytical and political potential of theatricality through various manifestations ranging from an exhibition to public presentations, film programme to a live performance."  From E-flux

Joan Jonas, Lines in the Sand, 2002. Commissioned by documenta 11. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Werner Maschmann.

The Carnegie International Opens in October

2013 Carnegie International opening weekend

October 4–6, 2013

www.carnegieinternational.org/opening

...among the artists, is Zoe Strauss -

Zoe Strauss, Blast Furnace Matriarchy, Braddock, PA, 2012, from the series Homesteading, a multifaceted collaborative project based in Homestead, PA, and an installation of photographic prints and video projections at Carnegie Museum of Art; Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by Carnegie Museum of Art for the 2013 Carnegie International

Magdalena Sole at The Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Magdalena Solé’s Mississippi Delta is a photographic exploration of the Delta communities in the Deep South, evoking visions of sharecroppers, plantations and the sound of the Blues. The area has a small wealthy gentry and a large impoverished underclass. What is little known outside the Delta is the warmth, resilience, community and family cohesiveness of its people. In 2012, Solé’s in-depth study of the region was published as "New Delta Rising" (The Dreyfus Health Foundation and University Press of Mississippi). (Click HERE for more info)

MAGDALENA SOLÉ
The Mississippi Delta

September 13 – December 15, 2013
Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 6:00-8:00pm
Artist's Talk, Book Signing and Reception: Friday, September 27, 6:00-8:00pm

4th Street and Issaquena, Clarksdale, MS, 2010

Video Art, Monitors and Boxes...

Came across this today on the blog Who Wore It Better (itself a fantastic archive of works by various artists that are aesthetically and/or conceptually similar, and sometimes reference or appropriate one another).  Had me thinking about our conversation in Intro to Video Art about the purposeful use of specific types of monitors to display moving image works.  Anyhow, here is the image:

Ben Schumacher Obelisk  ::  Ernst Caramelle Video Landcape

New Exhibitions at The Southeast Museum of Photography

Lots of things coming up over in Daytona.  Worth a drive, most certainly.  Click HERE to access the SEMP website.

JANELLE LYNCH
Los Jardines de México

January 25 - April 14, 2013
Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, January 25, 6:00-8:00pm
Artist's Talk, Book Signing and Reception: March 29, 6:00-8:00pm
Untitled 9, from the series, La Fosa Común

"She does the same as the Mexican animists—the indigenous people who, like their antecedents, saw plants and animals as equals, and even as superior beings worthy of reverence….” —José Antonio Aldrete-Haas, Architect, Landscape Designer, Writer, Mexico City

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Janelle Lynch has garnered international recognition over the last decade for her large-format photographs of the urban and rural landscape. She received an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York and is a 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY.

Click HERE for more information about Janelle Lynch.
 

From Here On

I was reminded of this by Andy Adams of Flak Photo today.  As he said, good to take a look at every now and again.  Good stuff!
You can click the image to enlarge, and link to an article discussing the exhibition HERE

Touch My Prints - Call for Submissions

Jonathan F. Walz (fabulous CFAM curator) sent some info on this digital publication project my way the other day - it sounds pretty interesting.  The site's originator has some intriguing work on his site as well, dealing with Google Street View (a popular new strategy for looking at and to the world for artists) as well as other projects that incorporate video game imagery and virtual landscapes. 

Click HERE to read the call for submissions.
Click HERE to glance at Aaron Brumbelow's personal work website.

T.M.P. Issue 01

Call for Submissions 

Virtual Connection 

The publication Touch My Prints seeks image based works, essays, virtual sculptures, and video based works on the topics of death, isolation, love, loss, tragedy, betrayal, friendship, etc of and by players and characters with in video games.  

T.M.P is interested in the lives of NPCs (Non-Player Character) and our interactions with them. 

Submission Deadline is April 1, 2013

Mobile Photography as Seen on Source

Really interesting post today on Source that brings together a bunch of really fun and interesting projects.  Click HERE to read the article and view images and video clips.  Good stuff.

Misrepresentation in World Press and Picture of the Year Award Winning Photo

Paolo Pellegrin

Tom Griggs of fototazo recently recommended this article on his Facebook feed.  A very interesting read, especially in light of our recent conversations around ethics and authenticity in Photo I and Photo II.  Click HERE to access the article from BagNews.

Canteen Magazine's Naked Judging Featured on Lenscratch

This will likely be helpful for students to look over in terms of thinking about your work and how it may be perceived by others within the photographic community of lookers and thinkers.  I encourage everyone to have a look at the images and read through the commentary on Lenscratch (from both exhibition jurors and photographers whose work did not advance to the final rounds).  The comments (from both) are very telling.

Click HERE to view the post.

Can A Computer Generate Every Possible Photograph

Re-blogging from ART300 student, Kevin Griffin.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Kevin!  Very in keeping with our discussion in class today related to technological advancement and the nature of photography, and our relationship to images. 
Here is Kevin's blog post:
http://kevingriffinphotography.blogspot.com/2013/02/in-relation-to-discussion-today.html
And here is a link to the story on the artist's website:
http://www.jeffreythompson.org/EveryPossiblePhotograph.php

http://www.jeffreythompson.org/EveryPossiblePhotograph.php

Ben Jones: The Video on Rhizome

Interesting write up on Rhizome about the Ben Jones exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. 

Ben Jones, The Video

"The exhibition has been described as a series of video installations and while, technically, that’s correct, it’s also more than that. Collectively, the works in the show function as an installation about making videos.  Unlike many of his fine art contemporaries, Jones is himself a manifestation of network age high-low plurality.  He runs a successful commercial animation practice, creating music videos for the likes of Beck and M.I.A., and he writes, voices, animates, directs and scores the Problem Solverz, a children’s show soon to begin it’s second season. The works on display at MOCA seem keenly aware of his double life and how these differing working methods affect his artistic production."

Click HERE to read the full text and to view images from the show.

Latent Image - Site Redesign

Max Marshall does a fantastic job updating this site with fantastic work on a daily basis.  Take a moment to peruse the site - good stuff.  Click HERE to access.

Barney Kulok (from the Latent Image - 1.25.13)