Artist Talk: Penelope Umbrico
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 @ 5:30pm
UBC Life Building, Room 2201
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T1Z1, Canada
This event is co-hosted by the Media Studies Program and the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
Award-winning artist Penelope Umbrico will talk about her multi-disciplinary photo-based works that explore the ever-changing technologies of image making and the ever-increasing production and consumption of images on the web. Umbrico will talk about her multi-disciplinary photo-based works that explore the ever-changing technologies of image making and the ever-increasing production and consumption of images on the web. She repurposes and re-cast these images, putting them to work to question what they mean, why they are shared, where the investment is, and what this points to. Employing methods of appropriation, extraction, installation and intervention, she utilizes search engines, web platforms, common software applications, and imaging technologies to focuses on screen space, light, and electronic signal, in relation to the material detritus of technology. Her work navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, the individual and the collective, with attention to the technologies that are produced by, and produce, these forces.
Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer-to-consumer websites as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Her work navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, the individual and the collective, with attention to the technologies that are produced by (and produce) these forces. Umbrico’s work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Art Museum Gosta, Finland; Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; among many others, and is represented in museum collections around the world. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Grant; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; New York Foundation of the,Arts Fellowship; Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris.
A reception with food will follow. This event is free, please RSVP at https://mediastudies.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/penelope-umbrico-artist-talk/
