Afterimage articles from May 1998

Afterimage archives from May 1998

Visual anthropology. (1972 Anthropological and Documentary Film Conference)
May 1, 1998... Visual anthropology, for all of its Robert Flahertys' and Edward Curtis' of the past, is a relatively new and open area of the social sciences exhibiting all of the adolescent insecurities (and possibilities) inherent in the growing process. The...

"Collecting the Photograph": was it worth it? (1975 'Art in America' magazine symposium)
May 1, 1998... The symposium "Collecting the Photograph," held in New York City on September 20, had been ballyhooed by Art in America magazine - which organized it - as "a landmark event" bringing together "the stars of the field." In the event, though, the...

CAA in L.A.: photography and/as/or art. (Feb 1977 College Art Association meeting)
May 1, 1998... The 65th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association (CAA) was held in Los Angeles, February 1-5. CAA met in conjunction with the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Women's Caucus for Art, and, to some extent, these sessions...

Women's artists' group fights discrimination. (Coalition of Women's Art Organizations)
May 1, 1998... Women in the arts are speaking out and taking action against what they feel is sexual discrimination within their fields. The recent founding of the Coalition of Women's Art Organizations and the January convening of a conference of women artists...

In New Haven, art meets sociology. (Yale University Center for Independent Study's 1979 'Voices in Photographic Criticism' conference)
May 1, 1998... On October 19 and 20, New Haven CT looked much as it usually does - a classic blend of venerable buildings swathed in ivy, as if in the hope that the plant might function as an intellectual nutrient and prosaic urban malaise. The only visible...

The best laid plans ... media arts group rethinks its future. (Apr 1982 National Alliance of Media Arts Centers conference)
May 1, 1998... "I don't know if we're getting anything done here," remarked my friend from Wisconsin, "but I'm having one hell of a good time" After several days of film and video screenings, and nights of meanderings through obscure watering holes, my friend...

Growing pains: artists' organizations in the 80s. (National Association of Artists Organizations' 1983 conference)
May 1, 1998... Seated around dinner tables in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel Crystal Ballroom - a room most reminiscent of a giant wedding cake - the representatives of member organizations of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO) politely...

The turbulent seas of public access. (1985 National Federation of Local Cable Programmers conference)
May 1, 1998... I suppose the title at the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers' (NFLCP) annual conference. 'Community Television: Charting New Waters," refers to the shining (but stalwart) role of public access in the fermenting ocean of new...

Where's the text: cinema studies in the '80s. (1986 Society for Cinema Studies conference)
May 1, 1998... "Here at Satire U.," wrote William Satire in the April 6 New York Times Magazine, "our undistinguished professors are curriculating their courses in finger painting and rock-music appreciation together under act sciences, headed by a 10-yeared...

Prime time psychoanalysis. (psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan)
May 1, 1998... Jacques Lacan died six years ago, leaving his renegade version of psychoanalysis to be debated by columns of followers in deconstructionist criticism, film theory, feminism and psychoanalysis proper. Throughout his 50-year career, Lacan...

Choice objects: gay and lesbian film and video. (1989 How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video Screenings and Conference)
May 1, 1998... Is it possible to speak of queer representation, of a gay and lesbian representation? Looking at the traditional format of gay and lesbian film festivals, which nearly always schedule boys' nights and girls' nights, thus encouraging the audience...

Bookworks for the '90s. (1989 Artists' Books and Publications symposium)
May 1, 1998... As everybody knows by now, books have been adopted by modern artists, as newspapers and spoken language have also been adopted We can congratulate ourselves on this development, but let us beware of an unlimited optimism that with a deeper...

Black video: keeping the faith. (1990 'Black Independents On-Line' seminars)
May 1, 1998... Yo, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates . . . Step off! - X-Clan, video for "Heed the Word of the Brother" Brother Jot the Afrocentric, Egyptophite hip-hop group X-Clan speaks compellingly about the importance of building black subjectivity grounded...

First Annual Virtual Reality Conference. (1990)
May 1, 1998... Over the past few years, rumors of "virtual reality" (VR) have begun to fire the public imagination. No longer the secret purview of military-industrial technologists, longhair computer hackers, and a small band of academic institutions, VR has...

Dumb luck at SPE. (1992 Conference of Society for Photographic Education)
May 1, 1998... The 1992 Conference of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) exhibited its usual amount of schizophrenia this year in Washington, D.C., presenting African American and feminist critic bell hooks as Featured Speaker and misogynist...

Media education in the '90s. (1992 'Constructing Culture: Media Education in the 1990s' conference)
May 1, 1998... "Media literacy" has its theoretical roots in left-leaning cultural studies. it is also the inheritor and, to some degree, synthesizer of media education projects, versions of which have circulated since the 1920s. Further, media literacy acts as...

Orchestral maneuvers in the dark. (1993 'After the Culture Wars: Is there a Future for Public Funding of the Arts' conference)
May 1, 1998... On a cold Saturday afternoon in early November 1993 the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY played host to a day-long conclave of leading figures from politics and the arts who were brought together to discuss the future of...