KODAK LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009
May 4th, 2009, Live@7:00pm:
Jorge Ribalta
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Kodak Lecture series is pleased to announce that curator and artist Jorge Ribalta from MACBA (Museu d'art Contemporani de Barcelona) will speak about his internationally acclaimed exhibition UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia.
Ribalta will walk us through this exhibition, which is nothing short of revolutionary in its scope and reflections on the major movements and micro-histories of photography. Through montage and dialectical juxaposition of images Ribalta raises some of the most burning questions facing documentary media today.
Jorge Ribalta is an artist, critic and curator, who has worked for over 20 years on important photographic exhibitions in Spain and other parts of Europe. He has enjoyed solo exhibitions of his own works in New York, Paris and Barcelona while also curating widely, most recently including Jo Spence. Beyond the Perfect Image. Photography, Subjectivity, Antagonism (MACBA, Barcelona, and Camera Austria, Graz, 2005), Manolo Laguilo (MACBA, Barcelona, 2007). Ribalta, whose international reputation is building quickly, is the editor of many books on photographic criticism and contributes regularly to newspapers, journals, magazines and catalogues. He is advisor to the photography collection of Gustavo Gili publishers, Barcelona, and is currently the Head of Public Progroms at MACBA.
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May 1st, 2009, Live@7:30pm:
Camille Utterback
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Kodak Lecture Series is pleased to announce that artist and programmer Camille Utterback will speak about her work in the field of interactive installation.
Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Utterback’s work explores the aesthetic and experimental possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and gesture. By creating installations that use video tracking software to respond to a users body, she creates a visceral connection between the real and the virtual. Her work focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the body in our increasingly mediated world.
Utterback holds a MA degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Camille has taught in the MFA of Technology department at the Parsons School of Design, and the Interactive Telecommunication Program at New York University.
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January 23rd, 2009, Live@7:30pm:
Rafael Goldchain
Friday, January 23, 2008
The Kodak Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Toronto-based artist Rafael Goldchain will speak about his recently published book I am my Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions.
Rafael Goldchain’s Polish-Jewish ancestors emigrated to South America in the 1930’s, and many others perished in Poland during the Nazi regime. Also lost in the turmoil of war and emigration were most of the portraits of his extended family. I am my Family presents a family album of traditional portrait photographs, however the only subject is Goldchain himself. In a complex process involving genealogical research, the use of makeup, styling, costume and props, Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors. With each reinvention of himself, Goldchain traces the evolution of Jewish culture from tradition to modernity and engages the viewer with the history of a family decimated and scattered by the traumatic events of the 20th century.
Born in Santiago, Chile, Rafael Goldchain received an MFA from York University and a BAA from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. He is currently the Program Coordinator of the Applied Photography Program at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario.
Goldchain’s photographs have been exhibited globally and his work is in many private and public collections including France’s Biblioteque National, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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November 7th, 2008, Live@7:30pm:
Dennis Brack
Friday, November 7, 2008
Dennis Brack has covered the Washington, D.C. beat for the Black Star Agency for more than three decades. Brack is one of the six members of the standing committee of the United States Press Photographers Gallery. He is also serving his third term as President of the White House News Photographers Association.
Throughout his career Brack has covered; several Presidential electoral campaigns, anti-war demonstrations, the Watergate hearings and the Civil Rights March on Washington. He has accompanied and photographed every president since Lyndon B. Johnson on summit meetings and international trips as well as such personalities as the Beatles, Elton John, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, Muhammad Ali, I.M. Pei, Fidel Castro, Anwar Sadat, and Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
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October 3rd, 2008, Live@7:30pm:
Bill Nichols“Documentary Reenactment: Recreating the Typical and Not So Typical Past”
Friday, October 3, 2008
Bill Nichols is a widely published authority on documentary and ethnographic film. A former professor of Visual Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, he currently teaches at San Francisco State University, where he also directs the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies. He has published on a wide range of topics, from cybernetics and visual culture to New Iranian Cinema, and his anthology, Movies and Methods (1976), helped define the new discipline of film studies. He is also the author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Introduction to Documentary and Ideology and Image.
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