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Image courtesy Kathy Vajda

Image courtesy Kathy Vajda

Flickering at the edge of Anthropocene, Artist Interviews

September 10, 2020

Full interviews with the featured artists in Flickering at the edge of Anthropocene: Allison Maria Rodriguez, Barry Underwood, and Kathy Vajda

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Darren Lee Miller Unlucky, collaboration with John Provost Photograph, 20 x 24 inches, 2015 Click here to learn more about John’s work

Darren Lee Miller
Unlucky, collaboration with John Provost
Photograph, 20 x 24 inches, 2015
Click here to learn more about John’s work

Seeing 2020

June 5, 2020

On World Environment Day, the current pandemic holds a mirror to some of the causes-of and responses-to the climate crisis.

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Pansy, 2010

Pansy, 2010

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

May 29, 2020

Recent events remind white people of our ongoing responsibility to be actively anti-racist.

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Jean Tournassoud. Army Scene, 1914. Autochrome from the collection of ARTstor Slide Gallery, (original source, University of California, San Diego). Full citation below.

Jean Tournassoud. Army Scene, 1914. Autochrome from the collection of ARTstor Slide Gallery, (original source, University of California, San Diego). Full citation below.

No Way to Control it, It's Totally Autochromatic (1)

May 8, 2020

As the pandemic continues, faculty and students creatively adapt and discover new opportunities for sustaining creative practice, community, and self.

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Gabriel spends time online during the lockdown (photo shot with my phone)

Gabriel spends time online during the lockdown (photo shot with my phone)

"Check Your Privilege," I Said To Myself

May 1, 2020

“Woker-than-thou” posturing may burn more bridges than it builds.

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Vanessa German, sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., 2017 (at the Mattress Factory, shot with my phone)

Vanessa German, sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., 2017 (at the Mattress Factory, shot with my phone)

I Get By With a Little Art From My Friends

April 24, 2020

Information and links to a few of my favorite artists right now.

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Don't Look Directly at the Cliche

April 17, 2020

A selection of cellphone photos from the balcony of my apartment in Bauru, Brazil

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Pablo in his studio, San Juan, Puerto Rico. “I’m an artist. My medium is hair and make-up.”

Pablo in his studio, San Juan, Puerto Rico. “I’m an artist. My medium is hair and make-up.”

I Don't Want You To Be My Subject. I'm Not Interested in Subjectification

April 10, 2020

Coming to terms with power dynamics in portrait photography

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Tags fulbright2020, fulbrightbrazil, fulbright, fulbrightscholar, socialmedia, ethics, postcolonialtheory, queertheory, portrait, portraitphoto, portraitphotography, FujiInstaxSQ10
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On the Beaten Path

April 3, 2020

To what extent might implicit bias inform our experiences when living abroad?

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Fresh Start, 2015

Fresh Start, 2015

I'm Pro-Life. Hear me out.

March 24, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic reveals the Republican party’s “eugenics approach” to life

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Falsos Amigos

March 20, 2020

The pleasures and pitfalls of learning Portuguese.

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Tags fulbrightbrazil, fulbright2020, fulbright, fulbrightscholar, languageacquisition, learninglanguage, learningportuguese, falsosamigos
Calouros RTVI, nossa alunos do curso, “Comunicação: Rádio, Televisão e Internet,” visitando na TV UNESP, 13 março, 2020

Calouros RTVI, nossa alunos do curso, “Comunicação: Rádio, Televisão e Internet,” visitando na TV UNESP, 13 março, 2020

Palavras na Minha Boca

March 13, 2020

An overview of my Fulbright Research Project in Brazil

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Tags fulbrightbrazil, fulbright2020, fulbright, fulbrightscholar, dialogue, community, communityart, relationalaesthetics
The lead float for the Mangueira school’s parade at the Sambódromo in Rio de Janeiro on February 23, 2020

The lead float for the Mangueira school’s parade at the Sambódromo in Rio de Janeiro on February 23, 2020

Nem Messias de Arma na Mão

March 6, 2020

Themes of this year’s Carnaval parades provides insight into Brazil’s race/class relations.

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View of Rio de Janeiro from the summit of Corcovado.

View of Rio de Janeiro from the summit of Corcovado.

FOTOS, segunda semana

February 28, 2020

A slideshow of some things that caught my eye in Rio de Janeiro.

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A bicycle parked outside of the São Paulo’s Modern Art Museum in Ibirapuera Park.

A bicycle parked outside of the São Paulo’s Modern Art Museum in Ibirapuera Park.

FOTOS, primeira semana

February 21, 2020

A slideshow of some things that caught my eye in São Paulo and Bauru.

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Ordem e Progresso

February 16, 2020

Centuries of migration have shaped Brazil’s people and food.

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The Rodríguez Moreno building, on the corner of Ponce de León and the onramp to José de Diego Expressway, Santurce, San Juan, PR

The Rodríguez Moreno building, on the corner of Ponce de León and the onramp to José de Diego Expressway, Santurce, San Juan, PR

El Desastre es el Colonialismo

January 13, 2020

Recent earthquakes reveal deeper problems in Puerto Rico.

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August 15, 2026

In this post I take the opportunity to engage AI in a conversation about 1,000 Miles Per Hour, an exhibition I co-curated in 2022 for Ohio’s FotoFocus Biennial. Our back and forth considers how history can help us imagine more just and sustainable futures. and concludes by turning the same questions toward AI itself.

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August 15, 2026
Introductory comments for honorary degree recipient, vanessa german
May 17, 2025
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May 17, 2025
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March 16, 2025
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March 16, 2025

An analysis and translation of Bad Bunny’s “Cafe Con Ron.”

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March 16, 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY, WINTER 2025 NEWSLETTER
January 31, 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY, WINTER 2025 NEWSLETTER
January 31, 2025

In the January 2025 edition of the Photography Department Newsletter, I share ideas and opportunities with all of our students.

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January 31, 2025
JANUARY 2024 NEWSLETTER
January 26, 2024
JANUARY 2024 NEWSLETTER
January 26, 2024

January edition of the monthly photography department newsletter

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January 26, 2024
JANUARY 2023 NEWSLETTER
January 17, 2023
JANUARY 2023 NEWSLETTER
January 17, 2023

This is the first e-newsletter for spring semester, 2023

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January 17, 2023
Introductory Essay – 1000 Miles Per Hour
November 21, 2022
Introductory Essay – 1000 Miles Per Hour
November 21, 2022

1,000 Miles Per Hour – the speed of earth's rotation at the equator – showcases the effects of perspective through photography and other contemporary practices.

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November 21, 2022
Interview with Stephanie Syjuco – 1000 Miles Per Hour
November 14, 2022
Interview with Stephanie Syjuco – 1000 Miles Per Hour
November 14, 2022

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Using critical wit and collaborative co-creation, her projects have leveraged open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital in order to investigate issues of economies and empire.

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November 14, 2022
Interview with Dawit L. Petros – 1000 Miles Per Hour
November 7, 2022
Interview with Dawit L. Petros – 1000 Miles Per Hour
November 7, 2022

Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator. Throughout the past decade, he has focused on a critical re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. These concerns derive from lived experiences: Petros is an Eritrean emigrant who spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada.

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November 7, 2022
Interview with Lisa Jarrett – 1000 Miles Per Hour
October 31, 2022
Interview with Lisa Jarrett – 1000 Miles Per Hour
October 31, 2022

Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions.

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October 31, 2022

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