Very Cool Panel Discussion Dec. 10 (Free)

PANEL DISCUSSION
Confounding Expectations X: Photography in Context
The Projected Photograph
Thursday, December 10, 2009 – 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free
www.veralistcenter.org

Paul Pfeiffer, "Cross Hall (2008)," Wall-recessed mixed media diorama, peephole, live video feed projection. Dimensions variable. Installation view courtesy of Carlier Gebauer. Photo by Bernd Borchardt. Collection of Sammlung Goetz, Munich.

Featuring presentations by artists Andrea Geyer, Paul Pfeiffer and Krzysztof Wodiczko, this panel explores the multiple ways in which artists utilize projection and installation strategies to display still photographic images, and create immersive and cinema-like experiences in museum and gallery contexts as well as outdoor environments.

Departing from the large-scale, tableau treatments of the photographic image printed and framed as wall-based objects, exemplified in works by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, and Gregory Crewdson, in recent years contemporary artists have increasingly employed projection devices––ranging from analogue to digital high-definition––to display photographic images as immaterial light projections, often incorporating sound and performance elements. Geyer, Pfeiffer and Wodiczko present examples from their individual practices as a means of entry into a larger discussion about projection and temporality. Moderated by George Baker, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Chair of the Department of Art History, UCLA.

"Confounding Expectations" is presented by the Aperture Foundation in association with the Department of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. It has been hosted by The New School since 2001. The Aperture Foundation, publisher of Aperture magazine, is a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the support and advancement of photography as a fine art. The lecture series is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and with generous support from the Ketterling Family Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation.