Afterimage articles from July 1999

Afterimage archives from July 1999

Cleveland Performance Art Festival closes.
July 1, 1999... Cleveland's 12-year-old Performance Art Festival (PAF), once a flourishing arts gathering, is no more. On April 16-25, 1999, the Cleveland Public Theater hosted its final annual festival, The Last Performance Art Festival. Since its founding in...

Infectious media knowledge.(Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge conference)
July 1, 1999... Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge Center for Twentieth Century Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee April 29-May 1, 1999 "Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge," a conference organized by Lynne Joyrich and hosted by the...

Riding the beast.(Los Angeles' art scene)
July 1, 1999... Attempting to define photography and photographic practice in greater Los Angeles is as much of a challenge as trying to define the city itself. Just over 100 years ago, iconoclasts, fleeing the more conventional, repressive and class-conscious...

Female redundancies: an interview with Jennifer Montgomery.(filmmaker)(Interview)
July 1, 1999... Jennifer Montgomery has been making what many deem "personal films" for the last decade. Her first 16mm feature-length work, Art for Teachers of Children (1995), played widely in the United States and abroad. A fictionalized autobiographical...

The image significant: identity in contemporary Korean video art.
July 1, 1999... More than 30 years haw passed since Paik Nam June's 1965 exhibition Electronic TV at the Cafe a Go-Go, where he proclaimed in an artist's talk that the cathode ray tube would soon replace the canvas. Since then, Paik and his Portapak video...

Scenes from a museum.(various photographers, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY)
July 1, 1999... The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect organized by Kynaston McShine The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York March 14-June 1, 1999 The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego La Jolla, California September 26, 1999-January 9, 2000 The...

Decoys and documents.(Martha Rosler, various galleries)
July 1, 1999... Martha Rosier: Positions in the Life World Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK December 5, 1998-January 30, 1999 Institut d'Art Contemporain Lyon-Villeurbanne, France February 10-April 30, 1999 Generali Foundation Vienna, Austria May 12-August...

Clear voices.(Jonathan Sharlin, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Pennsylvania)
July 1, 1999... Portrait Narratives by Jonathan Sharlin Ganser Gallery, Millersville University Millersville, Pennsylvania April 6-May 9, 1999 Jonathan Sharlin's installation "Portrait Narratives" combined image, text and space to recount the experiences...