Rotem Rozental
@rotroz.bsky.social
Executive Director and Chief Curator, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) | Lecturer, USC Roski School of Art and Design | Writer and Author of Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement: https://tinyurl.com/4mwxwhu2
Perhaps, if we see more of ourselves reflected in this way, we will ameliorate some of the damages caused by loneliness. Some experts suggest not all impacts of this condition are negative, others seek to eradicate it. We wanted to shine a light on the space loneliness occupies in our lives.
January 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Perhaps, if we see more of ourselves reflected in this way, we will ameliorate some of the damages caused by loneliness. Some experts suggest not all impacts of this condition are negative, others seek to eradicate it. We wanted to shine a light on the space loneliness occupies in our lives.
Photography has the unique capacity to capture one’s experience, and render it visible for others to see; for others to see themselves, and see their own experience reflected by others. It’s an opening point, an invitation for a conversation about each other’s humanity.
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Photography has the unique capacity to capture one’s experience, and render it visible for others to see; for others to see themselves, and see their own experience reflected by others. It’s an opening point, an invitation for a conversation about each other’s humanity.
@apnews.com reports that the biggest buzzword on everybody’s mind was #physicalAI, a term used by #Nvidia to describe AI models that are trained in virtual environments using synthetic data, and are then deployed as physical machines.
January 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
@apnews.com reports that the biggest buzzword on everybody’s mind was #physicalAI, a term used by #Nvidia to describe AI models that are trained in virtual environments using synthetic data, and are then deployed as physical machines.
When This is 40 feels like a documentary with a tragic ending #perimenopause #perimenopausebrain
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM
When This is 40 feels like a documentary with a tragic ending #perimenopause #perimenopausebrain
When your brain spends 12 hours trying to match Claire Danes’ name to her face #perimenopause #perimenopausebrain
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
When your brain spends 12 hours trying to match Claire Danes’ name to her face #perimenopause #perimenopausebrain
I expanded this thought in more detail here:
rotroz.substack.com/p/nfts-still...
rotroz.substack.com/p/nfts-still...
NFTs Want to Be the Future of Digital Art
Yes, those words can still make sense together. In fact, NFTs provide an intriguing window into the possible commercial and conceptual prospects of the field
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December 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I expanded this thought in more detail here:
rotroz.substack.com/p/nfts-still...
rotroz.substack.com/p/nfts-still...
Is this institutionalization — so soon after the crypto bubble burst — an admission that the future has already passed?
Curious how others working in digital art or blockchain culture are reading this moment.
#digitalart #NFTs
Curious how others working in digital art or blockchain culture are reading this moment.
#digitalart #NFTs
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Is this institutionalization — so soon after the crypto bubble burst — an admission that the future has already passed?
Curious how others working in digital art or blockchain culture are reading this moment.
#digitalart #NFTs
Curious how others working in digital art or blockchain culture are reading this moment.
#digitalart #NFTs
2025 deserves to see me in green velvet pajamas as it walks out the door. #HappyNewYear
December 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
2025 deserves to see me in green velvet pajamas as it walks out the door. #HappyNewYear
We are going to a #NewYear party that has pajamas for dress code, and honestly, nothing can make me happier. 2025 does not deserve me putting make up and looking cute.
December 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We are going to a #NewYear party that has pajamas for dress code, and honestly, nothing can make me happier. 2025 does not deserve me putting make up and looking cute.
The full version was published this month in Afterimage: online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/a...
Call the Midlife
Artist Elinor Carucci’s recently removed uterus lays on a sterilized table, isolated and exposed. Seductive hues of red and pink contrast with the dull shades and creases of a blue cloth underneath, e...
online.ucpress.edu
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The full version was published this month in Afterimage: online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/a...
I explore this more in my piece:
→ rotroz.substack.com/p/where-do-w...
#VisualCulture #ArtHistory #GenderAndArt
→ rotroz.substack.com/p/where-do-w...
#VisualCulture #ArtHistory #GenderAndArt
Where Do Women Artists Go?
An excerpt from the recently published essay "Call the Midlife," examining age, gender and visibility (or the lack thereof) of mid-career women in the art world
rotroz.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I explore this more in my piece:
→ rotroz.substack.com/p/where-do-w...
#VisualCulture #ArtHistory #GenderAndArt
→ rotroz.substack.com/p/where-do-w...
#VisualCulture #ArtHistory #GenderAndArt
That space — between recognition and erasure — may be where new histories of art are actually being written.
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
That space — between recognition and erasure — may be where new histories of art are actually being written.
So, you know what? Let's claim this.
What if this disappearance isn’t absence but a threshold?
A space where the work becomes deeper, more embodied, and challenges the structures that made them peripheral in the first place.
What if we use this to incubate and be who we are?
What if this disappearance isn’t absence but a threshold?
A space where the work becomes deeper, more embodied, and challenges the structures that made them peripheral in the first place.
What if we use this to incubate and be who we are?
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So, you know what? Let's claim this.
What if this disappearance isn’t absence but a threshold?
A space where the work becomes deeper, more embodied, and challenges the structures that made them peripheral in the first place.
What if we use this to incubate and be who we are?
What if this disappearance isn’t absence but a threshold?
A space where the work becomes deeper, more embodied, and challenges the structures that made them peripheral in the first place.
What if we use this to incubate and be who we are?
This isn’t just anecdote; it’s pattern. Women artists’ mid-career work too often disappears from galleries and institutional narratives.
December 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This isn’t just anecdote; it’s pattern. Women artists’ mid-career work too often disappears from galleries and institutional narratives.
Mid-career gets overlooked, despite being one of the most dynamic creative phases.
Can we just immerse in "being"? The #artworld thinks that no, apparently
Can we just immerse in "being"? The #artworld thinks that no, apparently
December 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Mid-career gets overlooked, despite being one of the most dynamic creative phases.
Can we just immerse in "being"? The #artworld thinks that no, apparently
Can we just immerse in "being"? The #artworld thinks that no, apparently
Women are central protagonists of the art world, yet they are often relegated to the margins once they’re no longer “new.”
I suspect it has something to do with no longer -- or not yet -- being muses, not ingenue or elders. Just being.
I suspect it has something to do with no longer -- or not yet -- being muses, not ingenue or elders. Just being.
December 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Women are central protagonists of the art world, yet they are often relegated to the margins once they’re no longer “new.”
I suspect it has something to do with no longer -- or not yet -- being muses, not ingenue or elders. Just being.
I suspect it has something to do with no longer -- or not yet -- being muses, not ingenue or elders. Just being.
I've been thinking about this for a few years now. I was struck by a 2021 conversation with Elinor Carucci, Maya Benton, and Tal Dekel. The issue was how gender becomes intertwined with age and visibility in visual culture
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I've been thinking about this for a few years now. I was struck by a 2021 conversation with Elinor Carucci, Maya Benton, and Tal Dekel. The issue was how gender becomes intertwined with age and visibility in visual culture