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
A Constant Wind Between a Breeze and a Gale
Untitled Re:Iterations Photographs from 2000-2014