Artist Talk — Todd R. Forsgren

Episode Summary

Photographer and prolific bookmaker Todd Forsgren animates how observation and data collection influences our understanding and perception. In exhibition and book form, he offers us a journey of discovery with a focused aim—shifting paradigms.

In this conversation, Todd discusses, among other things:

  • Working in archives

  • Thinking in books

  • Approaches to appropriation

  • Running amok

  • Parameters for sequencing 

  • Perceived opposites

  • Light leaks

  • Colliding technologies

  • Data corruption

  • Observation & measurement

  • Falsehoods & mystery

Artist Resources/Inspiration

Discovering Peary Land by Todd Forsgren

Phase Faze 2001/2021

Driving Into the Sunset

A Constant Wind Between a Breeze and a Gale

Old Pictures from Paradise

Untitled Re:Iterations Photographs from 2000-2014

Ornithological Photographs

Daylight Books

Pavel Banka

John McKee

Michael Kolster

S. Billie Mandle

Jenny Riffle

Rocky Mountain College

Ryniker-Morrison Gallery

Michael N. Meyer: SpectacleBox 

AgX Arts

Atlantika Collective

f/4.5 Collective

Okkervil River Band


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