Afterimage articles from July 2000

Afterimage archives from July 2000

ANDREA FRANK FOUNDATION AWARDS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Andrea Frank Foundation has announced this year's grant awards totaling $648,839. Founded in 1995 by Robert Frank in memory of his daughter, the foundation supports the work of artists and non-profit cultural and educational organizations...

LANGLOIS FOUNDATION AWARDS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, a private charitable foundation established in 1997 and based in Montr[acute{e}]al, awarded nearly $1.5 million this year in international grants in order to promote contemporary...

MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIPS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named 25 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowships. Each will receive $500,000 over five years. "MacArthur Fellows are chosen for their exceptional creativity, record of significant...

GISELE FREUND, 1912-2000.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Gis[grave{e}]le Freund died on March 31 at the age of 88. Born in Berlin, she studied sociology and art at Frankfurt University. With the Leica camera her father gave her, she documented life in Frankfurt, notably a workers' demonstration...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography is celebrating its 10th anniversary and has announced its .2000 award winners. Marc Asnin (U.S.) will be awarded the Medal of Excellence for his project entitled Uncle Charlie, a...

SOCIETY OF THE SKEPTICAL.
July 1, 2000... Sins of Change: Media Arts In Transition, Again Walker Art Center and The Kitchen Minneapolis, Minnesota April 6-8 2000 Have the arts been living in sin with the media? From April 6 to 8, the Walker Art Center and The Kitchen held a...

MOUNTAIN VIEWS.
July 1, 2000... Lake Placid Film Forum Lake Placid, New York June 8-11, 2000 In keeping with a tradition of filmmaking that began in the silent film era and continues to some degree in the dramatic, four-season Adirondack mountain region of New...

IMAGES OF INTERMEDIA.
July 1, 2000... 13th Annual Images Festival of Independent Film and Video Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 13-22, 2000 This year's Images Festival of Independent Film and Video lived up to the challenge of moving across media, featuring...

GRAIL OF INFLUENCE.
July 1, 2000... Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between politics and Aesthetics The University of Notre Dame Center for Continuing Education Conference. April 14-15, 2000 In the academic search for the grail of influence, the University of Notre Dame...

CONSTRUCTING ETERNITY: An Interview with Van McElwee.(Interview)
July 1, 2000... The expansion of consciousness, the creation of timelessness and the generation of new worlds embody beauty without boundaries in Van McElwee's video art. His reconstructed realities captivate participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far...

The Illusion of The Beginning: A Theory of Drawing and Animation.
July 1, 2000... It may be that universal history is the history of a handful of metaphors. The purpose of this note will be to sketch a chapter of this history. Jorge Luis Borges [1] One could maintain that before having been produced the world was...

MISE EN ABYME.
July 1, 2000... Mirror's Edge Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada March 18-August 13, 2000 organized by the BildMuseet, Ume[dot{a}] Sweden The "Mirror's Edge" is proposed as a reflection in a destabilized hall of...

STAGED SANCTITY.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Inci Eviner: hicbiryer-g[ddot{o}]vde-burasi (nowhere-body-here) Kazim Tashkent Art Gallery Istanbul, Turkey March 1-25, 2000 Inci Eviner: hicbiryer-g[ddot{o}]vde-burasi (nowhere-body-here) Istanbul, Yapi Kredi...

THE NEWEST ARRIVALS.
July 1, 2000... Refuge: The Newest New Yorkers Photographs by Mel Rosenthal and text by Jack Salzman New York Historical Society New York, New York April 20-July 20, 1999 Roberson Museum and Science Center Binghamton, New York ...

NO PLACE LIKE HOME.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Dream of Life by Gregory Crewdson with an essay by Darcey Steinke and an interview by Bradford Morrow Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1999 131 pp./S35.00 (sb) Dream of Life traces the work of Gregory Crewdson from the wholly...

CONTAINING THE INFINITE.
July 1, 2000... Olafur Eliasson: New Work The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, Connecticut January 23-April 30, 2000 To walk on a glacier is to be equally blinded by sunlight and scale. How to replicate such an environment is confounding; few...

RECEIVED AND NOTED.(Bibliography)
July 1, 2000... BOOKS Ars Electronica: Facing the Future--A Survey of Two Decades, edited by Timothy Druckrey. MIT Press/457 pp./$40.00 (hb). This volume surveys the past 20 years of critical issues debated at the Ars Electronica Festival. Based in Linz,...