Events and Lectures in November

In her second book, Tooth for an Eye: A Choreography of Violence in Orleans Parish, Deborah Luster creates a complex portrait of the city of New Orleans in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites that evoke loss and remembrance. This event is presented in conjunction with the Columbia College Photography Departmentâ??s Lectures in Photography series.

Thursday, 6pm @ Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan, 1st floor

Writer Luc Sante will discuss evidence photographs and the power of the empty picture, presenting a collection of nearly 100 unpublished New York Police Department photographs from the 1930s. Since 1984, Sante has written on the subjects of film, art, photography, and a variety of cultural phenomena. Among his numerous awards,
Sante received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; a Literature Award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters); a Grammy for album notes; and an Infinity
Award for writing from the International Center of Photography. His books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991); Evidence (1992); Walker Evans (2001); and Folk Photography (2009). He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Tuesday, November 15, 6pm @ Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, room 109

The Evidence Show(s) is a one-night public screening of video work in conjunction with Crime Unseen. The artists featured in this program consider the potential for everyday objects, ordinary surroundings and average people to become evidence of something beyond the familiar.

Featuring: Steve Matheson, Semi-Conductor, Jessie Stead, Michael Bell-Smith, Noah Klersfeld, Steve Reinke and Jacob Ciocci

About the Curator
Jesse Mclean is a Chicago-based artist. She received her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has presented her work at Interstate Projects, Transmediale, 25 FPS Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Venice Film Festival, Conversations at the Edge, Impakt, CPH:DOX, Kassel Doc FF, NEXT, Art Chicago and PPOW Gallery. She was the winner of the Overkill Award at the 2011 Images Festival and the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at UIC.

Wednesday, doors at 5:30 p.m., screening from 6 to 9 pm @ MoCP