Conversations on Photography: Visualizing the Anthropocene
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Facilitated by Melinda Hurst Frye
Spring 2022 Every other week from April 5 - May 17, 2022 | Tuesdays 6-8pm (Pacific Time) |
Session 3 Conversation (we missed you NY!)
Meeting Recording:
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Meeting Recording:
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Welcome! Thank you for joining our series of discussions on selected readings around conservation, ecology, and where the notion of the climate merges with artistic intent. While I will wear the hat of conversation facilitator, our sessions not lectures rather discussions, ideally with your voice. Please bring your thoughts, opinions, research, and/or discoveries to our space where we may learn from you as well as the materials.
Conversation one & Legacy
Welcome to our first conversation! Please read the listed readings and view the artists prior to our session. As you discover additional articles, artists, and threads, please post them above in our padlet for all to see!
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READINGS (& some audio)
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ARTISTS TO CONSIDER
Pablo López Luz Mandy Barker DM Witman / Lenscratch Thomas Jackson / Emergent Behavior Jamie Stillings BARBARA CIUREJ & LINDSAY LOCHMAN Edward Burtynsky 
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Conversation Prompt
How do we think about legacy in the context of geological periods? The Anthropocene is defined by our impact, the chemicals we have disseminated, and even the chicken bones we have sprinkled throughout the world. Our social, cultural, and political uses of the flora and fauna leave traces of our actions and us in the environment, the soil, and the air. What will the legacy of the Anthropocene be? How are artists working through these ideas?
How do we think about legacy in the context of geological periods? The Anthropocene is defined by our impact, the chemicals we have disseminated, and even the chicken bones we have sprinkled throughout the world. Our social, cultural, and political uses of the flora and fauna leave traces of our actions and us in the environment, the soil, and the air. What will the legacy of the Anthropocene be? How are artists working through these ideas?
Conversation two & Place
Conversation Prompt
How might place inform the artist's work? Are there artists that come to mind that use place as a subject, specifically or generally or metaphorically?
How might place inform the artist's work? Are there artists that come to mind that use place as a subject, specifically or generally or metaphorically?
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Conversation three & Trees/fungi
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Artists to Consider (more to be shared during conversation three)
Terry Evans Jackie Heitchue **Please bring any and all artists that come to mind during your reading and research** |
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Additional Readings & Materials (Prioritized top top bottom, I just couldn't keep them to myself)
Old Growth / Orion Fungipedia / Millman Overstory / Powers Mushroom / Worth Video: ON TREES: A Conversation with Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy |
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Conversation Prompt
How (& who) are you finding art/artists working with the small (fungi) and the large (trees) and the large? How are you finding artists adopt the metaphors of connectivity into their work? What other metaphors or documentary studies are you coming across in your reading and researching of art and photography? Can you share artists to help us understand your thoughts?
How (& who) are you finding art/artists working with the small (fungi) and the large (trees) and the large? How are you finding artists adopt the metaphors of connectivity into their work? What other metaphors or documentary studies are you coming across in your reading and researching of art and photography? Can you share artists to help us understand your thoughts?
Conversation four & Climate
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Artists to consider
Sant Khalsa Rainey Straus Please come to our session with artists that you find compelling relating to the topic of climate, or the broader net of the Anthropocene 
Sant Khalsa, Western Waters
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Conversation Prompt
Climate change is a challenging topic with much emotion and anxiety, thus charged view points and stances. Can artists navigate this terrain in a way to seed advocacy, change, and/or educate. How are the artists that you are finding approaching making work about the varied climate concerns and responses?
Climate change is a challenging topic with much emotion and anxiety, thus charged view points and stances. Can artists navigate this terrain in a way to seed advocacy, change, and/or educate. How are the artists that you are finding approaching making work about the varied climate concerns and responses?
