About this Event
Photography has always been troubled by its own expansion. From its inception, what it does and whether someone is doing it has been debated. It launched out of science experiments and landed in the field of art. Each new camera, lens, or product, from the daguerreotype to the Polaroid to the digital file, has renewed confusion and uncertainty about what the medium is, does, preserves, constructs, witnesses, and deteriorates. To what degree does a conversation about photography today devolve into the problems of “AI,” and does “AI” need photography as a practice to define its lineage?
Writing in The Brooklyn Rail, visual culture scholar and art critic Charlotte Kent traces these ambiguities to ask whether photography is the only appropriate lens to view this slippery emergent technology. Danielle Ezzo, an artist and writer whose practice is built within the territory that Kent theorizes, speaks to the embodied experience of straddling two media that are constantly connected yet often in conflict. Together, their live conversation will move between the historical and the material, the theoretical and the embodied to bring the paradigm shift into clearer focus.
Danielle Ezzo is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her artwork is held in the collections and libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Cornell University, and her writing on photographic practices and technology has been published in The New Inquiry, Spike, Magnum Photos, and The British Journal of Photography, among others.
Charlotte Kent, PhD. is an arts writer and Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University. As an Editor-at-Large for The Brooklyn Rail, she launched the monthly column on Art & Technology. She is co-author and editor of multiple books, most recently Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration (Hatje Cantz, 2026), Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies (Vetro, 2026), Midnight Moment: A Decade of Art in Times Square (Phaidon, 2025), contributing to Alejandro Cartegena: Ground Rules (Aperture, 2025) among other scholarly texts and art catalogs.
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