artiststory: My New Digital Age Book on Photographing God

03 April 2015

My New Digital Age Book on Photographing God

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Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life is an adventuresome book that develops conceptual and practical tools for creatively photographing God as divine light reflected from every facet of life.

It teaches how to weave these photos of God into a blog that draws on the wisdom of kabbalah in a networked world to craft a vibrant dialogue between the blogger’s story and the biblical narrative. An exemplary spiritual blog http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com demonstrates innovative ways to enhance the photos with text for dissemination worldwide through the blogosphere and Twitterverse.

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Rethinking Creativity and Spirituality in a Postdigital Age

About the Artist

Mel Alexenberg is an artist, educator, writer, and blogger working at the interface between art, science, technology, culture, and Jewish thought and experience. His artworks explore interrelationships between the networked world and spirituality, postdigital art and Jewish consciousness, space-time systems and electronic technologies, and participatory art and community values. His artworks are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide.

Alexenberg was professor of art and education at Columbia University, head of the art department at Pratt Institute, dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. In Israel, he is professor emeritus of art and Jewish thought at Ariel University, head of Emunah College School of the Arts, and former professor at Bar-Ilan University and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

Born and educated in New York, Alexenberg earned degrees at Queens College, Yeshiva University, and New York University. He lives with his wife, artist Miriam Benjamin, in
Ra'anana, Israel.

The Soul of a Creator

Whoever is endowed with the soul of a creator must create works of imagination and thought, for the flame of the soul rises by itself and one cannot impede it on its course.... The creative individual brings vital, new light from a higher source where originality emanates to the place where it has not previously been manifest, from the place that "no bird of prey knows, nor has the falcon's eye seen" (Job 28:7), "that no man has passed, nor has any person dwelt" (Jeremiah 2:6). From Lights of Holiness by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook

Mel Alexenberg's Recent Books

Through a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media (HarperCollins, 2019)

Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life (CreateSpace, 2015)

The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2011)

Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture (Intellect Books/ University of Chicago Press, 2008)

Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass House, 2008) in Hebrew

The Future of Art in a Digital Age (Intellect Books, 2006)