PALMER/RITCHIN LECTURE
3/1/2012
3/1/2012
SPRING BREAK
3/5-3/11/2012
3/5-3/11/2012
GEOFF DYER LECTURE
3/12/2012
3/12/2012
GAY BLOCK LECTURE
3/15/2012
3/15/2012
SPRING SALON
4/13/2012
4/13/2012
department events
UPCOMING EVENTS
February 28: Fixing Shadows: Milagros de la Torre in Conversation with MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Chair Charles Traub and Carla Stellweg
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department
Tuesday, February 28, 7pm
SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
Free and open to the public.
March 1: Brian Palmer and Fred Ritchin: It’s not the technology!
Documentary, journalism, and forms of fine art that fall under the broad category of “nonfiction visual storytelling” have been upended by the digital revolution. Our audiences have fragmented, and, in some cases, our livelihoods decimated. Many of us, by choice and necessity, have adopted new modes of capture, image processing, and dissemination. Many more of us work feverishly to create new business models to keep our careers afloat.
But the current crisis in our fields is less about the digital than it is about certain enduring and fundamental questions. What is the purpose of our work? Who are we in relation to the people, places, and events we examine and explore? Put another way, whom, if anybody, do we serve with our work? Technology complicates and obscures these matters, but it does not erase them.
In this session we hope to contribute to the global effort of tracing potential paths out of the current chaotic media environment toward substantive, ethical, and sustainable frameworks and practices that harness the digital without fetishizing technology.
Thursday, March 1st, 7pm
SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
This event is mandatory for all MFA Photo/Video students.
Free and open to the public
March 12: Geoff Dyer: ZONA: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Award-winning author Geoff Dyer lectures and talks about his newest book, ZONA: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room. Book sales and signing to follow.
Monday, March 12, 7pm
SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
This event is mandatory for all MFA Photo/Video students.
Free and open to the public.
March 15: Gay Block: About Love: Photographs and Films 1973-2011
Fine art photographer Gay Block talks about her newest book, About Love: Photographs and Films 1973-2011, published by Radius Books. “Portraiture, for me, is about a desire to see the uniqueness of each person celebrated. The portraits I made, from the very beginning, gave me information about who the person was. I learned this from the interview but even more when I saw the portrait I had made. When I found out how someone had made their life’s choices, it helped me figure out who I might become. For this lecture I will show and talk about my portraits, show clips from my films, and lead a discussion about the intimate and personal aspects of portraiture.”
Thursday, March 15, 7pm
SVA Amphitheater
209 E. 23rd St., 3rd Floor
This event is free and open to the public.
April 13: Spring Salon
Join us for an informal exhibition of photography, video and moving image artwork produced by students in the department.
Friday, April 13, 7-9pm
214 E. 21st St.
Open to friends and family of the department
February 21: Max Kozloff: As Luck Would Have It: The Element of Chance in Photography
Photography is the ideal medium for fishing out things, appearances, and events that don’t make sense or otherwise defy reason. This lecture explores the havoc wreaked upon the notion of story in photography by writers sympathetic to the element of chance. Too bad that as an explanatory principle to explain what happens, chance explains nothing. This condition will be illustrated by various photos featuring the smiles of women.
Tuesday, February 21, 6:30pm
SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
This event is mandatory for all MFA Photo/Video students.
Free and open to the public.
November 9: Duane Michals Lecture
Photographer Duane Michals lectures about his work and recent adventures.
November 9, 1pm
Room 104
MANDATORY for all students
Sorry, this event is not open to the public.
November 14: Faculty Panel: Social Media
Seth Lambert, Michelle Leftheris, and Adam Bell conduct a panel on the recent show “Social Media” at Pace/MacGill Gallery, and the themes behind it.
November 14, 1:30pm
Room 104
MANDATORY for all students
Sorry, this event is not open to the public.
December 8: MFA Photo/Video Open House
Come tour the facilities and meet with MFA Photo/Video faculty and staff at the first of three open house sessions. Be sure to bring a resume or C.V. and portfolio for a group portfolio review! Please register at http://www.sva.edu/GradInfoSessions/ in order to attend. This is not a walk-in event.
December 8, 1pm-3pm
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department
214 E. 21st Street, 1st floor
Please register at http://www.sva.edu/GradInfoSessions/ in order to attend.
December 9: Fall Salon
Friends and family of our students are invited to view their work in an informal setting during the Fall Salon. The student salons are held once per semester, and are a great way to see works in progress, as well as have a bit of fun!
December 9, 7pm-9pm
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department
214 E. 21st Street, 1st floor
Free, but to attend, you must be invited by a student, staff, or faculty member
November 5: MFA Photo/Video Open House
Come tour the facilities and meet with MFA Photo/Video faculty and staff at the first of three open house sessions. Be sure to bring a resume or C.V. and portfolio for a group portfolio review! Please register at http://www.sva.edu/GradInfoSessions/ in order to attend. This is not a walk-in event.
November 5, 10am-1pm
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department
214 E. 21st Street, 1st floor
Please register at http://www.sva.edu/GradInfoSessions/ in order to attend.
October 20: MFA Photo/Video Open House
Come tour the facilities and meet with MFA Photo/Video faculty and staff at the first of three open house sessions. Be sure to bring a resume or C.V. and portfolio for a group portfolio review! Please register at http://www.sva.edu/GradInfoSessions/ in order to attend. This is not a walk-in event.
October 20, 1pm-3pm
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department
214 E. 21st Street, 1st floor
Please register at http://www.sva.edu/GradInfoSessions/ in order to attend.
October 31: April Gertler Lecture
Berlin artist April Gertler will speak about her experience after graduate school, the formation of her own program, PICTURE BERLIN, and most specifically, the ways that she has been able to maintain her practice as a working artist while living in Berlin. She received her BFA, Photography (1997) at the California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA and her MFA, Photography (2002) at Bard College, New York. In the winter of 2001 – while at Bard, she went to the Städelschule, a small art school in Frankfurt/Main, Germany as part of a graduate exchange program. April moved to Berlin in 2005 and has been based there since then.
October 31, 1:30pm
Room 104
MANDATORY for all students
Sorry, this event is not open to the public.
October 13: Janelle Lynch Lecture
Alum Janelle Lynch speaks about her new book, Los Jardines de Mexico. She has garnered international recognition over the last decade for her large-format photographs of the urban and rural landscape. Widely exhibited, her work is in several public and private collections including the George Eastman House Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, the Fundación Vila Casas, Barcelona, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Salta, Argentina.
October 13, doors 6:30pm, event 7pm-8:30pm
SVA Amphitheater
209 E. 23rd St., 3rd floor
Free and open to the public
October 5: Brandon Holmes Screening
Please join Brandon Holmes for a special departmental screening of John Bargenhaver’s debut feature length documentary: Marcus Garlard: A Necessary Option.
October 5, 1pm
Room 104
Sorry, this event is not open to the public.
September 22: Professional Women Photographers Panel “Are We There Yet?”
An independent curator and former visuals editor at The New Yorker, Elisabeth Biondi moderates a panel on the role of women in photography. Panelists include photography critic Vince Aletti, curator and writer Lyle Rexer, and photographers Martine Fougeron, Lisa Kereszi and Sarah Silver. Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department in partnership with Professional Women Photographers.
September 22, doors 6:30pm, starts 7pm
SVA Amphitheater
209 E. 23rd St., 3rd floor
Free w/any college ID, $10 for general admission
September 23-24: 2011 Thesis Screening
Featuring films created by the class of 2011, this year’s screening spans two nights. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be one intermission each evening. This event is free and open to the public.
September 23, 7pm-10pm
September 24, 7pm-10pm
SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
Free and open to the public
September 14: Simon Norfolk Lecture
MANDATORY LECTURE for MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Students
September 14, 1pm-3pm
Room 104
Sorry, this lecture is not open to the public.
September 15: Dan Milnor from Blurb
MANDATORY LECTURE for MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Students
September 15, 1:30pm-3pm
Room 104
Sorry, this lecture is not open to the public.
August 3: Summer Residency Screening
Join our Still + Moving Imaging Summer Residency participants as we screen the short films they’ve created over this four-week intensive-study residency. This event is free and open to the public.
August 3, 6pm
SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
July 8-27, 2011: AuthentiCity
Opening reception, July 7 6-8pm
SVA Gallery
209 E. 23rd Street
June 9 -26, 2011: Randy West Tethered
Opening reception, June 9, 6-8pm
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
535 W. 24th Street
June 10-25, 2011: Thesis Exhibition
Opening reception, June 16, 6-9pm
Visual Arts Gallery
601 W. 26th Street, Suite 1502
SPRING 2011
February 1, 2011: Max Kozloff
Art historian, critic and photographer, Max Kozloff has received numerous awards for art criticism, including the 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1966 Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association of America. In 1976, he turned his attentions to creating art, using New York City and its residents as subjects for street and portrait photography. Max will speak about that portraiture in his lecture, “A Few Wrinkles in Portrait Photography.”
February 16, 2011: Grahame Weinbren
Video/installation artist and MFA Photography, Video and Related Media department faculty member Grahame Weinbren will be showcasing his latest project Still Life with Banquet, answering questions, and discussing his latest publication, Video as an Art: Looking into the Rewind Archive through the Philosophical Aesthetics of Richard Wollheim, which is due out in Spring 2011.
February 22, 2011: Performance-lecture: Impressions, Shadows, by artist Marcelline Delbecq (Paris)
SVA Amphitheater
209 E. 23rd Street (3rd floor)
February 26, 2011: Masters on Main Street – The Weekenders
Student Exhibition
Brick Gallery
473 Main Street
Catskill, NY
March 1, 2011: Tom Gitterman
Gallery owner and art dealer Tom Gitterman focuses on the works of several important contemporary photographers at his Gitterman Gallery on the Upper East Side. His gallery represents the estates of several well-known artists and the photographs by those still working, including Paul Caponigro, Nan Goldin, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and our own Charles H. Traub. Gitterman will speak to the MFA Photo, Video and Related Media Department about what it takes to prepare for the ultra-competitive art world and how to make it in Chelsea
March 16, 2011: Lecture and book signing for Photography and Italy: Maria Antonella Pelizzari
The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
April 14, 2011: What is a Picture, lecture by Alan Vanier
April 15, 2011: Spring Salon
Student-run department exhibition
May 3, 2011: Lecture and screening: video artist Tony Conrad
Visual Arts Theater
333 W. 23rd Street
June 10-25, 2011: Thesis Exhibition
Visual Arts Gallery
601 W. 26th Street, Suite 1502
Fall 2010
September 14, 2010: Laurent Grasso
SVA Amphitheater
209 E. 23rd Street
September 18, 2010: Thesis Screening
Visual Arts Theatre
333 W. 23rd Street
September 28, 2010: Elinor Carucci
An alumnus of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and a current faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, Elinor Carucci was named one of Photo District News’ “Thirty Under-30 Young Photographers to Watch” in 2000. Since her gallery debut in 1997, Carucci’s has had solo exhibitions worldwide, and her work has been extensively published and collected by numerous institutions and private collectors.
October 12, 2010: Dinh Q. Le
Drawing inspiration from his early childhood in Vietnam, Dinh Q. Le creates large-scale images from interwoven strips of photographic paper, and incorporates installation, video, and sculpture into his work. An alumnus of the School of Visual Arts, he continues to create haunting images that play on the dichotomy of Southeast Asian military conflict and the pop culture imagery which permeates his adoptive home of Los Angeles.
October 19, 2010: Jarvis Irving
In 1979, Jarvis Irving broke off from one of the biggest accounting firms in New York to start his own CPA firm and cater to artists’ financial issues. From tax accounting to advisory assistance, Jarvis W. Irving & Co. is equipped with a full range of services to guide artists, entertainers, and other individuals through the rough waters of managing a burgeoning business, budgeting, and future financial planning.
October 26, 2010: Rick Wester
Photographer representation has been a passion of Rick Wester’s for over thirty years. After being employed at New York’s renowned Light Gallery in the 1980s, he moved on to private consulting, as well as directing the prestigious Gagosian Gallery before striking out on his own to form Rick Wester Fine Art. From this firm, he continues to represent artists, broker art sales, and exhibit client work as well as the work of new contemporary photographers.
October 26th, 2010: Panel discussion: The Original Copy
On photography, performance, and the “living sculpture,” with artists Eleanor Antin (Southern California) and Robin Rhode (Berlin), moderated by curator Roxana Marcoci (MoMA, NY).
Visual Arts Theatre
333 West 23rd Street
November 2, 2010: Amy Steigbigel
The woman behind the photographers, Amy Steigbigel is a photo producer, art director, and Director of Photography for Getty Images. She has been active in the photography industry since the early 1990s, holding positions such as Director of Photography at Details Magazine and Co-Founder of Wallspace Gallery in NYC. Ms. Steigbigel holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts and has a particular interest in emerging fine art and commercial talent.
November 9th, 2010: Lecture: “Why Stieglitz?” by art historian and curator Bonnie Yochelson (SVA, NY)
SVA Amphitheater
209 E. 23rd Street
December 13, 2010: Miranda Lichtenstein
Miranda Lichtenstein questions what role depiction might continue to play in the capricious visual field. Collapsing both physical and digital screens, she interrogates the metaphorical and material filters that have been assimilated into image production and reception. The work’s subject matter can at times be difficult to locate — representation is present, but it is in flux. Her polyvalent strategies of display avoid conventions of seriality, and explore differing modes of destabilized representation.
December 16, 2010: Any Form of Paradise
Student Exhibition
The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
December 17th, 2010: Artist Talk: Marie Losier with special guest Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
Spring 2010
January 13, 2010: Omer Fast
February 3, 2010: Tim Hetherington
February 4, 2010: Alexandre Singh
February 17, 2010: Joel Sternfeld
March 3, 2010: Judith Mara-Gutman
Fall 2009
September 23, 2009: Shelly Silver
Friday, October 23, 2009: Brian Palmer’s Full Disclosure
October 28, 2009: How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Bull by the Bruce High Quality Foundation
209 East 23rd Street
November 20, 2009: Sandhogs: a book of photographs by Gina LeVay
Book launch party
December 4th, 2009: Fall Salon
An exhibition of current student work by the students of the MFA Photography Department.
December 11th, 2009: Entanglement by Ed Bowes
Film Screening
Visual Arts Theater
333 West 23rd Street
hide