Afterimage articles from January 2006

Afterimage archives from January 2006

Uncertain future for community access TV.(television)(analysis of broadband internet transmission services bill)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... With the aim of creating favorable conditions for the introduction of broadband technology, legislation has been proposed that would strip community media makers of equipment, training, and channel space. In November 2005, Congress held...

Fair use statement launched.(intellectual property of documentary films industry)
January 1, 2006... Documentary filmmakers have all too often found their creative work hobbled by strict copyright clearance practices. Now, filmmakers have taken the initiative to change their environment. Five leading filmmaker organizations have collaborated,...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2006... In Kathleen Sweeney's article, "Grrls Make Movies: The Emergence of Women-Led Filmmaking Initiatives for Teenage Girls" in the November/December 2005 issue of Afterimage (Volume 33, no. 3), a male pronoun was associated with Barrie Thorne,...

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) has announced a new academic structure and programs.(School of Studio Practice)(School of Interdisciplinary Studies)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) has announced a new academic structure and programs. According to the Institute's Web site, a new and innovative academic education structure will be implemented in the Fall of 2006. Two schools, the School of...

Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA) Merge.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA) Merge. The boards of directors of both organizations approved the merger in two separate votes in early September and the Pittsburgh Filmmakers artist members passed an approval...

Arizona and Maine selected by Creative Capital for new initiative to support artists.(Creative Capital Foundation)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Arizona and Maine selected by Creative Capital for new initiative to support artists. Arizona and Maine are now part of the Creative Capital's State Research Project, an adaptation of a comprehensive model for individual artist support at a...

The first Penny McCall Foundation Ordway Prize has been announced.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The first Penny McCall Foundation Ordway Prize has been announced. The prize, which is one of the most generous international art prizes in the world with awards this year totaling $230,000, recognizes mid-career artists who have made important...

Leica European Publishers Award has been announced.(Lorenzo Castore )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Leica European Publishers Award has been announced. Italian photographer Lorenzo Cas-tore will receive prize money of [euro]10,000 and an engraved Leica M7 rangefinder system for having the winning entry in the 2005 Leica European Publishers...

College Art Association (CAA) announces search for new Executive Director as Susan Ball steps down after nearly twenty years of service.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... College Art Association (CAA) announces search for new Executive Director as Susan Ball steps down after nearly twenty years of service. In July 2006, Ball will become Director of the Centennial Book Project in preparation for CAA's...

San Francisco Camerawork appoints Robert C. Riley as Executive Director.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... San Francisco Camerawork appoints Robert C. Riley as Executive Director. Riley served most recently as Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at University of California, Davis, and was the founding Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco...

Headlands Center for the Arts appoints Gary Sangster as Executive Director.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Headlands Center for the Arts appoints Gary Sangster as Executive Director. Sangster was most recently Director of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. His prior experience includes administrative positions at the Contemporary...

Whitney Biennial 2006's artists announced.(analysis of Whitney Biennial of American Art Exhibition)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Whitney Biennial 2006's artists announced. This year's biennial is unique because it is the first biennial to have a title attached to it. "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night," named for the 1973 film by Francois Truffaut, opens on March 2,...

Magnetic North.(Dokument 05, a photojournalism workshop)
January 1, 2006... DOKUMENT 05 PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP OSLO, NORWAY OCTOBER 4-7, 2005 We live in a sea of images. The main agencies: Corbis, Getty, Reuters, et al., receive more than twelve thousand images daily, and the photography schools produce...

To the Finland station.(Backlight 05)(photographic exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... BACKLIGHT 05 TAMPERE, FINLAND SEPTEMBER 2, 2005-JANUARY 15, 2006 At a time when cultural globalization seems to smother indigenous cultural ideas, a photography festival such as Backlight, held every three years since 1987 in...

Looking at time.(Noorderlicht 2005)(reports of photofestival)
January 1, 2006... NOORDERLICHT 2005 PHOTOFESTIVAL GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 4-OCTOBER 9, 2005 The twelfth incarnation of Noorderlicht, the Dutch photography festival held this year in Groningen, situated documentary and art...

Finding meaning.(symposium on photography and writing on photography)(The Meaning of Photography)
January 1, 2006... THE MEANING OF PHOTOGRAPHY STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS NOVEMBER 19, 2005 Since the 1844 publication of William Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, photography and writing on...

Lessons in literacy.(conferences on media literacy)
January 1, 2006... LITERACY IN A MEDIA AGE ITHACA COLLEGE ITHACA, NEW YORK OCTOBER 14-15, 2005 2005 CONFERENCE ON MEDIA LITERACY MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS OCTOBER 22, 2005 Media literacy is...

A hunger for images.(Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal)(photographic exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO A MONTREAL MONTREAL, CANADA SEPTEMBER 8-OCTOBER 10, 2005 For one month this past fall the grand city of Montreal was saturated with photography as it celebrated the ninth edition of Le Mois de la Photo a...

Punching the keys.(Book Arts Fair and Conference)(exhibitions of Pyramid Atlantic)
January 1, 2006... Most of Edgar Allan Poe's minor essay "Marginalia" (1844) consists of the writer's verbatim notes in the margins of media publications he had collected. We circumscribers feel the need to get involved with the text in hand. Perhaps we are...

Learning to be human: an interview with William Pope.L.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... Everyone has to crawl before they walk. Even so, it is also true that when people achieve a certain status, they may feel they are more important than another person. The rich look down on the poor. The beautiful look down on the plain. The...

Orientalizing sexism: Hye Rim Lee's TOKI.(feature)(Critical essay)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2006... Art practice, whether traditional, modern, or avant-garde, is always tempted by the ideal of the singular work, of the definitive rendition. The general public, through the romantic notion of the creative genius, is similarly inclined to...

Sticks, stones & bones: images from transient landscapes.(works of Annette Fournet)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... In the early nineties I began to photograph in Eastern Europe. I am fascinated by the atmosphere of suspended time caused by the isolation of the iron curtain and the many changes that took place in the Czech Republic after the Velvet...

Tunnel vision: photographic education in Britain in the 1980s.(feature)
January 1, 2006... In Britain the 1980s began in 1979 with the election of the first government of Margaret Thatcher, and it would be impossible to discuss any aspect of social life in Britain in that troubled and turbulent decade without some initial reference...

Dichotomies coalesce.(Chris Jordan: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption)(exhibitions on photography )
January 1, 2006... CHRIS JORDAN: INTOLERABLE BEAUTY: PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN MASS CONSUMPTION PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 1-OCTOBER 15, 2005 Photographer Chris Jordan has had two major solo exhibitions this year at...

Rich material.(Archive Fever: A Digital Wonder Room )(art exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... ARCHIVE FEVER: A DIGITAL WONDER ROOM HOOD MUSEUM OF ART, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE JUNE 7-OCTOBER 2, 2005 There is a long tradition of artists reflecting on museum content--from Peter Paul Rubens's paintings to...

Recourse lost.(Jeremy Blake: The Winchester Trilogy)(painting exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... JEREMY BLAKE: THE WINCHESTER TRILOGY ON-SITE GALLERY, REINBERGER GALLERIES CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CLEVELAND, OHIO OCTOBER 22-NOVEMBER 19, 2005 Inspired by firearm heiress Sarah Winchester's 160-room late...

Pedagogy and charity.(exhibitions of School of visual arts)
January 1, 2006... FIRST LIGHT: TEACHING PHOTOGRAPHY IN KABUL SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS NEW YORK, NEW YORK OCTOBER 21-NOVEMBER 12, 2005 The press release began, "School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents 'First Light: Teaching Photography in Kabul,' an...

Objects collected, images understood.(Tony Labat: Trust Me )(art exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... TONY LABAT: TRUST ME NEW LANGTON ARTS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 21-OCTOBER 22, 2005 In 1978 Langton Arts (as it was then named) announced a call for proposals. The young Tony Labat sent only a bouquet of roses with a...

B.C. and A.D.(before computers)(after digital)(Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson )
January 1, 2006... HERSHMANLANDIA: THE ART AND FILMS OF LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON HENRY ART GALLERY SEATTLE, WASHINGTON NOVEMBER 4, 2005-FEBRUARY 5, 2006 In 1972, Lynn Hershman's exhibition at the University Art Museum in Berkeley was closed due to...

Loose translation.(video recording review)(Video Recording Review)
January 1, 2006... SHIRIN NESHAT GLADSTONE GALLERY NEW YORK, NEW YORK OCTOBER 15-NOVEMBER 12, 2005 If a person wants to drink cool water this time of the summer, where should she go? The owner looked at her puffy eyes with pity and said, "Karaj...

History and memory.(Burnt Oranges)(movie review)(Movie Review)
January 1, 2006... BURNT ORANGES BY SILVIA MALAGRINO 90 MINUTES, ENGLISH, 2005 My savvy students often ridicule Man with a Movie Camera (1929). They seem to find Dziga Vertov's montage, with its continuous motion from the individual to the...

What W.J.T. Mitchell wants.(What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images )(book review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... WHAT DO PICTURES WANT?: THE LIVES AND LOVES OF IMAGES BY W.J.T. MITCHELL CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2005 408 PP./$35.00 (HB) The very title of W.J.T. Mitchell's latest book, What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and...

When art was fun.(Captured: a film/video history of the lower east side)(book review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... CAPTURED: A FILM/VIDEO HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE EDITED BY CLAYTON PATTERSON NEW YORK: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2005 568 PP./$24.00 (SB) The book Captured reflects the Lower East Side art scene it depicts--a do-it-yourself,...

Media received.(lists of books)
January 1, 2006... Afterwar, by Lori Grinker. de.MO/248 pp./$47.50 (hb). American Alphabets, by Wendy Ewald. Prestel/192 pp./$58.00 (hb). Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers, by Robert Flynn Johnson. Thames & Hudson/208 pp./$29.95 (sb)....

Archaeologies of the Future: the Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions.(book review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: THE DESIRE CALLED UTOPIA AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTIONS by Fredric Jameson. Verso/480 pp./$35.00 (hb). Rather than an archaeologist unearthing dry material, Fredric Jameson approaches utopia with the relentless...

Art History versus Aesthetics.(book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... ART HISTORY VERSUS AESTHETICS edited by James Elkins. Routledge/320 pp./$19.95 (hb). Some say we can sense beauty from artworks autonomously; some say we are inevitably influenced by the theory hidden behind the work. According to...

Beyond Green: Toward A Sustainable Art.(book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... BEYOND GREEN: TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE ART by Stephanie Smith and Victor Margolin. Smart Museum of Art/160 pp./$25.00 (sb) [exhibition catalog]. Besides the fact that it almost defines the term "sustainable art,"--if Google's search is...

Documentary Now! Contemporary Strategies in Photography, Film and the Visual Arts.(book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... DOCUMENTARY NOW! CONTEMPORARY STRATEGIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM AND THE VISUAL ARTS edited by Frits Gierstberg, Maartje van den Heuvel, Hans Scholten, and Martijn Verhoeven. NAi Publishers/192 pp./$35.00 (hb). Among texts questioning the...

Magnum Ireland.(book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... MAGNUM IRELAND edited by Brigitte Lardinois and Val Williams. Thames & Hudson, 255 pp./$60 (hb). Why Ireland? Beauty, history, conflict, and character seem to be the answers to this question, deduced by browsing the pages of one of...

The Ongoing Moment.(book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... THE ONGOING MOMENT by Geoff Dyer. Pantheon Books/285 pp./$28.50 (hb). The author of numerous books on several disparate subjects, Geoff Dyer claims no authority on the subject of photography or its history; in fact, he claims not to...

Ron Jude: Alpine Star.(exhibitions of photojournalism)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... RON JUDE: ALPINE STAR George Eastman House September 10, 2005-February 19, 2006 If it is true that photography is a system of inclusion and exclusion, and the photographer makes selections from the world, then could it not be argued...

The Three Incestuous Sisters.(bok review)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS by Audrey Niffenegger Harry N. Abrams/176 pp./$27.95 (hb). Audrey Niffenegger, author of the best-selling novel The Time Traveler's Wife (2004), presents a haunting tale of love and betrayal in her newest...

Notices.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. southwest NET: techno. Through May 14. (480) 874-4682 / www.smoca.org. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1030 N....

Inklight.
January 1, 2006... Across the street, the cutouts face the sun tucking into the elms on the hill. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The trees become blacker, the clouds become another hill. Years of this lost light and their blacks have softened to blue. ...