The Lens

For FotoFocus’s 2018 ArtHub—an inflatable pop-up project space—local creative studio Intermedio will create “In Place of Forgetting”: an interactive multi-channel audio-visual installation that explores “the contemporary overabundance of memory and its impact on the quality of the experiences we attempt to remember.” A group of artists, designers, musicians, experimenters, and coders that engage audiences through the creation of aurally and visually immersive environments and performances, Intermedio’s founders Justin West and Sam Ferris-Morris met while studying music composition at Heidelberg University. In searching for people with architectural modeling and design backgrounds to collaborate with in Cincinnati, the two subsequently met multidisciplinary designer Eric Blythe in 2014... Continue reading Intermedio is Making the FotoFocus ArtHub an Audience-Controlled Aural-Visual Experience

Drew Klein is performance art at the Contemporary Arts Center. Bringing an international sensibility to the Cincinnati scene, Klein’s curations and commissions have been nothing shy of existential, provocative—and absolutely stunning. From Takahiro Yamamoto’s Direct Path to Detour to Jens Lekman’s Ghostwriting project, the Performing Arts Director has proven tireless in his quest for extraordinary art that asks us stretch our minds. While Klein continues to change the face of performance art in the Midwest, we’ll eagerly await the CAC Black Box performance of Blind Spot—an interdisciplinary collaboration between writer-photographer Teju Cole and composer Vijay Iyer. Blind Spot takes place Saturday, October 6 at 7 p.m.,... Continue reading Meet the Curator: Drew Klein

Artist C. Jacqueline Wood is a force for film in the Queen City. Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she put her proverbial stake in the ground for experimental film with the opening of the Mini Microcinema on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine. As a Guest Curator in FotoFocus’s upcoming Biennial, this October Wood will share her take on the theme, Open Archive, with more than 20 screenings of film and video work at the Mini—playing for the public throughout the month of October. This is the first year FotoFocus has incorporated Guest Curators in a Biennial. How did you get this... Continue reading Meet the Curator: C. Jacqueline Wood

FotoFocus believes in the importance of photography and lens-based art to our modern world. That’s why we exist: to present it to the public. Everything we do—the Biennials, the Visiting Artist and Lecture Series, the Symposiums, the ongoing support to Presenting Partners, the Patron trips around the country, etc.—is dedicated to supporting lens-based art and those who make it. But there’s another side: a behind-the-scenes, a story that is not going to be immediately apparent when experiencing the art but will help you appreciate it all the more. Enter The Lens—FotoFocus’s (mostly) new, entirely updated blog. It will live past this fall, of course, but for... Continue reading Welcome to The Lens

FotoFocus is excited to announce a Call for Entries to curators, artists, and communities in the Greater Cincinnati region to activate the FotoFocus ArtHub during the 2018 FotoFocus Biennial. The FotoFocus ArtHub is an inflatable pop-up project space that can be used for exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, projections—we are looking for creative approaches, so don’t hold back. Projects should embrace this year’s Biennial theme, Open Archive—an exploration of how we organize and care for the unruly abundance inherent in lens-based art—and we encourage ideas that bring together community spirit and collaborative efforts, in alignment with the organization’s lens-based focus. FotoFocus will award $10,000 in support... Continue reading FotoFocus ArtHub: Open Call for Entries