Afterimage articles from September 2006

Afterimage archives from September 2006

Robert Heinecken, 1931-2006: a remembrance.(news)
September 1, 2006... Robert Heinecken was physically a small man--and toward the end of his long, debilitating illness, he was shockingly tiny. However, when he had his health, one hardly noticed his size because he always seemed, unobtrusively but decidedly, to be...

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) has appointed Timothy Druckrey as the new director of the graduate photography and digital imaging program.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) has appointed Timothy Druckrey as the new director of the graduate photography and digital imaging program. An internationally renowned curator, writer, and editor, and current graduate...

The Legacy Project embarks on a photographic project to create the world's largest camera and produce the world's largest photograph.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The Legacy Project embarks on a photographic project to create the world's largest camera and produce the world's largest photograph. Six photographic artists (founding members of the Legacy Project) transformed an airplane hangar into a...

The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University has announced the winners of the 2006 Lange-Taylor prize.(awards of Donald Weber, Larry Frolick and Dorothea Lange)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University has announced the winners of the 2006 Lange-Taylor prize. The sixteenth Lange-Taylor Prize has been awarded to photographer Donald Weber and writer Larry Frolick, both of Canada. The...

Microsoft announces the winners of their inaugural Future Pro Photography contest.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Microsoft announces the winners of their inaugural Future Pro Photography contest. Alin Popescu from Bucharest, Romania, was awarded the Microsoft Grand Prize, which included a $20,000 cash award and a software package valued at $8,000. The...

Legendary photographer Arnold Newman died on June 6, 2006, at age 88 in New York City of an apparent heart attack.(Obituary)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Legendary photographer Arnold Newman died on June 6, 2006, at age 88 in New York City of an apparentheart attack. Considered the father of environmental portraiture, he photographed hundreds of world figures in politics, business, and the arts,...

"Old" Europe shows new media art.(19th European Media Arts Festival)
September 1, 2006... EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL (EMAF) OSNABRUCK, GERMANY MAY 10-14, 2006 Peace, freedom, and self-determination were among the themes at the 19th European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), held May 10-14, 2006, in Osnabruck, Germany. This...

Art for politics: reflections on the Whitney Biennial.(Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, 2006)
September 1, 2006... The title of this essay is of course a play on the title of the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial for 2006--"Day for Night," which ran March 2-May 28. These phrases--this for that--suggest to us that two seemingly contrasted, even...

Report from Beirut: days of culture, days of siege.(art & activism)(Diary entry)
September 1, 2006... July 14, 2006: I am writing from a cafe in the Hamra district of West Beirut, Lebanon. The electricity has been cut off for a while now, and the city has been surviving on generators. The cafe is dark, hot, and humid. Espresso machines and...

Just say no: Negativland's no Business.(art & activism)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... A high stakes civil war rages on your laptop; it pits the ever-expanding proprietary commercial music industry empire against the file sharing, grass-roots freedom fighters who transform old sounds into new ideas. It is a war between...

Resistance and public art: cultural action in a globalized terrain.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... Two photographs of cultural production appearing in newspapers (and not in the "arts" section) during the summer of 2005, pictured stories about projects produced anonymously and collectively, and both projects spoke to big issues: the legacy...

Existence and the other: borders of identity in light of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... I read, some days past, that the man who ordered the erection of the almost infinite wall of China was the first Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who also decreed that all books prior to him be burned... these two vast operations--the five to six...

Capturing the movement: antiwar art, activism, and affect.(art & activism)(Essay)
September 1, 2006... On March 20, 2003, just over a month after an all-day, global antiwar rally, "Operation Iraqi Freedom"--the American invasion of Iraq not sanctioned by the United Nations--began. Led by the American and British armies, the "Shock and Awe"...

Tactical media and the end of the end of history.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... Tactical media is one of the most inventive and productive streams of critical cultural practice to have emerged over the last decade and a half--and one that is now beginning to enjoy the approval and support of the institutionalized art...

Framing art as action: rethinking refusal in contemporary Israeli art.(art & activism)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... In January 2004 five Israeli men were tried for disobeying a military order. Noam Bahat, Matan Kaminer, Adam Ma'or, Hagai Matar, and Shimri Tzameret had refused to enlist in the Israeli army, a mandatory act for every non-Arab citizen in the...

Terror.com.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... XXX Seven months before September 11, a widely quoted newspaper report had claimed that bin Laden's followers were operating a communications network based on encrypted messages concealed inside pornographic pictures. This technique,...

Activating the future: political documentaries and media activism.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... In January 2006, the Jakarta Film Festival in Indonesia banned the screening of a documentary film about the recent political events in East Timor. This attempt at deactivation ironically, and naturally, fueled the film's potential reach....

Uncompromising hostility: an interview with Lanfranco Aceti.(art & activism)(Lanfranco Aceti)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Lanfranco Aceti holds a PhD in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and a researcher and Leverhulme...

Spy art: infiltrating the real.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... As art's actual purchase on public life steadily diminishes, artworlderers make certain assumptions, perhaps in an unconscious reaction to the ongoing erosion of its social role; they tend to come up with increasingly emphatic claims about...

Reconfiguring the system: RTMark and Agricola de Cologne.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... The 1990s were a fabulous time for opportunists, visionaries, and entrepreneurs. With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the potential to communicate with a global audience, with relatively little expense. appealed to many....

Activating Exodus: the art of Melissa Shiff.(art & activism)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... Immediately, the viewer confronts a screen embedded in a crushed velvet pillow surrounded by a wall of matzah, showing a montage of video clips imaging the ten ancient plagues that Yahweh cast on the land of Egypt: blood, frogs, vermin, beasts,...

Womanf of Conscience: an interview with Victoria Alvarado.(art & activism)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Victoria Alvarado, born and raised in San Francisco, California, grew up in a socially active home environment. Her father was conscripted into both the Federal Army and the Revolutionary Army of Poncho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, but...

Reverse engineering: dismantling and customizing for the new global media ecology.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... In engineering, reverse engineering identifies the system's components and their interrelationships. It then creates representations of the system at another level of abstraction. (1) Reverse engineering dismantles technologies like cars or...

New art practices in the field of political decision-making: a process report from projektgruppe.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... With this article, the collaborative projektgruppe of Hamburg, Germany, would like to offer an insight into the group's collective practice. A major part of the group's activities includes the editing and publishing of the Journal for Northeast...

Bringing to light.(art & activism)(exhibitions of Jenny Holzer)
September 1, 2006... JENNY HOLZER: ARCHIVE CHEIM & READ AND YVON LAMBERT NEW YORK, NEW YORK MAY 12-JUNE 17, 2006 JENNY HOLZER: REDACTION PAINTINGS ESSAY BY ROBERT STORR NEW YORK: CHEIM & READ, 2006 112 pp./$65.00 (HB) Jenny...

Toward activist photography.(art & activism)
September 1, 2006... THE BODY AT RISK: PHOTOGRAPHY OF DISORDER, ILLNESS, AND HEALING INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY NEW YORK, NEW YORK DECEMBER 9, 2005-FEBRUARY 26, 2006 THE BODY AT RISK: PHOTOGRAPHY OF DISORDER, ILLNESS, AND HEALING BY...

Political art, distracted.(Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress)
September 1, 2006... THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: UTOPIA, UTOPIA = ONE WORLD, ONE WAR, ONE ARMY, ONE DRESS CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA MARCH 10-MAY 13, 2006 I imagine Thomas Hirschhorn's exhibition "Utopia, Utopia =...

Power of mercy.(art & activism)(art exhibition curated by Jerome Jacobs)
September 1, 2006... BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 10-APRIL 29, 2006 The exhibition "Blessed Are the Merciful," currently showing at Feigen Contemporary, is rich in its painterly materiality. This show...

Domestic politics, activist graphics.(art & activism)(The Flag Project)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... THE FLAG PROJECT BY MAUREEN CUMMINS NEW YORK: SELF PUBLISHED, 2006 64 pp./$1,800.00 (HB) Maureen Cummins's The Flag Project is a passionate inquiry into the connection between personal and national conditions. Her textual and...

Cartography of resistance.(art & activism)(Palestinian Art )(Book review)
September 1, 2006... PALESTINIAN ART BY GANNIT ANKORI LONDON: REAKTION Books, 2006 256 pp./$35.00 (SB) Gannit Ankori's book Palestinian Art, a prime model of art historical research, deviates from the narrow confines of the discipline and must be...

The Body at Risk.(photo exhibition)
September 1, 2006... In her catalog for the "The Body at Risk" exhibition, curator Carol Squiers has created an essential document of the history of concerned photography as it addresses issues relate to the health of the human body. The chronological presentation...

Neo-Pop anti-product.(Product)(Video recording review)
September 1, 2006... PRODUCT BY DIMITRIOS ANTONITSIS & JEFFREY APOIAN 9 MINUTES, 30 SECONDS, 2006 Emphatically titled Product, in a gesture well-suited for the "enfant terrible of Greek art," (1) Dimitrios Antonitsis and Jeffrey Apoian's recent video...

1000 Peace Women Across the Globe.(media received)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe published by 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe Scalo/2208 pp./$45.00 (hb). 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe (2005) is the internationally coordinated work of hundreds of writers, photographers, editors,...

The Face of Human Rights.(media received)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Face of Human Rights edited by Walter Kalin, Lars Muller, and Judith Wyttenbach. Lars Muller Publishers/720 pp./$50.00 (hb). The basic notion of human rights transcends into something real and vulnerable after seeing how another person...

The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism.(media received)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism by Thomas McEvilley. McPherson & Company/391 pp./$30.00 (hb). Ever since Diogenes of Sinope decided to illustrate philosophy with public actions,...

War Souvenir.(media received)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... War Souvenir by Paolo Ventura, foreword by Francine Prose. Contrasto/108 pp./[euro]32.00 (hb). Souvenirs, like photographs, offer a sense of physical connection to immaterial memories and experiences of history and place. In War Souvenir,...

Notices.(calendar)(Calendar)
September 1, 2006... EXHIBITIONS ALABAMA Birmingham: Brimingham Museum of Art, 2000 8th Ave. N. William Christenberry Photographs: 1961-2005. Sept. 30-Dec. 24. (205) 254-2566 / www.artsbma.org. ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of...