3D and 4K Short Films, 16 Lectures, Slideshow Night And Exhibit Admission Are Free
Digital Darkroom is a group show featuring the work of 17 artists from the United States, France and the United Kingdom that explores the intersection of art and technology. Digital Darkroom runs through May 28, 2012. Admission is free.
The exhibit features the work of: Josef Astor, Pierre Beteille, Joel Grimes, Ted Grudowski, Claudia Kunin, Chris Levine, Bonny Pierce Lhotka, Khuong Nguyen, Mike Pucher, Jean-François Rauzier, Martine Roch, Christopher Schneberger, Brooke Shaden, Stanley Smith, Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann and Jean-Marie Vives. Serving as Curatorial Advisor is Russell Brown, a Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated and an Emmy-award winning instructor.
In addition to the 80 images on display in the Print Gallery, hundreds more images from the Digital Darkroom photographers fill the Digital Gallery’s two 14’ by 7’, high-resolution screens in a digital slideshow.
The Digital Gallery will also present a 25-minute film featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of select photographers—Beteille, Grimes, Lhotka, Rauzier, Roch, Shaden, Smith, Taylor and Uelsmann—discussing their craft, their objectives and image-making in the 21st century. The film will include comments from Brown.
The exhibition includes a 3D film shot with RED Epic cameras, presented in a specially created screening room inside the Photography Space. This film includes interviews with 3D experts and historians Ray Zone and David Kuntz, and 3D artists Grudowski and Schneberger. It also explores how 3D artists Kunin and Pucher photograph their subjects and alter them digitally to create 3D results. Key elements of the history of stereoscopic photography are also in the film.
IRIS NIGHTS LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
January 19, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Joel Grimes, “The Creative Revolution”
Joel Grimes has been working as a commercial advertising photographer for nearly 30 years. His assignments have taken him to every state across the United States and to over fifty countries around the globe, producing work for clients such as AARP, AT&T, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard, Pfizer, Hyatt, Red Bull, Sony, Visa and Volvo. His work is featured in Digital Darkroom.
January 26, 2012, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Michael B. Platt, “Transitions”
Michael B. Platt's images typically represent life's survivors and reference history, in particular, the African diaspora. A past recipient of a prestigious Franz and Virginia Bader Fund grant, his work is held in the permanent collections of many institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library of Congress and Howard University's Founders Library.
February 2, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Claudia Kunin, “Ghosts, Memories and Mirrors”
The recipient of two awards in the 2010 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, for her fine art, Claudia Kunin’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum of Photographic Arts. In her lecture, Kunin will discuss addressing visual concepts of ghosts and memory, and present images from her four bodies of work as well as some of her recent animations. Her work is displayed in the Digital Darkroom exhibit.
February 9, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Jodi Cobb, “Inside Closed Worlds”
Jodi Cobb was the first woman to be named the White House News Photographers Association’s "Photographer of the Year." In this presentation, Cobb retraces her groundbreaking career, including the project The Enigma of Beauty, an exploration through ten countries on six continents to investigate cultural notions of beauty and the science behind sexual attraction.
Note: This lecture was originally scheduled to run during the BEAUTY CULTURE exhibit but was rescheduled due to technical difficulties.
February 16, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Ted Grudowski, Mike Pucher and Christopher Schneberger
Ted Grudowski, Mike Pucher and Christopher Schneberger will speak about 3D photography and the role that digital technology plays in their imagery, including the technical aspects and the use of 3D photography as a way to explore composition and influence the viewer’s experience. Images will be shown in both 2D and 3D, including multimedia 3D slide shows. Their work is featured in Digital Darkroom.
February 23, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Stanley Smith, “Art and Artifice: Constructing Photographs”
These days, Photoshop has become a verb, and every photograph can be suspected of stretching the truth. Stanley Smith of the J. Paul Getty Museum will discuss this notion within the context of traditional photography, but also in the context of his own transformation from taking photographs to making photographs. His work is displayed in the Digital Darkroom exhibit.
March 1, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Andrea Galluzzo
Photographer Andrea Galluzzo will share images from the series Know Myself In All My Parts, and detail the technical process used to create the images, learned from her experiences working with medium and large format cameras and the chemical printing process.
March 8, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Douglas Prince
Beginning as a traditional photographer with medium format film cameras, Douglas Prince soon began to explore alternative visions: combining images in the darkroom and making photo-sculptures with images on film. In the late 1990s his photo explorations led him into digital image-making. Prince has been passionately engaged in creative photography and has taught for the last fifty years.
March 22, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Connie Imboden
Connie Imboden has spent more than 30 years using photography to examine, distort and redefine the human body. Imboden's photographs, seen through the camera and free from darkroom or computer enhancement, display the strangeness of reality in an age of digital manipulation. She will discuss the technical issues involved in relying on her vision to transform the subject matter and how an intuitive creative process has kept her fascinated in the same body of work throughout the years.
April 12, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Julie Blackmon
Julie Blackmon’s work underscores the chaos inherent in motherhood with a style that acts as both documentation and caricature. Named American Photo's "Emerging Photographer of 2008" and one of PDN's "30 New and Emerging Photographers" in 2007, Blackmon will discuss her start as a photographer, her process, her influences and what inspires her.
May 3, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Slideshow Night. Artists to be announced.
May 10, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Josef Astor, “On Assignment: Agenda vs Serendipity”
Josef Astor, winner of an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, will recount successes as well as failures in navigating the precarious conditions that surround an assignment; always with the goal of yielding an inspiring image that will satisfy the agenda of the client without stifling the serendipity of the moment. His work is featured in Digital Darkroom.
May 17, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Lauren Marsolier, “Transition to a Digital World”
Paris-born photographer Lauren Marsolier’s latest project addresses the psychological experience of transition and our conflicting relationship to a world that is becoming increasingly fast-paced and dematerialized. In this lecture she will talk about her work and explain how the digital medium has been an essential component of her art practice.
May 24, 2012 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Public Lecture: Ann George
Ann George is a visual artist who melds pixels, paper and paint to create compelling photographic fusions that celebrate her native Louisiana as well as the people, places and stories that move her. She attempts to portray the role of inspirational storyteller through imagery and looks for ways to satisfy her vintage eye in the camera, in the computer, in the printing and in the paint.
DIGITAL DARKROOM runs through May 28, 2012.
Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067
Tel: 213.403.3000
http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org
Wednesday through Friday: 11 am – 6 pm, Saturday: 11 am – 7:30 pm, Sunday: 11 am – 6 pm, closed Monday and Tuesday.
General admission is free.
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Gregorio Luke will present a new season of lectures at the Long Beach Playhouse (5021 Anaheim St. Long Beach CA 90804) All lectures will be held at 8 pm Tickets are $20 and $30 with 10% discount for students, teachers and seniors. There is also the option of buying the complete series of 4 shows for the price of 3. For tickets call 562-494-1014 or online www.lbplayhouse.org. Free parking.
THE ART OF LOVE TUESDAY FEB 14TH, 2012 at 8 PM. “I have,” says Gregorio Luke, “Been doing this presentation for over ten years. And every time I add something new. This time I will expand on love scenes in movies. We will be showing some real gems, like the dinner scene in Tony Richardson’s 1963 Tom Jones, one of the sexiest ever filmed, I will also include love scenes of French cinema especially Francois Truffaut’s or that lovely scene of censured kisses in Cinema Paradiso. I want to expand the section on the love lives of kings and queens, as well as the erotic practices in ancient Asia, where there was no concept of original sin. We will also enrich the sections of love in the US in the forties and the Age of Aquarius. Last year I invited dancers, this year I want to include musicians as guest artists.”
THE BELLY BUTTON Wednesday March 21st 2012 at 8 pm. Newsweek has said that we live in “the age of navel gazing.” In this presentation we will see the best representations of the belly button in art as well as in contemporary photography. Also included will be live demonstrations of belly dancing ranging from the Middle Eastern to Polynesian styles. The belly button was very important in ancient art. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was always represented with a perfect navel. In the Song of Songs King Solomon refers to the belly button of his lover as ‘a perfect, inexhaustible chalice.’ In modern times the revelation of the belly button has introduced the most dramatic changes in fashion since the mini-skirt.
