Afterimage back issues from November 2005:
Esther Parada: 1938-2005.(news)(Obituary)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Artist Esther Parada died on October 19, 2005, in her Chicago, Illinois, home after a three-year battle with gastrointestinal stromal cell cancer; she was sixty-seven. Parada, whose work focused on the political, historical, and social relations between the United States and Latin America, ...
Horst Faas has received Germany's highest photo award.(Salomon Prize, 2005 for lifetime achievement award in artistic photography)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2005 ... Horst Faas has received Germany's highest photo award, the Salomon Prize, for his lifetime achievements as editor and photographer. Faas, who is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was awarded the honor by the German Photographic Society during a ceremony on ...
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering emergency grants.(cultural and historical institutions those affected by Hurricane Katrina)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2005 ... The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering emergency grants of at least $1 million to cultural and historical institutions, including libraries, museums, colleges, and universities in Gulf Coast areas affected by Hurricane ...
Centre Pompidou and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation propose development of a new museum in Hong Kong.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2005 ... Centre Pompidou and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation propose development of a new museum in Hong Kong. The two institutions will work together on a joint proposal for the construction of a museum in the West Kowloon, part of a 40-hectare waterfront site in ...
University of California.(California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has opened supercomputing laboratory )(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2005 ... University of California, San Diego, has opened the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a nanoscience, wireless, and supercomputing laboratory designed as an artist/scientist collaborative. The high-tech facility includes two wings, one for ...
Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography.(artistic photography exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2005 ... The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography (HMCP) will open in January 2006 in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. HMCP will be "an exhibition venue for fine photography on loan from some of the most creative and exciting photographers of our day ... as ...
Activism without borders.(Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media Environment conferance)
Nov 01, 2005; ... RE: ACTIVISM: RE-DRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF ACTIVISM IN A NEW MEDIA ENVIRONMENT BUDAPEST, HUNGARY OCTOBER 14-15, 2005 The two-day, international conference RE: activism: Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media Environment was organized by the ...
Future perfection.(report)
Nov 01, 2005; ... FUTURE PERFECT: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART AND THE QUESTION OF THE ARCHIVE CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2005 Cornell University recently hosted Future Perfect: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Question of the Archive, an international ...
Media, biases, environments.(conventions of Media Ecology Association)
Nov 01, 2005; ... MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION CONVENTION NEW YORK, NEW YORK JUNE 22-26, 2005 From June 22-26, 2005, scholars from around the globe gathered at Ford-ham University in New York City for the Media Ecology Association's sixth annual convention with the theme of ...
Confronting consolidation.(report)
Nov 01, 2005; ... 2005 NAMAC CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 2, 2005 The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in Philadelphia with evening receptions and events at the Institute for ...
The Ingenuity track.(management of media industry)
Nov 01, 2005; ... NAMAC's Ingenuity track appeared in high relief against the conference's theme of lending fresh meanings of freedom, creativity, and risk to the media arts. This might be expected, since these values usually appear within the domain of emerging media. Yet, because new media often take ...
Screenspace.(report)
Nov 01, 2005; ... URBAN SCREENS 05 STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2005 Urban Screens 05: Discovering the Potential of Outdoor Screens for Urban Society was an international conference focusing on the public space that is created when ...
Catalyzing media.(New Mexico Media Literacy Project)(analysis of media literacy programs)
Nov 01, 2005; ... CATALYST INSTITUTE NEW MEXICO MEDIA LITERACY PROJECT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO AUGUST 1-4, 2005 The New Mexico Media Literacy Project (NMMLP), housed on the campus of Albuquerque Academy, a private middle and high school, is the largest ...
Intersection for the arts at forty.(Fortieth anniversary of Intersection for the arts)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Just as the success of a community is based on collaboration, successful collaboration is based within meaningful relationships. As San Francisco, California's oldest alternative community art space (est. 1965), Intersection for the Arts has fostered strong relationships through the ...
Cross-pollination.(portrait)(Brian Singer launched 1000 Journals Project's Web site)
Nov 01, 2005; ... Although keeping a journal is like flossing for many of us, consistency plummeting by day eight of our routine, it holds a universal interest: the cartoonist, the chemist, the cabbage-hater, and the cat lady unite. But it's not only discipline that deteriorates with time. According to ...
Representations of the unreal: Bush's Orwellian newspeak.
Nov 01, 2005; ... <Pre> In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell (1903-50) </Pre> One characteristic of an authoritarian society is its willingness to distort the truth while simultaneously suppressing dissent. Umberto Eco has argued that ...
The muse of place and time: an interview with William Christenberry.(feature)(Interview)
Nov 01, 2005; ... William Christenberry, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1936, is a photographer, painter, sculptor, teacher, and arts advocate who is considered one of the most influential southern artists working today. Christenberry's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts ...
No time to stand still.(works of Adela Holmes)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2005; ... While I prefer not to rush in this increasingly fast-paced world, I've realized that moving through time at a faster rate makes the future and history happen more rapidly, advancing us more quickly to the next stage. These images, taken from a moving car, have an element of chance and ...
Grrls make movies: the emergence of women-led filmmaking initiatives for teenage girls.(feature)
Nov 01, 2005; ... An initial glance at Martha M. Lauzen's "Celluloid Ceiling" study is enough to induce math anxiety. This annual San Diego State University study has been reporting on statistics related to women working behind the scenes on the top 250 domestic grossing films since 1998. Lauzen's 2003 ...
Bit by bit.(artistic photography exhabitions at New Museum of Contemporary Art)
Nov 01, 2005; ... RHIZOME ARTBASE 101 NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK JUNE 23-SEPTEMBER 10, 2005 The concept of Internet-based art has changed since it first emerged in the early 1990s. Some artists who early on began exploring the ...
Objects of desire.(Leora Laor's artistic photography exhibitions at Israel and Illinois)
Nov 01, 2005; ... LEORA LAOR DVIR GALLERY TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL SEPTEMBER 1-OCTOBER 8, 2005 LEORA LAOR: IMAGES OF LIGHT DAITER CONTEMPORARY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER 9-OCTOBER 29, 2005 Fantastic, abstract imagery often ...
A sense of community.(exhibition on visual arts)
Nov 01, 2005; ... BAY AREA NOW 4 YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JULY 16-NOVEMBER 6, 2005 BAY AREA NOW 4 SAN FRANCISCO: YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 132 PP./$25.00 (SB) Yerba ...
Archival (re)collections.
Nov 01, 2005; ... NANCY ANN COYNE: ARCHIVING MEMORY UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, ELMER L. ANDERSEN LIBRARY MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA FEBRUARY 7-SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 Why her parents "shlepped" around a book of family photographs after fleeing from Austria, Erika Rosenkranz ...
Not unspoken.(painting and photography exhibitions at canada and USA)
Nov 01, 2005; ... GLENN LIGON: SOME CHANGES THE POWER PLANT TORONTO, ONTARIO JUNE 25-SEPTEMBER 5, 2005 CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM HOUSTON HOUSTON, TEXAS JANUARY 14-APRIL 2, 2006 THE WARHOL MUSEUM PITTSBURGH, ...
Sculptural books stand and deliver.(Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into a Book Format)
Nov 01, 2005; ... STAND AND DELIVER: ENGINEERING SCULPTURE INTO A BOOK FORMAT CENTER FOR BOOK & PAPER ARTS COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER 16-OCTOBER 28, 2005 In "Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into a Book Format," ...
Frontal assault.(User: Info Techno Demo)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... USER: INFO TECHNO DEMO BY PETER LUNENFELD, WITH VISUALS BY MIEKE GERRITZEN CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2005 171 PP./$25.95 (SB) Peter Lunenfeld's texts in User: Info TechnoDemo are filled with declarative assertions, compelling and provocative ....
Privileged play spaces.(Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... INTERACTIVE REALISM: THE POETICS OF CYBERSPACE BY DANIEL DOWNES MONTREAL AND KINGSTON: MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 192 PP./$24.95 (SB) Breaking with what he considers the general tendency in media theory to identify technology as an ...
Taking issue.(Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... MEDIA ECOLOGIES: MATERIALIST ENERGIES IN ART AND TECHNOCULTURE BY MATTHEW FULLER CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2005 240 PP./$34.95 (SB) If you believe that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, that the map is not the territory, and that ...
Questionable autonomy.(Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS: THE WRITINGS OF ANDREA FRASER BY ANDREA FRASER, EDITED BY ALEXANDER ALBERRO CAMBRIDGE: MIT PRESS, 2005 291 PP./$40.00 (HB) Viewers might be familiar with Andrea Fraser's "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk," a 1989 performance ...
Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... BEING THERE: MEDICAL STUDENT MORGUE VOLUNTEERS FOLLOWING 9-11 by Barry M. Goldstein. Master Scholars Press at New York University School of Medicine/87 pp./price unavailable (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the staff of ...
Exquisite Pain.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... EXQUISITE PAIN by Sophie Calle. Thames and Hudson/284 pp./$39.95 (hb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This book reminds us that pain, suffering, and unhappiness can be exquisitely beautiful things. Exquisite Pain documents a ninety-two-day trip Calle made to Japan ...
Media received.
Nov 01, 2005 ... Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, by Robert Hobbs. MIT Press/423 pp./$50.00 (hb). An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession, by Jay Bochner. MIT Press/371 pp./$39.95 (hb). American Surfaces, by Stephen Shore. Phaidon Press/231 pp./$55.00 ...
Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... IDENTITY: CONVERSATIONS WITH BENEDETTO VECCHI by Zygmunt Bauman. Polity Press/104 pp./$17.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In an interesting but loose format of compiled e-mail conversations between author Zygmunt Bauman and journalist and editor Benedetto ...
Pixel Surgeons: Extreme Manipulations of the Figure in Photography.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... PIXEL SURGEONS: EXTREME MANIPULATIONS OF THE FIGURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY by Martin Dawber. Mitchell Beazley/224 pp./$29.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With as much T 'n' A as Hustler, Pixel Surgeons contains two hundred tantalizing images that are admittedly ...
Water Being Water.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... WATER BEING WATER by David Goldes. Wright State University Art Galleries/51 pp./$25.00 (sb). This exhibition catalog begins with a quote from Gertrude Stein: "What is it that water does do?" This is a question that could be asked of a scientist or an artist, but it ...
Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2005; ... YOUNG AMERICA: THE DAGUERREOTYPES OF SOUTHWORTH & HAWES edited by Grant B. Romer and Brian Wallis/ICP/Steidl/552 pp./$120.00 (hb). This exhibition and book is the largest project to result from the partnership between the George Eastman House (GEH) and the ...
Notices.
Nov 01, 2005 ... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Pay Attention: Bruce Nauman Videos from the collection of Barbara Balkin Cottle and Robert Cottle. Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona Collections. Both through Jan. 8, ...