“We Can See Her Being Seen,” a conversation with artist Ieva Raudsepa, Alise Tīfentāle, archivist Līga Goldberga, artist Sophie Thun, and curator Zane Onckule at the exhibition “I Don’t Remember a Thing: Entering the Elusive Estate of ZDZ” at Kim? contemporary art center. August 26, 2021, Arterritory
Read moreCo-organizing "Mapping Methods and Materials," a photo research symposium and summer school
Together with Katrīna Teivāne-Korpa (National Library of Latvia) and Inese Sirica (Art Academy of Latvia), I co-organized a photo research symposium and summer school “Mapping Methods and Materials: Photographic Heritage in Cultural and Art-Historical Research,” Riga, Latvia, August 16-20, 2021.
Read moreEssay for a Russian art exhibition in Seoul, South Korea
I had the pleasure to think and write about 20th century Russian art for the essay, “The Lesser Known Romantic Side of Soviet Art,” published in exhibition catalogue Good Morning USSR. The exhibition took place at the NAMA Gallery, mM Art Center, Seoul, June 30 - July 30, 2021.
Read moreTalk at the Almeida e Dale gallery (São Paulo) on Brazilian modernist photography
My talk about Brazilian modernist photography and the global photo-club culture of the 1950s and 1960s at the Almeida e Dale gallery (São Paulo, Brazil) on the occasion of a new virtual exhibition, “Men at Work. Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante at the IV Centennial of São Paulo,” curated by Iatã Cannabrava.
Read moreRoundtable at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
I had the honor to participate in a panel discussion on the occasion of the exhibition celebration and virtual opening reception - Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, on April 29, 2021.
Read moreNew Chinese translation
Chapter by Alise Tifentale, "The Selfie: More and Less than a Self-Portrait," appears in the new Chinese edition of The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture (2020). The book chapter was written in 2016, and the original English edition was published in 2018, edited by Moritz Neumüller.
Read moreInterview for radio NABA
An interview with Alise Tifentale by professor Ivars Austers, radio show “In the Name of Science” (Zinātnes vārdā), radio NABA, on air April 15, 2021. Radio NABA is part of Latvian public broadcasting service, aimed at student audiences.
Read moreServing on festival Photothings (São Paulo) exhibition jury
With great excitement I accepted the invitation from curator and photography historian Marly Porto to serve on the photo essay exhibition jury at the 2021 edition of Photothings festival that she’s organizing in São Paulo, Brazil, in March—April 2021. The winning photo essays are shown in a virtual exhibition, opening April 27.
Read moreResearch project at the Riga Stradins University completed
From November 2019 to March 2021, Alise Tifentale was a postdoctoral Researcher at the Communication Studies department led by media scholar professor Anda Rožukalne at the Riga Stradins University (RSU), Riga, Latvia.
Read moreNew article: "Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska"
Sizzling hot off the metaphorical press! New article in Museum of Modern Art’s online research publication Post. Notes on Art in Global Context, listed in sections Central & Eastern Europe and Art and Gender.
Read moreVideo review of "Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography"
Alise Tifentale reviews the book Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography in conversation with the editors of the book, Šelda Puķīte and Indrek Grigor. The video first aired on March 24, 2021.
Read moreIn conversation with Arnis Balcus, photographer and editor-in-chief of FK Magazine
In conversation with Arnis Balcus, photographer and editor-in-chief of FK Magazine. Video recording of the conversation published online on September 25, 2020.
Read moreRound table discussion about freedom of speech in the time of #metoo, mansplaining, and BLM
In August 2020, I participated in a round table discussion about censorship and freedom of speech in the time of #metoo and Black Lives Matter.
Read moreShort essay for Low Gallery's Crisis Newsletter
On December 31, 2020, the Riga-based Low Gallery published the second edition of The Crisis Newsletter (Krīzes Vēstnesis), for which I had the pleasure to write a short essay on the daily photographic practice on Instagram: “#dailyphotography and #fail”
Read moreNew article: Landscape photography and data landscape
This is an essay on contemporary landscape photography commissioned by the Riga Photography Biennial.
Read moreNew curatorial project: Art Days Forever
Presenting my latest curatorial project: Art Days Forever, the estate of two Latvian artists, Zenta Dzividzinska (1944-2011) and Juris Tifentals (1943-2001).
Read moreArt after cvd-19? Examining the growth of art biennales from 1895 to today
A brief interim report on a research that Lev Manovich and I began a few years back.
Read moreThe art of debate in the age of the Internet: Computational text analysis resources at the Riga Stradins University
“The Art of Debate in the Age of the Internet: Computational Text Analysis Resources at the Riga Stradins University.” Short presentation at the 78th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia, March 5, 2020.
Read moreNew job: Researcher at the Communication Studies Department, RSU, Riga, Latvia
My first full-time academic job after getting my PhD (at the Graduate Center, City University of New York): Researcher at the Communication Studies Department at the Riga Stradins University (RSU) in Riga, Latvia.
Read moreDissertation defended!
Successfully defended my PhD dissertation, The “Olympiad of Photography:” FIAP and the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965, on November 13, 2019.
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