Afterimage articles from March 2006

Afterimage archives from March 2006

Creative Capital Foundation awards grants totaling more than $400,000 for 2006.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Creative Capital Foundation awards grants totaling more than $400,000 for 2006. The organization awarded sixty-one artists representing forty-three different projects in the performing arts, emerging fields, and innovative literature, which is...

Getty Fund to assist arts institutions hit by Hurricane Katrina.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Getty Foundation Fund )(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Getty Fund to assist arts institutions hit by Hurricane Katrina. Two million dollars have been set aside by the foundation to help New Orleans and other storm-affected arts institutions recover from the hurricane. Two types of grants are...

No Strings Foundation inaugural grants awarded.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... No Strings Foundation inaugural grants awarded. Ford Gilbreath and Martin Weber received grants of $25,000 each, intended to enhance and facilitate the creative endeavors of artists using photography as a medium. Gilbreath is a Seattle,...

The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) is transitioning to new leadership and staff.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) is transitioning to new leadership and staff. The group plans to become more relevant and responsive to the needs of independent mediamakers. The revamped AIVF's vision of the future...

Judge dismisses lawsuit against Philip-Lorca diCorcia.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(right to privacy case)(Philip-Lorca diCorcia v. Erno Nussenzweig)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Judge dismisses lawsuit against Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Erno Nussenzweig--whose Orthodox Jewish beliefs forbid the reproduction of his image by any means--filed suit against the photographer claiming that his right to privacy had been violated...

Edward Steichen photo breaks record for most expensive ever sold at auction.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Edward Steichen photo breaks record for most expensive ever sold at auction. Steichen's 1904 work The Pond-Moonlight was purchased for $2,928,000. This shattered the previous record set in November 2005 when an untitled image by Richard Prince...

London's Hayward Gallery announces hiring of new director.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Ralph Rugoff)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... London's Hayward Gallery announces hiring of new director. Ralph Rugoff, director of the California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, has accepted the position of director of the Hayward Gallery at the South Bank...

Late addition.
March 1, 2006... The Urban Screens 05 festival covered in the November/December 2005 issue of Afterimage (Volume 33, no. 3) was organized by Mirjam Struppek of UrbanllReseARTch, Berlin; Geert Lovink and Sabin of Niederer Institute of Network Cultures,...

Nam June Paik: 1932-2006.(news)(Obituary)
March 1, 2006... Video art pioneer Nam June Paik died of natural causes at his home in Miami, Florida, on January 29, 2006; he was seventy-three. A memorial service for Paik was held in New York City on February 3, 2006. Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1932, Paik...

Location, location, location.(Association of International Photography Art Dealers photography show)
March 1, 2006... AIPAD'S PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 2006 NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 10-12, 2006 If it is February in New York, then it is AIPAD time, and the eyes and wallets of the photography world converge on the finest collection of photography...

Love fest.(International Film Festival Rotterdam)
March 1, 2006... SATELLITE OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND JANUARY 26-MARCH 26, 2006 It was once the case that artists chose to use video in order to be able to broadcast their work, and their goal was to leave...

Evolution of a photo fair.(Photo L.A trade fairs)
March 1, 2006... PHOTO L.A. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 19-22, 2006 Presenting its fifteenth installment this year, photo l,a, has matured into one of the better art photography trade fairs in the United States. Improving on last year's event...

Festival Focus on Asia.(film festivals)
March 1, 2006... FOCUS ON ASIA--FUKUOKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FUKUOKA, JAPAN SEPTEMBER 16-25, 2005 PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PUSAN, SOUTH KOREA OCTOBER 6-14, 2005 DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DUBAI, UNITED ARAB...

When research needs another name.(Sensuous Knowledge conference-- by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts)
March 1, 2006... SENSUOUS KNOWLEDGE 2 SOLSTRAND, NORWAY NOVEMBER 9-11, 2005 When I first read the description of last November's Sensuous Knowledge conference--hosted annually by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Bergen, Norway--it piqued...

Supernatural girls.
March 1, 2006... Whether possessing a capacity for magic or the ability to do battle with the undead, there is no question that contemporary teenage heroines have power with a capital P. --Debbie Stoller, The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (1) In...

Extending the frame: an interview with Susan Meiselas.(feature)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Susan Meiselas has represented difficult issues with innovative approaches throughout her thirty-year career as a documentary media artist. Her awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal (1979), the MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and the...

Web design's long first decade: a micro--meta--history.
March 1, 2006... The World Wide Web as a medium and Web design as a creative practice are now both old enough to have histories. The period between 2003 and 2005 saw various public celebrations of the first ten years of this quintessential new medium. But, when...

Intermedia: forty years on and beyond.(feature)
March 1, 2006... WHAT IS INTERMEDIA? Forty years ago artist Dick Higgins coined the term "intermedia" to describe works of art that seemed to "fall between media." (1) Although delimiting concepts are contrary to the spirit of intermedia, two defining...

Gotta Dance: the exotic language of the body.(Buena Vista Social Club, Gotta Dance )(Editorial)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Gotta Dance celebrates motion through a study of diverse dance forms and cultures. I am drawn to the universality of dance and the relationships between sound, motion, and emotion. This work expresses the artistry, magnetism, and athleticism of...

Computer-based art radiates grounded ideas.(Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland)
March 1, 2006... ALL DIGITAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, OHIO JANUARY 20-MAY 7, 2006 On view through May 7, 2006, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) presents "All Digital," a sophisticated, engaging, and...

The medium's message.(The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult)(Editorial)
March 1, 2006... THE PERFECT MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OCCULT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 27-DECEMBER 31, 2005 Photography has always been considered a medium of fact, capable of producing precise and accurate...

Portraits of outrage.(Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis conference)
March 1, 2006... PICTURING ATROCITY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 27, 2005 For four weeks, a small-scale exhibition exploring public perception and representation of the United...

Atrocious images.(Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis conference)(Conference news)
March 1, 2006... PICTURING ATROCITY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT THE GRADUATE CENTER CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK, NEW YORK DECEMBER 9, 2005 On December 9, 2005, photographers, curators, scholars, and...

Elements for experience.(Alexandre Castonguay: Elements)
March 1, 2006... ALEXANDRE CASTONGUAY: ELEMENTS MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL MONTREAL, QUEBEC SEPTEMBER 22, 2005-JANUARY 8, 2006 Computer programmers describe the interconnections between sets of code, text, and images as "elegant"...

Art, science, and imagination.(Pluto's Cave: Making Visible the Invisible)
March 1, 2006... PLUTO'S CAVE: MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE BY ACME PHYSICS BIG ORBIT GALLERY BUFFALO, NEW YORK OCTOBER 15-DECEMBER 18, 2005 NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY VISUAL ARTS GALLERY JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY JANUARY...

Subculture communication.(Schablone Berlin )(Book review)
March 1, 2006... SCHABLONE BERLIN BY CAROLINE KOEBEL AND KYLE SCHLESINGER TUCSON: CHAX PRESS, 2005 150 PP./$16.95 (SB) "Schablone," the art form that appears with random frequency on the walls and in the streets of Berlin, is the German word...

Reviewing orthodoxies.(A New History of Documentary Film)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... A NEW HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM BY JACK C. ELLIS AND BETSY A. MCLANE NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2005 385 PP./$19.95 (SB) Now is undoubtedly a boom-time for the documentary. The popularity and critical success of the theatrically...

Photo synthesis.(The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage.)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... THE ART OF FREDERICK SOMMER: PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING, COLLAGE BY KEITH F. DAVIS, ET AL. NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 252 PP./$65.00 (HB) RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD BY RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD AND GUY DAVENPORT NEW YORK...

A tough commute. (No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America, 1960-1980)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... NO LONGER INNOCENT: BOOK ART IN AMERICA 1960-1980 BY BETTY BRIGHT NEW YORK: GRANARY BOOKS, 2005 350 PP./$39.95 (SB) As I read No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 by Betty Bright, a particular metaphor began to...

Mother board.(My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts )(Book review)
March 1, 2006... MY MOTHER WAS A COMPUTER: DIGITAL SUBJECTS AND LITERARY TEXTS BY N. KATHERINE HAYLES CHICAGO AND LONDON: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2005 228 PP./$55.00 (HB), $22.00 (SB) "If nothing else," writes N. Katherine Hayles in...

Photo economics.(The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... THE CORPORATE EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN COMMERCIAL CULTURE, 1884-1929 BY ELSPETH H. BROWN BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 344 PP./$49.95 (HB) The Corporate Eye: Photography and the...

Imbedded public histories.(Precious Places)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2006... PRECIOUS PLACES BY SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER 174 MINUTES, ENGLISH, 2005 A vigorous, contentious debate underlies documentary theory, history, and practice: How do we understand the shifting power relations between filmmaker, subject,...

Media received.
March 1, 2006... American Surfaces, by Stephen Shore. Phaidon/232 pp./$55.00 (hb). Back Story 4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, edited by Patrick McGilligan. University of California Press/434 pp./$60.00 (sb). Boulevard, by Adam...

Atomic Light (Shadow Optics).(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... ATOMIC LIGHT (SHADOW OPTICS) by Akira Mizuta Lippit. University of Minnesota Press/248 pp./$19.95 (sb). What is the common factor among x-ray machines, psychoanalysis, and atomic radiation? According to Akira Mizuta Lippit, a professor...

Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film by Maya Deren.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... ESSENTIAL DEREN: COLLECTED WRITINGS ON FILM BY MAYA DEREN edited by Bruce R. McPherson. McPherson & Company/261 pp./$18.00 (sb). To place the words "essential" and "Deren" in the same title, much less the same sentence, is quite...

The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... THE EUROPEANS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA BARNEY London and Gottingen: Barbican Art Gallery and Steidl Publishers, 192 pp./$50.00 (hb). Quite possibly, the only milieu more rarefied than the upper crust WASPs that have comprised the mainstay...

Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... EVERYTHING I ATE: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF MY MOUTH by Tucker Shaw. Chronicle Books/496 pp./$14.95 (sb). As a documentary chronicle of our times, Tucker Shaw's Everything I Ate is just what it claims to be: a lively and comprehensive...

Installationview.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... INSTALLATIONVIEW by Ryan McGinness Rizzoli/288 pp./$40.00 (sb). Steeped in popular culture, graphic design, and the worlds of marketing and branding, the work of Ryan McGinness often polarizes critics, begging the inevitable debate: Is...

Niagara.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... NIAGARA by Alec Soth Steidl/144 pp./$60.00 (hb). Alec Soth has followed up his widely lauded "Sleeping by the Mississippi" project with an intense and intimate exploration of another iconic body of water. "Niagara" finds Soth training...

Turning 50.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... TURNING 50 by Bea Nettles. Inky Press Productions/64 pp./$20.00 (sb). Turning 50, which was rereleased in an edition of 200 in 2005 (originally published in 1995), is a visual account of aging. Bea Nettles has varicose veins, skin that...

Notices.(Public notice)
March 1, 2006... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Visions: outside/inside. May 11-Sept. 17. southwestNET: Jones Studio, Inc. Ricardo Mazal: The Tomb of the Red Queen. Both May 27-Sept. 24. Flor...