Join us for a virtual presentation of work by Isaac Campbell and Bettina Fabos exploring the series of wheat paste art Campbell is installing across Iowa, and other creative work generated from the Fortepan Iowa (fortepan.us) public photo archive. This event is third in a series featuring Iowa-based or connected media artists. A program of selected work by Campbell and Fabos will be followed by a live Q&A.

Bettina Fabos is a Professor of Interactive Digital Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. Both a scholar and producer of digital culture, her written and creative work revolve around digital culture, digital photo archiving, digital visualization, and the Creative Commons. She is the co-founder of  Fortepan Iowa [fortepan.us], a public photo archive of everyday Iowa life, and is creative director of the award-winning interactive timeline project, Proud and Torn: A Memoir of Hungarian History, [proudandtorn.org], an extensive photo history of Hungary based on amateur family snapshots. With a background in media production and media literacy pedagogy, Fabos has written extensively about the role of the U.S. media in democracy and Internet commercialization, and continues to interpret photographic history through video, interactive web stories, and public art.

Isaac Campbell is a master wheat paste artist. He has worked with world renowned wheat paste artist JR on large wheat paste installations in Paris and is currently creating wheat paste installation projects connected to the Fortepan Iowa archive throughout Iowa. Campbell holds a Master's Degree in Communication Studies from the Department of Communication & Media at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). His thesis, Cultural Memory, Family Snapshots, and Ephemeral Street Art, repurposed family snapshots from the Fortepan Iowa public archive into large format, wheat pasted, ephemeral murals in his public exhibition ...getting back together in downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa. Before coming to UNI, Campbell spent a full year (2018-2019) as a Fulbright research grantee working in Budapest, Hungary with the Fortepan archiving project team and the photo archivist at the National Ethnographic Museum. With a background  in digital media production, he has worked as a digital media specialist and web animator based in southeast Iowa. Mr. Campbell created all the animation work in the interactive web project Proud & Torn: A Visual Memoir of Hungarian History. Prior to his Fulbright experience, Mr. Campbell spent 3 months living in Budapest, Hungary to study with award-winning filmmaker Ferenc Törok and his editor, Bela Barsi in 2015.

This program is supported by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.