Dear Tyler Photo Students,
We are in the process of interviewing candidate finalists for a full time tenure track position in the Photography program which has an emphasis on video and audio. There will be several opportunities for you to meet or interact with each candidate.
First, each candidate will be sharing their own creative work. We have also asked them to devote a small portion of their presentation to include their thoughts on possible future directions of lens/time based media in general.
Second, there will be a forum for the candidates to critique the work of one pre-selected undergraduate and graduate student. This will be open for observation.
Last, we’ve scheduled a more informal social event that’s modeled after the idea of a virtual lunch or an evening dinner though the timing doesn’t always work out well for either dining time, and the candidates aren’t expected to eat on camera!. This is a perfect occasion to meet the candidate in an informal situation.
I hope that you can attend any and all sessions that you can fit within your schedule. You will be able to provide feedback at the end of each session, or you can simply provide an overall reflection for a candidate if that is easier.
Please see the list below for the candidate’s names, dates, and zoom links. Their biographies are included at the end of this note. We hope to see many of you there, and the search committee is eager to gather your feedback and insights.
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Joyce Yu-Jean Lee - Monday, April 5
11:00 - 11:45 student critique session (open to attendance)
An open forum for the candidate to review the work on one preselected undergrad and one grad student
temple.zoom.us/j/98380651638
1:00 - 1:50 public presentation
temple.zoom.us/j/98380651638
2:00 - 2:40 virtual lunch with photo program students, faculty, and staff
temple.zoom.us/j/98380651638
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Johannes DeYoung - Wednesday, April 7
11:00 - 11:45 student critique session (open to attendance)
An open forum for the candidate to review the work on one preselected undergrad and one grad student
temple.zoom.us/j/92603786479
1:00 - 1:50 public presentation
temple.zoom.us/j/92603786479
2:00 - 2:40 virtual lunch with photo program students, faculty, and staff
temple.zoom.us/j/92603786479
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Alexandra Strada - Friday, April 9
9:00 - 9:45 student critique session (open to attendance)
An open forum for the candidate to review the work on one preselected undergrad and one grad student
temple.zoom.us/j/99561134322
11:00 - 11:50 public presentation
temple.zoom.us/j/99561134322
12:00 - 12:40 virtual lunch with photo program students, faculty, and staff
temple.zoom.us/j/99561134322
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Lindsey White - Monday, April 12
10:00 - 10:50 public presentation
temple.zoom.us/j/99291847140
11:00 - 11:40 virtual lunch with photo program students, faculty, and staff
temple.zoom.us/j/99291847140
3:00 - 3:45 student critique session (open to attendance)
An open forum for the candidate to review the work on one preselected undergrad and one grad student
temple.zoom.us/j/99291847140
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On behalf of the full search committee,
Byron
Mark Thomas Gibson
Dr. Erin Pauwels
Dermot Mac Cormack
Candidate Biographies
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee is a visual artist working with video, digital photography, and interactive installation that combine social practice with institutional critique. Curious about how the act of seeing is transformed by technology, her artwork examines how mass media and visual culture shape notions of truth and understanding of the “other.” Her project about Internet censorship, FIREWALL, garnered backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016 and has exhibited at Lincoln Center in New York City, the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway, the Hong Kong Center for Community Cultural Development – Green Wave Art, and the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) in Vienna.
Joyce’s artwork has been written about in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hong Kong Free Press, China Digital Times, Apple Daily Taiwan, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, and been featured by James Coomarasamy on BBC Radio. She is a recipient of grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Arts Mid-Hudson, Asian Women Giving Circle; Franklin Furnace Fund; Maryland State Arts Council; and The Walters Art Museum; fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation; the C. Sylvia and Eddie C. Brown Studio at Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower; and Hamiltonian Artists.
She is an Assistant Professor of Art & Digital Media at Marist College and previously taught at Fashion Institute of Technology, Maryland Institute College of Art, Corcoran College of Art + Design, New Jersey City University and worked at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Johannes DeYoung
Johannes DeYoung is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. DeYoung’s work has been exhibited at the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany; Crush Curatorial, Robert Miller Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Eyebeam, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY; the Images Festival at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland; and Hell Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal.
DeYoung is co-founder of the periodic web journal Lookie-Lookie. He has served on the New Foundations Board of Study for time-based media at Purchase College, State University of New York; the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Contemporary Art Council; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as Digital Literacy Consultant. DeYoung is appointed Assistant Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught animation and moving-image courses at Yale University School of Art, where he was appointed Senior Critic and Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design. At Yale, he also served as Principal Investigator for the Blended Reality program in immersive media research. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006.
Alexandra Strada
Alex Strada (she/hers) is an artist and educator based in New York City. Her practice spans film/video, photography, performance, installation, sound, text, and public works. Collaboration and transdisciplinary engagement are central to her projects. She has shown her work internationally while prioritizing public and accessible spaces including the Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY; Museum of Moving Image, NY; Anthology Film Archives, NY; UnionDocs, NY; Goethe-Institut, NY; MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania; and the screens of Times Square with Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment. Her projects have been written about in The New Yorker, Artsy, BOMB, Vice, and in legal journals. She is the recipient of the NYFA Women's Fund for Media Artists, NYSCA Grant for Film, and the Rema Hort Mann Community Engagement Grant. Strada has a B.A. from Bates College, an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University and she was a studio participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has taught at the Cooper Union, Fordham University, Columbia University, and in public schools throughout NYC with Studio in a School. Currently, she is a 2021–22 Year of Uncertainty Artist-in-Residence at the Queens Museum and an Assistant Professor in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Lindsey White
Lindsey White is an artist and educator. She has exhibited at venues such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen; Bolinas Museum, California; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; ACME., Los Angeles; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Oregon; San Francisco International Airport Museum; and Museum Bärengasse, Zurich. White was recently awarded SFMOMA's 2017 SECA Award and residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley. Her work was recently featured in Photography Is Magic by Charlotte Cotton. White is also a co-founder of the para-curatorial experiment Will Brown, which has realized projects with institutions such as U.C. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; di Rosa, Napa; Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University; and KADIST, San Francisco. She is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.