Kota Ezawa chose to contribute an image from "The History of Photography Remix," a meditation on the medium and history of photography inspired by the slide lectures he attended in school. Kota and Ted were long-time friends and colleagues at California College of the Arts, where Kota is an Associate Professor in the Film Program.

Ezawa's signature style involves the reworking and distilling of existing films, videos, and photographs into pared-down, flattened drawings that he shows as lightboxes, works on paper, and in animations. In this particular "remix," famous images from art history are joined by familiar images drawn from popular press and lesser-known but equally evocative images in a projected slideshow.

In addition to art history, his work often references real-world events, from recent protests by black athletes, to historical presidential assassinations, to pop culture phenomena. Throughout these varied subjects, the real subject of Ezawa's work is the nature of images themselves--their distribution, their iconicity, their symbolic power, and their relationship to personal and collective experiences.
He has shown his work extensively around the world, including several monographic exhibitions, and has been collected by major institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name just a few.

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