2018 MID-AMERICA COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN
OCTOBER 4th  & 5th, 2018

Photographic Artifacts and Virtual Memories is an individual artist talk focusing on three photographic and new media projects; Corrupted, Collective, and Found. Corrupted explores a glitch aesthetic through data-bending and found photographs. Collective is the culmination of an extensive body of work made up of a series of books and videos that utilize live-streaming web-cams at various sites deemed culturally significant. Together, the images and video that comprise Collective explore how we use photography in an increasingly digital and connected world. The third body of work, an extension of Collective, is Found. A continued investigation of found photographs and live web-cams, Found is an ongoing globally collaborative exploration utilizing social media and live streaming web-cams to pinpoint a moment
in time and space from multiple perspectives. A virtual link is created between myself and the participants, all of whom are complete strangers, in a questioning of privacy and access to information.

http://www.macaart.org/conference.html

Found featured as part of the 2018 MACAA Members' Exhibition.

Lincoln, Neb.--The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History & Design will display the “2018 MACAA Members Exhibition” Oct. 3-19 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall.

The exhibition is happening in conjunction with the Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) Conference, “Techne Expanding: Tensions, Terrains and Tools,” hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on Oct. 4-5.

arts.unl.edu/art/news/eisentrager-howard-gallery-hosts-mid-american-college-art-association-members-exhibition

Shifting Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future
Being image-makers, each of us observes and records our lives and our environment in our own way. Though differing in approach, the works of three lens-based artists: Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Carlos Rene Pacheco, and Jacinda Russell share a theme of loss, made visible through human interaction in the landscape. The panelists will lead the audiences though their visual journeys from the rural landscapes of the Upper Midwest, USA to the crowded cities in Viet Nam, to the glacial melt at Ilulissat Icefjord in Disko Bay, Greenland. We continually discuss global warming, while our legislators debate on policies to monitor human activities from deforestation, oil drilling, to movement of refugees, etc. Every second we are living, we are creating an impact. Using our visual work as a gateway, the panel discussion will invite dialogues for the audiences to reflect on and share thoughts of impact we have been producing in our daily life.

https://bit.ly/2OrQx2Y

Work from Flatland will be featured in the 11th Horizontal Grandeur Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition at the Stevens County Historical Society & Museum in Morris, MN. The exhibit will run from June 21 – October 26, 2018.

During my 24/2 residency I started on a larger body of work tentatively titled Artifact. This project is an extension of some of my previous work involving found photographs and a glitch aesthetic. With the advent of digital technology came a de-materialization not only of ourselves but of the photographic medium. Photographs, which in the past were exclusively physical objects shared among friends and family, have been mostly replaced by virtual means of sharing through social media and online photo-streams. The physical photographs in this series...

https://www.overlandartworks.com/participants/2018/4/11/carlos-rene-pacheco

Work from Ash and Dust featured in group exhibition, Issue #88 at F-Stop Magazine.

http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html

Work from Flatland selected to exhibited alongside some great winter photographs in a winter-themed exhibition by Don't Take Pictures.

"While the winter weather keeps most people indoors, many photographers venture out into the cold to create some of the most wonderfully atmospheric photographs of the year. From sensational winter storms to a quiet coat of new-fallen snow, and the inevitable thaw just before spring, for this online exhibition, Don’t Take Pictures presents photographs of the wintertime."

http://www.donttakepictures.com/gallery-wintertime/

Work from Flatland on display through next month in the Sarah Silberman Gallery at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.

The Sarah Silberman Art Gallery is an educational resource of the Rockville Art Department. It's primary function is to augment, enhance, and promote the teaching and understanding of art through a diverse program of changing exhibitions, benefiting the college and the public.

This exhibition, juried by Anthony Goicolea, will showcase artwork reflecting the diversity of SPE’s LGBTQ, Multicultural and Women’s Caucus members. Selected artists include: Jaime Aelavanthara, Alyson Belcher, Michael Borowski, Clara DeWeese, Rebecca Drolen, Apolo Gomez, Jodie Mim Goodnough, Abbey Hepner, Garin Horner, Glenna Jennings, Tomiko Jones, Sarah Kaufman, Alec Kaus, Emma Kisiel, Melissa Kreider, Isabella La Rocca, Kim Llerena, Sandra Matthews, Crystal McBrayer, Deborah Orloff, Danielle "deo" Owensby, Carlos Rene Pacheco, Hailee Potter, Sarah Smith, Lorenzo Triburgo, Liena Vayzman, Emily Wiethorn, Laine Wyatt

Assistant Professor of Photography Carlos Rene Pacheco will have his video piece titled, Live Abstraction #2, featured as part of the Cube Art Project in Lincoln, Nebraska. It will be displayed on a large video board at The Railyard on Canopy Street in Lincoln, Nebraska’s premier entertainment district beginning Friday, Jan. 19...

Carlos Rene Pacheco will give an Artist Talk concerning three bodies of work; Collective, Obstructed, and Flatland. These works explore the theme of new and evolving approaches to image-making such as webcams, camera phones, and drones. Collective is a series of books and videos made using live webcam images of recurring actions in culturally significant spaces. Obstructed pushes back against the voyeuristic nature of webcams and surveillance cameras. Obstructed is a series of abstractions recorded from live webcams in which various environmental factors and the camera's own mechanisms disrupt the camera's function as a tool that aids in global voyeurism. And Flatland is a series of photographs that explores the textures and space of the Midwest, from above and below, along the vertical z-axis. 

Publicly accessible live webcams can be found all over the world these days, especially at famous tourist locations. Photographer and artist Carlos Pacheco realized that this means anyone can find the exact moment any photo was shot there given a time stamp. That’s the premise behind his new project, titled Found.

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/31/artist-finds-exact-moment-photos-shot-using-public-webcams/

Professor of Photography in the School of Visual Arts Carlos Rene Pacheco will have his book titled Collective: Dealey Plaza housed in the Reading Room research library at the 6th Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. 


https://news.mnstate.edu/2016/12/pachecos-book-to-be-housed-in-dealey-plaza-museum/

Assistant Professor of Photography Carlos Rene Pacheco has photographs from his in-progress body of work titled Flatland on display now in the Planetarium on campus.

Inspired by the near unbroken flatness of rural Minnesota and North Dakota along a horizontal plane, Flatland is a series of photographs, evoking alien landscapes, that explores the textures and space of the Midwest, from above and below, along the vertical z-axis. 


https://news.mnstate.edu/2017/01/pachecos-flatland-photographs-on-display-in-msum-planetarium/

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Pyro and Manni are the names of two kittens being called little fire fighters. The two barely survived after being trapped by a controlled burn in rural North Dakota.

The kittens were born in a burn pile, and a couple weeks later it was lit on fire. "I don't feel this was intentional, I think unfortunately they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Says their foster mom, Dawn Barth.
Thankfully, a photographer stopped to capture the controlled burn, and rescued them. "My first thought was, I am going to have to watch this cat pass away, that was my first thought." Says photographer, Carlos Pacheco.
He has been working on a project where he takes pictures of fires, and has never seen anything like it. Pacheco took pictures for about five minutes before he realized the two were inside. He says the sound of the fire was too loud to hear them meow. "I walked over to get some different angles, and I heard a cat meowing, and I kinda looked around and I didn't see anything. So, I took a few steps back over to where I was, and it turns out the cat sort of blended in with the trees."

Pyro was actually inside the fire, and Manni was nearby breathing in too much smoke. "It was too hot for me to even get close to it, which is why I was surprised that the cat was even in it. I had to shield myself with my jacket to even attempt to grab her," says Pacheco.

Pacheco used a stick to pull out Pyro, and scooped up Manni, putting them in a box, and taking them to cat's cradle to get emergency care.

"When I just saw her, I didn't think she would make it." says Barth. "His temperature didn't even register on the thermometer, and her's was low, her's was low too."

Pacheco says he's considering adopting Pyro and Manni, hoping wherever they go they will end up together.
Cats Cradle wants to remind people to spay and neuter their pets, saying that shelters are overflowing with animals.

http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Photographer-rescues-two-kittens-from-controlled-burn-397858701.html

Professor of Photography Carlos Rene Pacheco will have work featured in the Art of Planetary Science exhibition in conjunction with the 2016 Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Pasadena, Calif. from Oct. 16-21. The event brings together scientific minds from the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Science (DPS) and the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), and will be attended by hundreds of scientists and astronomers from all over the world. 

Featuring a blend of art and science, Pacheco will have photographs from an in-progress body of work titled Flatland on display. This series explores the vast, open landscape of the Upper Midwest. In Flatland, Pacheco trains his camera downward, revealing the textures and patterns of the region from various altitudes.

https://news.mnstate.edu/2016/10/carlos-rene-pachecos-work-featured-in-art-of-planetary-science-exhibition/

Photography professor Carlos Rene Pacheco will have work featured in the 2016 SPE Midwest Regional Multi-Caucus Exhibition at the McNamee Gallery at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri from Oct. 1 – Nov. 31, 2016. 

The photograph featured is from Pacheco’s latest body of work, Ash and Dust, exploring how fire is used as a means for erasure in the rural landscape of the Midwest. You can see more from this series during the month of October as part of the School of Visual Arts at Minnesota State University Moorhead faculty exhibition at the Roland Dille Center for Arts Gallery.

https://news.mnstate.edu/2016/10/carols-rene-pachecos-work-featured-in-2016-spe-midwest-regional-multi-caucus-exhibition/

A former astronomy student, artist Carlos Pacheco will speak at the School of Visual Arts Colloquium on January 28th, at 6 p.m. in the CB 109. Pacheco’s current work is a reconciliation of his passion for science and his investigation of the photographic medium. Pacheco’s work takes on multiple forms, from printed photographs to projection to sculptural objects, while exploring the intersection between art and science and examining how we use and understand photography. The photograph is an artifact, not only in the anthropological and historical sense, but also in the technological sense. Photographs are information. Images can be truthful relics but they can also be data; a stream of ones and zeros that are cataloged, shaped, or corrupted. Pacheco is interested in how the photographic medium fluctuates between states of physicality and virtuality. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Pacheco received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in Photography from the University of Arizona and his MFA in Photography + Integrated Media from Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio.

https://news.mnstate.edu/2016/01/artist-carlos-pacheco-to-speak-at-the-school-of-visual-arts-colloquium/

The School of Visual Arts at Minnesota State University Moorhead invites the public to “Rainbows/Doom” an MSUM faculty exhibition and fundraising art sale in support of art student scholarships on Thursday, October 1 from 4 – 6pm at the Roland Dille Center for Arts Gallery (CA 155). “Rainbows/Doom” is a themed exhibition including artworks by MSUM faculty members: Brad Bachmeier, Zhimin Guan, Henry Gwiazda, Lauren Rose Kinney, Trygve Olson, Helen Otterson, Carlos Rene Pacheco, Sherry Lee Short, Kelli Sinner, and Patrick Vincent. Within the exhibition is a faculty donated art sale to help fund the Tim Ray Memorial Endowed Scholarship and the Carl Oltvedt Juried Student Award Scholarship. Included in the fundraising sale are works by: Zhimin Guan, Lauren Rose Kinney, Trygve Olson, Carl Oltvedt, Helen Otterson, Jim Park, Sherry Lee Short, Kelli Sinner, and Patrick Vincent.

The Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery Presents: Rainbows/Doom
On view September 28 – October 22
Opening reception: Thursday, October 1 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Gallery Hours are Monday – Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Center for the Arts 155