Afterimage articles from November 2005

Afterimage archives from November 2005

Esther Parada: 1938-2005.(news)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Artist Esther Parada died on October 19, 2005, in her Chicago, Illinois, home after a three-year battle with gastrointestinal stromal cell cancer; she was sixty-seven. Parada, whose work focused on the political, historical, and social...

Horst Faas has received Germany's highest photo award.(Salomon Prize, 2005 for lifetime achievement award in artistic photography)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Horst Faas has received Germany's highest photo award, the Salomon Prize, for his lifetime achievements as editor and photographer. Faas, who is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was awarded the honor by the German Photographic Society during a...

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering emergency grants.(cultural and historical institutions those affected by Hurricane Katrina)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering emergency grants of at least $1 million to cultural and historical institutions, including libraries, museums, colleges, and universities in Gulf Coast areas affected by Hurricane...

Centre Pompidou and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation propose development of a new museum in Hong Kong.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Centre Pompidou and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation propose development of a new museum in Hong Kong. The two institutions will work together on a joint proposal for the construction of a museum in the West Kowloon, part of a 40-hectare...

University of California.(California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has opened supercomputing laboratory )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... University of California, San Diego, has opened the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a nanoscience, wireless, and supercomputing laboratory designed as an artist/scientist collaborative. The...

Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography.(artistic photography exhibitions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography (HMCP) will open in January 2006 in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. HMCP will be "an exhibition venue for fine photography on loan from some of the most creative and exciting photographers of our...

Activism without borders.(Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media Environment conferance)
November 1, 2005... RE: ACTIVISM: RE-DRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF ACTIVISM IN A NEW MEDIA ENVIRONMENT BUDAPEST, HUNGARY OCTOBER 14-15, 2005 The two-day, international conference RE: activism: Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media...

Future perfection.(report)
November 1, 2005... FUTURE PERFECT: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART AND THE QUESTION OF THE ARCHIVE CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2005 Cornell University recently hosted Future Perfect: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Question of the...

Media, biases, environments.(conventions of Media Ecology Association)
November 1, 2005... MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION CONVENTION NEW YORK, NEW YORK JUNE 22-26, 2005 From June 22-26, 2005, scholars from around the globe gathered at Ford-ham University in New York City for the Media Ecology Association's sixth annual...

Confronting consolidation.(report)
November 1, 2005... 2005 NAMAC CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 2, 2005 The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in Philadelphia with evening receptions and events at...

The Ingenuity track.(management of media industry)
November 1, 2005... NAMAC's Ingenuity track appeared in high relief against the conference's theme of lending fresh meanings of freedom, creativity, and risk to the media arts. This might be expected, since these values usually appear within the domain of emerging...

Screenspace.(report)
November 1, 2005... URBAN SCREENS 05 STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2005 Urban Screens 05: Discovering the Potential of Outdoor Screens for Urban Society was an international conference focusing on the public space that...

Catalyzing media.(New Mexico Media Literacy Project)(analysis of media literacy programs)
November 1, 2005... CATALYST INSTITUTE NEW MEXICO MEDIA LITERACY PROJECT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO AUGUST 1-4, 2005 The New Mexico Media Literacy Project (NMMLP), housed on the campus of Albuquerque Academy, a private middle and high school, is the...

Intersection for the arts at forty.(Fortieth anniversary of Intersection for the arts)
November 1, 2005... Just as the success of a community is based on collaboration, successful collaboration is based within meaningful relationships. As San Francisco, California's oldest alternative community art space (est. 1965), Intersection for the Arts has...

Cross-pollination.(portrait)(Brian Singer launched 1000 Journals Project's Web site)
November 1, 2005... Although keeping a journal is like flossing for many of us, consistency plummeting by day eight of our routine, it holds a universal interest: the cartoonist, the chemist, the cabbage-hater, and the cat lady unite. But it's not only discipline...

Representations of the unreal: Bush's Orwellian newspeak.
November 1, 2005... In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell (1903-50) One characteristic of an authoritarian society is its willingness to distort the truth while simultaneously suppressing...

The muse of place and time: an interview with William Christenberry.(feature)(Interview)
November 1, 2005... William Christenberry, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1936, is a photographer, painter, sculptor, teacher, and arts advocate who is considered one of the most influential southern artists working today. Christenberry's honors include...

No time to stand still.(works of Adela Holmes)(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... While I prefer not to rush in this increasingly fast-paced world, I've realized that moving through time at a faster rate makes the future and history happen more rapidly, advancing us more quickly to the next stage. These images, taken from a...

Grrls make movies: the emergence of women-led filmmaking initiatives for teenage girls.(feature)
November 1, 2005... An initial glance at Martha M. Lauzen's "Celluloid Ceiling" study is enough to induce math anxiety. This annual San Diego State University study has been reporting on statistics related to women working behind the scenes on the top 250 domestic...

Bit by bit.(artistic photography exhabitions at New Museum of Contemporary Art)
November 1, 2005... RHIZOME ARTBASE 101 NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK JUNE 23-SEPTEMBER 10, 2005 The concept of Internet-based art has changed since it first emerged in the early 1990s. Some artists who early on began...

Objects of desire.(Leora Laor's artistic photography exhibitions at Israel and Illinois)
November 1, 2005... LEORA LAOR DVIR GALLERY TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL SEPTEMBER 1-OCTOBER 8, 2005 LEORA LAOR: IMAGES OF LIGHT DAITER CONTEMPORARY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER 9-OCTOBER 29, 2005 Fantastic, abstract imagery often serves...

A sense of community.(exhibition on visual arts)
November 1, 2005... BAY AREA NOW 4 YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JULY 16-NOVEMBER 6, 2005 BAY AREA NOW 4 SAN FRANCISCO: YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 132 PP./$25.00 (SB) Yerba Buena Center for...

Archival (re)collections.
November 1, 2005... NANCY ANN COYNE: ARCHIVING MEMORY UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, ELMER L. ANDERSEN LIBRARY MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA FEBRUARY 7-SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 Why her parents "shlepped" around a book of family photographs after fleeing from...

Not unspoken.(painting and photography exhibitions at canada and USA)
November 1, 2005... GLENN LIGON: SOME CHANGES THE POWER PLANT TORONTO, ONTARIO JUNE 25-SEPTEMBER 5, 2005 CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM HOUSTON HOUSTON, TEXAS JANUARY 14-APRIL 2, 2006 THE WARHOL MUSEUM PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA ...

Sculptural books stand and deliver.(Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into a Book Format)
November 1, 2005... STAND AND DELIVER: ENGINEERING SCULPTURE INTO A BOOK FORMAT CENTER FOR BOOK & PAPER ARTS COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER 16-OCTOBER 28, 2005 In "Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into a Book...

Frontal assault.(User: Info Techno Demo)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... USER: INFO TECHNO DEMO BY PETER LUNENFELD, WITH VISUALS BY MIEKE GERRITZEN CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2005 171 PP./$25.95 (SB) Peter Lunenfeld's texts in User: Info TechnoDemo are filled with declarative assertions, compelling...

Privileged play spaces.(Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... INTERACTIVE REALISM: THE POETICS OF CYBERSPACE BY DANIEL DOWNES MONTREAL AND KINGSTON: MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 192 PP./$24.95 (SB) Breaking with what he considers the general tendency in media theory to identify...

Taking issue.(Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... MEDIA ECOLOGIES: MATERIALIST ENERGIES IN ART AND TECHNOCULTURE BY MATTHEW FULLER CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2005 240 PP./$34.95 (SB) If you believe that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, that the map is not the...

Questionable autonomy.(Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS: THE WRITINGS OF ANDREA FRASER BY ANDREA FRASER, EDITED BY ALEXANDER ALBERRO CAMBRIDGE: MIT PRESS, 2005 291 PP./$40.00 (HB) Viewers might be familiar with Andrea Fraser's "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk,"...

Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... BEING THERE: MEDICAL STUDENT MORGUE VOLUNTEERS FOLLOWING 9-11 by Barry M. Goldstein. Master Scholars Press at New York University School of Medicine/87 pp./price unavailable (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following the terrorist...

Exquisite Pain.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... EXQUISITE PAIN by Sophie Calle. Thames and Hudson/284 pp./$39.95 (hb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This book reminds us that pain, suffering, and unhappiness can be exquisitely beautiful things. Exquisite Pain documents a ninety-two-day...

Media received.
November 1, 2005... Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, by Robert Hobbs. MIT Press/423 pp./$50.00 (hb). An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession, by Jay Bochner. MIT Press/371 pp./$39.95 (hb). American Surfaces, by Stephen...

Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... IDENTITY: CONVERSATIONS WITH BENEDETTO VECCHI by Zygmunt Bauman. Polity Press/104 pp./$17.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In an interesting but loose format of compiled e-mail conversations between author Zygmunt Bauman and...

Pixel Surgeons: Extreme Manipulations of the Figure in Photography.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... PIXEL SURGEONS: EXTREME MANIPULATIONS OF THE FIGURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY by Martin Dawber. Mitchell Beazley/224 pp./$29.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With as much T 'n' A as Hustler, Pixel Surgeons contains two hundred tantalizing...

Water Being Water.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... WATER BEING WATER by David Goldes. Wright State University Art Galleries/51 pp./$25.00 (sb). This exhibition catalog begins with a quote from Gertrude Stein: "What is it that water does do?" This is a question that could be asked of a...

Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... YOUNG AMERICA: THE DAGUERREOTYPES OF SOUTHWORTH & HAWES edited by Grant B. Romer and Brian Wallis/ICP/Steidl/552 pp./$120.00 (hb). This exhibition and book is the largest project to result from the partnership between the George...

Notices.
November 1, 2005... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Pay Attention: Bruce Nauman Videos from the collection of Barbara Balkin Cottle and Robert Cottle. Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona...