AHA! artTALKS: The Ever-Shifting Landscape

Name: AHA! artTALKS: The Ever-Shifting Landscape
Start: 2025-02-13T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02740

Schedule

Thu, 13 Feb, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02740 | New Bedford, MA

In conjunction with the Arctic Voices and Nebulae: The Universe Unveiled exhibitions, the Art Museum is pleased to host an insightful public lecture titled: 1839 to Now, Photography, Technology and the Fine Arts: The Ever-Shifting Landscape.
Using the photographs from William Bradford's seminal 1869 monograph "The Arctic Regions" as a starting point, and bringing the discussion up to the present day with captures from the Hubble telescope, Philadelphia artist RA Friedman will discuss photography's changing relationship between science and the humanities; its ability to document versus its aesthetic possibilities. The talk will examine how the evolution of technology has influenced both the products of visual art as well its creation. It will look at how shifts in culture and society have impacted how photography is perceived, guiding a dialogue on the future of the art form.
About the lecturer, RA Friedman:
RA is an artist in Philadelphia whose work includes drawing, analog technologies and photography’s relationship to the fine arts. His work has been shown at The New Bedford Museum as well as around the US. His most recent project, The Covid-19 Portrait Project used internet images, often of low-resolution, to create hand-drawn memorial portraits.