Media Technologies

What happens when your photographic ideas remain just that- ideas? What happens if your photographic ideas are not realized as photographs, but rather as installations, conceptual projects, public-sited works, websites, videos, slideshows, or artist books? To find out, I took a workshop at ICP this past weekend, and for me, it opened new worlds of opportunities and possibilities for my works. In contemporary art, photographic processes are starting points that expand the notion of the standard on the wall. The technologies and ideas of photography were mined as a starting point for projects in expanded media. The course described various strategies and showed applicable work related to these concepts.

In the first class, we discussed the practices of participation and collaboration. Good examples of these concepts can be seen at:

• ·Zach Feuer Gallery, Michael Auder- Keeping Busy: An Inaccurate Survey

530 West 24^th Street

• ·Eyebeam, Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus

540 W. 21^st Street, (between 10^th and 11^th Avenue)

• ·The Kitchen, The Absolutely Other

512 West 19^th Street (Between 10^th and 11^th Avenue, south side of the street)

I worked on a project that was in my files dormant, the results of which you’ll see very soon.

For me the class was fantastic, ready, progressive, stimulation, inspiring, and exhilarating.