The Image Text Ithaca (ITI) summer workshop (including the work of Ithaca College undergraduate student interns) received a glowing report in the latest issue of Afterimage; The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. In addition, one of our Junior Fellows, photographer Andre Bradley, had his work featured in the Portfolio section of the magazine.
The portfolio section of Afterimage features a series of distorted images created by ITI Fellow Andre Bradley and a personal statement in which he explores the background to his photography. Bradley writes that he hopes to suggest, "both neglect and repair," and he says that, "By using these materials, I attempt to represent what happens to the psyches and images of African Americans in the educational system, in the media, and on the street itself. They are thrown away, made silent, treated like garbage. The unresolved, even disorganized, nature of my work creates a defensive field in which the eye is called upon to judge perceptions of worthlessness and unconventional notions of beauty."
Afterimage reports that, "The second Image Text Ithaca (ITI) symposium brought together thirteen ITI workshop fellows and several invited guests for public presentations on the campus of Ithaca College over the course of one evening and the next day, following a workshop during which this year's fellows worked on new image and text projects."
The reporter went on to give detailed coverage of the many presentations including ones by Ithaca College faculty saying, "ITI directors [Nicholas] Muellner and Catherine Taylor (both Ithaca College faculty members) collaborated with poet and essayist Claudia Rankine, also a 2015 fellow, on a slideshow with live narration exploring issues surrounding the notion of stability. Rankine also worked with this year's ITI interns (many of them Ithaca College students.)"
The article concluded, "The symposium provided a fresh take on new, in-progress work, much of it focused on critical and timely social and interpersonal issues. And looking to the future, Muellner and Taylor announced the launch of a low-residency MFA in Image Text to begin in Summer 2016 at Ithaca College, furthering the possibilities for new voices and visions of image and text to continue to expand."
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20151128141459772