The Creative Photography Search Committee invites you to attend the following research presentations by three candidates for the tenure track position in Creative Photography:
Rebecca Najdowski
March 10, 2014
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FAC102
Anthea Behm
March 13, 2014
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FAC102
Oliver Sann
March 17, 2014
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FAC102
Nadjowski is currently a visiting assistant professor of photography at the University of Arizona. She is a 2010-2011 Fulbright Award winner amd holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts (San Francisco). As the Artist Fellow at The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), her current research examines the edges of photography, perception, and photographic duration and material through collaborations with the desert environment. In this vein, she is creating a new body of work composed of video that employs the failures of photography to accurately record the sun, exposing the limits of the material to an optimistic end.
Behm holds her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an alumnus of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She is currently the visiting assistant professor of Creative Photography at the University of Florida. Among her many projects, Behm has critically investigated Aesthetic Theory (1970), Frankfurt School Philosopher Theodor Adorno’s epic, posthumously published thesis on aesthetics, as well as John Hughes’ legendary movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), which follows the activities of three truants, led by Bueller, spending the day in downtown Chicago. Through this encounter, the video both rehearses and problematizes the categories of “high” and “popular” culture as they are conventionally defined, and demonstrates the contradictions inherent within each text.
Sann is currently teaching adjunct courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned his MFA at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (Germany). In his research, practice and teaching, he feels continually tested by questions generated by the practice and study of the evolving medium of photography. In his project “On Killing; Personal Kill,” Sann and a collaborator investigated the history of armed conflict and the methodology of personal kills as well as the resultant trauma which occurs at close range. The photographs and videos in this project depict interiors of so-called MOUT sites training installations for Military Operations on Urban Terrain, used to teach close-range Combat.
