J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Tabitha Soren
Episode #38, Summary
Episode Summary
Tabitha Soren’s visual alchemy explores the dynamic and reciprocal impact between human touch and technology.
Episode Notes
Using an 8x10 large format camera, an iPad, images sourced from internet searches, social media and text messages, Surface Tension animates our layered relationship with technology. In thirty six high gloss images she reveals, reflects and ponders the complex layers between real life and our virtual one.
In this conversation, Tabitha discusses, among other things:
Creating images that have not been seen before
Researching ideas as entry points to build context
Experimenting to find the tools that meet the job
Visualizing the unseen impact of technology on psychological states
Layering intentions
Best practices when using appropriated images
Thinking of a book and exhibit simultaneously
Viewers keen reading of your image
Social critic Jia Tolentino’s insightful book essay
Uncertainty as a place of hope
Publishers who honor your intention
Referenced in the episode
E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops
Alexis L. Boylan - Visual Culture
Surgeon general warns misinformation an ‘urgent threat’ to public health
Annie Murphy Paul - The Extended Mind
Nicholas Mirzoeff - The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
Allen deSouza - How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change
Tabitha Soren's Fantasy Life is an Intimate Portrait of Baseball
Yoffy Press - TRACE; a Yoffy Press Triptych featuring Kota Ezawa, Tabitha Soren and Penelope Umbrico