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creativetimereports:

CREATIVE TIME REPORTS WANTS YOU!

OPEN CALL for IMAGE SUBMISSIONS on REVOLUTIONS

Creative Time Reports (CTR) seeks artists of all disciplines (poets, filmmakers, writers, photographers, visual artists, performers and musicians) to submit a single image that addresses issues related to revolutions for our January theme on the site.

The image should be accompanied with a descriptive caption. All submissions must be sent via email to editorial@creativetime.org and include the following: 

• Your name, email, phone, and any related website address
• Foreign language descriptions are welcome, provided an English translation is included
• Subject lines for all emails should include your name and the words: “Creative Time Reports Open Call Submission.”

NOTE: While we always accept submissions, this is a specific call for an image addressing the theme of revolution. Deadline: January 5, 2013 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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jesuisperdu:

trevor paglen

This photograph depicts a classified “listening station” deep in the forests of West Virginia. The station is located at the center of the “National Radio Quiet Zone,” a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometres in West Virginia and parts of Maryland. Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.

The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called “moonbounce.” Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.

The photograph is a long exposure under the full moon light.

they watch the moon

C-print, 36 x 48 inches, 2010

queercontemporaryart:

Zanele Muholi

(left) Zanele Muholo being interviewed for the Casa Africa TV channel
(right) Apinda Mpako and Ayanda Magudulela, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2007

“There’s a common rhetoric that says homosexuality is un-African,” said Graeme Reid, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. “Some people say it’s a Western import. Her work shows that to be a completely false assumption. It goes against the idea that homosexuality is somehow un-African.” - NY Times

If you haven’t taken a look at The Last Pictures, Trevor Paglen’s forthcoming project with Creative Time, click here.

sfmoma:

What do places that aren’t supposed to exist look like?

In this video, photographer Trevor Paglen talks about capturing “black sites” — places that intelligence agencies and the military claim do not exist.

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From photographer Angelica Dass’s (Rio de Janeiro, 1979) project, Humanae. The following is from the “About tab of the project Tumblr:

Humanae is a chromatic inventory, a project that reflects on the colors beyond the borders of our codes by referencing the PANTONE® color scheme.

…based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed with the exact Pantone® tone extracted from a sample of 11x11 pixels of the portrayed’s face. The project’s objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones.

http://humanae.tumblr.com/

greatleapsideways:

Another interesting take on photography from Trevor Paglen, whose writing and photography tests consensual conceptions of what photography, landscape and geography comprise, and how they can be made meaningful. (via SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Multimedia | Video | Trevor Paglen on the Yosemite tradition)