Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, "Critical Geography", reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space, Critical Geography explores how space, place, and communities are influenced […]

Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, "Critical Geography", reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space, Critical Geography explores how space, place, and communities are influenced […]

Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, "Critical Geography", reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space, Critical Geography explores how space, place, and communities are influenced […]

FotoFest Opening Reception and La Mecha Performance

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on Saturday, October 5, from 2 to 4 PM for the daytime reception of FotoFest's autumn exhibition, "Artist-run, Artist-organized," featuring a performance by Marissa Baez, from 3 to 4 PM. Meet the artists, enjoy refreshments, and see art spanning photography, video, and installation. "Artist-run, Artist-organized" comprises three discrete exhibitions by Texas-based artist groups […]

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Theater of War

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

Theater of war opens Saturday, October 5, 2024 from 2-4pm at Fotofest in collaboration with "Artist-Run, Artist Organized." Inspired by my visits with the Santa Fe Ten Memorial Foundation and artist Eiko Otake’s ten-year project, “A Body in Fukushima, I recently created “Theater of War,” my first three-channel video and series of performance stills from […]

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Creating Art with AI: A Hands-On Experience Workshop with Omnigenesis

Sawyer Yards 2101 Winter St , Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on Saturday, October 12, from 1 to 4 PM for Creating Art with AI: A Hands-on Experience, an exciting interactive workshop led by Christopher Meerdo, an Omnigenesis Collective artist and the exhibition organizer of Apeirophobia. Meerdo will guide participants in creating a projected mural through outpainting, a process of creating imagery beyond an […]

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AI in the Arts: Redefining Creativity with Omnigenesis

Sawyer Yards 2101 Winter St , Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on Saturday, October 12, from 5 to 6 PM for AI in the Arts: Redefining Creativity, a panel discussion featuring artists from the Texas-based Omnigenesis Collective's exhibition, Apeirophobia. This program begins following an interactive outpainting workshop from 1 to 4 PM. Featuring experts in artificial intelligence (AI), the discussion will delve into AI's […]

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Buffalo Bayou Boat Tour with Throughline

Buffalo Bayou Park - The Water Works 105 Sabine St, Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on Thursday, October 17, from 2 to 3:30 PM for an educational boat ride down Houston's Buffalo Bayou with Throughline Collective in collaboration with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. The tour illuminates Houston's unique ecology and stewardship potential. Artists from Throughline Collective's Troubling the Boundaries exhibition—Margaux Crump, Jake Eshelman, and Molly Koehn—will discuss how […]

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Artist Talk and Tour with Throughline

Sawyer Yards 2101 Winter St , Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on Saturday, October 19, from 2 to 3 PM for a moderated panel discussion exploring constructed spaces, identities, and residual histories through performance and photography. Artists from Throughline Collective's Troubling the Boundaries exhibition—Beatriz Bellorin, Luisa Durate, Jake Eshelmen, Angela Chen, JR Roykovich, and Sarah Sudhoff—expand on their artistic practices as they relate to […]

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American Lattice – Walkthrough

Sawyer Yards 2101 Winter St , Houston, TX, United States

Join Carolina Borja for a brief walkthrough of American Lattice, and continue exploring FotoFest's "Artist-run, artist-organized", meet more participating artists, and enjoy Family Day programming from 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm. American Lattice, explores the human process of adapting to a new city. Migration has been a defining aspect of human history, and this piece highlights […]

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FotoFest Family Day

FotoFest at Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C, Suite 2), Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on Saturday, November 9, from 1 to 3 PM for Family Day, a fun, educational, and hands-on program! In conjunction with its exhibition, Artist-run, Artist-organized, Family Day presents three unique activities for adults and kids: painting with spices, photography walks, and Spot the AI minigame. Self-portrait with Spices Inspired by La Mecha Contemporary […]

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Cooking Performance and Tour with La Mecha

Sawyer Yards 2101 Winter St , Houston, TX, United States

Join FotoFest on November 16, from 12:30 to 3 PM, for a cooking performance and tour by Yashoda Latkar. During the 12:30 to 1:30 PM performance, Latkar will infuse the space with the aromatic scents of spices while engaging visitors through communal cooking activities, fostering cultural exchange, and evoking a sense of nostalgia and connection […]

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