Joseph Kosuth One and Three Mirrors [Eng.], 1965. Two mounted photographs and mirror [mirror: 48 x 48 inches; mounted photograph (mirror): 53 9/16 x 54 5/16 inches; mounted photograph (definition): 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches] overall: 57 1/2 x 157 1/2 inches. © Joseph Kosuth. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles. Photo: Jason Wyche.
Read Charlotte Kent's review of Professor Sean Fader's Insufficient Memory (2019–20) in the Brooklyn Rail article titled, "Processes of Memory in the Age of Information".
Sean Fader’s project, Insufficient Memory (2019–20), memorializes sites where queer people were murdered in 1999 and 2000—just after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder and President Bill Clinton’s call for legislation regarding hate crimes committed against queer people. Fader purposefully used the Sony Mavica Digital of that time period. It took ten seconds to shoot one JPG, whirring as it processed to the disk. The camera provided one and a half hours of screen usage per battery charge, so in theory one could take some five hundred images, but the floppy disk could only store up to 1.4MB, around forty low-grain JPGs, but likely only twenty for a professional photographer, before clearing the files from the disc to a computer. Fader’s pixelated prints are granular testimonies of what could be seen back then, as well as our view of the past. There are material stakes still present in our ways of seeing that Fader’s project embraces."
About the Artist
Sean Fader is currently an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Photography and Imaging. Fader received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his MA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and his BFA from the New School in New York City.
Fader’s upcoming solo show will be at Brigitte Mulholland Gallery in Paris, where he is represented. His last solo show, Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle, was at Denny Gallery. Fader’s work Insufficient Memory is currently touring in Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, which originated at the Buffalo AKG Museum. His work was selected by Michalene Thomas to be included in the Brooklyn Artist Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in Dubai, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, France, and England. His exhibition history includes Peep Show at Anton Kern Gallery, THIRST/TRAP at Denny Gallery (solo), Insufficient Memory (solo) at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, On the Map at Denny Gallery Hong Kong, 365 Profile Pics (solo) at SPRING/BREAK Art Show with Denny Gallery in NYC, WishingPelt (solo) at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and White Boys at Haverford College. Fader was named a NYFA Fellow in 2013 and A Blade of Grass Fellow for 2012-2013, and he received the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Award for Emerging Photographers in 2012. Fader has been awarded prestigious residencies at Art Omi, Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts, Yaddo, Stove Works, and The Wassaic Project. He has received press coverage in MOMUS, NYTimes, Hyperallergic, British Journal of Photography, Art F City, Humble Arts Foundation, the Huffington Post, WWD, and Slate.