Afterimage articles from November 1997

Afterimage archives from November 1997

San Diego's MoPA moves forward. (Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA)
November 1, 1997... San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts is nestled deep within the complex of 18 museums and several theaters at the heart of the city's 1400-acre Balboa Park, surrounded by the world-class San Diego Zoo, a golf course and other public...

Scholarly designs. (Style Conference in Bowling Green, Ohio in July 1997)
November 1, 1997... The Style Conference, organized by Ellen Berry and Laura Stempel Mumford, convened this summer in Bowling Green, Ohio, to display both the values and risks in recent work in cultural studies. Over 140 participants from the United States, Canada,...

Sherman's mass appeal. (contemporary still-photo, visual artist Cindy Sherman)
November 1, 1997... In its August 21, 1997 issue, Rolling Stone published an image of Madonna and Cindy Sherman. This photograph's function was to document the meeting of the pop star and the visual artist at the June opening of Sherman's show at the Museum of...

Pixelated drama. (pixels in relation to humanity)
November 1, 1997... Economists predict that in the future, cash will be obsolete. That's why we're giving it away. Everywhere, the pixel is disappearing. No longer is it obligatory to watch the pixel compose our images; images of the future will have left the...

Electronic time: the memory machines of Jim Campbell.
November 1, 1997... In the age of computers, the concept of memory has acquired an increasingly strong association with the notion of control. Computer memory is what we intentionally store, something we amp up, make more powerful and deploy to create data bases,...

Demo or die: performance anxiety and the digital artist. (real-time demonstrations by graphic artists of their work in front of a live audience)
November 1, 1997... At the MIT Media Laboratory . . . the academic slogan "publish or perish" has been recodified as "demo or die" . . . When we started the Media Lab, I kept telling people we must demo, demo, demo . . . Forget technical papers and to a lesser...

The Last Angel of History.
November 1, 1997... Evoking Walter Benjamin's famous image of history as an angel who is at once looking backward at the past as she is flying forward toward the future, John Akomfrah's latest film essay is a similarly non-linear flight through a history of science...

50 Feet of String.
November 1, 1997... There is no easy category in which to place Leighton Pierce's latest film, 50 Feet of String (1995). It could be termed documentary but the film is abstract. It's painterly. It's also personal and universal. From earlier films and videos such...

Narration and intervention. (evaluation of Sculpture Projects in Munster 1997 exhibit; Munster, Germany)
November 1, 1997... What are the possibilities and limitations of producing site-specific works in the late 1990s? Judging from the "Sculpture Project in Monster 1997," it is apparent that site-specificity has had its heyday. Site-specific concepts and practices...