Afterimage articles from January 2002

Afterimage archives from January 2002

The Andrea Frank Foundation. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Andrea Frank Foundation has awarded Challenge Grants to The Anthology Film Archives, based in New York City, the Studio Museum in Harlem, also of New York City and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Each grant is in the...

Art Issues. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Art Issues, a magazine published by the Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies In L.A., ceased publication on December 8. The enterprise began in 1989 and was incorporated as a division of the Foundation in 1992. Over the course of this...

ArtByte. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In a related event, ArtByte, the magazine devoted to digital arts and culture, suspended publication in November. The November/December issue was completed, but it was never printed. ArtByte published its first issue in October 1998 and reached...

MacArthur Foundation. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced 23 MacArthur fellows for 2001. Each of the recipients will receive $500,000 over five years with few stipulations as to how the money is spent--the fellows themselves are...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Louisa Stude Sarofim Charitable Trust to endow the Carol Crow Photography Conservator Chair, a full-time position not yet filled. The conservator will work...

The Columbus Museum of Art. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, has announced its acquisition of a major photography collection of work by The Photo League, an urban counterpart to the government-sponsored Farm Security Administration project.

The Whitney Museum of American Art. (Newswire).
January 1, 2002... The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the 113 artists and collaborative teams to be exhibited at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, It thereby promises to be the largest since 1982. The chief curator of the 2002 Biennial is Lawrence Rinder,...

Flintridge Foundation Awards. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Two of the twelve visual artists selected for Flintridge Foundation Awards are photographers Linda Conner, from the San Francisco Bay area, and Terry Toedtemeier, who hails from Portland, Oregon. Each year twelve grants of $25,000 are divided...

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art was awarded a grant of $150,000 from the Getty Center to support the development of publications and interpretive activities related to its 2003-2004 exhibition schedule, which features the work of such...

Eugene McDermott Award. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The 2001 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT, has been given to installation artist and Filmmaker Isaac Julien, who is known for his mediations on popular mythology, history, race and high culture.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has named Ned Rifkin its third director. Rikin left the position as Director of the Menil Collection and Foundation in Houston, Texas. He succeeds James Demetrion, who retired after a 17-year tenure.

The Young Photographers United (YPU). (Newswire).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Young Photographers United (YPU), based in Belgium, has launched a foundation. Its stated role is to "help promising photographers around the world develop their skills and become artistic entrepreneurs." YPU originated from a photography...

Grapevine.(New York City ArtSci conference)
January 1, 2002... Art + Science = * ArtSci 2001 * November 2-4, 2001 * City University of New York, The Graduate Center * ANNE BARLOW currently works at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Prior to this, she was a contemporary art...

Booked.(Photo Americas 2001)
January 1, 2002... * Photo Americas 2001 * Month of Photography, October 2-27, 2001 * Review Americas, October 3-6, 2001 Portland, Oregon * KATHLEEN POWERS is an independent fine-art painter and photographer living in Portland, Oregon. This...

Game over?(Gary Winogrand exhibition)
January 1, 2002... * Garry Winogrand's Game of Photography * Part I: The Known, October 6, 2001 - November 9, 2001 * Part II: The New, November 11, 2001 - January 6, 2002 * The Symposium, November 8 - 11, 2001 * Center for Creative Photography,...

Critical (in) practice.(Royal College of Art (London))
January 1, 2002... * With its responsibility to rigor, complexity and seriousness, the evolving photography program at the Royal College provokes interesting ideas, both about the possibilities for photography within the commercial art world and within the...

Requiem.(capturing the september 11th terrorist attacks through photography)(Illustration)
January 1, 2002... * For a few days following September 11, while a city desperately searched itself for signs of life, the missing thousands were made to inhabit New York's streets and parks assigns, as digital photographic images. Wanted: Dead or Alive. *...

Command CV: A legend by default.(appropriation of images)(Interview)
January 1, 2002... * ROBYN WHITLAW made an illuminating disappearance in Ralph Rugoff's critical writings. * MICHAEL MANDIBERG is a conceptual artist who uses the Net to explore identity, labor and commerce. His year-long project "Shop Mandiberg" will be...

Inertia Reels: Mobility in Hong Kong video.
January 1, 2002... It is hard to live in Hong Kong without becoming obsessed with mobility. One's status is measured by one's ability to migrate, travel, send one's children to elite boarding schools or maintain a residence abroad. The landmarks of Hong Kong, if...

Voiceover.(language and new media)(Panel Discussion)
January 1, 2002... Voiceover features the interaction and integration of three texts. Contributions can be read from left to right in the order they were written. The talking point in this issue revolves around The Language of New Media. To be continued... ...

Paradise lost and found.
January 1, 2002... * Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York September 15, 2001 - January 6, 2002 * MELISSA PEARL FRIEDLING is a film and video artist and writer, currently teaching filmmaking in the...

Awakenings.
January 1, 2002... RELATED ARTICLE: INDICES [1] Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, still from "Exilee," 1980. [21 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, still from "Exilee," 1980 [3] Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, "Surplus Novel," 1980. * The Dream of the Audience *...

Legacy.
January 1, 2002... John Darwell Manchester, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001 On April 28, 1986, the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant overheated, causing a meltdown of its core. Subsequent explosions exposed local residents to...

Welcome to Cyberschool.
January 1, 2002... David Trend Lanham, MD: Rowman 6 Littlefield Publishers, 2001 With a greeting that usually announces an arrival, David Trend bids us a hearty Welcome to Cyberschool. But the intonation of anything adorned with this omnipresent prefix...

Foci.
January 1, 2002... Carolee Thea New York: Apex Art Curatorial Program, 2001 Foci is a collection of short interviews published by the Apex Art Curatorial Program, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space established in New York in 1994. It brings...

Reading Karl Marx.
January 1, 2002... Rainer Ganahl London: Book Works, 2001 From a material perspective. Reading Karl Marx is a handsome book. It is simple in appearance, tasteful in design, short on text and decked out with color photographs. It is the kind of book whose...

Utopian Entrepreneur.
January 1, 2002... Brenda Laurel Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001 Don't let the word "entrepreneur" in the title scare you off--this book is for utopian dreamers of all kinds. Sure, we all want to change the world. But Brenda Laurel's tale of trying to...

The book of 101 books.(Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century)
January 1, 2002... Andrew Roth New York: PPP Editions/Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001 Sooner or later the fad for lists was going to reach photographic books. Sooner or later the rare book trade was going to get its glossy guide to the most-wanted photography...

Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture.
January 1, 2002... Malcolm Barnard New York: Palgrave, 2001 What is visual culture? Over the last three years, several introductory texts on visual culture have been published that address the production of visual imagery and its interpretations. These...

What's the matter with the internet.
January 1, 2002... Mark Poster Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001 Never judge a book by its cover. For book reviews of any length, this dictum goes without saying, but it does ignore the researched fact that most books are sold and read on...

Events.
January 1, 2002... ARIZONA Workshop: Edition Book Production, a two-day workshop led by Pat Baldwin of Pequeno Press, is available for groups of six or more. For information call (520) 432-5924 or email patbooks@primenet.com. CALIFORNIA Courses: UC...

The Leeway Foundation. (Grants Available).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Grants available: The Leeway Foundation is offering its Window of Opportunity Grants for 2002, providing immediate, short-term grants of up to $2,000 to Philadelphia-area women artists. Grants are open to artists in all fields.

Asian American Arts Alliance. (Grants Available).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Asian American Arts Alliance announces the 2001 J.P. Morgan Chase SMARTS Regrants Program. Community-based Asian-American arts organizations in the tri-state area are eligible for $2,000-$3,000 grants for projects that help the organization...

The Nancy H. Gray Foundation. (Grants Available).(environmental art)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment offers grants to artists who work outdoors in the U.S. and address environmental problems, issues and education.

The Boston Film & Video Foundation. (Grants Available).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Boston Film & Video Foundation offers merit awards and production grants. Applicants most be at least 18 years old, legal residents of MA for the past three years and nut enrolled in a related degree-granting program. For merit awards,...

The Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund. (Grants Available).(independent video)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Video awards grants for criticism and production.

The Photographic Resource Center (PRC). (Newswire).(Leslie Brown appointed curator)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University has appointed Leslie Brown as Curator, a position she accepts after serving as Associate Curator of Education at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. The PRC is a...

University of California at Riverside (UCR). (Newswire).(grant)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... University of California at Riverside (UCR) has been awarded a generous grant in the amount of $112,500 from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. UCR was one of 178 institutions that received such funding.