Alexey Yurenev, ICP Faculty and Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism ’18 alum has received a Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Alexey will conduct a variety of educational and training activities within the field of Education at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Slovak Republic. He is one of more than 400 U.S. citizens who share their expertise with institutions abroad through the FSP each year.
Alexey is also presenting Seeing Against Seeing an installation centered on the artist book of the same name (Nooscope, 2025) and presented alongside the two-channel film No One is Forgotten. On display October 5–8, 2026, Seeing Against Seeing is co-presented by Movement Lab and Columbia University School of the Arts.
Rooted in the documentary tradition, Yurenev’s practice confronts the challenge of visualizing what cannot be seen: absences in family and state archives, repressed memories, and events without witnesses. If photojournalism shows what could not be observed firsthand, one of generative AI’s more provocative capacities is to imagine what never happened but could have. It is this speculative potential that draws Yurenev into collaboration with artificial intelligence.
Alexey Yurenev, Seeing Against Seeing, 2022–2025
