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Alexander Mouton, MFA

Chair, Department of Art, Art History & Design
Associate Professor, Digital Design

Biography

Education

MFA, Indiana University, 2001
BA, Indiana University, 1996
Field:
Photography, Book Arts & Digital Media

Biography

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Alexander Mouton teaches design courses in Digital Imaging, Web Design, and Motion Graphics as well as introductory core photography classes and upper-level electives such as 鈥淶ines: Collage, Xerox & Mail Art鈥, 鈥淪ound & Video Art鈥, and 鈥淚nteractive Computer Art鈥.  As an exhibiting artist, his processes include photo books, zines, net art, interactive video installations, multimedia performances, and more traditional gallery exhibitions. Through his Unseen Press, Mouton鈥檚 limited-edition photo books have been selected for collections internationally, including MoMA Library, NYC; the Getty Research Institute, LA; and the Kunst Bibliothek, Berlin.  Unseen Press is also represented by . Mouton鈥檚 zines are featured in the small press sections of notable bookstores including Quimbies in Chicago; RE: Insurgo in Berlin; and Elliot Bay Books in 香港六合彩开奖结果. Mouton鈥檚 electronic media has been exhibited at SFcamerawork, USA; the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey; the Walker Art Center, USA; , USA; Fylkingen Hz Journal #9, Sweden; , Canada; and the , UK; among international venues.  

Having been a Fulbright Scholar to Berlin where he lived on and off throughout the 90鈥檚, Mouton鈥檚 recent work returns focus to the former Eastern Europe.  This time traveling through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia in 2016, Mouton photographed with a combination of both medium and large format B&W and also color digital cameras.  His current focus is on the remains of societies that Hitler and Stalin鈥檚 bloody reign during the 30鈥檚 鈥 40鈥檚 had ideologically 鈥渞eorganized鈥, as well as the architectural developments that sprang up between 1950-89 in Eastern Europe that reflect the subsequent utopian socialist vision. Mouton is at work on an artists鈥 book that will be housed in a large, gravestone-shaped box, bringing together darkroom prints, digital booklets, texts and audio.  This limited-edition work will be presented first at the International Book Fair & Symposium.


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