Afterimage articles from March 2007

Afterimage archives from March 2007

Beyond Hollywood.(36th Rotterdam International Film Festival)
March 1, 2007... 36TH ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS JANUARY 24-FEBRUARY 4, 2007 Rumors of the death of theatrically based film art have been greatly exaggerated. At least, that is the sense one gets from ten days...

Free media.(National Conference for Media Reform)
March 1, 2007... NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR MEDIA REFORM MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE JANUARY 11-13, 2007 While President George W. Bush was advocating for a "surge" in troops in Iraq, and pundits on both sides of the aisle were responding to his State of the...

Why Warhol now? Reframing the Supernova.(Andy Warhol's exhibition)
March 1, 2007... Given the apocalyptic title "Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964," the exhibition was a tightly focused selection of Warhol's silkscreen paintings and films from a pivotal period in his career when he was developing...

Palestinian identity: the work of Tarek Al-Ghoussein.
March 1, 2007... For many, going home awakens nostalgic feelings and fond memories of childhood. However, for the Palestinian, the identity of home is often highly contested. Many Palestinians who have lived within the region or who have ties to the area often...

Video installation: characteristics of an expanding medium.
March 1, 2007... Video installations, with their multiple historic roots, are unique hybrid art forms that represent the dominant direction art-making has taken in the twentieth century toward interdisciplinary boundary-crossing collaborations that connect...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
March 1, 2007... In the feature article by Melinda Barlow in the January/February 2007 issue, the photographs of Janie Geiser's installation "The Spider's Wheels" were taken by Geiser, not by Barlow.

In step with Gramsci: an interview with Alfredo Jaar.(Antonio Gramsci)(Interview)
March 1, 2007... The mode of being of the new intellectual can no longer consist in eloquence... but in active participation in practical life, as constructor, organizer, "permanent persuader" and not just a simple orator... Antonio Gramsci, Letters from...

Don't ever change a book I never wanted to make: a true story about some paper I thought I set aflame.
March 1, 2007... That poor guy up there is not me. Nor is the one on the opposite page. But they both capture something about high school that I can't really articulate with words. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I had an idea for a book I thought would be fun....

Climate of war.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... AN-MY LE: SMALL WARS OCTOBER 26, 2006-JANUARY 6, 2007 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CHICAGO WAR FARE: WORKS BY ASHLEY GILBERTSON, SEAN HEMMERLE, SARAH PICKERING, MARTHA ROSLER, AND SEAN SNYDER...

Body of work.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... DEVIANT BODIES 2.0 CEPA GALLERY BUFFALO, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 29-DECEMBER 17, 2006 Following on the heels of the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art's (CEPA) groundbreaking 2004 exhibition "Deviant Bodies 1.0," which...

Capturing the pain of others.(photo exhibition by Gilles Peress and Candace Scharsu)
March 1, 2007... FLASH POINTS: A FOCUS ON GLOBAL TRAUMA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLES PERESS AND CANDACE SCHARSU SIDNEY MISHKIN GALLERY, BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY NOVEMBER 15-DECEMBER 12, 2006 December 2006 saw...

A caregiver's journal.(Gail Rebhan's art exhibition)
March 1, 2007... GAIL REBHAN: AGING PYRAMID ATLANTIC GALLERY SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND DECEMBER 2, 2006-JANUARY 13, 2007 Poetry and art memorializing the dying reached its apex in the nineteenth century, before medical breakthroughs and the rise of...

LABYRINTH OF THEORY.(The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... THE BODY AND THE SCREEN: THEORIES OF INTERNET SPECTATORSHIP BY MICHELE WHITE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: MIT PRESS, 2006 280 PP./$35.00 (HB) For film theorists with a keen sense of cinema's transition into the digital age, a book...

SUBSTANTIVE SPACES.(Kardanakhi Tataroba)(The Nameless Dead)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... KARDANAKHI TATAROBA BY CLIFTON MEADOR CHICAGO: EPICENTER, 2006 88 PP./$42.00 (HB) THE NAMELESS DEAD BY CLIFTON MEADOR NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: PABA PUBLICATIONS, 2004 112 PP./$65.00 (HB) Clifton Meador's most recent...

SEARCHERS OF THE LOST TOMES.(The Photobook: A History, vol. 2)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... THE PHOTOBOOK: A HISTORY (VOLUME II) COMPILED BY MARTIN PARR AND GERRY BADGER NEW YORK: PHAIDON PRESS, 2006 336 PP./$75.00 (HB) The impetus for The Photobook: A History comes from Martin Parr's intuitive understanding of the...

Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive, by Joel Meyerowitz Phaidon/349 pp./$75.00 (hb). In the days that followed September 11, 2001, lower Manhattan's city blocks were cordoned off and the site was deemed a crime scene where people were...

A Dictionary of Colours and Pigments.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... A Dictionary of Colours and Pigments, by Peter Baker. Rosedogbooks/270 pp./$24.00 (sb). Reading only a few pages of A Dictionary of Colours and Pigments by Peter Baker, I learned that pigment and pimento come from the same Latin root word,...

Lynching in the West.(Lynching in the West, 1850-1935)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Lynching in the West, 1850-1935, by Ken Gonzalez-Day. Duke University Press/332 pp./$22.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lynching in the United States has long been understood as an act of extreme prejudice, vigilante justice, and...

Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, by Elana Levine. Duke University Press/320 pp./$22.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Wallowing in Sex, Elana Levine analyzes the role of television during the...

What We Think Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... What We Think Now, by Jonathan Hollingsworth. Self-published 52 pp./$20.00 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2004, Jonathan Hollingsworth grabbed his camera, a stack of white poster boards, and some Sharpies and drove around Southern...

Notices.
March 1, 2007... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Art is an Idea: The Moquay Collection. Through April 27. Celebrity. Through April 29. www.smoca.org. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography,...