Afterimage articles from January 1995

Afterimage archives from January 1995

Afterthoughts. (reauthorization legislation for the National Endowment for the Arts)
January 1, 1995... In order to stem the tide of anxiety frothing around the precarious status of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reauthorization legislation this spring, we've taken an informal survey of opinions regarding this legislation among media...

STRIPT-O-CAUCUS neA. (elimination of congressional caucuses; reauthorization of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts)
January 1, 1995... On December 4, 1994, the new Republican Congressional leadership via the House Republican Conference eliminated all Legislative Service OrganizatiOns (LSOs). Among the House services eliminated were all congressional caucuses including the...

MiX-DEFYING. (New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival)
January 1, 1995... MIX Anthology Film Archive New York, NY November 10-20, 1994 Watch out! There's a motley assortment of queer film- and videomakers out there just itching to cajole, seduce, and threaten their way into your local theaters and onto your favorite...

Aesthetic evangelists: conversion and empowerment in contemporary community art.
January 1, 1995... During the last few years a new set of assumptions about the role of the artist has emerged in the United States as part of what is being called the "new public art."(1) This "new genre" of public art, according to critic Suzi Gablik, "takes the...

Bad Girls Video. (The Wight Gallery, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA)
January 1, 1995... A hagiographic version of video history, promulgated by anthologies of video criticism such as that of Gregory Battcock and John Hanhardt, and mythologizing the likes of Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, and Chris Burden is too familiar.(1) That video...

The Computer in the Studio. (DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; The Computer Museum, Boston, MA)
January 1, 1995... The exhibition "The Computer in the Studio" addresses two general social perspectives on the relationship between the computer and artistic practice. One is the conventional wisdom that computers threaten and debase individual creativity in the...

Facets African American Video Guide.
January 1, 1995... With over 350 directors and twice as many titles included, Facets African American Video Guide is an exciting collection of old and new feature films, documentaries and performances, most of which can be rented or bought on video or laser disk...

Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1995... Edited by Wimal Dissanayake, a senior fellow at the East-West Center, in Honolulu, HI, Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema circumvents concepts of "history" and "nationhood" in an effort to examine the intersection of colonialism and...

Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1995... Images in the Dark is a resourceful catalog of films and videos that incorporate queer involvement or investment and are of general interest to the gay and lesbian community. In the introduction, Raymond Murray states that he "aspired to make...