Society for Photographic Education
43rd National Conference in Chicago

Conference Program Guide

The cover for the 2006 Conference Program Guide features a collage of images by many of the speakers and imagemakers who will be showing their work during presentations at the Chicago conference. Here is an unobstructed view of the work by these incredible artists.

Barry Anderson teaches courses in video, animation, and interactivity at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has shown his work nationally in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Houston, and internationally in England, Russia, Brazil and Thailand. He received his MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Barry had to cancel and will not be attending the conference. Vagner Whitehead will be included on the panel instead.

Image: A Menagerie: Dust Bunnies, 2005, 35-channel audio installation (Beth Allison Gallery, Kansas)

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Tom P. Ashe is a photographer, consultant, and adjunct professor at the School of the Visual Arts. He received his BS from RIT and his MS from RMIT University in Melbourne. His fifteen years of industry experience have included positions with Eastman Kodak, Monaco Systems, Itek Optical Systems, and Polaroid.

Image:Untitled, Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia, 2000

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Roberto Bocci is a multimedia electronic artist born in Italy. Over the past twenty years his work has evolved from painting through photography to computer-driven interactive installations. His artistic concerns encompass multiple points of view and questions of personal and social identity. Roberto's work includes multimedia installations, photographs and CD-ROMs.

Image: Simone

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Scanner As Camera (Christa Kreeger Bowden with Ruth Adams, Darryl Curran and Maggie Taylor)

Christa Kreeger Bowden holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Georgia and a BA in Photography and film communication from Tulane University. She most recently served as assistant professor of photography at Southampton College of Long Island University, and was a 2005 nominee for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography.

Image: Mermaid II, 2004, inkjet print, direct body & object scans, 16.5 x 18”

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Caroline Burghardt’s photographs investigate adornment and socialization as reflections of cultural constructs and constraints. She examines interior spaces (mental and physical) as the loci of sociological identity, psychology and personal history. She received a BFA from Bard College and an MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art.

Image: Guest Bathroom, 2003

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Epic Photography, Revisited

Working in narrative media, Javier Carmona heads the photography curriculum at Dominican University. His recent solo exhibitions include Galería La Masmédula in Mexico City and Tres50 in Chiapas. His work was featured in the first volume of Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art. Carmona received his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1997.

Image: ejemplo cotidiano, 2005, digital chromogenic print

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It's Blurry, Isn't That Art?

Beau Comeaux will complete his MFA at the University of North Texas in May 2006. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he received his BFA in Studio Art from Louisiana State University and continues to photograph and explore the world with childlike abandon.

Image: 26 from the Walking series, 2005, pigmented ink print, 14 x 20”

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Ruth Dusseault is currently Artist-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture. Her photography explores the relationship between architecture and utopianism. She has lectured at the Carnegie Museum, High Museum and Michael C. Carlos Museum. Dusseault contributes to Art Papers magazine and curates touring exhibitions that intersect art and architecture.

Image: Plaza, 2005, Watching Place-Making: Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project 1999-present, 24 x 30” C-prints

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Michael Ensdorf teaches photography at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His work was included in the exhibitions Iterations at ICP in New York, and Photography after Photography, which toured museums in Europe and the United States. He received his MFA in photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Image: Crosswalk series, #1, video still, 2004

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Carol Flax has exhibited work at the XXV Bienal de São Paulo, the George Eastman House, LACMA and ICP. Her work has been published internationally and is in the collections of the CCP and the Seattle Art Museum among others. Her explorations of evolving technologies have been supported by numerous grants and by pioneering institutions such as Institute for Studies in the Arts and Banff New Media Institute.

Image: 3 Sisters, 1997, archival ink jet print, 90x40"

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Jonathan Gitelson completed his MFA at Columbia College in 2004 and has exhibited throughout the United States and Canada. His work is in various collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Whitney Museum.

Image: Excaliber

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Carol Golemboski is an Assistant Professor of Photography at The University of Colorado at Denver. She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation and Light Work. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections.

Image: Bending Spoons, 2004, toned gelatin-silver print, 17 1/4 x 17 1/4”

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Mary Goodwin has a BA in German Literature from Mount Holyoke, South Hadley, Massachusetts, and a BFA in photography from Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. She currently lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is studying for her MFA at the University of New Mexico.

Image: Auto Obscura: Henry, 2005, archival pigment prints, 30 x 30”

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Peter HappelChristian lives in Tucson, AZ where he teaches at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. He exhibits his work both locally and nationally and holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Photography from the University of Oregon.

Image: dustcloud8, Photogram of a dust clump, from the artist book series, Brief Notes on Existence, 2004-05, cyanotype print, 4x5"

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Douglas Holleley is the author of Better Things (Clarellen, 2005). His previous book Digital Book Design and Publishing (Clarellen, 2001) is widely used as a photography text. Holleley holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, where he now teaches.

Image: Better Things Plate 2a and 2b, diptych, ink (jet) on paper, 6.25x8.25 inches (each image)

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Vid Ingelevics is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto. He teaches in the areas of Photography, Criticism and Curatorial Practice and in Design. His writing, curatorial projects and artwork have been published and exhibited extensively across Canada and in Europe.

Image: Victoria and Albert Museum #1, 2005

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April Katz earned her MFA from Arizona State University in 1988. She’s an associate professor of printmaking at Iowa State University. Katz is currently president of the Southern Graphics Council. She has an extensive exhibition and grants record and was featured in Carol Pulin’s 2001 Contemporary Impressions article, “April Katz.”

Image: Myriad Anomalies, 2005, Lithograph, 10 x 10”

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Jyl Kelley practices imitative magic and photography. She is currently a Masters of Fine Art candidate at the University of New Mexico, expected to graduate in 2006. Most recently she has exhibited video animations of pinhole photographs in Istanbul Turkey, New Zealand and New Mexico.

Image: Single image from animation sequence entitled Magician at Church, 2005, digital print from scanned pinhole negative

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Dean Kessmann received an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University in 1996. He has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. and has taught photography at a number of institutions. Presently, Kessmann is assistant professor of photography at The George Washington University. Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, DC, currently represents his work.

Image: ARTForum, December 2003 (front), 2004 from Cover to Cover series, Digital Pigment Prints

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Katherine Knight is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at York University, Toronto. She teaches and carries out research related to still and moving images, landscape and cognition. Knight received the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography in 2000. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows.

Image: La Poleon, 2001, digital print, 29 x 29"

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Stephen Komp teaches photography and video art at the State University of New York at Fredonia, New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in photojournalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Image: Carrousel, 2005, still from digital video

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Morgan Konn is an MFA candidate at San Jose State University. Her self portraits are a record of private performances in domestic spaces. She employs digital and traditional tools to exaggerate, deform and reorganize multiple images into a single image. Her work has been exhibited nationally and in China.

Image: Chair Stretch, 2004, inkjet print, 18 x 24”

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Julieanne Kost combines a passion for photography with a mastery of digital imaging techniques. Using her degree in psychology, Kost finds the raw components of visual emotion within herself. She often explores images she finds disturbing: textures, structures, colors and even her own skeletal system are all ingredients in her work. Julieanne has worked for Adobe Systems for 12 years and now serves as the Digital Imaging Evangelist. She frequently teaches Adobe Photoshop workshops in fine art venues, and at prominent industry events and conferences around the world. The author of the Photoshop Fundamentals and Advanced Photoshop Techniques training DVDs published by SOftware Cinema, she is cofounder of adobeevangelists.com.

Image: Dead On, 2005, digital illustration, 24 x 24”

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Steven Krutek is a photography MFA candidate at the University of Montana. He studied fine arts at Colorado College and photography with Stuart Klipper of Minneapolis, at the SALT Institute for Documentary Field Studies, and with Dan Burkholder. His current work combines alternative photographic techniques, digital applications, printmaking, and painting.

Image: Fruitless Extraction, 3/2005, van Dyke print/silkscreen print/mulberry paper on wood, 16 x 18"

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Nina Levitt is an artist working in photography, video and interactive technologies. She has exhibited across Canada and in the US and the UK, and her work has been widely published. She is assistant professor of visual arts at York University, Toronto where she teaches photography and installation.

Image: Archive folder of service records: Violette Szabo, Public Records Office, London, Enlgand, 2004

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Arthur Liou worked as a journalist in Taiwan before coming to US the United Stated in the early ’ 90s. Over the past decade, his work has gravitates gravitated toward the increasingly personal issues of media experience, ethnicity, food, and illness. His work was exhibited internationally in New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Sweden, Brazil, and Argentina. He is the recipient of the 2006 Garry B Fritz Imagemaker Award at the SPE conference.

Image: Still from Hairline, 2003, high-definition video, surround sound, 11 min loop

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Michael Marshall is an exhibiting artist from Athens, Georgia. He has degrees in Physics as well as Studio Arts and completed his MFA in Photography at Arizona State University, 2000. He is currently on the faculty at the University of Georgia. His work is represented by the Krause Gallery in Atlanta.

Image: Lunar Cycle, 2005, pigment print on wood panel, 72x43”

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Alexander Mouton
& Christian Faur

Alexander Mouton's artistic interests lie in the poetic and narrative possibilities of sequencing images. His artists' books are in collections internationally. Alexander extends his work through time and sound based projects creating net art, interactive video installations, and live multimedia performances. Alexander is Assistant Professor of art at Denison University.

Christian Faur’s primary medium is oil on canvas and encaustic on wood, where he layers images of the human form with texts and numeric patterns. His involvement with digital technologies has led him to work with photography, video, computer programming and robotics. Christian is Digital Media Technologist at Denison University.

Image: Alexander Mouton, Silhouette (full page spread)

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Lyssa Palu-ay is currently an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art. Her work consists of black white photographs of organic and inorganic forms abstracted to feel simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic. She is also an artist in residence at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art in New York City.

Image: Untitled

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Robin Lasser is a Professor of Art at San Jose State University. Lasser produces photographs, video, site-specific installations and public art dealing with socially significant themes. Lasser often works in a collaborative mode with other artists, writers, students, public agencies, community organizations, and international coalitions to produce art and promote public dialogue.

Adrienne Pao recently graduated with her MFA in Photography from San Jose State University. She is currently working on a series of Hawaiian Cover-ups and the collaborative series, Dress Tents, both projects investigating notions of tourism and travel in fantasy landscapes. Pao is adjunct faculty at Modesto Junior College.

Image: Adrienne Pao & Robin Lasser, Picnic Dress Tent, 2005, lightjet print, 30 x 36”

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John Pickel received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1986. He was visiting assistant professor at Herron School of Art/IUPUI from 1986-89 and visiting assistant professor at NC State University from 1993-1997. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. John exhibits installations throughout the U.S.

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Melanie Pullen is a self-taught photographer. She recently published her series High Fashion Crime Scenes. Pullen’s been spotlighted in the New York Times Magazine, ELLE, Nylon, Vogue, etc. and her work is in museums worldwide. She shoots regularly for magazines like Flaunt and Rolling Stone. Melanie currently lives in Los Angeles.

Image: Nina (Hanging Series), 2005, c-print face mounted with plexi glass, edition of 5, 70 x 93”

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Susana Reisman was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Wellesley College and her Master’s of Fine Arts in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is currently teaching.

Image: Photosculpture [azul], August 2004, lambda print, 10 x 10”

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E. Brady Robinson, M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1996. Installation, digital and photography work has been exhibited nationally including, Aspen Art Museum, Florida State Art Museum and Corcoran Gallery of Art. Currently is Assistant Professor of Art in the MFA in Studio Art and Computer Graduate Department at University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Image: Traces of the Italian Landscape, 2005, digital print, 13 x 19”

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Wilka Roig is an artist and educator based in Ithaca, NY. She was awarded the 2003 Light Work Grant and received her MFA in Photography from Cornell University. A Puerto Rican overseas, she explores issues of identity, performance, and the physical, emotional and psychological space in which these issues develop.

Tarrah Krajnak, born in Lima, Peru, is currently a Visiting Professor at University of Notre Dame. She received her MFA in 2004 and her current projects include video performances that examine the role of signifiers in the creation of identity and digital constructions addressing memory and familial history.

Image: Kaite 4, 2005, c-print mounted on aluminum, 31.75 x 24"

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Matt Siber completed his MFA at Columbia College in 2003 and has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Image: Denny's, 2005

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Rebecca Sittler is an Assistant Professor of Art at University of Central Florida in Orlando. Her photographs use elements of performance and conceptual art alongside visual sensibilities borrowed from the history of still life painting and the aesthetics of her Mid-western upbringing. She was recently awarded a 2006 Florida Artist Fellowship.

Image: The Lovers, c-print, 2002

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Scanner As Camera (Christa Kreeger Bowden with Ruth Adams, Darryl Curran and Maggie Taylor)

Maggie Taylor is a digital artist who received her BA in philosophy from Yale University and her MFA in photography from the University of Florida. In 2005 Peachpit Press published a book on her work entitled "Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams."

Image: Subject To Change, 2004, inkjet print, 15x15”

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Brian Ulrich completed his MFA at Columbia College in 2004 and has exhibited widely (recently at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and The Art Institute of Chicago). Brian is a frequent contributor to Adbusters Magazine.

Image: Kenosha, WI, 2003

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Jeffrey A. Wolin is Halls Professor of Photography at Indiana University. His portraits of Holocaust survivors, Written in Memory, was published by Chronicle Books, accompanying solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and ICP. Wolin is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.

Image: Michael Rosensweig, image courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago

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