Afterimage articles from January 2007

Afterimage archives from January 2007

Paris flash.(photography exhibitions)
January 1, 2007... THE MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS NOVEMBER 2-DECEMBER 1, 2006 By early November, photography adorned Paris, the City of Lights, in a total of sixty city-wide exhibitions celebrating "The Month of Photography." Divided roughly into...

To be fair.(Biennial Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference)(Conference news)
January 1, 2007... 9[TM] BIENNIAL PYRAMID ATLANTIC BOOK ARTS FAIR AND CONFERENCE SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND NOVEMBER 16-18, 2006 If Afterimage were a journal of media arts from centuries past, there would be much to report on from the "Fair" component...

Food for thought.(Odense Foto Triennale)
January 1, 2007... ODENSE FOTO TRIENNALE ODENSE, DENMARK OCTOBER 4-29, 2006 Choosing a theme for a photography festival is a rather fraught business. It must be both general enough so artists may interpret the theme without constraint and contain...

Everywhere for everyone.(Busan Biennale)
January 1, 2007... BUSAN BIENNALE BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA SEPTEMBER 16-NOVEMBER 25, 2006 This year's Busan Biennale in South Korea, held under the sweeping and open-ended theme "Everywhere," embraced two parts: the Contemporary Art Exhibition and the Sea...

Another Heyday.(trends in photography)
January 1, 2007... Photography's history has always been inextricably connected with technological advancement. Joseph Niepce, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, Frederick Scott Archer, and others all made significant contributions to its...

Throbs and pulsations: Les LeVeque and the digitization of desire.
January 1, 2007... Les LeVeque, a New York City-based sculptor turned video artist, has spent the last decade exploring the idea of machine interface by mathematically reprocessing a variety of mass media forms, such as Hollywood films, advertisements,...

The new 1914 that confronts us an interview with Retort.(Discussion)
January 1, 2007... In 2005 Retort, a group of forty or so dissidents who regularly meet for political discussions in the San Francisco Bay Area, released their book Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War, a work of collaborative writing by...

Toward a feminist "Coney Island of the avant-garde": Janie Geiser recasts the cinema of attractions.(Janie Geiser's "The Spider's Wheels" )
January 1, 2007... You hear Janie Geiser's cinematic diorama-installation before you see it. Drifting out of a darkened room are the suspenseful flourishes played on a piano when a damsel is in distress in a silent film, punctuated every so often by a thunderous...

Elsewhere.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... People have always dreamed of being elsewhere. Today more than any other time period, our world allows us to be in different places at the same time. Internet surfing, online chatting, reality TV, or simply picking up the phone can transport...

What are you afraid of?(art exhibition at intersection for the arts)
January 1, 2007... TERROR? INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER 11-NOVEMBER 11, 2006 Intersection for the Arts' exhibition "Terror?" opened on the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. In anticipation of renewed...

Relearning.(Wolfgang Tillmans )
January 1, 2007... WOLFGANG TILLMANS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO CHICAGO MAY 20-AUGUST 15, 2006 CATHERINE OPIE: CHICAGO (AMERICAN CITIES) MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO CHICAGO MAY 20-OCTOBER 15, 2006 The risk...

Outside of the box.(Miguel de Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco )
January 1, 2007... MIGUEL RIO BRANCO: OUT OF NOWHERE GRONINGER MUSEUM GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 17-DECEMBER 3, 2006 Miguel de Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco was born the son of a diplomat in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1946. He...

A new light.(James Deavin)
January 1, 2007... JAMES DEAVIN: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NEW WORLD JEN BEKMAN NEW YORK CITY NOVEMBER 1-DECEMBER 9, 2006 From its inception, photography has been a tool of exploration. Following its origin in Europe, the medium radiated outward,...

Author versus auteur.(The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... THE SCHREIBER THEORY: A RADICAL REWRITE OF AMERICAN FILM HISTORY BY DAVID KIPEN HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY: MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING, 2006 172 PP./$12.00 (SB) "The writer is the most important person in Hollywood," claimed legendary...

Thinking in time.(Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... SHADOWS, SPECTERS, SHARDS: MAKING HISTORY IN AVANT-GARDE FILM BY JEFFREY SKOLLER MINNEAPOLIS: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2005 232 PP./$75.00 (HB), $25.00 (SB) Gone are the days when avant-garde film could be discussed...

Jews on view.(Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judaism)(American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century)(Bar Mitzvah Disco)(Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory)(The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... AMERICAN EXPOSURES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY LOUIS KAPLAN MINNEAPOLIS: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2005 248 PP./$78.00 (HB), $26.00 (SB) BAR MITZVAH DISCO BY ROGER BENNETT, NICK KROLL, AND...

The new cinema.(Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... BEYOND THE MULTIPLEX: CINEMA, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, AND THE HOME BY BARBARA KLINGER BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2006 324 PP./$60.00 (HB), $24.95 (SB) In the introduction to her book Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New...

Media noted and received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2007... 500 Flowers, photographs by Roger Camp. Dewi Lewis Media/72 pp./[pounds sterling]14.99 (hb). The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, by Michael Kimmelman. Penguin Books/224 pp./$24.95 (hb). Alienhood:...

THE CINEMA DREAMS ITS RIVALS: MEDIA FANTASY FILMS FROM RADIO TO THE INTERNET.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... THE CINEMA DREAMS ITS RIVALS: MEDIA FANTASY FILMS FROM RADIO TO THE INTERNET by Paul Young. University of Minnesota Press/360 pp./$75.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb). In The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals, Paul Young integrates media industry history,...

Face: The New Photographic Portrait.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... FACE: THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE by William A. Ewing. Thames & Hudson/340 pp./$50.00 (hb). William A. Ewing's Face: The New Photographic Portraiture is a fresh look at this longstanding practice. This book is a progressive collection...

FACES OF THE LIVING DEAD: THE BELIEF IN SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... FACES OF THE LIVING DEAD: THE BELIEF IN SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY by Martyn Jolly. Mark Batty Publisher/160 pp./ [pounds sterling]20.00 (hb). In the wake of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's lauded exhibition, "The Perfect Medium," Martyn Jolly's...

UNIT OPERATIONS: AN APPROACH TO VIDEOGAME CRITICISM.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... UNIT OPERATIONS: AN APPROACH TO VIDEOGAME CRITICISM by Ian Bogost. MIT Press/243 pp./$35.00 (hb) Though not a gamer myself, the evergrowing culture surrounding videogames drew me to this book. I expected Unit Operations to provide a visual...

Notices.
January 1, 2007... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. The Border Film Project: El Proyecto Fronterizo Fotografico. Through Jan. 28. www.smoca.org. CALIFORNIA Berkeley: Berkeley Art Muscum &...