Afterimage back issues from March 2006:
Creative Capital Foundation awards grants totaling more than $400,000 for 2006.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Creative Capital Foundation awards grants totaling more than $400,000 for 2006. The organization awarded sixty-one artists representing forty-three different projects in the performing arts, emerging fields, and innovative ...
Getty Fund to assist arts institutions hit by Hurricane Katrina.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Getty Foundation Fund )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Getty Fund to assist arts institutions hit by Hurricane Katrina. Two million dollars have been set aside by the foundation to help New Orleans and other storm-affected arts institutions recover from the hurricane. Two types of grants are available for arts organizations: ...
No Strings Foundation inaugural grants awarded.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... No Strings Foundation inaugural grants awarded. Ford Gilbreath and Martin Weber received grants of $25,000 each, intended to enhance and facilitate the creative endeavors of artists using photography as a medium. Gilbreath is a Seattle, Washington, artist whose imagery addresses the ...
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) is transitioning to new leadership and staff.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) is transitioning to new leadership and staff. The group plans to become more relevant and responsive to the needs of independent mediamakers. The revamped AIVF's vision of the future includes ...
Judge dismisses lawsuit against Philip-Lorca diCorcia.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(right to privacy case)(Philip-Lorca diCorcia v. Erno Nussenzweig)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Judge dismisses lawsuit against Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Erno Nussenzweig--whose Orthodox Jewish beliefs forbid the reproduction of his image by any means--filed suit against the photographer claiming that his right to privacy had been violated and that the photograph, which later sold for ...
Edward Steichen photo breaks record for most expensive ever sold at auction.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Edward Steichen photo breaks record for most expensive ever sold at auction. Steichen's 1904 work The Pond-Moonlight was purchased for $2,928,000. This shattered the previous record set in November 2005 when an ...
London's Hayward Gallery announces hiring of new director.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Ralph Rugoff)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... London's Hayward Gallery announces hiring of new director. Ralph Rugoff, director of the California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, has accepted the position of director of the Hayward Gallery at the South Bank ...
Late addition.
Mar 01, 2006 ... The Urban Screens 05 festival covered in the November/December 2005 issue of Afterimage (Volume 33, no. 3) was organized by Mirjam Struppek of UrbanllReseARTch, ...
Nam June Paik: 1932-2006.(news)(Obituary)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Video art pioneer Nam June Paik died of natural causes at his home in Miami, Florida, on January 29, 2006; he was seventy-three. A memorial service for Paik was held in New York City on February 3, 2006. Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1932, Paik lived there until his family fled the ...
Location, location, location.(Association of International Photography Art Dealers photography show)
Mar 01, 2006; ... AIPAD'S PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 2006 NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 10-12, 2006 If it is February in New York, then it is AIPAD time, and the eyes and wallets of the photography world converge on the finest collection of photography galleries, members of the ...
Love fest.(International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Mar 01, 2006; ... SATELLITE OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND JANUARY 26-MARCH 26, 2006 It was once the case that artists chose to use video in order to be able to broadcast their work, and their goal was to leave behind the ...
Evolution of a photo fair.(Photo L.A trade fairs)
Mar 01, 2006; ... PHOTO L.A. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 19-22, 2006 Presenting its fifteenth installment this year, photo l,a, has matured into one of the better art photography trade fairs in the United States. Improving on last year's event with its overabundance of ...
Festival Focus on Asia.(film festivals)
Mar 01, 2006; ... FOCUS ON ASIA--FUKUOKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FUKUOKA, JAPAN SEPTEMBER 16-25, 2005 PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PUSAN, SOUTH KOREA OCTOBER 6-14, 2005 DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DUBAI, UNITED ...
When research needs another name.(Sensuous Knowledge conference-- by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts)
Mar 01, 2006; ... SENSUOUS KNOWLEDGE 2 SOLSTRAND, NORWAY NOVEMBER 9-11, 2005 When I first read the description of last November's Sensuous Knowledge conference--hosted annually by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Bergen, Norway--it piqued my interest, even though ...
Supernatural girls.
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> Whether possessing a capacity for magic or the ability to do battle with the undead, there is no question that contemporary teenage heroines have power with a capital P. --Debbie Stoller, The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (1) </Pre> In the digital effects era of the past ...
Extending the frame: an interview with Susan Meiselas.(feature)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Susan Meiselas has represented difficult issues with innovative approaches throughout her thirty-year career as a documentary media artist. Her awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal (1979), the MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and the Hasselblad Prize (1994). A self-described "human ...
Web design's long first decade: a micro--meta--history.
Mar 01, 2006; ... The World Wide Web as a medium and Web design as a creative practice are now both old enough to have histories. The period between 2003 and 2005 saw various public celebrations of the first ten years of this quintessential new medium. But, when my turn to participate arrived at the first ...
Intermedia: forty years on and beyond.(feature)
Mar 01, 2006; ... WHAT IS INTERMEDIA? Forty years ago artist Dick Higgins coined the term "intermedia" to describe works of art that seemed to "fall between media." (1) Although delimiting concepts are contrary to the spirit of intermedia, two defining features have marked intermedia art since ...
Gotta Dance: the exotic language of the body.(Buena Vista Social Club, Gotta Dance )(Editorial)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Gotta Dance celebrates motion through a study of diverse dance forms and cultures. I am drawn to the universality of dance and the relationships between sound, motion, and emotion. This work expresses the artistry, magnetism, and athleticism of dance through an evolving series of toned ...
Computer-based art radiates grounded ideas.(Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland)
Mar 01, 2006; ... ALL DIGITAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, OHIO JANUARY 20-MAY 7, 2006 On view through May 7, 2006, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) presents "All Digital," a sophisticated, engaging, and diverse group of fifteen ...
The medium's message.(The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2006; ... THE PERFECT MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OCCULT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 27-DECEMBER 31, 2005 Photography has always been considered a medium of fact, capable of producing precise and accurate images of the material ...
Portraits of outrage.(Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis conference)
Mar 01, 2006; ... PICTURING ATROCITY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 27, 2005 For four weeks, a small-scale exhibition exploring public perception and representation of the United States' most recent ...
Atrocious images.(Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis conference)(Conference news)
Mar 01, 2006; ... PICTURING ATROCITY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT THE GRADUATE CENTER CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK, NEW YORK DECEMBER 9, 2005 On December 9, 2005, photographers, curators, scholars, and activists ...
Elements for experience.(Alexandre Castonguay: Elements)
Mar 01, 2006; ... ALEXANDRE CASTONGUAY: ELEMENTS MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL MONTREAL, QUEBEC SEPTEMBER 22, 2005-JANUARY 8, 2006 Computer programmers describe the interconnections between sets of code, text, and images as "elegant" when they possess an ...
Art, science, and imagination.(Pluto's Cave: Making Visible the Invisible)
Mar 01, 2006; ... PLUTO'S CAVE: MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE BY ACME PHYSICS BIG ORBIT GALLERY BUFFALO, NEW YORK OCTOBER 15-DECEMBER 18, 2005 NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY VISUAL ARTS GALLERY JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY JANUARY ...
Subculture communication.(Schablone Berlin )(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... SCHABLONE BERLIN BY CAROLINE KOEBEL AND KYLE SCHLESINGER TUCSON: CHAX PRESS, 2005 150 PP./$16.95 (SB) "Schablone," the art form that appears with random frequency on the walls and in the streets of Berlin, is the German word for "stencil." ...
Reviewing orthodoxies.(A New History of Documentary Film)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... A NEW HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM BY JACK C. ELLIS AND BETSY A. MCLANE NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2005 385 PP./$19.95 (SB) Now is undoubtedly a boom-time for the documentary. The popularity and critical success of the theatrically released documentary ...
Photo synthesis.(The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage.)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... THE ART OF FREDERICK SOMMER: PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING, COLLAGE BY KEITH F. DAVIS, ET AL. NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 252 PP./$65.00 (HB) RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD BY RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD AND GUY DAVENPORT NEW YORK AND ...
A tough commute. (No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America, 1960-1980)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... NO LONGER INNOCENT: BOOK ART IN AMERICA 1960-1980 BY BETTY BRIGHT NEW YORK: GRANARY BOOKS, 2005 350 PP./$39.95 (SB) As I read No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 by Betty Bright, a particular metaphor began to form in my mind: that ...
Mother board.(My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts )(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... MY MOTHER WAS A COMPUTER: DIGITAL SUBJECTS AND LITERARY TEXTS BY N. KATHERINE HAYLES CHICAGO AND LONDON: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2005 228 PP./$55.00 (HB), $22.00 (SB) "If nothing else," writes N. Katherine Hayles in the prologue of her ...
Photo economics.(The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... THE CORPORATE EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN COMMERCIAL CULTURE, 1884-1929 BY ELSPETH H. BROWN BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 344 PP./$49.95 (HB) The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalizatoin of ...
Imbedded public histories.(Precious Places)(Video recording review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... PRECIOUS PLACES BY SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER 174 MINUTES, ENGLISH, 2005 A vigorous, contentious debate underlies documentary theory, history, and practice: How do we understand the shifting power relations between filmmaker, subject, and audience? Corollary ...
Media received.
Mar 01, 2006 ... American Surfaces, by Stephen Shore. Phaidon/232 pp./$55.00 (hb). Back Story 4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, edited by Patrick McGilligan. University of California Press/434 pp./$60.00 (sb). Boulevard, by Adam Bartos. Steidl/120 pp./$65.00 ...
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics).(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... ATOMIC LIGHT (SHADOW OPTICS) by Akira Mizuta Lippit. University of Minnesota Press/248 pp./$19.95 (sb). What is the common factor among x-ray machines, psychoanalysis, and atomic radiation? According to Akira Mizuta Lippit, a professor of cinema, comparative ...
Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film by Maya Deren.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... ESSENTIAL DEREN: COLLECTED WRITINGS ON FILM BY MAYA DEREN edited by Bruce R. McPherson. McPherson & Company/261 pp./$18.00 (sb). To place the words "essential" and "Deren" in the same title, much less the same sentence, is quite ironic. Capturing the essence of ...
The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... THE EUROPEANS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA BARNEY London and Gottingen: Barbican Art Gallery and Steidl Publishers, 192 pp./$50.00 (hb). Quite possibly, the only milieu more rarefied than the upper crust WASPs that have comprised the mainstay of Tina Barney's photographs ...
Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... EVERYTHING I ATE: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF MY MOUTH by Tucker Shaw. Chronicle Books/496 pp./$14.95 (sb). As a documentary chronicle of our times, Tucker Shaw's Everything I Ate is just what it claims to be: a lively and comprehensive account of all the food one thirtyish ...
Installationview.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... INSTALLATIONVIEW by Ryan McGinness Rizzoli/288 pp./$40.00 (sb). Steeped in popular culture, graphic design, and the worlds of marketing and branding, the work of Ryan McGinness often polarizes critics, begging the inevitable debate: Is it design or is it art? Such ...
Niagara.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... NIAGARA by Alec Soth Steidl/144 pp./$60.00 (hb). Alec Soth has followed up his widely lauded "Sleeping by the Mississippi" project with an intense and intimate exploration of another iconic body of water. "Niagara" finds Soth training his camera on the famous ...
Turning 50.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... TURNING 50 by Bea Nettles. Inky Press Productions/64 pp./$20.00 (sb). Turning 50, which was rereleased in an edition of 200 in 2005 (originally published in 1995), is a visual account of aging. Bea Nettles has varicose veins, skin that sags, wrinkles--the expected ...
Notices.(Public notice)
Mar 01, 2006 ... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Visions: outside/inside. May 11-Sept. 17. southwestNET: Jones Studio, Inc. Ricardo Mazal: The Tomb of the Red Queen. Both May 27-Sept. 24. Flor Garduno: Inner Light. June 9-Sept ....