Laura Blacklow is the author of New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step by Step Manual for Alternative Techniques (Focal Press, 4th edition, 2007). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper, the St. Botolph Club’s Morton C. Bradley Award in Color, Polaroid Corporation’s Artist Support Program, and the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Fellowship. Blacklow is on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers. His current multi-faceted project, Tracking Transience, was inspired by Elahi's experiences being investigated by the FBI. As a result of an erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities, he was singled out as a terrorist suspect. After undergoing months of regular interrogations and finally nine consecutive lie-detector tests, he was cleared of any suspicions. However, this experience lead Elahi to conceive a self-tracking device that constantly transmits and maps his exact location alongside his financial data, communication records and transportation logs. Other aspects of Tracking Transience include a database of thousands of images of airports Elahi travels through and sometimes sleeps in, food he consumes in transit, and public toilets he uses while traveling. Elahi recently was invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern in London, New York University, and at at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions internationally at venues such as the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Venice Biennale (Italy), the Kulturbahnhof (Kassel, Germany), and the Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia). His work has been supported with significant grants and numerous sponsorships from the Creative Capital Foundation, Ford Foundation/Philip Morris, and the Asociaci—n Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebasti‡n in the Basque Country/Spain. Currently, he is a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
http://elahi.rutgers.edu/
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Edgar Endress was born November 4, 1970, in Osorno, Chile. In 1989 he started his education by studying economics in the Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana, in Santiago Chile. In 1994, he shifted to study of the audiovisual at the Institute of the Art of Communication (ARCOS) in Santiago Chile, graduating with the equivalent of a B.F.A. in 1998. In 1999 he was awarded a fellowship from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York to pursue a Master in Fine Arts with a concentration in Art Video. He graduated with his M.F.A. in 2001. Among Endress’s numerous exhibitions since 1997 are the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Contemporary Arts Museum of Cartagena, Colombia; Annual New England Film and Video Festival, Boston Fine Arts Museum; 20 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam The Netherlands; IFA gallery, group show “Nueva Vista”, Bonn, Stuttgart, Berlin, Germany; The New York Video Festival, the Walter Reade Theater, Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC; One World International Human Rights Film Festival, Prague-Czech Republic; Film and Video Documentary Festival of Kasseler, Kassel-Germany; Brno16, International Film and Video festival, Brno, Czech Republic, 14 International Art Electronic Festival of Videobrasil, Sao Paulo-Brasil; 14th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
http://www.collective-memory.org
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Jason Francisco is a critically acclaimed photographer, book artist and writer whose work concerns new approaches to documentary practices and the problems of visualizing historical memory. He is the author, most recently, of Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Stanford University Press, 2006). He teaches photography and critical studies at Rutgers University and Stanford University.
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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).
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Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out
of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
His work involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the
world around us. His most recent projects involve close examinations of state secrecy, the California prison system, and the CIA’s practice of “extraordinary rendition.”
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 Institute of Chicago, and is currently completing a PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley.
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