KEEP LOOKING Online Lecture with Center for Photographic Art

The Center for Photographic Art and Luhz Press present KEEP LOOKING, a performative lecture by Jackie Furtado and Jennifer Haare, centered on their experimental photobook TORNADO. Kim Beil will join the artists for a reading from her text “The Horse in Motion: A Tableau Vivant," followed by a group discussion.

TORNADO explores time, motion and its trance-like qualities through the lens of consumer technology, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies. Inspired by the history and myth of image as data, the photobook mimics motion through the breakdown of movement and image clarity, unfolding through a whirling sequence of stills captured by a GoPro dangling from a bolting horse.

The conversation will dissect how photographic technologies influence perception and how the photobook format utilizes sequence to shape durational experience. TORNADO proposes that the exercise of looking can help us navigate and reorient our relationship towards today’s unstable image economy. 

TORNADO showcases a mustang’s journey in the Sonoran Desert through a careful sequence of GoPro film stills, examining time, motion and its trance-like quality by way of consumer technology.

The debut photobook from artists Jackie Furtado and Jennifer Haare with a text by the Kim Beil engages with photography’s technological history and questions the medium’s insatiable desire to see, capture, and control. To learn more about the book or to order your copy, visit the Luhz Press Website: luhz.press/products/tornado

Bios

Jackie Furtado (b. 1990, Bad Windsheim, Germany) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines how built environments and everyday objects inform and shape identity. Born to young military divorcees, Furtado’s early years were marked by frequent relocation, from southern California, to the Chicago area, and eventually to New York. She currently lives and works in Poughquag, NY with her partner and their dog. Jackie received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2021. She has exhibited her work with Produce Model in Chicago, IL, Higher Pictures New York, NY, Casemore Gallery in San Francisco, CA, and UP Gallery in Taiwan. In 2025, she was awarded a Joy of Giving Something Fellow through the NYFA Artist Photography Fellow Award.

Jennifer Haare (b. 1991, Virginia Beach, USA) is a poet and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Raised in a Navy family across various coasts, she studied writing and Swedish at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with additional study at Uppsala Universitet in Sweden.  Through pop culture references and meditative engagement with place, her work explores duration, ambient grief, creative anxiety, and the search for divinity. Her writing has been published by Luhz Press, No Rest Press, Sobotka, and Cabaret Journal and others.

Furtado and Haare’s friendship began in 2008. Their artistic collaboration materialized in 2019, first looking and working together in the American west.

Kim Beil is an art historian who specializes in the history of photography. Her book, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, looks at 50 stylistic trends in the medium since the 19th century. Recently she’s written for the New York Times about tracking down an Ansel Adams photograph in the High Sierra with a team of astronomers. She’s also written about photography and climate change for The Atlantic, a survey of street views for Cabinet, and a history of screenshots for the Believer. She also writes frequently about modern and contemporary art for Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Photograph, and Sculpture magazines.

Writer and Art Historian Kim Beil wrote the text ‘The Horse in Motion: A Tableau Vivant,’ which accompanies TORNADO.