BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10963@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231118T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231118T180000 DTSTAMP:20231114T154010Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/methodologies-in-experimentation -a-symposium-on-photography-at-cranbrook/ SUMMARY:Canceled - Methodologies in Experimentation: A Symposium on Photogr aphy at Cranbrook DESCRIPTION:Methodologies in Experimentation: A Symposium on Photography at Cranbrook has been canceled. Please stay tuned for information about a fu ture Carl Toth event before Reordering Fictions closes.\n\n \;\n\nOn t he occasion of Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions –the first museum retrospe ctive to reassess Toth’s legacy in photography – Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Academy of Art will co-host Methodologies in Experimentation \, a symposium on photography\, pedagogy\, and innovation since Carl Toth served as the Artist-in-Residence of the Photography department at the Aca demy from 1972–2007. The symposium will overview the Academy's Photograp hy department as a space for experimental practices – from early leaders hip by Toth\, to the culture fostered by Liz Cohen through the emerging me thodologies led by current Artist-in-Residence Chris Fraser.\n\nMethodolog ies in Experimentation is hosted by Kat Goffnett\, Assistant Curator of Collections at Cranbrook Art Museum\; Paul Sacaridiz\, Director of Cranbr ook Academy of Art\; and Chris Fraser\, current Artist-in-Residence and H ead of the Photography department. Moderators include Liz Cohen\, former Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography department (2008-2017)\,  Michael Stone-Richards\, Director of Programs and Partnerships at Cranbroo k Academy of Art\, and Ash Arder (MFA Fiber 2018)\, Fiber department Stud io Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Speakers include Academy alumni Kyo hei Abe\, Akea Brionne\, Clare Gatto\, Kara Güt\, Patrick Kelley\, Julian Jamaal Jones\, Jova Lynne\, Brittany Nelson\, Sheida Soleimani\, Ricky We aver\, and Qualeasha Wood.\n\nWhile each of these alumni and practitioners could easily engage their work with each other in totally different and i nfinite arrangements\, these conversations set about to engage the promisc uity of the image\, which makes the medium vital. Photographers have defin ed the place of photography in the art world\, and we now must continuousl y define the medium\, in a constant sense of evolution that is not present in other modes of artistic production – complacency is not an option. L ike the Academy itself\, these conversations attempt to enact the radical potential of the space of photography.\n\nThemes Explored in the Symposium :\n\nPicture and Texture \n\nPresenters: Akea Brionne (MFA Photography 2 023)\, Julian Jamaal Jones (MFA Photography 2022)\, and Qualeasha Wood (MF A Photography 2021) will engage in conversation moderated by Ash Arder (MF A Fiber 2018). Academy Artist-in-Residence Chris Fraser will provide the i ntroduction.\n\nDiscussion Topic: The desktop is an accidental site of col lage. Advances in technology are leading to a new sense of materiality in photography. The dematerialization of contemporary culture has led to the materialization of what could be a digital medium. Three recent graduates each explore identity through tactility\, pushing back against the ephemer ality of photography. For these artists paper is not enough\, we see textu re\, we feel the sense of the hand. Yet the results of their explorations are entirely different – ranging from appropriation of the religious ico nography of tapestries to celebrate Black Queer bodies\; to the elevation of heritage in the Black tradition of textile making which exalts the foun d and discarded\; to the examination of the inescapable intertwined nature of personal histories and place.\n\nReflection\, Construction\, and Assem blage\n\nPresenters: Jova Lynne (MFA Photography 2017) and Sheida Soleiman i (MFA Photography 2015) in conversation with Liz Cohen (Artist-in-Residen ce\, Photography\, 2008-2017)\n\nDiscussion Topic: Former Photography Arti st-in-Residence Liz Cohen impacted an entire generation of aspiring\, expe rimental photographers\, with a practice that foregrounded lived experienc e as a mode of research\, blurring the line between documentation and perf ormance. Jova Lynne and Sheida Soleimani are two exemplary artists coming out of the Academy under the tutelage of Cohen. These artists are linked n ot only by place but through their interests in the constructed scene as w ell as their active\, explicit engagement with politics and identity beyon d the white\, Western spheres.\n\nWhat does it mean to teach in an environ ment that offers the opportunity for radical pedagogy? How might we harnes s the opportunity to question? The Academy’s unique structure allows for a direct and current reflection of the world of photography. During her t ime as Artist-in-Residence\, Liz Cohen set performance as a baseline of co nversation in the department. What does it mean to create constraints in a space of unlimited possibilities? With each Artist-in-Residence and stude nt arriving and leaving this site completely changed how do we construct c ommunity while we construct our images? How are we responsible for finding ways to talk to each other? How does the medium create space for the full expression of the individual?\n\nIcon\, Index\, and Symbol \n\nPresente rs: Ricky Weaver (MFA Photography 2018) in conversation with Kyohei Abe (M FA Photography 2002)\, moderated by Michael Stone Richards\, Dean of Progr ams and Partnerships\, Cranbrook Academy of Art.\n\nDiscussion Topic: In p hotography\, the relationship between text and image is involved in an ong oing push and pull\, contemplating the hierarchical understandings of imag e and text as well as the context\, provided by artist\, site\, or audienc e. This often fraught\, yet symbiotic\, relationship is at the foundation of the study of semiotics\, a theoretical framework that allows us to make meaning from images\, from the visually complex to the minimally abstract .\n\nSemiotics played a major role in shaping photographic movements in th e late 20th century\, influencing many theorists and artists including Car l Toth. Kyohei Abe\, a student of Toth\, and later Cranbrook alumna Ricky Weaver have both shaped their practice around an investigation of the imag e’s relationship to language and the making of meaning. In Abe’s studi o practice\, he creates images directly engaged with “visual translation \, construction\, and chance as afforded by play\,” motivated by a desir e to explore the changes in the meaning of an image from staged compositio n to screen and from artist to viewer. Weaver has developed an Image-Based Ontology Philosophy centered around the lived language of the experience of Black womanhood\, dark sousveillance\, and “images as objects that al chemize the archive on a quantum level.” Together\, these artists will d iscuss language as sign\, symbol\, and index in relation to the photograph ic object\, its creation\, and life beyond the lens of its creator.\n\nBef ore and After the Camera \n\nPresenters: Clare Gatto (MFA Photography 20 17)\, Kara Güt (MFA Photography 2016)\, Patrick Kelley (MFA Photography 1 995)\, and Brittany Nelson (MFA Photography 2011) in conversation moderate d by Artist-in-Residence Chris Fraser.\n\nDiscussion Topic: To draw a par allel between embodied and technological perception\, the artists in discu ssion in this presentation fall into the realm of photography as a point o f entry rather than as a means to an end. Working in spite of the anxiety of image making in the 3rd decade of the 21st century – they ask how d o we expand to create a bond between the seeing body and the technological image? Each artist both discards and maintains a connection to traditiona l\, 19th-century photography\, enacting a radical potential by mining its ruins\, creating a tactile process without a pre-conceived outcome. As su ch\, these artists act as theorists of the medium in addition to their rol e as practitioners. Theorists in act not just in order.\n\nThe symposium i s accompanied by a Photography department reunion for all generations. All Photography alumni will receive an email with details for this private ev ent. Email artalumni@cranbrook.edu for more information.\n\n[gravityform i d="56" title="true"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2023/05/CAM1982_61_L.jpg CATEGORIES:Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions,Events,Lectures + Talks LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, 39221 Woodward Ave\, Box 801\, Bloomfield H ills\, MI\, 48303\, United States GEO:42.5727665;-83.25051710000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39221 Woodward Ave\, Box 80 1\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48303\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TIT LE=Cranbrook Art Museum:geo:42.5727665,-83.25051710000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR