POSTPONED: CCP Spring Lecture Series: What is Truly Seen in all of This?: Self, Self-Portraits, Selfies

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Photography moves nimbly across the spectrum of lived experience. So much of how we identify—our physical appearance, social connections, surrounding environment, political affiliations, familial relationships—is communicated through a photograph. As it rapidly becomes astoundingly ubiquitous, photography attends to the popular need to see, to stabilize, and to make sense of our selves and one another. This need can power photographs to deliver radical, unexpected ways of being and thinking. Paradoxically, the same need can flatten the complexity of our stories and our selves. How do we avoid becoming lost in a sea of our own images?

The CCP’s Spring Lecture Series will bring together artists and scholars for an extended conversation on the way in which photography is entangled with the human self. How has photography shaped self-perception? Can visual representations be attentive to the flux and infiniteness of our shifting identities? How do photographs participate as a meaning-making enterprise, and do visibility, and hyper-visibility, reveal or conceal our self? What roles do self-portraits and selfies play in a global, contemporary society?

This multi-part series will run on the following dates:

• March 19 with Lev Manovich- POSTPONED
• March 26 with Sama Alshaibi and Deb Willis- POSTPONED
• April 9 with Sybil Venegas- POSTPONED
• April 17 with Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie- POSTPONED