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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My name is Stephanie Diamond, I have had the pleasure of reading the IDC exchanges for a while now, and this is my first post. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I am an artist who works with photography. As an obsessive image-maker I began photographing as an artist at the age of 13, and since then, I have documented my -- and everyone who comes in contact with me -- life. My passion to present and discuss photography across many vistas, as well as my critical insight, comes from my desire to connect communities and people. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I am also a Fine Arts Adjunct Professor at Parsons New School for Design and PACE University, both in New York City. I have recently created a class with a criminal justice professor at PACE that is part of a program called Learning Communities, where two professors from two different fields come together to teach a Freshman level course. The class is split between two days, and addresses the same students each day. My class is titled: Embodying the Image-Maker: Understanding Images as an Active Participant and my colleague's class is titled: Image-Making in the Age of Terror: Exploring First and Fourth Amendment Rights. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The classes are based on the use of personal, commercial and governmental images—photographs, digital images, cell phone pictures, videos--from a legalistic perspective, and the immense disparity between the positive and negative impact of images in our culture today. (See course descriptions below)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">We are both teaching a unit on myspace, Facebook, and blogging. Additionally, I have a unit on artists who use the ideas being addressed in our class, within their artwork. I would love to have your recommendations of websites, artists, articles, and related material that I can bring to my students. I have an on-going list that I have been compiling for a while now, but this list serve has been invaluable over the years and I would love to have your input as well. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Stephanie</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">____________________</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Stephanie Diamond</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#001fe7" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001fe7"><a href="mailto:mail@stephaniediamond.com"><u>mail@stephaniediamond.com</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#001fe7" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001fe7"><a href="http://www.stephaniediamond.com/"><u>http://www.stephaniediamond.com</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Course Descriptions: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Embodying the Image-Maker: Understanding Images as an Active Participant "</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">In this class, you are a photographer. You will create images focusing on the immense disparity between the positive and negative impact of images in our culture today. You will take photographs in order to understand and apply the process of photography as a vehicle for personal, commercial and governmental expression. You will examine the relationship between the self and identity, the individual and community engagement, global culture and redefining identities, and the evolving practice of the role of the image maker in today’s society.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Image-Making in the Age of Terror: Exploring First and Fourth Amendment Rights"</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This class will explore the use of personal, commercial and governmental images—photographs, digital images, cell phone pictures, videos--from a legalistic perspective. We will examine both the ways in which images can be used to expose human rights violations (i.e. the photos of Abu Ghraib atrocities and war photography) and governmental surveillance of civilian populations. We will debate the justification and effectiveness of the government’s increased use of surveillance as a tactic in the war on terror and crime fighting. At the same time, we will explore how political activists and members of the indie media are increasingly turning their cameras and cell phones on the police at political rallies to protect against and/or document abuses of power. We will contrast the legal limitations placed on individual image makers (eg. ordinances requiring special permits for street photographers or people suspected of terrorism for taking pictures of landmarks) with the proliferation of surveillance cameras in both private and public spaces. Given the widespread use of and increased public tolerance for governmental surveillance, we will also explore the true meaning of privacy in the U.S. and its implications. Finally, we will also explore the ways in which personal forms of image-making—especially through the use of the Internet—represents a democratization of the media and offers the possibility of “speaking truth” to governmental and corporate power. </font></div></body></html>