PhotoSummer- Conjured Futures Projection
June 7 – 8 The Santa Fe Railyard, near the Second Street Brewery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
In conjunction with the Interplanetary Festival
THE PROJECTION:
Conjured Futures is a juried projection featuring photographic images that address or question new technologies, policies, and movements that are shaping the future of humanity. In this curation, we focus on projects that look at solutions or alternate outcomes. So often in western society do we see an emphasis that is put on destruction and problems, without considering what can be done to remediate damage.
In the last 5 – 10 years with the advent of drone photography and popularity of aerial photography, there have been many projects documenting the massive changes to the environment caused by human activity. These projects have helped to generate an understanding of humanity’s present environmental and socio-political crisis, and now it is time to think about the future. How are technologies being used to preserve and restore the environment? What does the future look like? What is being done to take control of our futures?
This summer CENTER is teaming up with the Interplanetary Festival and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM to produce two public projection programs. On Friday June 9th and Saturday June 10th, Conjured Futures will show in the Santa Fe Railyard alongside the Interplanetary Festival, and on Friday June 15th and Saturday June 16th, Color Cue: Explorations in Perception will present in the same location alongside the Currents New Media Festival.
Featured Artists: Memphis Barbee, Xiang-yun Chen, Tara Cronin, Rebecca Hackemann, Abbey Hepner, Jeffrey Heyne, Adriene Hughes, Michael Jantzen, Ellen Jantzen, Sarah Knobel, Patrick McPheron, Avital Oehler, Jamey Stillings and Melanie Walker.
ARTIST TALK: June 14 from 6-7pm, Conjured Futures Photographers Jamey Stillings, Ellen Jantzen & Michael Jantzen will be discussing their work presented in the projection.
For more information on PhotoSummer Events, contact Whitney Wernick at:
whitney@visitcenter.org
505-984-8353
Image credit: top: ©JAMEY STILLINGS middle: ©JEFFREY HEYNE bottom: ©MICHAEL JANTZEN