Afterimage articles from January 2008

Afterimage archives from January 2008

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... To the Editor, I was very pleased with Peter Wollheim's "YouTube and Representations of Mental Illness," featured in the September/October issue (Vol. 35, no. 2). Although Mr. Wollheim's effort was to promote the many resources that can be...

Tell me a story.
January 1, 2008... 10TH MOIS DE LA PHOTO MONTREAL, CANADA SEPTEMBER 6-OCTOBER 21, 2007 If there were an Academy Award for curating, "Replaying Narrative" ought to win. This tenth installment of Montreal's biennial Mois de la Photo is a smart and...

Technological transformation.(Conference notes)
January 1, 2008... 8TH ANNUAL MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION CONVENTION TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, ESTADO DE MEXICO MEXICO CITY JUNE 6-10, 2007 The theme of the 8th annual convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA), "Technology and...

Vital signs.(Conference notes)
January 1, 2008... NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS AND CULTURE CONFERENCE AUSTIN, TEXAS OCTOBER 17-20, 2007 "The Frontier is Here," the most recent convening of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) in the borderland of Austin,...

A world in reverse: the work of Maritza Molina.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Maritza Molina is a Cuban-born artist who has lived in Miami since the mid-1980s. Gaining access to her work requires understanding the relationship between her early life in Havana, the circumstances of her move to Miami, and the social...

Body of prayer: an interview with Steed Taylor.(Interview)
January 1, 2008... Through media ranging from traditional to unorthodox, Steed Taylor forges a connection between the human experiences of longing and loss--of spirituality and memorial. In his artist statement for a series of digital prints called "Missing"...

Photographing sprawl: picturing the contemporary suburb.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) is a film whose sprawling narrative structure reflects the equally sprawling fabric of the automobile-dominated, postwar boom town in which it takes place. The odd segues with scenes passing like batons from one...

Antidote to dystopia.
January 1, 2008... BRAVE NEW WORLDS WALKER ART CENTER MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA OCTOBER 4, 2007-FEBRUARY 17, 2008 Viewing "Brave New Worlds" is an arduous experience, but worthwhile, for it is the most intellectually and emotionally courageous...

Quiet color.(Jeff Wall's exhibit)
January 1, 2008... JEFF WALL ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JUNE 29-SEPTEMBER 23, 2007 Similar to my original reaction to the action-packed lines of Jackson Pollock, I have never been particularly drawn to Jeff Wall's large-scale...

Grave images.(Iraq War portrayals)
January 1, 2008... PURPLE HEARTS BY NINA BERMAN PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS GALLERIES PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER 7-OCTOBER 21, 2007 GRAVE AND DETERIORATING: IMAGES OF THE IRAQ WAR BY CHRIS HONDROS PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS GALLERIES...

Reconsidering an Arab identity.
January 1, 2008... SELF-REPRESENTATION IN THE ARABIAN GULF: PERSPECTIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY AT QATAR GALLERY DOHA, QATAR OCTOBER 24-DECEMBER 1, 2007 Despite the media hype that exists on American television...

Judging war.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... NEVER COMING HOME BY ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN MILAN AND NEW YORK: CHARTA BOOKS, 2007 80 PP./$24.95 (SB) BOMB AFTER BOMB: A VIOLENT CARTOGRAPHY BY ELIN O'HARA SLAVICK MILAN AND NEW YORK: CHARTA BOOKS, 2007 61...

The world in color.(A Century of Colour Photography: From the Autochrome to the Digital Age)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... A CENTURY OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM THE AUTOCHROME TO THE DIGITAL AGE BY PAMELA ROBERTS LONDON: ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD, CARLTON PUBLISHING GROUP, 2007 256 PP./$39.00 (HB) Marking the centennial of the commercial introduction of...

Abstracting presence.(I-Be Area)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2008... I-BE AREA BY RYAN TRECARTIN 128 MINUTES, 2007 Over the past three years, Ryan Trecartin has come into the national exhibit scene with two distinct bodies of work: sculptural, varying in style from his Matt Ronay-like figurative...

Spinning out of control.(War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death)(Movie review)
January 1, 2008... WAR MADE EASY: HOW PRESIDENTS & PUNDITS KEEP SPINNING US TO DEATH BY LORETTA ALPER AND JEREMY EARP PRODUCED BY THE MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND THE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY 77 MINUTES, 2007 (DVD AVAILABLE THROUGH...

The Plentitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Plentitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff, by Rich Gold/MIT Press/111 pp./$22.00 (hb) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I am the typical twenty-first century version of a Renaissance person: I like a little bit of a lot of things...

Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson. Thames & Hudson/276 pp./$50.00 (hb) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is getting harder and harder to feel genuine exhilaration from contemporary art. With the art press's coverage of the scene focused...

Media noted and received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation, by Robert J. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering, and Liu Wulin, foreword by Jimmy Carter. W.W. Norton & Company/120 pp./$49.95 (hb). American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and...

Notices.(Directory)
January 1, 2008... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1030 N. Olive Rd. Making a Photograph: Iconic Images and Their Origins. Through Jan. 26. www.creativephotography.org. Tucson: Etherton Gallery,...