{"id":"8","title":"Photos at Noon: Autonomous Power in Photography","starts_at":"2025-08-08 12:00:00","ends_at":"2025-08-08 13:00:00","body":"<p>The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography, with a permanent collection of over 18,000 works. As an international hub, MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists, and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming.</p><p><br></p><p>Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976 as an intimate and comprehensive visual study center for students, educators, and general audiences alike, MoCP presents public programs and exhibitions that foster a greater understanding of the artistic, cultural, and political implications of the image in our world today.</p><p><br></p><p>MoCP continues to offer a stimulating and innovative forum for the collection, creation, and examination of contemporary images from diverse aesthetic traditions and technologies.</p><p><br></p><p>Visit <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/mocp.org\" target=\"_blank\">mocp.org</a> <span style=\"color: rgb(13, 13, 13);\">for a list of upcoming exhibitions and events.&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p><p>Image courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Photography</p><p>&nbsp;</p>","type":"EventCategory","state":"published","slug":"artist-talks-panel-discussions","created_at":"2018-10-22 18:54:31.814977","updated_at":"2018-12-20 22:48:03.447021","excerpt":"","is_timeless":false,"organization_id":446,"highlighted":false,"opening_starts_at":null,"opening_ends_at":null,"searchable":"'around':16B 'artist':41B 'assist':71B 'autonom':4A,27B 'black':37B 'collabor':49B 'collect':22B,60B 'convers':15B 'curatori':68B 'dialogu':56B 'discuss':62B 'educ':70B 'exhibit':48B 'expand':43B 'hawk':73B 'held':78B 'histori':52B 'includ':33B 'indigen':38B 'join':9B 'kyli':72B 'led':65B 'mocp':20B,59B,67B,81B 'noon':3A 'perman':21B 'photo':1A 'photograph':34B 'photographi':7A,30B,54B 'pleas':8B 'potenti':51B 'power':5A,28B 'practic':35B 'present':32B,45B 'print':82B 'program':75B 'queer':40B 'room':84B 'studi':83B 'topic':25B,44B 'us':10B 'view':13B 'work':17B,31B","thumbnail":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1721669849/owrtcujfsjxhkmyhuold.jpg","calendar":null,"carousel":false,"event_body":"<p>Please join us in a viewing and conversation around works in the MoCP permanent collection on&nbsp;the topic of autonomous power in photography. Works presented include photographic practices of Black, Indigenous,&nbsp;and queer artists to expand topics presented in the exhibition, Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography&nbsp;<em>In Dialogue with the MoCP Collection</em>. This discussion will be led by MoCP Curatorial and Education Assistant, Kyli Hawks.</p><p>*This program will be held in the MoCP print study room.&nbsp;</p>","name":"Talks","organization_type_id":"5","district_id":"4","telephone":"+13126635554","website":"http://www.mocp.org","email":"mocp@colum.edu","hours":"M–W 10–5; Th 10–8; Fr–Sa 10–5","location":"600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605","display_location":"Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL 60605","latitude":"41.874195","longitude":"-87.624770","contact":"","sub_district_id":"20","promoted_at":"2018-10-24T19:34:26.517Z","optional_sort_name":"","paid":false,"position":3,"category_name":"Talks","orgname":"Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)","orgslug":"museum-of-contemporary-photography-mocp","image":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1748639955/kb2ebyr4bdbcj9nyeclp.jpg"}