PICTURE CoNsEqUeNcEs LEGACY
Housed2020 is a picture platform initiated by Joseph Maida for sharing images that show our individual experiences and responses to the COVID-19 health crisis, which has us housebound around the world.
Conceived as a visual community to connect us through photographs and videos while we are apart, this living archive serves as a meditation on the present moment and will become a record, which we can reflect upon to understand where we have been, what we have learned, and how we can move forward, together.
Picture Symposium | PHD-1280
Joseph Maida as the Chair of School of Visual Arts’ Photo & Video bachelor’s program, created Picture Symposium. This foundational course unpacks students pre-existing and potential relationships with still and moving images, two central elements of contemporary art, commerce, communication and exchange. Striving toward fluency in the making (speaking) and interpreting (reading) of pictures in all contexts, students will work collaboratively to build a foundation for how to create and circulate images with the necessary agency to distinguish their voices and identities while communicating with one another as well as audiences beyond their classroom. The current relationships between printed pictures and pictures on screens (computers, smart-phones, tablets, etc.) as well as video in all of its real world social and social media interactions will be closely examined, providing students with a stronger understanding of how to navigate their presence as picture makers in both physical and online spaces of the 21st century.