OUR FEATURED SPEAKERS for 2007
David Levi Strauss - Keynote Speaker
is a writer and critic in New York, where his essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture.
His collection of essays on photography and politics, Between the Eyes, with an introduction by John Berger, was published by Aperture in 2003, and Postmedia is currently preparing an Italian edition. The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photography Books of the Twentieth Century with catalogue essays by Strauss, was published by P.P.P. Editions/D.A.P. in 2001. Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics was published in 1999 by Autonomedia, Semiotext(e), and Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines (with photographer Bobby Neel Adams) was published in 1998. He received a Guggenheim fellowship for 2003-04, and the 2007 Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in New York. Strauss currently teaches in the Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and in the new MFA program in art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts.
Wendy Ewald - Honored Educator
has for thirty eight years collaborated in art projects with children, families, women, and teachers in Labrador, Colombia, India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Holland, Mexico, and the United States. Starting as documentary investigations of places and communities, Ewald’s projects probe questions of identity and cultural differences. In her work with children she encourages them to use cameras to record themselves, their families, and their communities, and to articulate their fantasies and dreams. Ewald herself often makes photographs within the communities she works with and has the children mark or write on her negatives, thereby challenging the concept of who actually makes an image, who is the photographer, who the subject, who is the observer and who the observed. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist’s intentions, power, and identity, Ewald creates opportunities to look at the meaning and use of photographic images in our lives with fresh perceptions.
Wendy Ewald has received many honors, including a a MacArthur Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. She was also a senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School from 2000-2002. She has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the George Eastman House in Rochester, Nederlands Foto Institute in Rotterdam, the Fotomuseum in Wintherthur, Switzerland, and the Corcoran Gallery of American Art among others. Her work was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. She has published ten books, her fifth, a retrospective documenting her projects entitled Secret Games, was published by Scalo in 2000. Two books on recent projects were published in 2005. A third, “To The Promised land” was published in 2006 to accompany an outdoor installation in Margate, England commissioned by ArtAngel. She is currently teaching at Amherst College. She also remains an artist in residence at the John Hope Franklin Center and senior research associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
She is represented by the Yossi Milo Gallery.
Paglen’s visual work has been shown in galleries and museums including MASSMOCA (2006), the Warhol Museum (2007), Diverse Works (2005), in journals and magazines from Wired to The New York Review of Books, and at numerous other arts venues, universities, conferences, and public spaces. He has had one-person shows at Deadtech (2001), the LAB (2005), and Bellwether Gallery (2006). Artforum called Paglen's visual work "as emblematic of our era as that of the naked Vietnamese girl scorched by napalm was of its." The New York Times called it "the real thing... and not on the evening news." Paglen’s first book, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book to systematically describe the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program. His second book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007) an examination of the visual culture of “black” military programs, will be published in November 2007. He is currently completing his third book, entitled Blank Spots on a Map, which will be published by Dutton/NAL/Penguin in late 2008/early 2009. Paglen has received grants and commissions from Rhizome.org, the LEF Foundation, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. In 2005, he was a Vectors Journal Fellow at the University of Southern California. Paglen holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MFA from the School of the Art
Daniel Goodwin is a NY-based artist working primarily in photography and video installation. He is Chair of the Art Department at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His work has been widely exhibited, including such venues as Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Momenta Art, Art Resources Transfer, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, as well as the California Museum of Photography, Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Ireland, and Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. His recent solo exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn featured simulated real-time aerial surveillance of the homes of key members of the current Bush administration. The debut issue of Influence Magazine, a new journal of contemporary art, featured an in-depth interview by Gil Blank with Goodwin, and in the April 2004 issue of ArtReview, critic and conspiracy buff AnthonyHaden- Guest talks extensively with Goodwin about his work at the fringes of art and politics.
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Jill Magid is a visual artist working in a variety of media including literature, video, sculpture, and performance. Magid received a Masters of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Cornell Univerisity 1995, was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2000-2, and currently lives and works in both Amsterdam and Brooklyn. Solo exhibitions include With Full Consent at Gagosian Gallery (NYC), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin), Centre d’Art Santa Monica (Barcelona), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. She has had recent performances in New York City at The Bowery Poetry Club, Eyebeam, The Poetry Project at St. Marks’s Church, and at Orchard gallery. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Storefront for Art and Architecture (NYC), De Appel (Amsterdam), Balance and Power (Rose Art Museum), Naked Life at MOCA Taipei (Taiwan), Positioning statement | Image Cairo 3 (Cairo), Egypt, DMZ 2005_Korea, and at the Liverpool Biennial International ’04. She has written two novellas: Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy (2007), and One Cycle of Memory in the city of L (2004).
