Alexander Mouton

Alexander Mouton, MFA

Department of Visual Arts
Associate Professor, Visual Art, Photography & Design

Visual Arts, Design, Photography, Visual Book, Zines, Unseen Press

Biography

Alexander Mouton has an MFA in photography from Indiana University, where he studied photography, film, literature, book arts, and digital media.  For four years Alexander lived in Berlin directly following the fall of the Berlin Wall, during which time he was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship.  In the early 2000's he developed his photographic processes to include net art, interactive video installations, and hypermedia performances.  With a primary interest in sequencing images, Alexander's Unseen Press has been producing limited-edition photo books and zines since the nineties, many of which are in collections internationally including MoMA, NYC; the Getty Research Institute, LA; the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin; and most recently Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka, Riga, Latvia.  Alexander's time-based media is included in Rhizome.org's ArtBase and has been exhibited at SFcamerawork, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, the Walker Art Center and online at chico.art.net, Fylkingen Hz Journal #9, and SpringgunPress issue 5.

As Associate Professor of Art at Seattle University, during the spring quarter of 2023, Alexander took a sabbatical to travel through the former East Germany with his camera conducting an ethnographic study of the GDR's 15 largest socialist housing settlements.  Further research in the summer of 2024 included time in the German National Archives in Berlin, as well as at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and the Hellersdorf District Museum Archives. Subsequent exhibition and publication is being pursued for 2025-26.

Alexander Mouton CV

 

www.unseenproductions.net/photography

Alexander Mouton-Postcard

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Education

  • MFA, Indiana University

Courses Taught

I teach a range of lens-based media classes, including The Visual Book, Digital Photography, Zines, Digital Imaging, and Video + Sound Art.