Afterimage articles from November 2008

Afterimage archives from November 2008

Anecdotes.(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... My work explores visual interpretations of stories about science and religion. Whether scientific or religious truth, these intellects rarely agree. This work metaphorically alludes to the clash between logic and faith by imposing a sense of...

Democratic cinema.
November 1, 2008... Cinomocracy Denver, Colorado August 25, 2008 Elections are fodder for speculation, commentary, and squabble--eliciting much the same sort of banter as artistic competitions. And the sentence "This is an election year" can...

Surfing with Horkheimer and Adorno in the O.C.(Orange County, California)(Conference news)
November 1, 2008... Seminar In Experimental Critical Theory V University Of California Humanities Research Institute Irvine, California August 11-22, 2008 During two weeks this August, cultural critics, media theorists, artists, union organizers,...

Not short on expression.(Expression En Corto International Film Festival)
November 1, 2008... In its 11th year, the annual Expression En Corto International Film Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, hosts the largest international film and video competition in Mexico. This year, the festival received 1,740 works from eighty-two...

No context needed.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... During an experiment to teach the Spanish language to the native Indian population in Peru, children were asked what they thought of "exploitation" and what they associated with it. As photographer Pedro Meyer reported: [ILLUSTRATION...

"Too young and vibrant for runis": ground zero photography and the problem of contemporary ruin.(here is new york: a democracy of photographs)(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... There is a photograph of the ruins of a place in New York City that no longer exists. All that remains is a gaping hole in the earth-the empty footprint of an obliterated skyscraper. Day after day and year after year, the hole confronts...

A mentor worth watching: the films of Giovanna Chesler.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... Throughout the twentieth century, artists have tried to question and redraw the boundaries of what society considers both sacred and profane. Many of them have used bodily fluids to do so: Marcel Duchamp literally inseminated his painting...

PREDICTATE, participate & perpetuate: an interview with Perpetual Art Machine.(Lee Wells)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... Perpetual Art Machine (PAM) is an on-line video database begun in 2005 that provides a virtual community for artists, curators, scholars, and students. It is the brainchild of founders Chris Borkowski, Aaron Miller. Raphaele Shirley, and Lee...

Visible disillusionment.(Not Quite How I Remember It)
November 1, 2008... Not Quite How I Remember It The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Toronto June 7-September 1, 2008 While "Not Quite How I Remember It," an exhibition of work by fourteen artists, examined ways that memories fail us and history...

Potential space.(Ask a Banana, Baby: Contemporary Swedish Video and Photography)
November 1, 2008... Nestled along the Baltic Sea, Sweden is the home of just over nine million residents, a constitutional monarchy, and a surprisingly large number of pop bands from the 1980s. Referencing a mis-hearing of the song. "Hasta Manana" by one such...

Shiny, unhappy people.(The Subject Now)
November 1, 2008... The Subject Now Adam Art Gallery Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand July 26-October 5, 2008 "The Subject Now," a group exhibition featuring nine international artists, displayed works that evince...

Compound coupling.('Play the Story' and 'The Violet Hour')
November 1, 2008... Mathew Buckingham: Play the Story July 12-September 21,2008 The Violet Hour June 21-October 19,2008 Henry Art Gallery Seattle The curators at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle always manage to put together provocative...

Warriors without Weapons.(Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Road To Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 Atlanta: High Museum Of Art, 2008 160 pp./$35.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb) "Road To Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956 1968," organized by Julian...

Beyond Desktops.(Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools Edited By Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, Ollie Oviedo Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 236 pp./$75.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb) Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools offers an invaluable,...

Cleveland: the Flats, the Mill, and the Hills.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... By Andrew Borowiec, University of Chicago Press/128pp./$60.00 (hb). $30.00 (sb) Once the heart of America was thrust with blood from industrial cities around the great lakes like Cleveland, Ohio. The Flats District in Cleveland was once...

Truth or Dare: Art And Documentary.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... By Gail Pearce and Cahal McLaughlin University of Chicago/144 pp./$40.00 (sb) Truth or Dare: Art and Documentary is an edited volume of articles, transcriptions, and interviews from the 2006 conference and screenings of the same name. The...

Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... By Frank H. Goodyear III/Merrell Publishing/240 pp./$59.95 (hb) Zaida Ben-rusuf: New fork Portrait Photographer, a monographic catalog of a recent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, stands as a definitive biography of an...

Books.(List)
November 1, 2008... 50 Photographers You Should Know, by Peter Stepan. Prestel/176pp./$19.95 (sb). American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations, by Chris Holmlund. Rutgers University Press/288 pp./$24.95 (sb). The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, by...

Exhibitions.
November 1, 2008... ARIZONA Tucson: Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6th Ave. The Enduring Landscape. Through Jan. 17. Well Told Tales, April 14 -- June 6. Rock Star. June 9 -- Aug. 29, 2009. www.ethertongallery.com. CALIFORNIA Berkeley: Berkeley Art Museum...

Events.
November 1, 2008... ARIZONA Events: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. 2nd St., Activities throughout the year, including classes and workshops, film screenings and lectures. www.smoca.org. CALIFORNIA Classes and Programs: Palms Springs...

Etc.
November 1, 2008... Call for Proposals: Media Literacy in / and the Arts: a special double issue of Afterimage (September / October 2009). Seeking unpublished scholarly research, pedagogy, experiential narratives and coverage of all media literacy practices and...