Afterimage articles from July 2008

Afterimage archives from July 2008

Multimedia texts.(Conference news)
July 1, 2008... CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TELEVISION, AUDIO, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA AND FEMINISM SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA APRIL 24-26, 2008. "Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New...

Future promises.(New York photo festival)
July 1, 2008... NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL NEW YORK CITY MAY 14-18, 2008 In the nouveau-elegant neighborhood of DUMBO, Brooklyn, May 14-18, 2008, powerHouse Books and the VII Photo Agency presented the first New York Photo Festival, assertively...

Gaming for social change.(Games for Change festival)
July 1, 2008... GAMES FOR CHANGE FESTIVAL NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH NEW YORK CITY JUNE 2-4, 2008 Forming a glittering sea of laptop computer screens, the fifth annual Games for Change Festival convened three hundred game designers,...

Appointment with Berlin.(Berlin International Film Festival)
July 1, 2008... BERLINALE (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) BERLIN FEBRUARY 7-17, 2008 This year's Berlinale (the 58th Berlin International Film Festival), like that of many Berlinales past, was soaked in history. Given its Cold War inception...

They believe; Can I?(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2008... There was a certain advertisement on a billboard in my New York City neighborhood that still haunts me. It was an advertisement for the fashion designer Alexander McQueen, but like many ads these days, the product was absent from the scene....

Without words you spoke: early snapshot photography and queer representation.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION In 1994, in the disheveled and damp basement of my parents' house, I found a shoebox of snapshots of sepia-tinted images of men and women leisurely enjoying the company of each other. These common snapshot images of backyards...

Media of now: an interview with David Hall.(Interview)
July 1, 2008... That's why film (as cinema) and video (as television) became of interest, because they were the media of now; they were what most people were looking at, they weren't looking at art, art was in galleries. --David Hall, 2005 (1) David...

Portfolio.(platter)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... A long time ago, a woman gave her grandson's new wife a beautiful platter. It was not old, valuable, or well cared for, but the woman had several and wanted to welcome the new bride to the family. The young woman accepted the gift and displayed...

American idols.(Bill Wood's Business)
July 1, 2008... BILL WOOD'S BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY NEW YORK CITY MAY 16-SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 The business of American photography has centered primarily around fashion and photojournalism, capturing either the new trends in...

Kinesthetic aesthetics.
July 1, 2008... JENNIFER STEINKAMP ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY BUFFALO, NEW YORK MARCH 14-JUNE 29, 2008 Video projections have become a ubiquitous visual delivery experienced in home theaters, classrooms, meeting rooms, concerts, and sidewalk...

Art of appropriation.(Re-enactments)
July 1, 2008... RE-ENACTMENTS DHC/ART FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART MONTREAL, CANADA FEBRUARY 22-MAY 25, 2008 What does it mean to be original? Is true originality even possible? That was the underlying question of the recent show...

Home in the age of globalization.(Double Vue)
July 1, 2008... DOUBLE VUE BY CAMILLE ZAKHARIA BAHRAINI-FRENCH CULTURAL CENTRE MUHARRAQ, KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN MAY 7-JUNE 19, 2008 Bahrain, like many of the other countries within the Arabian Gulf region, is grappling with tremendous growth...

Specter vs. spectrum.
July 1, 2008... SPECTER CRG GALLERY NEW YORK CITY MAY 8, 2008 One of the challenges in curating a video program is determining how closely the works should adhere to the theme. Should the curator allow for an open range of interpretations in...

Sculpting video.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... PETER SARKISIAN 1-20 GALLERY NEW YORK CITY MAY 9-JULY 26, 2008 Peter Sarkisian's current work on exhibit at I-20 Gallery in Chelsea challenges the traditional syntax of video art. Conjoining vacuum-formed, thermal plastic...

Eastern standards.(Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China)
July 1, 2008... EASTERN STANDARD: WESTERN ARTISTS IN CHINA MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MASS MOCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY 2-FALL 2008 Attempts by outsiders to relate the particulars of another culture are so often...

Feminism in the field.(A Field Guide for Female Interrogators)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... A FIELD GUIDE FOR FEMALE INTERROGATORS BY COCO FUSCO NEW YORK: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2008 144PP./S16.95 (SB) Coco Fusco's most recent book, A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008), provides a complex and nuanced reading...

Poetic media.(Media Poetry: An International Anthology, 2nd edition)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... MEDIA POETRY: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY EDITED BY EDUARDO KAC BRISTOL/CHICAGO: INTELLECT BOOKS, 2007 296 PP./$35.00/[pounds sterlings]19.95 (SB) Media Poetry: An International Anthology (Second Edition) has the advantage of...

Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... BY ROBERT HIRSCH FOCAL PRESS/416 PP./$49.95 (SB) Robert Hirsch clearly pitches Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age as an introductory college-level photography textbook that is foremost an idea book rather than a software or...

Archive Fever: uses of the Document in Contemporary Art.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... BY OKWUI ENWEZOR STEIDL/ICP/264 PP./$45.00(HB) Archive Fever is the catalog to the exhibition organized by the International Center of Photography in New York City and curated by Okwui Enwezor that was on view January 18-May 4, 2008....

Exhibitions.(NOTICES)
July 1, 2008... ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Contemporary Scandinavian Art. Space is the Place. Both through Sept. 2. Pae White: Lisa, Bright & Dark. Through Sept. 7. Branded and on Display. Through Sept. 21...