Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo » Publications

Book Launch: Of and In Cities

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:44:41 +0000

Please join me on Wednesday, May 26, for the launch of my new book Of and In Cities

BOOK LAUNCH
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
6:30-8:00 p.m.

Parsons The New School for Design
2 W. 13th St. Ground Floor
Orientation Room (behind the bark wall)

Book: Cross Urban

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:22:34 +0000

I am thrilled to present to you a book of my ongoing collaboration with artist Klaus Fruchtnis. “Cross Urban” compiles over two years of our project under the same name, with over 50 images and text. The essay in the book, “Visual Play” was written by Estefania Sokoloff.

Click on this screenshot to see a preview online and have the option of purchasing it.

Artist Statement revamped

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:30 +0000

I am a believer in artist statements. How can we accept urinals as artwork unless the artist is able to talk about their intentions and context?

For a book that I am self-publishing, I finally got around to writing an extended artist statement – referenced and all!

It’s to the left, under About, or you can just click here. Let me know what you think!

Paper at FILE 2009 in Sao Paulo

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:38:07 +0000

I’m thrilled to be traveling to Sao Paulo to present my paper “Layered Photography: A Case for Still Images as “Time-based” Media” at the 2009 Electronic Language International Festival. Below is the abstract for this paper – the first I have written that presents an argument explored through three of my artworks – my works in light boxes, Pompidou from Above, 6 Seconds, and outsideIn. Please contact me if you would like to read the full paper – I’ll be happy to share it!

Abstract

Analyses on film and photography often characterize the photograph as a still image and film as a sequence of images (Campany 2007). Writings on “media arts” tend to focus on artwork often referred to as “time-based”, such as video, performance, installation, software art, net art, and combinations of these. The focus on photography as a medium centered on pausing time has removed it from the field of “media arts”, both in terms of its general practice and theoretical analysis.

As a practice-based researcher and digital artist I challenge this notion, engaging with photography as a time-based medium and creating work that I believe should be situated more in the realm of media arts than the more traditional label of photography. I use the production of my artworks as an opportunity to challenge and redefine existing media with an ongoing interest in space and time – how each can be captured, represented, and redefined. In this paper I specifically discuss the principal techniques I incorporate into my photography-based work, such as pairing and layering (digitally and physically), pushing it far away from the realm of the “still image”.

This paper presents a variety of theories around photography, still images, and cinema to argue that much of what is done in digital photography today relates less to the classic definitions of that medium and more to our understanding of media arts. The work of contemporary artists such as Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall and David Hockney offer a framework for three of my own artworks which, through physical and digital layering and pairing, exist more as time-based media that incorporate photography as a vehicle for the production of images, and less as “time-fossils” (Orlow 1999).

Launch & Screening: Boston Cyberarts Festival

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:46:26 +0000

Excerpts from my audiovisual work Voicemail Diaries was selected for Astrodime Transit Authority’s most recent video journal, INtransit V.5, “Can You Hear Me Now.” The journal will be launched and screened as part of ATA’s installation of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford St
Lowell, MA 01851

Screening: Sat, May 9, 4pm (Sadly I will not be able to attend)

Rhizome 50K page

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:36:20 +0000

It reads “esto no es media art” (this is not media art) and it links to my blog entry about starting to create a community around spanish-speaking media artists.

(Don’t you love that image? I hear that animated gifs are the new black)

Blogging about Design & Development

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:19:03 +0000

My work with CARE and Ajkem’a Loy’a in Guatemala has gotten me interested in how design can be used as a vehicle to promote social and economic development. Several months ago I started a blog, “Designing Development” to write about these interests, and document projects that are doing similar work. Please send me a comment if you know of exciting similar ventures that I should be aware of!

Best Paper award

Cynthia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:40:35 +0000

I just learned that my paper “The New School, CARE & Ajkem’a Loy’a: A case study in learning in intensive and immersive global programs and in cross-cultural and bilingual collaborative work” presented at GLIDE ‘08 was selected by conference attendees as the best paper of the conference.

Quite a nice boost to start off another busy week of writing, making, and teaching!

This is the abstract (full paper is available upon request): This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities, and suggests best practices in collaborations across year-levels, programs and divisions of a university; in external partnerships between a university and a large non-profit organization; in teaching and learning in intensive and immersive global programs; and in cross-cultural and bilingual collaborative work.

During the month of June 2008, 14 students, 2 faculty, and 1 project coordinator from The New School (TNS) lived and worked in the small lake-side village of San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala, to collaborate with a group of Mayan artisan women, Ajkem’a Loy’a (AL.) The students and faculty represent a broad range of undergraduate and graduate academic programs at a university in the United States, and were investigating if and how the Guatemalan women could organize themselves and structure a business to create a sustainable form of generating income via the sale of their artisan goods in local and global markets.

KEYWORDS
Design education, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary learning, collaborative learning, multicultural, multilingual, humanitarian design, economic development

A conference at which I won’t see anyone

Cynthia — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:34:05 +0000

Tomorrow I will be presenting my paper “The New School, CARE & Ajkem’a Loy’a: A case study in learning in intensive and immersive global programs and in cross-cultural and bilingual collaborative work” at the GLIDE ‘08 (Global Interaction in Design Education) conference. However, I will not travel further than my desk and I will not see any faces other than their bio headshots on a wiki.

I will have actively participated in an academic conference, delivering a 30-minute presentation about my paper that was double peer-reviewed, and all of this, without increasing my carbon footprint. That is precisely the premise of GLIDE ‘08 – how can we create more sustainable academic exchanges?

This conference won’t have such advanced technologies as others propose but I am certainly looking forward to the experiment. All participants logged into an Adobe Connect conferenc room and phoned into a conference call, with all watching PowerPoint slides change as the presenter delivers the paper.

The biggest loss – the chance encounters that happen at the coffee and cookie table during the break!