Afterimage articles from July 2002

Afterimage archives from July 2002

George Eastman House. (Newswire).(Southworth and Hawes photography exhibit)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and the International Center for Photography in New York City have received a sizeable grant of $300000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to mount a joint exhibition of works by the famed Boston...

Hirshhorn Museum. (Newswire).(http://hirshhorn.sl.edu; www.coleccionclsneros.org)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... This site is only one of a plethora of new Web sites that make museum collections available online. The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum has also announced a merger of exhibition, education and collection at their http://hirshhorn.sl.edu URL...

International Center for Photography. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... It has certainly been award season since the last issue of Afterimage. To reiterate how busy the International Center for Photography has been: Their coveted Cornell Capa Award went to the organizers of "Here is New York: A Democracy of...

The Museum of Photographic Arts. (Newswire).(James Nachtwey awarded Lou Stoumen Prize for Photography; Ruth Bernhard and Joel Meyerowitz win lifetime achievement awards)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California, has announced the recipient of this year's Lou Stoumen Prize for Photography. Renowned and already heavily decorated combat photographer James Nachtwey will receive $35,000 for his...

Light Work. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Light Work in Syracuse, New York, has named its annual grant award winners. They are Vivian Babuts, julie Magura and the collaborative team of Chad Reagan and j. P. Crangle. Each of these three Central New York residents will receive $1000 and...

Edward MacDowell Medal. (Newswire).(awarded Robert Frank)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank will receive the Edward MacDowell Medal on August 18, 2002. Awarded an Individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts, Frank joins a list of 43 that includes other luminaries like Aaron...

Smithsonian Art Museum. (Newswire).(Liz Larner wins Lucelia Artist Award)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... More cash and glory were handed out at the Smithsonian Art Museum, Liz Larner, Curently of Los Angeles, is the winner of the Lucelia Artist Award for 2002. Carrying a very decent purse of $25,000, the award and money is intended to encourage an...

New York Foundation for the Arts. (Newswire).(announces fellowships winners)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The New York Foundation for the Arts has selected 150 individual artists from an application pool of 4000 to receive one of its sought after fellowships. The amount awarded each recipient is $7000 and its use is unrestricted. Those with odds in...

Creative Capital Foundation. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Creative Capital Foundation has awarded $401,000 in grants, ranging from $5000 to $20,000, to 40 artists nationwide. Recipients in the Emerging Fields category, encompassing new media and interactive installation, were: Steve Badgett and...

Experimental Television Center. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Experimental Television Center has entered its 13th year of Finishing Funds with 16 grants to artists working in electronic media or film. The awards went to: Leesa and Nicole Abahuni; Zoe Beloff; Torsten Burns' Abigail Child and Benton...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has found a replacement for its former director David Ross, who left in August last year. The new director is Neal Benezra, currently deputy director and Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator of Modern and...

En Foco. (Newswire).(commemorative issue )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... On a promotional note, it should be noted that En Foco has published a special commemorative issue of its magazine Nueva Luz. More at home on the bookshelf than in the magazine rack, this 112 page, perfect-bound issue features the work of 68...

Getty Research Institute. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The move of smaller picture libraries and archives to larger institutions or commercial outfits continues. The Getty Research Institute has acquired the Alexander Liberman Archive, comprising of some 28,000 color transparencies, 6,000...

Rights and wrong. (Grapevine).(Right2Fight exhibit)
July 1, 2002... Right2Fight Sarah Lawrence college, Bronxville, New York April 27 Dread Scott, Sign of the Times, 1999. The blue police barriers lining the lawn at Sarah Lawrence College are something of a curious site: on this clear spring morning, on...

Soul searching. (Grapevine).(Brighton Photo Biennial)
July 1, 2002... Photograph/Philosophy/Technology University of Brighton, in conjunction with Photoworks and PhotoForum, Brighton, England. April 26 - 27 Brighton, the quaint seaside resort on the coast due south of London, is becoming something...

Open sourcing. (Grapevine).(OPEN SOURCE ART HACK, New Museum, New York)
July 1, 2002... OPEN_SOURCE_ART_HACK New Museum, New York May 3-June 30 The New Museum's Anne Barlow and curators Steve Dietz, and Jenny Marketou have outdone themselves in tackling the expansive reach of new media art by developing an exhibition...

Performing the moment. (Essay).(photography and performance art exhibitions)
July 1, 2002... * As the documentary role (or capacity) of photography continues * to be debated, the relationship between performance art and * photo graphic media continues to evolve. The advent of "new media" broadens the horizon of these...

One for the money, two for the show. (Essay).(Cohn Osman, Creative Camera)(Obituary)
July 1, 2002... * Turner and Osman enjoyed one of the most fruitful and * controversial relationships of British photography. Despite being * divided by a generation and by temperament, they shared many attitudes and convictions: a passion for...

Purple dotted underlines: Microsoft word and the end of writing. (Features).(form and rhythm)(Evaluation)
July 1, 2002... Microsoft Word is fundamentally different from other word processors. Word treats "information an entire page at a time, rather than as a stream of text and codes," according to the "Microsoft Word 2000 Reveal Codes White Paper" by Microsoft...

EnterFrame: Cage, Deleuze and Macromedia Director.(multimedia authoring software)(Evaluation)
July 1, 2002... on prepareMovie To think about Macromedia Director is to think about a complex and powerful piece of software in the category of "multimedia" authoring. To think critically or theoretically about Director is to think about a philosophical...

Layers: looking at photography and photoshop. (Features).(Evaluation)
July 1, 2002... BACKGROUND Despite the conjunctive statement in the title of this essay, there is currently an ontological dividing line between photographs and images spawned by Photoshop. Apart from tracing the outlines of different technologies, this...

Accounting for pervasive computing. (Features).(Pocket Quicken by Microsoft Corp.)(Evaluation)
July 1, 2002... THESIS This essay analyzes the practical and discursive constructions of "accounting" interfaces for mobile and pervasive computation. Attentive to Pierre Bourdleu's theory of the Habitus, it critiques those interface systems as...

Reloading Cyberfeminism.(Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture)
July 1, 2002... Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture 581 pp./$29.95 (sb) (Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press, 2002) Norbert Wiener initiated the modern use of the Greek term "cyber" (originally meaning to steer or govern) around 1948 to characterize...

A Second Look.(Rise of the Picture Press: Photographic Reportage in Illustrated Magazines 1918-1939)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Rise of the Picture Press: Photographic Reportage in Illustrated Magazines 1918-1939 International Center for Photography New York, New York March 27 - June 16 "Rise of the Picture Press: Photographic Reportage in...

Abiding Memories.(Adam Bartos: Kosmos)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Adam Bartos: Kosmos Rose Gallery Santa Monica, California April 13 -- May 28 The striking thing--or what strikes you first--about Adam Bartos's photographs of the people and places of the Russian space program is that they...

Not Good. (Reviews).(Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art)
July 1, 2002... Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art The Jewish Museum New York, New York March 17 -- June 30 As historian and literary scholar James E. Young suggests, the massive volume of facts, images, references and taboos surrounding...

Fuji. (Media).
July 1, 2002... Chris Steele-Perkins New York: Umbrage Editions, 2002 AHHH! This book makes me so angry! I use the exclamation mark to indicate that I have not entirely lost all sense of proportion--it Is only a book after all--but what a book it...

Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage. (Media).
July 1, 2002... James Enyeart, ed. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 2002 On October 19. 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act, to encourage the dissemination or information about computer...

Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971. (Media).
July 1, 2002... David Travis, Elizabeth Siegel, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002 Only on the last page of the last of seven essays in Taken By Design, the Art Institute of Chicago's recent history of the celebrated photography...

Flash Afrique: Photography from West Africa. (Media).
July 1, 2002... Gerald Matt, Thomas MieBgang, eds. Vienna, Austria: Kunsthalle Wien, 2001 Gerald Matt and Thomas MieBgang edited this series of photographs, artist's interviews and essays to accompany the 2000 exhibition "Flash Afrique" held at the...

Private Life. (Media).
July 1, 2002... Martin Mlecko Martin Miecko's recent publication Private Life is a collection of 300 appropriated German snapshots, all made within the last three decades. Selected from a diverse pool of 10,000 images, none of them his own, Mlecko has...

Traces of Light: The Art and Experiments of William Henry Fox Talbot. (Media).
July 1, 2002... Larry J. Schaaf, Mike Ware, Michael Gray, Geoffrey Batchen, Gerardo F. Kurtz and Russell Roberts Madrid, Spain: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2001 This book, titled Traces of Light: The Art and Experiments of William Henry Fox...

Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment. (Media).
July 1, 2002... Tom Sherman Banff, Canada: Banff Centre Press, 2002 According to Tom Sherman, the I-bomb exploded in the early 1990s when computer networks finally attained the speed and mass required to share and distribute the torrent of information...

Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth. (Media).
July 1, 2002... Essays by Jock Reynolds, Philip Brookman and Terry Tempest Williams New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002 The catalog published by the Yale University Art Gallery in conjunction with the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibition titled...

Looking Myself in the Mouth. (Voiceover).(political activism by artists)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In Genoa, Prague, Seattle and Melbourne thousands of demonstrators put their bodies on the line--laughing and breathing the tear gas, sweating and shouting. Rethinking traditional models of protest these massive gatherings undoubtedly had...

Embody the future. (Voiceover).(online activism)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Has power shifted to cyberspace, as the Critical Art Ensemble once claimed? Not so if we look at the countless street marches around the world. The Seattle movement against corporate globalization appears to have gained momentum--both on the...

Geert Lovink shows. (Voiceover).(online activism)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... We are hovering between a virtual and real existence all the time. Our perception of our own realities can differ in feasibility, yet every perception has its value. Online realities, like every reality that is entangled with the space of...

Showcase. (A-W).(calendar of art exhibits)
July 1, 2002... ARIZONA Scotsdale: Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures, Though Aug. 15. Tempe: ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Mill Ave. and 10th St. Lindsay...

Events.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... CALIFORNIA Open studios: Open Studios 2002 celebrates the excitement and originality of fine arts in San Francisco. More than 750 artists open their studios to the public every weekend in Oct. For more information call (415) 575-9304; or...

Internships available. (Etc.).(Visual Studies Workshop)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Internships available: Visual Studies Workshop offers unpaid internships to students and aspiring professionals within each of its six program areas: Afterimage; VSW Research Center; VSW Gallery; VSW Media Center; VSW Press; VSW Arts...

University of Michigan Museum of Art. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The University of Michigan Museum of Art has been awarded the 2002 Independent Publisher Award for Photography Book of the Year. The book in question is In Human Touch: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben, which was co-published with Nazraeli Press....