Afterimage articles from March 2000

Afterimage archives from March 2000

MACARTHUR FOUNDATION MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS GRANTS.
March 1, 2000... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $500,000 in grants to 23 media centers and national media organizations. The awards were made to media centers for film and video projects in three categories: those that foster...

Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) announced the recipients of the 1999-2000 Jerome Book Arts Fellowships, the seventh round of its fellowships. The following artists and projects were funded: Rebecca Alm, Phebe Hanson and Kathleen M....

2000 CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANTS.
March 1, 2000... Creative Capital announced its first round of grants to individual artists, totaling $563,700. Seventy-five artists from 1807 applicants were awarded grants from $3200 to $20,000 in support of projects in five different areas: emerging fields,...

PHOTO SESSION.
March 1, 2000... Evaluating Today's Art Photography New York University New York, New York December 2-4, 1999 For three days in December, nearly 100 art photophiles convened for "Evaluating Today's Art Photography," a conference hosted by New York...

STATE OF THE ALTERNATIVE FESTIVAL.
March 1, 2000... It seems that everywhere you look these days there is a plethora of film and video festivals. While many claim to differentiate themselves from mainstream Hollywood fare, many of these fests seem to replicate the programming of the bigger indie...

Julia Margaret Cameron's Women, Great Men and Others.
March 1, 2000... "Women mother?." --Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering In the beginning Julia Margaret Cameron's place in the history of photography was secured by her portraits of great men. Her portraits of poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and...

VIDEO ART: STAYIN' ALIVE.
March 1, 2000... Just over three years ago, I wrote an essay for Afterimage on current trends in artists' video ("Video Art: Dead or Alive?," Afterimage 24, no. 3). It seemed that during the late 1980s and early 1990s many videomakers, programmers,...

EVIDENCE OF BLUE.
March 1, 2000... Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence by Bradley McCallum in collaboration with Jacqueline Tarry The deeply entrenched racism and violence of American culture make a cop's job dangerous and a civilian's life precarious, particularly if...

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION.
March 1, 2000... 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota October 9, 1999-January 2, 2000 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas February 6-April 23, 2000 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco,...

URBAN RENAISSANCE.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. edited by Chon A. Noriega Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998 568 pp./$74.95 (hb), $29.95 (sb) Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media...

PICTURES FROM SEATTLE.
March 1, 2000... Hereabouts: Northwest Pictures by Seven Photographers Seattle Art Museum Seattle, Washington November 18. 1999-March 12, 2000 As a genre, photography has only recently begun to play a central role in the artistic identity of...

THE NEW CODE.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media edited by Peter Lunenfeld Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999 298 pp./$35.00 (hb) Ever since cyberspace entered the public imagination and the personal computer began to dominate the...

EVERYONE IN FACES.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California October 24, 1999-January 16,2000 Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 by...

RATTLE & ROLL.
March 1, 2000... Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999 San Francisco Camerawork San Francisco, California October 15-November 20, 1999 Tracey Moffatt, photographie Galerie Laage-Salomon Paris, France November...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has appointed Benjamin Weil as the new curator of media arts. The cofounder and curator of ada'web, the pioneering experimental exhibition space for on-line art, Weil was previously the director of new media...

Nexus Contemporary Art Center.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... On February 26, Nexus Contemporary Art Center marked the official transition to its new name, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and will be referred to as The Contemporary. This name change touts Atlanta as a fertile place for contemporary art...