Afterimage articles from May 1997

Afterimage archives from May 1997

Fashioning art.
May 1, 1997... The burgeoning crossover between the worlds of fashion and art is increasingly apparent - contemporary work is imbued with concerns about gender identity, fashion photography is entering into the commercial galleries and, most recently, the...

Da(r)ta. (a type of data-art)
May 1, 1997... . . . if it wants to be relevant, it is within and across this stream of data that 'art work' must henceforth be undertaken. For it is here, here within the very grain of matter itself, that political and cultural action of every kind must now...

Art history's anxiety attack. (visual studies vs. art history)
May 1, 1997... In its Summer 1996 issue (no. 77) the editors of October, led by Rosalind Krauss and Hal Foster, published responses to a"Questionnaire on Visual Culture" that was sent to an unspecified "range" of scholars, critics and artists during the...

Cinemnesis: Martin Arnold's memory machine.
May 1, 1997... As we watch a film, the continuous act of recognition in which we are involved is like a strip of memory unrolling beneath the images of the film itself, to form the invisible underlayer of an implicit double exposure. - Maya Deren(1) The...

Archives of the street.
May 1, 1997... In Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud attempts to describe how memory forms layers within our minds by invoking an image of "the eternal city," a fictionalized Rome. Inside this fantastic metropolis, structures centuries old co-exist...

Virtual resistance.
May 1, 1997... The exhibition "Anxious Libraries: Photography and the Fate of Reading" offers a complex account of the place of photographic imagery in the ongoing proliferation of digital technologies. The photographic work exhibited employs a variety of...