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Events and Lectures in November

Digital Imaging Workshop with Matt Siber

November 4, 2006

MEMBERS ONLY EVENT!
When: Saturday, 9:30am – 2pm
Where: MoCP, 600 S. Michigan Ave.
Workshop fee: $35.00

Learn the basics of digital imaging in Columbia College’s state-of-the-art facilities from acclaimed photographer Matt Siber, a permanent collection artist at MoCP. This workshop will begin at the museum, where we will look at computer-generated images from the museum’s collection, and then move to the photography department to learn basic photoshop, manipulation, and image correction skills. Bring a favorite photograph to scan, or images stored on CD or in your digital camera to reproduce. This workshop is for members only. Call us 312.344.7794 for more information on the benefits of membership at MoCP, or to register today!

LECTURE: Alec Soth

November 16, 2006

When: Thursday, 6:30pm
Where: Ferguson Theatre, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Lectures in Photography
Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago

Alec Soth’s recent series, Niagara, both reinforces and undermines modern myths surrounding romance focusing on true love, sexuality and the promise of “happily ever after.” For his previous body of work, Sleeping by the Mississippi, held in MoCP’s permanent collection, Soth documented disparate scenes and people he discovered during meandering journeys along the Mississippi River.

FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION: Coco Fusco's Operation Atropos

November 18, 2006

When: Saturday, 7pm
Where: Ferguson Theatre, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Operation Atropos explores a particular shift in the role of women in the era of global warfare. In July 2005, multimedia artist Coco Fusco took a course led by former US military interrogators designed for civilians who want to learn techniques for extracting information. She took a group of six women with her and filmed the workshop, which involved an immersive simulation of being prisoners of war: they were ambushed, captured, stripped searched, thrown in the pen and subject to several interrogations. Afterwards, the participants were taught how to inflict on others what had been done to them. Fusco will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience. Arrive early and view the exhibitions An-My Lê: Small Wars and 29 Palms and War Fare. The museum will extend its hours until 9:00 pm.

BOOK RELEASE PARTY: Richard Nickel’s Chicago

November 30, 2006

When: Thursday, 5-7 pm
Where: MoCp, 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Richard Nickel is remembered for his brave and lonely stand to protect Chicago’s great architecture and for his dramatic death in 1972 in the rubble of the Stock Exchange Building. Trained under Aaron Siskind at Chicago’s Institute of Design, Nickel is also remembered for his photographs. Richard Nickel’s Chicago, by Richard Cahan, author of the critically acclaimed Nickel biography They All Fall Down (1995), and Michael Williams, features more than two hundred never-before-seen photographs of Nickel’s Chicago. Cahan and Williams will sign books and give a brief talk about Nickel’s life and work.