Happy Halloween! It seems so appropriate that today we release our episode with the 'wildly interesting" Ed Bateman.

Edward Bateman is an artist and professor at the University of Utah, where he heads the Photography and Digital Imaging area. The work of Edward Bateman exists in a space between photography and printmaking, although his extensive use of 3D modeling technologies is not common to either medium. Using constructed and often anachronistic imagery, he creates allegedly historical artifacts that examine our belief in the photograph as a reliable witness.

In our conversation, we chatted with Ed about his artistic journey, his interest in science, and his love of all things photography, especially when time travel is involved.

Recorded February 8, 2023. These are the Diffusion Tapes... 

Show notes

Edward Bateman

Wasatch Computers

Photoshop 2.0

The Muse Project (Blue’s BFA thesis)

AI Image Generators

Wet Plate Collodion process

Ian Ruhter

Daguerreotype process

Alphonse Eugène Hubert

Shroud of Turin

Frederick Douglass portrait

University of Utah

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Anne Kelly

photo-eye Gallery

Diffusion Annual

Run The Jewels

Paul Nadar

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not

carte de visite

cabinet cards

Rapidograph pens

Garry Winogrand

Jerry Uelsmann

Industrial Light and Magic

American Cinematographer Magazine

Phillip's Gallery, Salt Lake City

Hasselblad 907 camera

Very, Very Hungry (song)

The Diffusion Tapes are produced and hosted by Blue Mitchell and co-hosted by Michael Kirchoff

The Diffusion Tapes theme song composed by Jeff Louviere