JUDY NATAL
Wed, Oct 8th, 7pm talk
301 Williams

Judy Natal will present a public lecture, Illuminating the Present, Imagining the Future, on Wednesday October 8 at 7:00 p.m. in 301 Williams Hall at the University of Vermont.  The lecture is hosted by the Department of Art & Art History and is supported by the Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visual Arts.

Since 1997, Judy Natal’s photographs have explored the visual narratives landscapes and alterations to those landscapes hold. By 2006, her focus had progressively shifted toward interpreting landscapes that have been altered by scientists, engineers, designers, and utopians. Most recently, she has ventured into the world of robotics to examine our complex relationship to machines built in our own image, which ultimately raises questions of what it means to be human.  Her work continues to describe important aspects of our contemporary world and contribute significant observations about mankind’s ideas of nature, our effect on our landscapes, and what the future might hold for us environmentally.

Judy Natal has also been awarded many artist residencies nationally and internationally, most recently in Iceland, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, and the Biosphere 2 where she established an artist residency program to invite artists to create a cultural response to this man-made wonder of the world. In 2012, Future Perfect was established as a permanent archive at the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, which houses the largest landscape photography collection in the world.

Courtesy of Stephanie Kaza, Professor and Director of the Environmental Program at UVM