Afterimage articles from March 2008

Afterimage archives from March 2008

Archive.(Visual Studies Workshop)(Era overview)
March 1, 2008... The photographs shown here were made in the archive at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. The series began in October of 2007 and is very much a work-in-progress. This series is an outgrowth of my work since 2003 which...

Globe-spotting.
March 1, 2008... INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS JANUARY 23-FEBRUARY 3, 2008 Come festival time, Rotterdam presents itself as ferociously hungry for international movies, an image underscored by the ubiquitous and...

Art, gender, power, and the F word: an interview with Coco Fusco.(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Coco Fusco is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, professor, and cultural critic. For the past twenty years, her work has been presented around the world to much acclaim including in the Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale,...

Hollywood film as public pedagogy: education in the crossfire.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Any analysis of how Hollywood films represent the diverse worlds of teachers, students, and schools must begin with a subtle paradox: by focusing on schools, Hollywood cinema highlights the central importance of education in our society, yet at...

The relativity of boundaries: art, technology, and visual culture in the work of Pat Badani.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2008... Pat Badani is an intermedia artist, educator, and researcher who studied at the University of Alberta (Canada) and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she now resides. Her Web-work has received a Canada Council Media Arts...

Sign language as politics.(Infinitu et contini: Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistances)
March 1, 2008... INFINITU ET CONTINI: REPEATED HISTORIES, REINVENTED RESISTANCES SMACK MELLON MULTIPLEX BROOKLYN, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 17-DECEMBER 30, 2007 Resistance is being choreographed under the Brooklyn Bridge. Smack Mellon Multiplex's...

Becoming subjects.(Girls on the Verge)
March 1, 2008... GIRLS ON THE VERGE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO DECEMBER 8, 2007-FEBRUARY 24, 2008 In our culture the transformation of girls into women has been freighted and fraught. Young men assume responsibility with adulthood: they become...

The fallen frontier.(On the Edge)
March 1, 2008... ON THE EDGE BY ROBERT ADAMS FONDATION CARTIER PARIS NOVEMBER 16, 2007-JANUARY 27, 2008 Robert Adams's first solo show in Paris, titled "On the Edge," presents about 150 black-and-white gelatin silver prints that...

Resistance as form.(Forms of Resistance: Artists and the Desire for Social Change from 1871 to the Present)
March 1, 2008... FORMS OF RESISTANCE: ARTISTS AND THE DESIRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE FROM 1871 TO THE PRESENT VANABBE MUSEUM EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 22, 2007-JANUARY 6, 2008 The past few years have seen a renewed interest in aesthetics...

Binding history.(Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition)
March 1, 2008... HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: HISTORY OF HISTORY ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO OCTOBER 12, 2007-JANUARY 6, 2008 Curated and installed by the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, the exhibition "History of History," on view at the Asian Art...

Reverie and reverence.(Reading Boyishly Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... READING BOYISHLY: ROLAND BARTHES, J.M. BARRIE, JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE, MARCEL PROUST, AND D.W. WINNICOTT BY CAROL MAVOR DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008 536 PP./$27.95 (SB) Both critical novel and novelesque criticism,...

Disappearing darkrooms.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... DARKROOM BY MICHEL CAMPEAU EDITED BY MARTIN PARR PORTLAND, OREGON: NAZRAELI PRESS AND THE JGS FOUNDATION, 2007 80 PP./$65.00 (HB) One hundred and sixty-nine years alter the official birth of photography, painting is still...

Crisis in Africa.(Today The Hawk Takes One Chick)(Movie review)
March 1, 2008... TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK BY JANE GILLOOLY 72 MINUTES, 2007 Toward the end of Jane Gillooly's deeply arresting documentary Today the Hawk Takes One Chick (2007), a grandmother explains that she has heard her grandchildren...

Urgent narrative.(4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)(Movie review)
March 1, 2008... 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE) BY CRISTIAN MUNGIU 113 MINUTES, 2007 International film festivals in 2007 saw some surprising successes, most notably the Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4...

Media noted and received.(The Spectacle of Accumulation: Essays in Culture, Media, And Politics)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... THE SPECTACLE OF ACCUMULATION: ESSAYS IN CULTURE, MEDIA, AND POLITICS by sut jhally. peter lang publishing/300 pp./$32.95 (sb) The compilation of Sut Jhally's essays in The Spectacle of Accumulation offer insight into a wide range of...

Notices.(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Tempe: Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State Univ. Land Rits: Land at the Confluence of Human Cultures. Through April 5. www.art.asu.edu. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona,...