Afterimage articles from March 2002

Afterimage archives from March 2002

National Endowment for the Arts. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The National Endowment for the Arts has announced 819 grants to be awarded during its first 2002 fiscal cycle. The grants, totaling $19.4 million, account for 20 percent of the Endowment's funds for the year, and will be distributed chiefly to...

Michael P. Hammond. (Newswire).(Obituary)
March 1, 2002... In a related event, Michael P. Hammond, President Bush's newly appointed NEA Chairman, sadly died on January 29. Mr. Hammond was sworn in just seven days prior to his passing.

James D. Phelan Art Award. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The 2001/2002 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by SF Camerawork, has been awarded to three photographers: Peter Tonningsen (Alameda, CA), Tom Patton (St Louis, MO) and Leigh...

International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum. (Newswire).(three new inductees)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... William Henry jackson, Gordon Parks and Helmut Gernsheim have been inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Oklahoma City. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), primarily a landscape photographer who...

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. (Newswire).($ 50,000 emergency grant)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced a $650,000 emergency grant fund for New York City arts organizations that have suffered severe hardship in the wake of the September 11 attacks. These grants follow an earlier $50,000...

Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Awards. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... At the 2001 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Awards, held on February 5 at The Arts Club in London, filmmaker Mike Leigh presented a total of [pounds sterling]15,000 in prize money. The two main prizes of [pounds sterling]5,000 each went to...

Musuem of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCA). (Newswire).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Musuem of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCA) has announced the appointment of Curator Toby Kamps as head of its curatorial department, as well as the hiring of two new Assistant Curators, Stephanie Hanor and Rachel Teagle. Toby Kamps's...

Ann Arbor Film Festival. (Newswire).(non-profit organization awarded grants)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The not-for-profit Ann Arbor Film Festival has been awarded grants from various institutions totaling approximately $69,000. The principle funding institutions involved are: Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for...

Leeway Foundation. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Leeway Foundation has awarded "Window of Opportunity" grants to eight Philadelphia-area women, including Lee Ann Etzold (performance artist), Patricia Graham (performance artist) and Toni Vandegrift (multimedia artist). Combined the grants...

New Orleans Museum of Art. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced the appointment of a new Assistant Director for Art, Steven Maklansky. He has served as the museum's Curator of Photography since 1993. Maklansky, a New York City native with an M.A. in photographic...

Mirror, mirror. (Grapevine).(ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century art exhibition)
March 1, 2002... In conjunction with the exhibition "ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century," November 23, 2001--January 15, 2002, The Kitchen organized a discussion moderated by Judith Donath, an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. The...

Apotheosis. (Grapevine).(Robert ParkeHarrison)
March 1, 2002... Every writer faces an abyss of choices when a blank page is revealed or a new word-processing document pops open. From that moment onward, one that frequently gives rise to chronic procrastination and belongs to the infamous writer's block due...

Revulsion and pathos: Covering the war in Afghanistan. (Features).(Mass Media)
March 1, 2002... Since September 13, clusters of postage-stamp portraits of those who died on September 11 have been published in the pages of The New York Times, as the paper gives little obituaries to each person who lost her or his life. They extend and...

The work of artists in a databased society: Net.Art as online activism. (Features).(Internet standards and a Free Society)(Excerpt)
March 1, 2002... Have you checked your email today? Do you get online to find out the latest scores of your favorite sports teams? Do you use the Web to scan the latest news? Perhaps you make online purchases--a birthday present, new music, or a business...

While frenzied interest in new media. (Voiceover).(Lev Manovich Dialogue)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... While frenzied interest in new media has led to a number of attempts to document and narrate the swift rise of networked technologies and various adjusted paradigms, the new media craze and its subsequent crash have for the most part...

Shattered body shattered self.(Genomics on the Internet)(Evaluation)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2002... TEXT POD 1.0 Is the genome a computer? Not, "is the genome, in the way It is constructed and In the way it functions, analogous to the way a computer is constructed and functions"?, but instead, is the genome a computer in its own right. a...

Specters of the ordinary.(ExtraOrdinary: American Place in Recent Photography, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Guy Debord's theory of the spectacle is an appropriate lens through which "ExtraOrdinary: American Place in Recent Photography" can be examined--the "spectacle" and the "extraordinary" share, after all, a penchant for detachment from the...

Circle as cycle.(Loop, P.S. 1)
March 1, 2002... "Instruction ([4.sup.#]): It's only just begun." (1) Douglas Gordon's text, spread across an exhibition wall, could be a fitting subtitle for P.S. i's exhibition "Loop," as well as a playful tribute to the tale of Sisyphus-that mythical figure...

Magnetic intersections. (Reviews).("Cross Sections" photographic exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art)
March 1, 2002... Just how closely art can parallel or parody science is made abundantly clear in Catherine Wagner's latest photography project, titled "Cross Sections." The prints in this series resulted from a two-year Residency Fellowship the Bay-Area...

Benjamin's Blind Spot. (Media).
March 1, 2002... Lise Patt, ed. Los Angeles, CA: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2001 You have only to read the introduction to Benjamin's Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura & The Manual of Lost Ideas to know that ambiguity...

Face On: Photography as Social Exchange. (Media).
March 1, 2002... Mark Ourden, Craig Richardson, eds. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2000 The title Face On immediately sets up an expectation of something confrontational, a series of essays that will turn a sharp critical eye toward portrait-based...

Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World.
March 1, 2002... Cheryl Brutvan Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2001 A lavishly illustrated and elegantly designed publication entitled Details of the World accompanies the major survey of work by French contemporary artist Sophie Risteihueber organized...

Trade: Commodities, Communication and Consciousness.
March 1, 2002... Urs Stahel, Thomas Seelig, Martin Jaeggi, eds. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo, 2001 Words like "capitalism" and "globalization" are circulating widely in the arenas of cultural criticism today. Both are in turn grounded and subsumed in "the...

Information Arts. (Media).
March 1, 2002... Stephen Wilson Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001 Information Arts? Stephen Wilson's impressive tome that weighs in at 1024 pages invokes immediate parallels to other information sources in book form, such as the Yellow Pages or any...

An Introduction to Cybercultures. (Media).
March 1, 2002... David Bell New York: Routledge, 2001 A volcano of ideas, inventions, politics, conventions, communities and technologies, cyberspace is a hot topic in academia these days. David Bell's An Introduction to Cybercultures is the latest in...

Reading The Figural, or, philosophy after the new media. (Media).
March 1, 2002... D. N. Rodowick Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001 What's the difference between "reading" in today's multimedia society and reading a traditional book? In Reading The Figural, film theorist D. N. Rodowick suggests that language...

Different. (Media).
March 1, 2002... Stuart Hall, Mark Sealy New York: Phaidon, 2001 It is somewhat confounding that photography by persons from ethnic backgrounds other than "white" has followed many of the same changes that Western photography went through during the...

Events.
March 1, 2002... ARIZONA Workshop: Edition Book Production, a two-day workshop led by Pat Baldwin of Pequeno Press, is available for groups of six or more. For information call (520) 432-5924 or email patbooks@primenet.com. CALIFORNIA Lecture...

A meta-theme Greene. (Voiceover).(New Media Art and the Internet)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A meta-theme Greene identifies is that conceived of as "systems of innovation," where new media are often read as the compilation of discrete units reducible to finite forms. A parallel operation occurs in the race to historicize new media art...

"Technical Innovation Class War". (Voiceover).(New Media and Art)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Can what goes in the preceding installments by the tag "formal" and that which almost disappears under the names "political" and "social" be reconciled? Using them, it seems that what is expressed in the former is repressed in the latter, and...