You and my Media Practice 11-12 is official theme song for the annual graduate student presentations from the Master of Arts program in Department of Arts at the University of Tokyo.

Kerry James Marshall: Visible Means of Support

A package from China arrived in the mail the other day and I was happy to find the exhibition catalog for the 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival.

I was recently part of a group exhibition in the 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival along with two of my former students, Anastasia Samoylova and Kelley Moulton. The exhibition, Symbiosis, was curated by Susan Dooley and included work from several U.S. Professors of Photography along side a selection of work from their students.

Pingyao International Photography Festival is an extremely large and well-attended week long event that draws a truly international audience. It is held in converted factories, warehouses, Buddhist and Confucian temples, throughout the 2700-year-old walled village that is a UNECO World Heritage Site. There are an abundance of other events associated with the festival, including lectures, panel discussions, large screen evening slide shows and much more. It is a particularly intense week of being overwhelmed with amazing photography and photographers from all over the world. Here are some more images from this years festival taken by Susan Dooley.

Derek Chan ‣ All Our Relations / Plural + CFBT ‣ Living Book
December 12, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Opening Reception: December 10 / 5:00 – 8:00pm

Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd / Chicago, IL

Carrie Secrist Gallery is pleased to present Derek Chan: All Our Relations, Chan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, comprises paintings, drawings, and installation to contemplate cultural myth and sacred writings.

Driven by the significant role symbols play in our everyday lives, Chan’s new body of work is born from an exploration of the hieroglyphs and petroglyphs of indigenous cultures. Central to this exhibition is the theme of “The Weaver”, inspired by Native American myth. These works are Chan’s interpretation of the exoteric teachings of indigenous cultures, applied to personal and collective lived experience. The imagery in this exhibition pulls from a series of created symbols, found universally across cultures in the East and the West and in the lexicon of abstract painting.

Living Book, 2011 is a multi-media installation environment created by Plural and The Center For Book Technology. Living Book transforms the gallery space into an automated book production facility. Using custom-software, viewers in the space are captured in-real-time (every 60 seconds) from an overhead camera and projected onto the wall. Each capture is then printed onto single pages of a book in production. In addition, a keyboard allows viewers to author their own page(s), creating a spontaneous performance environment where a database of individual choices becomes a collective narrative.

Doug Ischar
Honor Among: San Francisco 1987
November 11 / 2011  – January 14 / 2012
Reception: November 11 / 2011 / 6 – 9pm
Golden Gallery / 3319 N. Broadway / Chicago

Saturdays only / 12 – 6pm

Honor Among will feature multiple photographs taken during 1987 at the San Fransisco leather bar, The Eagle, alongside a 2007 single-channel video, back the way he came. Both illustrate the key embedded themes from Ischar’s practice during the past twenty years: voyeurism and the position of the spectator, public sexuality, and representations of masculinity.

Kevin Killian, noted American author, playwright and poet, has written a text accompanying the exhibition.

Honor Among is Doug Ischar’s second solo exhibition with Golden Gallery. The first, Marginal Waters, was mounted in September 2009. Featuring a body of photographs from 1985, never seen in its entirety, that were taken on the now defunct Belmont Rocks in the city of Chicago, one of the most visible urban gay beaches in North America during the height of the AIDS crisis.

In January 2012, a presentation of Ischar’s 1993-1995 sculptural and video installation artwork will be exhibited at Golden Gallery, New York, followed by a week-long screening of his recent single-channel videos.

H E R E  C O M E S  T H E  D A R K N E S S: Irena Knezevic
October 29-December 18 / 2011
ISU Galleries / University of Illinois at Normal
Opening Reception: Saturday / October 29 / 5-7pm

Programs:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7 PM, VIDEO SCREENING WITH LIVE INTERMISSION THE NORMAL THEATER / 209 NORTH STREET, NORMAL

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 4 PM, CONCERT FEATURING KNEZEVIC, DANCERS FROM THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE’S DANCE AREA AND MUSICIANS FROM ISU BANDS 145 CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 7 PM
PERFORMANCE WITH KNEZEVIC AND ISU’S DEBATE TEAM
145 CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

For more info go to: allyouknowistrue.net

Image: Various Instances of a Negligible Mistake: A. Hitler’s Daily Walk, 2010

Forces & Gazes: Deborah Stratman
The Graham Foundation
Artist Talk / Oct 20 / 2011 / 6pm

Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Telephone: 312.787.4071
info@grahamfoundation.org

An oldie but a goodie…I like to share this video from NOVA Science Now with my students in my Digital Imaging classes.

Profile: Hany Farid
This self-proclaimed “accidental scientist” is a digital detective inventing new ways to tell if photos have been faked. Be sure to check out the Real or Fake site and try your hand at differentiating doctored from untouched photos.
Aired June 25, 2008 on PBS