Had the pleasure of speaking with friend and fellow artist, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, for the CAA Conversations Podcast-

"The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.

This week, Carlos Rene Pacheco and Anh-Thuy Nguyen discuss preparing MFA graduates to be educators/faculty members.
Carlos Rene Pacheco is a photographer and new media artist and he currently resides in Fargo, North Dakota where he has taught courses in Photography, Contemporary Art Theory, and Professional Practices in the Arts as an Assistant Professor of Art at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Anh-Thuy Nguyen is a Tucson-based multi-media/transdisciplinary artist, whose work spans from photography, video, and installation to performance art, and she is the head of the photography program at Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona."

Work from Artifacts on display as part of the /’fu:bar/- Glitch Art Festival at the Siva Galerija in Zagreb, Croatia.

/’fu:bar/ is a yearly festival gathering focused on electronic error-themed reinterpretative multimedia art. The week long festival starts on the first Saturday of October and hosts an artist residency program, showcases diverse talks, workshops, performances and an inclusive group exhibition.

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Work from Artifacts now on display at the Valade Gallery at Adrian College in Adrian Michigan as part of the 2019 SPE Multicultural Caucus International Exhibition. The exhibition runs from Sept. 30 – Oct. 25.

Work from the Artifacts Project to be on display at this year's Midwest SPE conference.

SPE Midwest Juried ExhibitionExhibition Reception
Friday, October 25 - 4:30PM to 6:00PM
MIAD: Brooks Stevens Gallery

The SPE Midwest Juried Exhibition brings together professional and student members of this photographic organization. The exhibited works are loosely tied by the photographic medium itself and highlight the various approaches and concerns of artists working with photography today. Works by professional members are selected by Jennifer Murray, executive director of Filter Photo and student works are selected by Alejandro Cartagena, a photographer and educator based in Monterrey, Mexico.

Work from Ash and Dust to be on display at Jadite Galleries in New York, NY as part of the New York Center for Photographic Arts exhibition Dusk to Dawn juried by Laura Ann Noble, Director of the L A Noble Gallery in London.

Work from Ash ad Dust featured in Untitled 15.

Untitled 15 marks the fifteenth year of SooVAC’s flagship juried exhibition series. Untitled provides opportunities for artists working in any medium and at any stage of their career, resulting in a survey of varied perspectives and provocative work.

Read more: https://www.soovac.org/untitled15

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.