Arts & Culture

Contemporary Photographer Nate Larson to Lecture at UK

 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 12, 2014) –  Photographer Nate Larson, known for his work matching GPS coordinates and photography to tweets, will present a free public lecture 4 p.m. today (Friday), Sept. 12, at Wallace N. Briggs Theatre, located in room 127 of the University of Kentucky Fine Arts Building.

A professor of photography at Maryland Institute College of Art, Larson is a contemporary artist working with photographic media, artist books and digital video. His projects have been widely shown across the U.S. and internationally, as well as featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including Wired Raw File, "The Picture Show from NPR," Hyperallergic, Gizmodo, Vice Magazine, the New York Times Lens Blog, Utne Reader, Hotshoe Magazine, Flavorwire, the BBC News "Viewfinder," Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, Marketplace Tech Report, The Washington Post and Art Papers. Larson's artwork is included in the collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago.

Larson's recent project "Geolocation" in collaboration with Marni Shindelman, tracks GPS coordinates associated with Twitter tweets and pairs the text with a photograph of the originating site to mark the virtual information in the real world. New site-specific work from the series was completed for Third Space Gallery in New Brunswick, the Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts in California, and the Format International Photography Festival in the United Kingdom. The pair were artists-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in June 2013. "Geolocation" is featured in the “State of the Art” survey exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art this fall.

Larson's lecture is presented by the UK School of Art and Visual Studies at the UK College of Fine Arts. The school is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the fields of art studioart history and visual studies, and art education.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu