Afterimage articles from January 1999

Afterimage archives from January 1999

Musical chairs.(curator changes at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art)
January 1, 1999... Musical chairs is being played by past and present curators at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art under the direction of Maxwell Anderson, former director of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto who took over for David Ross, now...

Dick Higgins, 1938-1998.(versatile artist)
January 1, 1999... Dick Higgins was one of the two most versatile artists I've known. The other was John Cage. It was in John's class in experimental music at The New School in New York City that I first met Dick around 1957. Dick and John typified the kind of...

NEA 1999 fiscal year grants.(National Endowment for the Arts)
January 1, 1999... The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its first round of grants for the 1999 fiscal year. Nearly $20 million will be awarded in new grants, representative of 24% of the year's budget. Creation and Presentation grants, the largest of...

Native networks.(Atlatl biennial conference)
January 1, 1999... Native Arts Network: The Artist as Visionary Atlaltl biennial conference San Francisco, California October 8-11, 1998 The artist as visionary is a risky and easily misunderstood concept in the art world today. Link the New Age concept of...

Signals in Syracuse.(conference on Video History: Making Connections)
January 1, 1999... Video History: Making Connections Syracuse University, New York October 16-18, 1998 "Life and work are fragile and fleeting. People are getting older. Memories fade." This was, in the words of conference co-organizer Sherry Miller Hocking,...

L.A. in motion.(LA Freewaves biennial festival)
January 1, 1999... All Over the Map: LA. Freewaves 6th Celebration of Independent Video & New Media Los Angeles, California September 8-October 4, 1998 All Over the Map: L.A. Freewaves 6th Celebration of Independent Video & New Media was a provocative and...

Working circuits.(biennial conference of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture)
January 1, 1999... Media Generation: What Works to What's Next National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture biennial conference Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 22-25, 1998 From October 22-25, 1998, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)...

Relax, it's just film.(the 6th annual Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival)
January 1, 1999... ImageOut: 6th Annual Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival Rochester, New York October 16-24, 1998 With subzero winter temperatures, a total of two gay bars and a baby-boom emphasis on the nuclear family and material gain,...

Maiden USA: representing teenage girls in the '90s.
January 1, 1999... Made-in USA Myriad choices exist for American girls within the image systems of this post-feminist era. Women's sports have hit the popular airwaves with professional basketball teams, an Olympic hockey team and stellar media focus on...

Hysteria and the helio-trope: on bodies, gender and the photograph.
January 1, 1999... What makes photographs philosophical is that they prompt and defeat theory. - Norton Batkin(1) Confessions Roland Barthes's last work, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1981), begins on a confessional note: "I decided I...

Text on display.(Johanna Drucker's 'The Next Word: Text and/as Image and/as Design and/as Meaning)
January 1, 1999... The Next Word: Text and/as Image and/as Design and/as Meaning Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, State University of New York Purchase, New York September 20, 1998-January 31, 1999 The Next Word: Text and/as Image and/as Design...

Family matters.(Allan Sekula's 'Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972-1996')
January 1, 1999... Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972-1996 by Allan Sekula Atlanta College of Art Atlanta, Georgia October 9-November 29, 1998 Dismal Science: Photo Works 1972-1996 by Allan Sekula New York, NY: D.A.P., forthcoming "Dismal Science: Photo...

Into the zoetrope.(photographs by Gregory Barsamian)
January 1, 1999... Innuendo Non Troppo by Gregory Barsamian The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio September 5-November 1, 1998 Gregory Barsamian's art is one of synchronicity and illusion. Reviving and elaborating on the form of the nineteenth-century...