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PHOTOGRAPHER ESTHER PARADA TO SPEAK AT SLU 

CANTON -- An artist's lecture will be given by photographer 
Esther Parada on Wednesday, October 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 123 
of the Griffiths Arts Center at St. Lawrence University, on the 
topic "Transformations: Shifting the Discourse of Public Space." 
The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	In the lecture, Parada will discuss her strategies of 
juxtaposing historical (appropriated) and contemporary (personal) 
photographic images in two recent installation projects, Canopy: A 
Meditation on the Demise of the American Elm and Transport: Am I 
Also a Foreigner?
	Parada is an artist and occasional critic whose work has addressed 
the relationship between visual representation, memory, and power. She is 
a professor of photography at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Parada 
was a recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships 
in 1982 and 1988, and she has exhibited extensively in the United States, 
as well as several Latin American and European countries. Her work is 
represented in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, 
the Museum of  Modern Art in New York City and the Museum of Fine Arts in 
Houston, among others.  Her critical essay "C/Overt Ideology: Two Images of 
Revolution" is anthologized in The Contest of Meaning, published by MIT 
Press in 1989. Since 1986, Parada has used digital technology to create 
photo/text or photo-montage works that offer a revisionist historical 
perspective. A digital multi-media work, "To Make All Mankind Acquaintances," 
based on research of historical stereographs of Latin America at the 
Keystone-Mast Collection of the California Museum of Photography, was 
published in 1996 as part of the CD-ROM Three Works and was included in 
the 1999 exhibition Zonas de contacto: el arte en CD-ROM (Contact Zones: 
Art on CD-ROM) at the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico. Transport, 
a digitally generated mural with video projection, formed part of a  May 2000 
exhibition entitled Reconfiguring the Heroic at Artemisia Gallery, Chicago. 
	The lecture is presented by the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at 
St. Lawrence University.

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