Category — Of note…

Maggie Taylor, Not Yet, 1998.

Richland College, in Dallas, TX, is hosting a lecture and image presentation with Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 7 P.M.  If you’re in the area, this is a great opportunity to hear these two artists talk about their work and have a book signed.

Richland’s Photographic and Imaging Program appears to be rather active.  In addition to this upcoming lecture, they have also recently hosted Keith Carter, Luther Smith, and others.

There are a lot of great programs in North Texas and lots of speakers coming our way this fall.  Get out there and see some.

Texas Tech is home to the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, which is the first and oldest organized center for research on the life and works of Charles Sanders Peirce.  They have a library focused on Peirce’s work and a treasure trove of original manuscripts.  If you’ve been keeping score, you’ll know that Peirce and his ideas on semiotics are mentioned frequently in Photography Theory and many other discussions on photography.

They will be hosting a seminar with a host of international scholars entitled Meaning In The Arts: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on September 11 – 12.  Admission is free, and they have all of speaker details here.

Readers of this blog may be familiar with some of these names…  Michael Fried recently wrote Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before.  Walter Benn Michaels is quoted by Fried in that book and contributed to Photography Theory (Elkins).  W.J.T. Mitchell wrote, amongst other things, What Do Pictures Want?:  The Lives and Loves of Images.

Fried, Michaels, and Mitchell will be leading Digital Sense: Sound, Image, and Object at the Interstices of New Technology, which will be a very exciting discussion at The University of Texas at Dallas’s Centraltrak Artists Residency Program.  Their website says it will be “a discussion of the effects of new technology on aesthetics and aesthesis, art and perception.”

These three are prominent figures, and it should be a good chance to hear their thoughts and ask a few questions.  October 17, 2009.  4-8 PM.  Be there.

Yesterday :  I mentioned I am reading The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton.

Today:  I was searching to find out who exactly she is and found this interesting exchange on framing.  It turns out that Charlotte is the Curator and Head of the Photography Department at LACMA.  She is also one of the notable notables involved with Words Without Pictures.  I’ve gone ahead and ordered a copy.

Her answer is a rare opportunity to read the thoughts of an active curator on framing.