2020 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Alicia Chester

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 11:00am, Galleria III&IV

"The Future is Past: Identity and Photography Through Time"

Alicia Chester is an artist, writer, and PhD candidate in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. Currently she holds a fellowship at the George Eastman Museum. She completed a BFA and MA... read more

Kimber Chewning

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 11:00am, Galleria III&IV

"The Future is Past: Identity and Photography Through Time"

Kimber Chewning is a PhD Candidate specializing in photohistory and contemporary art at Boston University. She researches the ambiguities between selfhood and artistic "work" and how this is visually documented. She has worked for the... read more

Elizabeth Claffey

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Galleria III&IV

DIALOGIC: Women, Humor, Empathy and Representation

Elizabeth Claffey is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, a 2019-20 Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and a 2012-13 Fulbright Fellow. Her work focuses on the way... read more

Rachel Cox

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Plaza I

"Modus Operandi: Approaches to Contemporary Research-Based Practice"

Rachel Cox has exhibited her work broadly having recently been included in exhibitions at The Belfast International Photography Festival, Photo London, Foto Mexico, and the Mumbai Photography Festival. Her work has been published in TIME,... read more

Marcus DeSieno

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 9:00am, Galleria I&II

DIALOGIC: Machine Vision

Marcus DeSieno is a Washington-based visual artist interested in how the advancement of visual technology continually changes and mediates our understanding of the world. DeSieno is Assistant Professor of Photography at Central Washington University in... read more

Robert Dickes

Thursday, March 05, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Plaza I

"Expanding Professional Practices in Photography"

Rob Dickes, assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana, is creating a program that combines fine art, design, and photography. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums nationally and internationally and... read more

Dornith Doherty

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Plaza I

"Modus Operandi: Approaches to Contemporary Research-Based Practice"

Dornith Doherty's creative research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Japan Foundation, among others. She received a B.A. cum laude from Rice University and an MFA from Yale University.... read more

Beth Dow

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 9:00am, Galleria III&IV

DIALOGIC: 21st C Family

Beth Dow's work examines ways we shape our environments, the material nature of photography, and how we use photography to mediate experience. She has exhibited widely, and Prediction Error was recently featured at the Minneapolis... read more

Zackary Drucker

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 5:30pm, Galleria Ballroom

Evening Guest Speaker Zackary Drucker

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and... read more

Diane Durant

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 9:00am, Galleria III&IV

DIALOGIC: 21st C Family

Diane Durant is Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of the Comer Collection of Photography at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a member of the LGBTQ Caucus Leadership Team and Chair of... read more

Leah Dyjak

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 9:00am, Galleria III&IV

DIALOGIC: Reinventing Representation

LEAH DYJAK is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines performance, labor, film, and photography to explore how generations of human use affect the ecologies of place. Dyjak received their MFA from the University of Texas... read more

Odette England

Thursday, March 05, 2020 @ 2:00pm, Galleria I&II

"Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph"

Odette England's photographs have shown in over 90 exhibitions. Venues include George Eastman House, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the New Mexico Museum of Art. England's first edited volume Keeper of the Hearth launches Spring... read more