Afterimage articles from July 2001

Afterimage archives from July 2001

NEW VSW DIRECTOR.(Visual Studies Workshop)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Christopher Burnett has been named Director of the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW). VSW was founded by Nathan Lyons in 1968 as a work, exhibition and teaching space. VSW now encompasses a research library with an extensive artists book,...

CHALLENGE AMERICA INTRODUCED.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The National Endowment for the Arts' (NEA) Chairman Bill lvey announced Challenge America: Positive Alternates for Youth, a new program that awarded $1,735,000 as 196 grants. Challenge America encompasses all 50 states as well as the Virgin...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced its acquisition of the Julien Levy collection of photographs. Between 1931 and 1948 Levy's photography galleries in New York City acquired more than 130 artists who are represented in this massive...

STIEGLITI REVISITED.(photography of Alfred Stieglitz)
July 1, 2001... The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia Doylestown, Pennsylvania April 28, 2001 James A. Michener Art Museum O'Keefe's Enduring Legacy The work and philosophy of Alfred Stieglitz is experiencing a: resurgence of...

CLIMBING HIGHER.(Lake Placid Film Forum)
July 1, 2001... Lake Placid Film Forum Lake Placid, New York June 6-10 2001 The second annual Lake Placid Film Forum was constructed around the auspicious theme of "Do Filmmakers Have Social Responsibility?" A radical proposition for the mainstream...

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS.(venue to show short films)
July 1, 2001... Imagine an outlet where makers of short films and videos from Hollywood and beyond could get their work seen by the right people while at the same time retaining an independent vision. Then imagine a group of people in Hollywood that believe...

THE FOOTPRINT AND THE READYMADE.(photography as art)
July 1, 2001... From its inception, photography has been placed within narratives of illusionism, of the increasing mastery of the depiction of the visible world. As a new medium, it was feared that it would make painting obsolete. While such assumptions have...

RE-NEGOTIATED TERRITORY.(analysis of Irish photography)
July 1, 2001... The Politics of Place, Space and Landscape in Irish Photography During the first collapse of Northern Ireland's devolved Legislative Assembly, former United States President Bill Clinton offered a comment on the opposing nationalist and...

SQUATTING ON SHIFTING GROUNDS.(Interview)
July 1, 2001... An Interview with Bruce Barber and Katherine Grant Within the parameters of "littoral art" and "the art of giving," Halifax, Nova Scotia-based artist, writer and theorist Bruce Barber invited Katherine Grant, a homeless resident of Calgary,...

DETAILS ARE ACOUSTICAL.(Lynne Ramsay)
July 1, 2001... The Films of Lynne Ramsay Absorbed in the private world of an invented child's game and sulking about attending a Christmas party, the older brother in Lynne Ramsay's film Gasman (1997) pours a snowfall of sugar over a toy car. Some...

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE WEST.(View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape)(Albuquerque)(Review)
July 1, 2001... View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape by William L. Fox Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001 310 pp./$59.95 (hb), $29.95 (sb) We now view landscape photographs, both past and present, much...

BEYOND IDEOLOGY.(Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution)
July 1, 2001... Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California April 15-July 1, 2001 Grey Art Gallery, New York University New York, New York August 28-October 27, 2001...

KEEPING TRACK OF VIDEO ART.
July 1, 2001... Tracking CCAC Institute San Francisco, California March 24-May 12, 2001 The tracking shot is in many ways the defining characteristic of the cinematic. The effect of the camera moving fluidly through space, omnipresent and omniscient, is...

CZECH CONNECTIONS.
July 1, 2001... Vintage and Contemporary Czech Photography SK Josefsberg Studio Portland, Oregon March 1-April 7, 2001 Contemporary Photography in the Czech Republic Benham Studio Gallery Seattle, Washington March 19-April 28,...

CLEARING THE AIR.(Julio Morales)(David Goldberg)(Michelle Baughan)(Unique Holland)(Suzanne Lacy)
July 1, 2001... Code 33 by Suzanne Lacy, Julio Morales, Unique Holland, David Goldberg, Michelle Baughan, Raul Cabra and Patrick Toebe Intersection of the Arts San Francisco, California May 2-June 16, 2001 In 1998 a group of...

Virtual Revolutions.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Act and Read Curated by Ilyana Nedkova (Liverpool Audio-Visual Research Editions, 2000) Virtual Revolutions appropriately comes in a transparent jewel case adorned with a bright red circle and the bold subtitle Act and Read....

On European Ground.(Photographs by Alan Cohen)(Entering Germany: 1944-1949)(The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of championship chickens)(Fiction or Other Accounts of Photography)(Gaslight Melodrama: From victorian London to 1940s Hollywood)(George Tice: Selected Photographs 1953-1999)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Photographs by Alan Cohen Essays by Sander L. Oilman and Jonathan Bordo (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001) In the Latin treatise on the art of memory, Ad Herennium (86-82 BC), the anonymous author emphasized the...

Interaction.(Artistic Practice in the Network)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Artistic Practice in the Network Edited by Amy Scholder and Jordan Crandall (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2001) Interaction is the edited record of an online forum initiated by Eyebeam Atelier in the spring of 1998. Over a...

The Visual Culture of American Religions.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... David Morgan and Sally M. Promey, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) While devotional objects recovered from past civilizations often retain a powerful and exotic presence, it is difficult to imagine what future...

Imaging Her Erotics.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Essays, Interviews, Projects Carolee Schneeman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001) Applying categories to Carolee Schneeman's art is a bit like cooking with teflon--words don't stick very well. For art enthusiasts who enjoy work that...

The Language of New Media.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Lev Manovich (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001) As far as introductory guides to new languages go, this is not one of those booklets with phonetic jargons that allow you to simulate a foreign tongue with a ventriloquistic twist. The...

Sightings.(Beat Streuli)(Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs)(When will the book be done?)(Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Beat Streuli Essay by Roberta Valtorta (Torino, Italy: hopefulmonster, 2000) An exhibition catalog of Beat Streuli's "Portraits 98-00 La belle estate" at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Torino, Italy, this...

The Omega Suites.(Lucinda Devlin)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Lucinda Devlin Susanne Breidenbach, ed. (Gottingen, Germany: Steidi Verlag, 2001) The Omega Suites addresses the cessation of public execution in the United States by presenting images devoid of human presence. One of the most...