2024 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

J. Molina

Thursday, March 21, 2024 @ 2:30pm, Majestic A

Becoming Sticky: Central American Image-Makers and Equatorial Vision

J. Molina-Garcia (they/them) is a Salvadoran-American media artist, writer, and educator.

A citizen of the Global South and an American Dreamer, J's work draws on the politics of immigration, philosophies of madness, and... read more

Lorena Molina

Thursday, March 21, 2024 @ 2:30pm, Majestic A

Becoming Sticky: Central American Image-Makers and Equatorial Vision

Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston. She's also the founder and the director of Third Space... read more

Desiree Moore

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 10:00am, Majestic A

Looking Beyond the Digital Archive through New Media Translations

Desireé Moore is a time-based artist who hybridizes film modes and media technologies. Her practice is collection/archive-driven and emphasizes themes of female subjectivity and loss in the 21st Century. Moore's work has been supported by... read more

Allen Morris

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 12:30pm, Westmoreland

Photography in Three Dimensions: Capturing The Silent Sentinels

Allen Morris is a photographic artist based in South Dakota. He is an Assistant Professor at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota where he teaches classes in the Department of Art and Department... read more

Judy Natal

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 7:30pm, Majestic C

The Weather Diaries

Judy Natal is a photographic artist, curator, and writer. Her still/moving images have been exhibited internationally and her work is held in permanent collections. She has received numerous commissions, artist residencies and Fellowships. The Center... read more

William Nieberding

Thursday, March 21, 2024 @ 10:00am, Majestic C

Big cameras, smart kids, and smelly chemicals: mixing chemistry and tintype photography in a high-school STEM lab.

Dr. Nieberding is an associate professor of Art Education at Stephen F. Austin State University. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in photography and art education. Nieberding holds a Ph.D. in Art Education... read more

Robin North

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 10:30am, Majestic DE

Visualizing Resistance Decolonized Aesthetics and Subverting Dominant Narratives

Robin North explores the intersection of photography and African diasporic history and how photography historically denied black representation and examines the impact of slavery and racism. North delves into family archives, uncovering the legacy of... read more

Heather M. O'Brien Takahashi

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 11:00am, Kingsbury

like the delayed rays of a star: Reframing the gaze in Beirut, Lebanon

Heather M. O'Brien - Takahashi is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and Assistant Professor of Cinema & Interdisciplinary Media at Southern Illinois University. She received an MFA from CalArts and a Director's Fellowship from the Creative... read more

Alice Proujansky

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 3:30pm, Majestic C

Looking Together: An Educator Workshop

Alice Proujansky is a photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity.

Her book, "Hard Times are Fighting Times," available from Gnomic Book, is a project about the legacy of radical activism... read more

Kristin Reeves

Thursday, March 21, 2024 @ 2:30pm, Pershing

16mm Film Tic-Tac-Toe: Let's play a game of performance, collaboration, & light!

Kristin Reeves is an artist who makes experimental films, stages live expanded cinema events and exhibits lens-based images. She is interested in the historical use of media to stand in for our physical bodies. Her... read more

Marcia Reifman

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 12:00pm, Majestic C

The Heat of Life in a Handful of Dust

My story
On September 20, 2013, I was diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma. Although I knew something was wrong, doctors repeatedly told me not to worry - for 5 years. The last "specialist"... read more

Anshul Roy

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 12:30pm, Westmoreland

Rage Against the Archive: Fighting NYPL with New Media Art

Anshul Roy is a visual artist from Ahmedabad, India, pursuing his MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University. His creative practice is inspired by Postcolonial discourses, exploring issues like identity, memory and cultural representation, with... read more