Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) has done work that is the subject of an exhibit, "Julian Kilker, Aesthetic Evidence: Place, Context, and Process in the Southwest," sponsored by Nevada Humanities.

Sponsored with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibit is on view through Jan. 28 at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Las Vegas. The exhibition features multimedia by Kilker, associate professor of emerging technologies, that explores visual evidence in an age of extensive visual manipulation and data analysis. How do we interpret photographs in an age of big data? How is visual information emphasized or disguised? Themes from photojournalism and data analysis are explored together, informed by Kilker’s experiences using the Southwest region as a visual laboratory.

Kilker’s experience bridges the humanities and the sciences; he earned his doctorate from Cornell University, taught science courses as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, and has worked in technical fields in Switzerland, Washington, D.C., and Oregon. He focuses on media technologies and innovation, and has held solo photography exhibitions in Switzerland, California, and Nevada, and published in academic journals including Visual Communication Quarterly, Social Identities, Convergence, IEEE journals, and The Public Historian. Most recently he has explored data collected near the newly protected Basin and Range National Monument in Nevada for a group exhibition at UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, scheduled for a statewide tour in 2016.