Afterimage articles from July 2003

Afterimage archives from July 2003

Letters to the editor.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... I want to thank Donna Tracy for her thoughtful article which raised many interesting and provocative questions ("Digitritus: Virtual Species or Digital Waste," May/June, 2003). The value and ownership of "waste by-products" from film, TV, and...

Letters to the editor.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... In response to my article, "Digitritis: Virtual Species or Digital Waste," George Dunbar has asked some provocative questions concerning the interpretation of copyright and the breach of its boundaries, questions that I have had to consider on...

Notes from the field.(Notices)
July 1, 2003... Tim Griffin has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of Artforum International magazine. Griffin, 33, joined Artforum in 2002; he worked briefly as US Reviews Editor and was promoted in February to Senior Editor. Before coming to Artforum,...

Visual Studies at the Workshop.(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... This special issue of Afterimage on visual studies is both an inauguration and result of institutional change at the Visual Studies Workshop. With the retirement of our founder, Nathan Lyons, in the summer of 2001, I found myself as new...

Visual studies.(Feature)
July 1, 2003... Research and pedagogy combine to fuel the current interest in "visual studies." Less defined than the contested territories of "cultural," "critical," or other "studies," the activities that fall within the range of things "visual" depend on...

Text as loop: on visual and kinetic textuality.(Feature)
July 1, 2003... Visual language has become mainstream in today's culture. However, this claim does not tell enough. It held true only up until the mid-1990s, for in recent years we have become contemporaries of the mutation of visual into kinetic visual, the...

Interview with Brian Wallis: June 11, 2003.(Feature)
July 1, 2003... As an editor, writer, publisher, and curator, Brian Wallis has made numerous contributions since the early eighties to redefining connections between art and criticism. His anthologies Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation (1984) and...

Walker Evans's "counter-aesthetic".(Feature)
July 1, 2003... During the last two years of his life. Walker Evans took nearly 1000 portraits of friends and students using an SX-70 Polaroid camera in a peculiarly impulsive and uncontrolled way. This body of work constitutes a noticeable departure from the...

No ideal receiver: the curious work of Cynthia Young.
July 1, 2003... In the appreciation of a work of art or an art form, consideration of the receiver never proves fruitful. Not only is any reference to a certain public or its representatives misleading, but even the concept of an "ideal"...

Face of Asia: Steve McCurry photographs.
July 1, 2003... George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, April 19 - August 31, 2003. Face of Asia is an exhibition of 35mm color photographs by Magnum and National Geographic photojournalist Steve McCurry. Taken over the last twenty-five years,...

Worlds of information: Art of the Encyclopedic.
July 1, 2003... Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda (Buffalo), New York, February 15 - March 29, 2003 Works by: Nathalie Bookchin, Brian Collier, Julia Dzwonkoski, Ra'ad Walid, Caroline Koebel, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Omar and Carlos Estrada,...

Holmespun: An Intimate Portrait of an Amish and Mennonite Community, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity.
July 1, 2003... Holmespun: An Intimate Portrait of an Amish and Mennonite Community, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity photographs by Amanda Lumry and Loren Wengerd, text by Laura Hurwitz EagleMount Press, 2002/174 pp/$45 There are shelves...

The History of Japanese Photography.
July 1, 2003... The History of Japanese Photography by Anne Wilkes-Tucker, Dans Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryuichi, and Takeba Joe with essays by Iizawa Kotaro and Kinoshita Naoyuki Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, 2003 /...

Books received.
July 1, 2003... America As Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings, by David E. Nye. The MIT Press/364pp./$29.95 (hb). Andy Warhol's Blow Job, by Roy Grundmann. Temple University Press/240 pp./$69.50 (hb), $22.95 (sb). ...

Exhibitions.(Notices)
July 1, 2003... CALIFORNIA Berkeley: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Durant Ave. Roger Ballen: Photographs. Through Aug. 15. Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University, 1250 Bellflower Blvd. From the Vault:...

Events.(Notices)
July 1, 2003... ARIZONA Workshop: Edition Book Production, a two-day workshop led by Pat Baldwin of Pequeno Press, is available for groups of six or more. (520) 432-5924 / email: patbooks@primenet.com. CALIFORNIA Courses: UC Berkeley Extension...

Etc ...(Notices)
July 1, 2003... Exhibition available: Galleries and libraries are being sought to host WSW XX Years, an exhibition of over 80 artists' books published by Women's Studio Workshop. For more information contact Tatana Kellner, WSW, P.O. Box 489, Rosendale, NY...

A 1965 visual education package from the Visual Studies Workshop Research Center.
July 1, 2003... SEEING LIKENESSES AND DIFFERENCES Level One GROSS DISCRIMINATION FAMILIAR IDEAS PICTURED (1) Discriminating between Pairs (2) Discriminating between Pairs (3) Identifying Matched Pairs (4) Identifying Matched...