Afterimage articles from September 1999

Afterimage archives from September 1999

LANGLOIS FOUNDATION GRANTS.(The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, a private charitable foundation established in 1997 and based in Montreal, is awarding grants internationally to promote contemporary artistic and scientific practices in digital...

SILENT FILM PRESERVATION GRANT.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The National Film Preservation Foundation has received a federal grant of $1 million for the preservation of specific silent films to be distributed to three institutions: the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in...

REPOSITIONING AT ICP.(The International Center of Photography)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The International Center of Photography (ICP) has announced the appointment of Brian Wallis as Director of Exhibitions/Chief Curator. Wallis comes to ICP with varied experience as a curator, editor, scholar, critic and educator. He has...

The Pew Charitable Trusts.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The Pew Charitable Trusts, a Philadelphia-based philanthropic organization, has inaugurated a program aimed at strengthening the cultural base in the United States. The program seeks to establish "a framework for strong cultural policy in the...

PhotoWork(s) in Progress.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Three photographers have been chosen to participate in the third edition of PhotoWork(s) in Progress, the international program concerned with social development and sponsored by the Nederlands Foto lnstituut and the Mondriaan Foundation....

Oriental New Seagull.(paper for fine art photographers)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... After a four-year absence, Oriental New Seagull paper is once again available. A favorite of many fine art photographers for its rich blacks, pure whites and long tonal range, this line includes both graded and variable contrast papers and...

NEH GRANTS.(The National Endowment for Humanities)
September 1, 1999... The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced 163 grants to organizations totaling $17.6 million. The awards fall into several categories including K-12 Education, Higher Education, Museum, Film and Radio and Library and Special...

FROM HI-8 TO HIGH CULTURE.(video art)
September 1, 1999... The 1999 New York Video Festival Walter Reade Theatre (The Film Society of Lincoln Center) New York, New York July 16-22, 1999 This year's New York Video Festival described itself in its program literature as presenting an art...

PRESSURE POINT.(conference on narrative, media, and technology)
September 1, 1999... Interactive Frictions: At The Pressure Point Between Theory & Practice University of Southern California Los Angeles, California June 4-6, 1999 Interactive Frictions USC Fisher Gallery University of Southern...

OUTTAKES AT THE FLAHERTY.
September 1, 1999... The Robert Flaherty Seminar Duke University Durham, North Carolina June 4-10, 1999 This year's Robert Flaherty Seminar, "Outtakes Are History," cohered around the theme of editing, with all its interesting aesthetic,...

The McLuhan Effect.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium by Paul Levinson London and New York: Routledge, 1999 226 pp./$27.50 (hb) Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections On and By Marshall McLuhan edited by Paul...

Old Art and New Media: The Contemporary Museum.
September 1, 1999... Since the 1960s the museum's function as a domain for artwork in a formal and autonomous entity has changed into being a complex organism where art and the everyday collide and conflate into new hybrid forms of art practice and the art of...

NORTHERN LIGHTS.(portrayals of Northern Ireland)
September 1, 1999... Troubled: Photography, Film and Video from Northern Ireland The Light Factory Charlotte, North Carolina September 12-November 1, 1998 The Tire Shop Raleigh, North Carolina May 31-July 31, 1999 Manbites Dog...

THE AVENGER.
September 1, 1999... Jim Pomeroy A Retrospective New Langton Arts San Francisco, California June 9-July 24, 1999 Jim Pomeroy A Retrospective Essays by Paul DeMarinis, Timothy Druckery, Jim Melchert, Susan Miller and Constance Penley. ...

LAY OF THE LAND.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Inhabited Prairie Terry Evans Wichita: University Press of Kansas, 1998 96 pp./$29.95 (hb) Disarming the Prairie: Creating the North American Landscape Terry Evans Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 96...

JOINING FORCES.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Feminism and Documentary edited by Diane Waldman and Janet Walker Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 372 pp./$49.95 (hb), $19.95 (sb). In the concluding essay of this collection, Julia Lesage refers to feminist video artists...