Afterimage articles from June 1996

Afterimage archives from June 1996

The medium is the message. (The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television)
June 22, 1996... Britain's National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (NMPFT) has been exemplary, perhaps even uniquely successful in capitalizing on the natural assets of a media museum. For such a museum is especially well positioned to put itself on...

Community service.
June 22, 1996... The National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) gathers every two years to share, assess and support the perplexing field of media arts. This biennial meeting is a cherished event, despite the organization's long struggle to define its...

Coming of age.
June 22, 1996... Emphasizing the burgeoning field of age studies, a recent conference entitled "Women and Aging: Bodies, Cultures, Generations" worked to make aging bodies and age studies more visible in the academy and in the culture at large. Since many credit...

Franco techno art.
June 22, 1996... Displayed in the spanking new, Renzo Piano-designed building of the Musee d'Art Contemporain, and in the scheduled-for-demolition Palais de Congres, the Third Lyon Biennial proposed an ambitious stock-taking of artistic use of the moving image....

Speaking back.
June 22, 1996... As part of my work in writing residency programs in high schools, I maintain a research file of representations of youth in the media. I use these texts and images to motivate students to determine whether the media presents accurate portrayals...

Looking at Death.
June 22, 1996... Death finds us: young or old, seasoned or green, ready or not (and we seldom are). For some it's lost its sting, for most it never does. We deny, rage, bargain, lament, accept, deny, rage . . . playing out variations of Kubler-Ross's stages,...

Secure the Shadow.
June 22, 1996... Death finds us: young or old, seasoned or green, ready or not (and we seldom are). For some it's lost its sting, for most it never does. We deny, rage, bargain, lament, accept, deny, rage . . . playing out variations of Kubler-Ross's stages,...

Harm's Way.
June 22, 1996... Death finds us: young or old, seasoned or green, ready or not (and we seldom are). For some it's lost its sting, for most it never does. We deny, rage, bargain, lament, accept, deny, rage . . . playing out variations of Kubler-Ross's stages,...

Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata.
June 22, 1996... Death finds us: young or old, seasoned or green, ready or not (and we seldom are). For some it's lost its sting, for most it never does. We deny, rage, bargain, lament, accept, deny, rage . . . playing out variations of Kubler-Ross's stages,...

The art of mourning: death and photography.
June 22, 1996... Death finds us: young or old, seasoned or green, ready or not (and we seldom are). For some it's lost its sting, for most it never does. We deny, rage, bargain, lament, accept, deny, rage . . . playing out variations of Kubler-Ross's stages,...

Raised by Wolves.
June 22, 1996... Damn girl, it's only a story. It's not real. And don't worry, there is a happy ending. - Tweeky Dave The above words open the hefty book, Raised by Wolves, that accompanies the extensive, multi-media exhibition of the same name. Assembled...

At the crossroad: Paik's electronic superhighway. (Nam June Paik's "The Electronic Super Highway: Travels with Nam June Paik")
June 22, 1996... Why is the new, massive, high-powered show by the acknowledged founding father of video art touring the byways instead of the highways of American museums? Nam June Paik's "The Electronic Super Highway: Travels with Nam June Paik," recently at...

Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art.
June 22, 1996... With the many problems artists face when involved in public art, from accounts of endless legal battles to extreme compromises in content, it's a wonder that artists undertake public projects at all. Even with more traditional, large-scale...

Culture in Action.
June 22, 1996... With the many problems artists face when involved in public art, from accounts of endless legal battles to extreme compromises in content, it's a wonder that artists undertake public projects at all. Even with more traditional, large-scale...

Literature and Photography: Interactions 1840-1990: A Critical Anthology.
June 22, 1996... This eloquent and elegant collection of texts and pictures is a record of encounters: of literary responses to photography, photographic replies to literature, of illustrations, collaborations and cohabitations. The meetings are not always easy...

Deathtripping: An Illustrated History of the Cinema of Transgression.
June 22, 1996... Deathtripping: An Illustrated History of the Cinema of Transgression comes with a "Warning" label on its jacket, and is published as part of a series of books on "exploitation films" (other titles focus on "snuff" and "freak" films). To the...

The Last Machine, Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World.
June 22, 1996... Cinema is the last machine. It is probably the last art that will reach the mind through the senses. - Hollis Frampton(1) Whether generating its own history through cinema studies or cited as historical "evidence" in other histories, film...

Rethinking Media Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy of Representation.
June 22, 1996... It's time to say a few kind words about our coercive schools. They do - more or less - solve an existential problem. They shape time for us and thus give some meaning, if not to our life, then, at least to some segments of it . . . On your own,...