So thrilled to see my article “Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska (1944-2011)”, published in MoMA Post in 2021, now included in an anthology of Central and Eastern European feminist writing.
Read moreComing soon: my talk “Worldwide Photo Clubism: Building a Transnational Community During the Cold War” in Photography Network Speaker Series, October 4, 2024 (online)
The talk will be delivered via Zoom. Find the registration link and more details about the event here: https://www.photographynetwork.net/news/worldwide-photo-clubism
Read more"Camera-derie: Collaborative, Communal, and Collective Practices in Photography”: mark your calendar for our panel in the CAA 2025 in NYC!
A panel I’m organizing and chairing has just been accepted for the CAA (College Art Association) 113th Annual Conference that will take place at the New York Hilton Midtown, New York City, February 12–15, 2025. Mark your calendar and please come participate in the conversation!
Read moreServing on Paulius Petraitis’ dissertation committee: “Intermediality and Networked Meaning-Making in Contemporary Baltic Art Photography”
I had the honor to serve as an external reader on Paulius Petraitis’ dissertation committee. Paulius defended the doctoral dissertation “Intermediality and Networked Meaning-Making in Contemporary Baltic Art Photography” on June 18, 2024.
Read moreGuest lecture "Understanding Machine-Made Images from Photography to Generative AI" (January 26, 2024)
“Understanding Machine-Made Images from Photography to Generative AI: Collaborative Exercise in Response to Flusser, Azoulay, and Manovich” is a guest lecture and seminar that I was invited to deliver at the Art Academy of Latvia, January 26, 2024.
Background image above and below: details from Unknown photographer, [Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine] Daguerreotype, ca. 1853. Library of Congress collection, https://www.loc.gov/resource/ds.04496/
Together with doctoral students at the Art Academy of Latvia, we read and discussed excerpts from the writings of Vilém Flusser, Ariella Azoulay, and Lev Manovich. At the end of the seminar, the students collaboratively wrote a speculative manifesto “What is the role of photography and AI-generated images today, if today is 2124?”
Among other things, we also discussed the concepts of technical images and machine-made images as well as guessed whether a given image is a photograph or AI-generated image.
Francis Grice, photographer. [Unidentified man and woman, seated, facing front] Daguerreotype, ca. 1855. Library of Congress collection, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664531/