2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Stephanie Dowda DeMer: Zen Cohen, Sammie Correa, Elizabeth McGrady
Thursday, March 19 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Georgia 7
The photographic lens allows humans to peer into the unseen with urgency and exactness. Imaging technologies like x-rays, astro photography, microscopic, inferred, film alchemy, and magic lanterns has been allowing us to make the metaphysical physical for nearly two hundred years. As cameraless practice takes on new meaning with virtual and AI, images are morphed again by a new unseeable impulse. With particular focus on speculative, experimental, and mysterious studio practices that propel artists' research, This session intends to embody a nontraditional conference format so participants can enact visual ephemeral happenings. Led by artists Zen Cohen and Stephanie Dowda DeMer, whose research practices delve into questions about sentience, consciousness, materiality, and transcendence through lens-based and time-based mediums.
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