Mini-Workshop
Still and Moving Images
Photography and cinema, though distinctive as mediums, are inextricably linked and intertwined. To thoughtfully engage in a practice with one is practically impossible without the influence of the other. As photographers, how can our practice of examining the still image influence our experience with the moving one? Does our construction of narrative, time, and attention shift when we engage with an image that’s frozen as opposed to one in motion? In this one-hour workshop, we’ll consider these questions and more as we dig into an abridged history of the still versus moving image and look at artists who probe the unique intersection of the two mediums in tandem or apart.
Kat Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working in photography, text, and video, currently based between São Paulo, Brazil, and Orlando, Florida. Her work examines notions of intimacy, human connection, gender, community, and culture. She holds degrees in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) as well as Bard College (MFA).
Kat has held teaching positions at Yeshiva University, Brookdale College, Stetson University, Middlesex College, and ICP, and previously worked for three years as the head curator at an art consultancy in New York. In 2017 Kat co-founded the collaborative artist collective Memory Foam through which she curates exhibitions, publishes and collects artists' books and zines, and produces an artist interview series called “Artists Eat Ice Cream.”
Kat teaches Ways of Seeing, Photography as Pilgrimage, and other personal vision classes for StrudelmediaLive.
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