Special Exhibition in the Collected Visions Gallery
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/gallery

C O L L E C T E D V I S I O N S
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu

An interactive Web Site that explores how family photographs shape our
memories.

Exhibition VII is now on view in the Collected Visions Gallery. This is
an unusual exhibition for Collected Visions in that all of the authors
are writing about their own photographs. Collected Visions with an
attached scanner was included in the exhibition "Telling Our Own
Stories: Florida's Family Photographs" at The Southeast Museum of
Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, June 17 to September 19, 1997.
These photo essays were selected from submissions gathered during that
exhibition. This exhibition will be remain on view only until November
10.

Be sure to visit the Collected Visions Museum,
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/museum, our archive essays from previous
Collected Visions exhibitions.

For any additional information, please contact Lorie Novak
email: lorie.novak@nyu.edu
tel: 718-522-3699
fax 718-855-0788

We are seeking guest curators for the Collected Visions Gallery. If you
are interested in submitting proposals that are culturally,
historically, or regionally specific, or would like to curate an
exhibition from our submissions, please contact Lorie Novak.

Collected Visions is sponsored by the NYU Center for Advanced Technology

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COLLECTED VISIONS was created by Lorie Novak, Clilly Castiglia, Betsey
Kershaw, and Kerry O'Neill with additional programming by Art Johnson.
It is a participatory Web site that explores the relationship between
family photographs and memory. The most significant aspect of Collected
Visions is the ability it gives people to submit images to a growing
archive of family photographs and to create photo stories. Visitors to
the site are encouraged to search and view images from the on-line
database of more than 1200 images. In addition to searching,
participants can create and submit live photographic essays exploring
the power of family snapshots. Those interested in writing about their
own snapshots or contributing to the archive can upload their images.
Changing exhibitions of selected submitted essays are presented in the
Collected Visions Gallery and archived in the Collected Visions Museum.

The concept for Collected Visions grew out of the photographs and
installations Lorie Novak has been creating since the early 1980s. She
uses family snapshots and images from the media to explore the
relationships between personal and collective memory. Excerpts from her
installations provide the backgrounds for the gallery, museum, and
bibliography.