Ted Serios: The Mind’s Eye, with Emily Hauver
In the 1960s, Ted Serios was purportedly able to document his inner thoughts on Polaroid film in a process called ‘thoughtography.’ Contemporaneous investigations into Serios’s claims produced a vast body of evidence, now held in the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s Special Collections. Ted Serios: The Mind’s Eye (Atelier Éditions 2023) explores multiple dimensions of the Serios phenomenon through essays by several contributors. Rather than focusing on the validity of Serios’s claims, the book encourages readers to arrive at their own conclusions. Curator Emily Hauver will speak about how the publication was actualized following ten years of research and two exhibitions drawn from the Serios/Eisenbud archive. Emily will also share compelling documents uncovered while researching the exhibitions and book, discussing how these records contribute to the ambiguity surrounding the Serios phenomenon rather than its resolution.
Bio
Emily Hauver is Curator of Exhibitions in the Library Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She holds a MS in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Visual Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has curated two exhibitions exploring the paranormal output of Ted Serios: Mind’s Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios will debut at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2023; Psychic Projections/Photographic Impressions was presented at UMBC’s Library Gallery in 2011. Her other curatorial projects are often situated at the intersection of contemporary photography and important social issues of the day, including Louie Palu: Distant Early Warning (2022) and Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano/The American Dream (2019).
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Shannon Taggart is an artist and author exploring the intersection between Spiritualism, photography, and the representation of belief. Her work has been exhibited and featured internationally, including within the publications TIME, New York Times Magazine, Discover, and Newsweek. Taggart’s monograph, SÉANCE (Fulgur Press, 2019), was named one of TIME’s ‘Best Photobooks of 2019.’ https://www.shannontaggart.com/
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Shannon Taggart’s Supernatural Mystery Symposium
Selections from the annual event on supernatural mystery and strange cultural history, curated by Shannon Taggart and hosted in Lily Dale, NY, USA—the town home to the world’s largest Spiritualist community.
Dr. Raymond Buckland’s ‘Wide World of Spirit – Steven Intermill and Toni Rotonda – 25 September
Séance: Spiritualism, Photography and the Search for Ectoplasm – Shannon Taggart – 2 October
Publishing the Paranormal – Charles and Penelope Emmons – 04 October
Supernatural Mystery Symposium: Art & The Paranormal – JF Martel – 05 October
Music from Elsewhere – Doug Skinner – 22 October
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle – Michael W Homer – 07 November
Ted Serios: The Mind’s Eye, with Emily Hauver – 21 November
