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The Work of Photography in the Age of Digital Replication
 
Oliver Warden/ROBOTBIGFOOT
The Edge of the World 9, 2005
Inkjet print on paper, 30 x 41 inches (76.2 x 104.1 cm)
 
 
Master of Fine Arts Program Graduate Colloquium

This colloquium is FREE and open to the public

The Work of Photography in the Age of Digital Replication

Friday, March 9

10:30 am-3 pm

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

 

Session One: Presentations by the panelists, 10:30 am-12:45 pm

Lunch on Your Own: 1-1:45 pm

Session Two: Discussion and Q&A with panelists, 2-3 pm

 

When photography was invented in 1839, painting was almost immediately
declared dead.  More than a century and a half later, new technologies
have displaced the authority and verity of photography itself.
Photography may now be "dead," killed by virtual reality and Photoshop.
Yet, just as painting has continued to exist and evolve, photography,
too, will undoubtedly endure and change, consequent to its altered
status.  At the same time, photography is ubiquitous.  It pervades our
lives and suffuses our art.  Photographic ways of seeing and thinking
influence every form of visual culture, and, as if in reaction to the
momentous shift in photography's paradigm, contemporary art seems to
concern itself more than ever with the condition of the photographic.

 

A pioneer in the field of online art, Wolfgang Staehle founded thing.net
in 1991.  One of his live-feed, stationary video-projection works
famously captured the view of downtown Manhattan as the World Trade
Towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001, projecting it back to
Postmasters Gallery.  Recently, he has made landscapes that change over
the course of a day by photographing a single view of the Hudson River
Valley every few seconds and screening the resulting images back in the
same intervals.  Thus, on a flat-screen monitor we see a vista
reminiscent of nineteenth-century American painting that changes
cinematically in real time.  Neither film nor video, his works emphasize
the origins of those media in the still photograph.

http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/index.php
<http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/index.php> 

 

Barbara Pollack has worked in photography and video for the last fifteen
years.  Her earlier images explored the limits of photographic
representation by inverting the look and techniques of "good"
photography.  A recent video starring her teenage son Max and his
friends takes one of the most infamous photographs of our time-that of
the stacked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib-as its starting point.
Pollack's engagement with the photograph complements her extensive
writing, and her articles and reviews have appeared in The New York
Times, ART news, Time Out New York, and many other places.  She is
currently working on a book and articles about the contemporary art
scene in China.

http://www.barbarapollack.com/index.htm
<http://www.barbarapollack.com/index.htm> 


Oliver Warden creates paintings from a plethora of images, culled from
photographic, digital, and pop culture sources, and combined in thickly
poured canvases with autobiographical content.  He is also a
documentarian of the virtual world, shooting "photographs" in online
video games far away from the narrative action.  Presently, he is
creating a Columbine-themed movie with the technique of "machinima,"
using computer game software and characters based on real actors to
envision an entirely new universe.

http://www.oliverwarden.com/index.html/
<http://www.oliverwarden.com/index.html/> 

http://www.robotbigfoot.com/ <http://www.robotbigfoot.com/> 

 
This colloquium has been organized and will be moderated by Joseph R.
Wolin, a visiting member of the faculty at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. 
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