Creative Conversations: Ines Schaber with Adam Webb-Orenstein
September 26, 2022
Whitehall Houston Hotel, 2nd Floor
1700 Smith St., Houston, TX 77002
Berlin-based artist Ines Schaber will present a lecture focused on her ongoing project Notes on Archives, held in conjunction with the presentation of her works Picture Mining and Culture is our Business in the If I Had a Hammer exhibition. Schaber will address structural, social, and political issues related to institutional, corporate, and public photography archives. A discussion-based response led by writer and anthropologist Adam Webb-Orenstein will follow Schaber’s lecture.
About the speakers
Ines Schaber is an artist and writer based in Berlin and Los Angeles. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in the Photography and Media program and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Her artistic work addresses the complexity of image-making by investigating hidden layers of historical evidence. Since 2004, she has been engaged in the working archive, a series of case studies, texts, and artistic works through which she examines and tests notions of the archive. Recently, she published a series of five books named Notes on Archives (Berlin and Graz: Archive Books and Camera Austria Graz, 2019).
Adam Webb-Orenstein studies and writes about media and technological change with attention to the intertwinement of digital information systems and economic financialization. His past work has focused on the differences between orality and literacy as modes of artistic composition and on the influence of sound recording technologies on mid-twentieth century notions of cultural authenticity as applied to music, which was the subject of his master’s thesis in folklore at UC Berkeley. Currently, he is researching the crime of identity theft, examining how practices and norms of personal information security are changing along with ideas of privacy and personhood.
Images: Tere Garcia.
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