Afterimage articles from November 2000

Afterimage archives from November 2000

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2000... To the editor In Stephen Longmire's omnibus feature article "Callahan's Children" in the September/October issue (Volume 28, no. 2), a couple of questions are raised regarding my exhibition "Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities" that I...

EASTMAN HOUSE AND ICP JOIN FORCES.
November 1, 2000... Photography giants the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY, and New York City's International Center of Photography (ICP) have announced an alliance. Through this union their collections and...

REMEMBERING WALTER.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 1, 2000... No doubt there will be many friends and fellow artists who'll remember Walter Chappell in their own way. He was always personal, always intimate and particular. So when one thinks of what he did, of the myriad images he made, of necessity one...

The Experimental Television Center.
November 1, 2000... The Experimental Television Center has inaugurated its Video History Project Web site. Since 1994, the Experimental Television Center has maintained a database documenting video art and community television's development in rural and urban New...

Photography Archives and Research Center.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The new Photography Archives and Research Center, established in Rio de Janeiro, houses a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography. Inaugurated by Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), a non-profit Brazilian cultural institution,...

The University of California's Irvine School of the Arts Gallery and Research Center.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... October 17, 2000 marked the public opening of The University of California's Irvine School of the Arts Gallery and Research Center. The Donald R. and Joan F. Beall Center for Art and Technology, a 3300-square-foot gallery and research center...

The Walker Arts Center.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis has appointed Cis Bierinckx as its new Film/Video Curator. Born in Lier, Belgium, Bierinckx will oversee the Walker's widely recognized film/video department, known for its retrospectives, showcases of...

The Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center is relocating to a new facility at 655 Mission Street, around the corner from The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The new location is 8700 square feet--2700 square feet larger than their current...

The Finnish Museum of Photography.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Finnish Museum of Photography is a new national museum that researches, collects and presents photography. The 2500-squaremeter exhibition area houses the permanent exhibition "Light," which illustrates the history of Finnish photography...

The New York Foundation for the Arts' Arts and Technology Technical Assistance Program.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The New York Foundation for the Arts' Arts and Technology Technical Assistance Program (TechTAP) has awarded $32,000 to 11 arts organizations. TechTAP--founded in 1971--involves a series of statewide projects including workshops, publications,...

En Foco.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... En Foco has announced the winners of its New Works Photography Awards. The winners receive an honorarium, photographic supplies and/or a group exhibition in New York or publication in En Foco's bilingual journal Neuva Luz. The winners are...

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology has opened a Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) in Montreal for researchers working in the field of multimedia and new technologies. The CR+D's mandate is to document the...

Presentation House Gallery.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Board of Directors of Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver, British Columbia has appointed Denis Gautier to the position of Acting Director/Curator. Gautier, whose professional focus has been on examining the public...

Corbis, the world's leading news photography agency.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Corbis, the world's leading news photography agency, has launched a new production company called Corbis Documentaries. Led by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker David Turnley, Corbis Documentaries will use state-of-the-art...

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
November 1, 2000... Capitalize the Arts: A Tool for Change, A Source for Healing Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County Annual Conference Shea's Performing Arts Center Buffalo, New York October 17, 2000 The second year of the conference,...

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN.
November 1, 2000... When San Francisco Camerawork signed a five-year commercial lease in 1995, rent was an affordable $30,000 for the entire year. The gallery showcased contemporary photography next to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, just south of downtown...

SUFFICIENTLY DIGIFIED.
November 1, 2000... RESFEST 2000 Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, California September 7-9, 2000 In its fourth year, the New York-curated RESFEST has exponentially attracted digital filmmakers and experimental animators. Organizers received...

FANTASY AND DISTRACTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH PIPILOTTI RIST.(Interview)
November 1, 2000... Since the mid-1980s, Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist has been exploring different facets of electronic media through single-channel tapes, performances, sound recordings and installations, most of which overlap from one work to the other as...

Public Art: Avant-Garde Practice and the Possibilities of Critical Articulation.
November 1, 2000... "Public art" as a category embraces a wide variety of aesthetic practices: outdoor sculpture, poster art, multimedia projections, earthworks, community-based projects and many more. This totalizing classification reflects a very traditional...

MARTYRS AND HEROES IN MODERN TIMES.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, Massachusetts February 5-April 30, 2000 Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times ...

I'VE GOT CONCEPTUAL ART IN MY IDENTITY POLITICS.
November 1, 2000... MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper's Videos, Installations, Performances, and Soundworks 1968-1992 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) at California Plaza August 6-November 5, 2000 San Diego, California New Museum of Contemporary...

RE-ENGENDERED.
November 1, 2000... Fertilitate by Caroline Koebel Cornershop Buffalo, New York April 15-May 31, 2000 Pupspindanceslow by Caroline Koebel Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art Buffalo, New York March 17-July 31, 2000...