Iridescener Kehan Lai

In this episode, we talked about using technologies such as Google Street View to photograph the landscape, as well as seeing the land as a place that collect history and seeing the act of taking pictures as an anti-death impulse.
Mattew Jensen is an environmental artist with a lens-based approach to many projects. He engages with social practice, and a lot of his works are community-based participatory projects.
Matt is a Guggenheim Fellow in photography and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutions.
www.jensen-projects.com

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In this episode, we talked about brain waves, energy states, a concept named “the New Physical” as well as careerism in art.
m Burgess is an interdiciplinary installation artist. They are the recipient of many grants including Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies including MacDowell Colony. They had exhibited in many places including MoMA P.S.1, and has maintained a studio practice at the Elizabet Foundation for over 10 years.
www.studios-efanyc.org/m-burgess


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In this episode, We talked about how Juergen defines photography, how his works take audiences as participants and how the work stimulates a kind of mental image by means of sound, smell, and memory.
Juergen Staack is a conceptual and multi-disciplinary artist from Germany. He studied photography under Thomas Ruff and Christopher Williams and evolved to make work that expands in the field of installation, sound, language, etc. Juergen has had solo exhibitions in many places including Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, and artothek Raum für Junge Kunst, Cologne.
www.juergenstaack.com



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In this episode, we talked about breaking the rules of photography, the relationship between the material and the image, between landscape and land art, as well as ideas of permanence and spirituality.
Letha Wilson lives in Brooklyn and Hudson New York. Her solo exhibtions include GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) and New York, NY (US); the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, OR (US), and Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (FR). Her residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The MacDowell Colony. She had several public art commissions including the one at PS32 and 66th and waterfront.
www.lethaprojects.com

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In this episode, we talked about female representation, symbolism, and modes of image-making, as well as the influences of post-modern dance on Jenna’s work.
Jenna Westra is a New York based artist working in photography and film. She had solo exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Madrid, among many others. Her work has been published or reviewed in many places including the New York Times, Bomb Magazine, True Photo Journal, and MiddlePlane. Jenna is currently artist-in-residence at HerculesArt/Studio Program.
www.jennawestra.com

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In this episode, we talked about the post-migration life of Latino youth, the lack of representation of certain community, the cultural assimilation problem of America, as well as the exploitative history of photography and works that reinforces stereotypes.
Luis Manuel Diaz, born in Michoacán, Mexico, is a photographer based in New York. His work examines themes of immigration, citizenship, and care. Diaz holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design and was recently awarded the EnFoco Photography Fellowship and the Magnum Foundation’s US Dispatches Grant. He has exhibited work at Aperture Foundation, Bronx Art Space, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Pelham Art Center, and Baxter St Camera Club among others.
www.luismdiaz.com

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