Conference 2008: “Technocracy: Image Production / Distribution / Consumption”
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In this age of postproduction, how do imagemakers and institutions respond to this shifting landscape, creating alternative models for exhibition and education?
- How do those involved in the making, exhibition and selling of images respond to the eradication of the boundary between production and consumption?
- How does imaging technology (camera phones, webcams, photo and video blogs) affect our capacity as imagemakers to navigate through the cultural chaos extracting new forms of production a.k.a. art?
- Or does this proliferation of technology yield a return to traditional modes of production?
“The art of postproduction seems to respond to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.”
~ Nicolas Bourriad
Keynote Speaker
Douglas Fogle, Curator of the Carnegie International
Douglas Fogle is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh where he is organizing the 2008 Carnegie International. At Carnegie Museum of Art, he has curated a series of Forum exhibitions, including Forum 60: Rivane Neuenschwander and Forum 59: Phil Collins. Prior to coming to the Carnegie, Fogle spent 11 years as a curator in the Visual Arts Department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. During his tenure at the Walker, he initiated a series of exhibitions with emerging artists, solo exhibitions with Catherine Opie and Julie Mehretu, as well as a number of group exhibitions such as:
- Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s (1997),
- Painting at the Edge of the World (2001), and
- The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960–1982.
His exhibition Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962–1964 opened at the Walker Art Center in November 2005 and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Fogle has published widely in exhibition catalogues and journals such as Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, and Parkett, and has contributed essays to many books, most recently including “Loving the Alien,” published this year.
