Lucas Blalock ’02 Interviewed in To Be Magazine

Lucas Blalock ’02, assistant professor of pictures at Bard College, was interviewed in To Be Magazine. In dialog with Jasime Penman, Blalock discusses the interaction between new applied sciences and pictures, his ideas on meme tradition, and what it’s like to show in the identical program the place he as soon as studied as a pupil. “In 2009, when I started leaning into working with Photoshop in a more evident way, photography had really great boundaries,” Blalock informed Penman. “It was clear what was a photograph and what wasn’t a photograph, and it just wasn’t nearly as porous as it has become. As the technology changed, the potentials of my practice changed along with it, all the way up to the present. The markers I can pinpoint are digital printing, Photoshop, the smartphone and Instagram, and now, AI.”

When requested about what it’s like educating on the college the place he studied, Blalock stated, “I was thrilled to get the position. Bard has an amazing photography program and there are so many great artists who teach there. I was happy about it, but I don’t think I was ready for the level of uncanniness of teaching in a room I used to study in or being in the darkroom that I’d spent so many hours in.”

Post Date: 07-29-2025