Afterimage articles from September 2002

Afterimage archives from September 2002

Center for Photography at Woodstock. (Newswire).
September 1, 2002... The Center for Photography at Woodstock celebrates its silver anniversary in 2002. Two exhibitions, entitled "Constellation/Celebrating Our First 25 Years" and "Constellation Select," mark the occasion. Both run through October 20.

Museum of Contemporary Photography. (Newswire).(Rod Slemmons appointment)
September 1, 2002... The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College has named Rod Slemmons its new Director. Arriving from a teaching position at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he taught the history of photography and graduate-level...

U.S. postage stamps. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" has taken another turn with the new series of U.S. postage stamps titled "Masters of American Photography." 20 photographers have been deemed worthy of sticky thumbnails, including Lewis...

Maryland Art Place (MAP). (Newswire).(Julie Cavnor appointment)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The search is over for a new Director at the Maryland Art Place (MAP), as Julie Cavnor assumed the position at the end of June. Serving as the Assistant Director at MAP since 1998, she obviously already knows the organization and the region...

MoMA QNS. (Newswire).(Museum of Modern Art opens Queens branch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Just as museums are struggling with attendance and the role of the museum is under threat as a directive repository of art due to the influx of new media, The Museum of Modem Art (MoMA) opened its MoMA QNS branch, located across the East River...

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). (Newswire).(plans for museum at Fan Pier)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... While MoMa moves around, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in Boston unveiled, in early September, plans and models for its new museum at Fan Pier. Designed by the renowned architectural team of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, the...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Newswire).(Koret Visitor Education Center)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Across the country, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will open an in-house educational facility, Koret Visitor Education Center, on October 12. It will accommodate drop-in patrons, in the comfortable Learning Lounge, and offer a full...

The Language of New Media. (Newswire).(www.manovich.net/LNM_SITE_NEW/Inn_main.html)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Anyone who has read Lev Manovich's book The Language of New Media and is engaged in teaching will be pleased to learn that Manovich has in collaboration with Mathew Kabatoff launched a complementary Web site that features over 300 illustrations...

Amon Carter Museum. (Newswire).(Sylvie Penichon appointment)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... To assure us that the longevity of its acquisitions are in good hands, the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth has appointed Sylvie Penichon as its first photograph conservator. With more than 30,000 photographs to care for in the museum's...

Museum of Contemporary Art. (Newswire).(Cornerstone Arts Organization grant)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... In another windfall of gargantuan proportions, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego has received its second Cornerstone Arts Organization grant from the James Irvine Foundation. This second grant, following an award of $475,000 for the...

SUNY College at Brockport. (Newswire).(Jim Dusen awarded)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Jim Dusen, manager of photographic services at SUNY College at Brockport, received multiple awards, among them Photographer of the Year, at the 41th Annual Technical Symposium of the University Photographers' Association of America (UPAA). This...

Read_Me. (Grapevine).(H2K2-HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference)
September 1, 2002... * H2K2 - HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference * Hotel Pennsylvania * New York City, New York * July 12 - 14 H2K2 is only the fourth conference of HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) and the third at Hotel Pennsylvania in New...

"All that is solid melts into air": notes on the logic of the global spectacle. (Feature).
September 1, 2002... All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto The...

Haunted space [private]. (Feature).(the architecture of virtual reality)(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2002... A couple of years ago the gurus of cyberspace routinely hailed the coming of a new era; a new time and space where our messy material world is supplemented and, in the end, supplanted by a new kind of virtual space. Some have pointed to the...

The word image/virtual body: on the techno-aesthetics of digital literary objects. (Feature).(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2002... The digital literary object is an emerging genre of its own. It is set at the intersections of the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based electronic installation art, net art and software art. It includes web-based,...

A race about race: race, inter-race and post-race in the study of human genetics.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2002... In 1929, Charles B. Davenport, Director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor in New York, co-published Race Crossing in Jamaica, a 512-page study on the "problem of race crossing, with special reference to its significance for the...

The empire of camps. (Feature).(September 11, technology, civilization, and culture)(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2002... On September 11, I was on the South Pacific island of Moorea en route to Australia. It was not until September 12 that I first learned of the attack on the World Trade Center, alerted by my confused daughter's unsuccessful efforts to find...

Sightseeing. (Reviews).(Seeing at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, California)
September 1, 2002... Seeing The Exploratorium San Francisco, California June 29 - January 31, 2003 "Seeing" is a modernization of The Exploratorium's visual perception exhibits, including its "permanent collection" and various brand new pieces...

States of the Empire. (Reviews).(Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization)
September 1, 2002... Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization CUNY, The Graduate Center New York City May 24 - July 14 The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Curatorial Fellows' recent show, "Empire/State: Artists Engaging...

Reviving the fantastic. (Reviews).(Biennale of Sydney)
September 1, 2002... Biennale of Sydney International Festival of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia May 15 - July 14 The Biennale of Sydney has always tried to distinguish itself from the myriad of biennales that have sprung up like weeds in the...

"tech wreck". (Voiceover).(another look at new media)
September 1, 2002... To what extent has the "tech wreck" and following scandals affected our understanding of new media? Critical new media practices have been slow to respond to both the rise and fall of dot-com mania: the world of IT firms and their volatile...

One of the novelties of new media. (Voiceover).
September 1, 2002... One of the novelties of new media is the rapidity of changes in attitude toward it. In the mid-nineties one heard strident complaints that only young, white geeks used the Net, that women were excluded from it. Critiques were voiced with...

When evaluating the state of media culture today. (Voiceover).
September 1, 2002... When evaluating the state of media culture today, it is important to distinguish between different areas that each follow their own, at times related, dynamics and trajectories, whether in global activism, media theory, net criticism,...

One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Miwon Kwon Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 Since the late 1960S, "site-specific" art has undergone various permutations. While the earlier phases challenged the decontextualized space of the museum, highlighting the experiential and...

Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on Aids and Queer Politics. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Douglas Crimp Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 Since 1987 Douglas Crimp has been one of the most unrelenting advocates for people with HIV/AIDS. His new book, Melancholia and Moralism, is a collection of writings ranging from Crimp's...

(dis)Locations. (Media).(Audiovisual Review)
September 1, 2002... Works by Dennis Del Favero, Agnes Hegedus, lan Howard, Susan Norrie, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel; Essays by Lev Manovich, Anna Munster, Peter Weibel Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001 Looking back at the flurry of new media formats...

Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Ulrich Baer Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 The temporal disjunctures that typically characterize photography on the one hand, and traumatized memory on the other, appear to move in opposite directions: traumatic memory manifests itself...

Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Chin-Tao Wu London: Verso, 2002 Popular television shows like "At the Auction" and "Antique Roadshow" highlight connections between art objects and monetary value. Nevertheless, the age-old assumption that art is separate from or...

Hacker Culture. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Douglas Thomas Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002 Around 1970 John Draper discovered that a whistle included with Captain Crunch cereal sounded a tone that allowed him, as a whistleblower, to take control of the phone...

Snake Eyes. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... John Gossage and Teni Weifenbach Berlin, Washington D. C.: Loosestrife Editions, 2002 Collaboration takes the form of dialogue between two very different sensibilities in John Gossage and Terri Weifenbach's new book, Snake Eyes....

Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. (Media).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Tom McDonough, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 "First of all we think the world must be changed." Such was the war-cry of the Situationist International (SI), established in Italy in 1957 and comprising an array of disparate...

Showcase. (Arizona-Worldwide Misc.).
September 1, 2002... [A]RIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs. Through Sep. 29. [A]RKANSAS Fayetteville: Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas. Michael...

Events. (California-Worldwide Misc.).(Directory)
September 1, 2002... [C]ALIFORNIA Open studios: Open Studios 2002 celebrates the excitement and originality of fine arts in San Francisco. More than 750 artists open their studios to the public every weekend in Oct. For more information call (415) 575-9304 or...