Afterimage articles from September 2007

Afterimage archives from September 2007

Global Modernism.
September 1, 2007... 52ND VENICE BIENNALE VENICE JUNE 10-NOVEMBER 21, 2007 The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is a complex affair. For the first time in its long history, an American, Robert Storr, is the director. Storr, an independent...

Identity and discovery.(Calendar)
September 1, 2007... TRANSPHOTOGRAPHIQUES LILLE, FRANCE MAY 10-JUNE 17, 2007 FOTO FESTIVAL LODZ, POLAND MAY 17-27, 2007 PHOTO ESPANA MADRID, SPAIN MAY 30-JULY 22, 2007 RENCONTRES D'ARLES ARLES, FRANCE JULY...

Books opening up.
September 1, 2007... ACTION/INTERACTION: BOOK/ARTS COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JUNE 8-10, 2007 The Action/Interaction: Book/Arts conference consisted of a major invitational exhibition, three keynote...

The impersonal album: chronicling life in the digital age.
September 1, 2007... To the modern eye, Victorian photograph albums bear an uncanny resemblance to Victorian dinosaurs. Thick and clunky, wrapped in rough leather, they inspire awe due less to their grace than their bulk. The Victorians seem to have had a taste for...

The unexamined Second Life isn't worth living: virtual worlds and interactive art.
September 1, 2007... Recent issues of the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired, Business Week, and even Southwest Airlines' in-flight publication have run feature stories on "Second Life," the increasingly popular multiuser virtual environment (MUVE) that joins other...

War artist: Steve McQueen and postproduction art.
September 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Since it opened in 1917, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has been acquiring art in various ways. Most of the museum's art collection deals with the two world wars, and drawing and painting are the favored media. There...

The erratic front: YouTube and representations of mental illness.
September 1, 2007... According to the National Institute of Mental Health, every fourth American adult and every tenth child suffers from a diagnosable mental illness, yet fewer than ten percent seek therapy or treatment. (1) Lack of health insurance coverage...

Half life: a portrait of Lauren.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... For the past several years, I have been working on a book project about the life and suicide of a close friend. The project is comprised of photographs and collected writings that Lauren and I shared throughout the six years we knew each other,...

Out of conflict.
September 1, 2007... ASSAF SHOSHAN: HOME GALERIE POLARIS PARIS JUNE 2-JULY 12, 2007 The recent work of Israeli-born photographer Assaf Shoshan captures a personal and shared experience of citizens who live in a country teetering on the brink of...

The Sisyphean task of art.
September 1, 2007... SPENCER FINCH: WHAT TIME IS IT ON THE SUN? MASS MOCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MAY 26, 2007-MARCH 31, 2008 After the monochromatic canvases of Kasimir Malevich, Helio Oiticica, and Robert Ryman, it might be difficult to...

Back to life.
September 1, 2007... FRANCESCA WOODMAN VICTORIA MIRO LONDON, ENGLAND JUNE 19-JULY 28, 2007 FRANCESCA WOODMAN TATE MODERN LONDON, ENGLAND MAY 1, 2007-APRIL 13, 2008 Francesca Woodman's reputation precedes her. Precocious...

Big ideas in small packages.
September 1, 2007... CLIP/STAMP/FOLD 2 CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE MONTREAL APRIL 12-SEPTEMBER 9, 2007 "Clip/Stamp/Fold 2" is an homage to the radical, "little" architecture magazines of the 1960s and 1970s. Like firecrackers lobbed over the...

Springing backward.
September 1, 2007... WILL VAN OVERBEEK: 24 SUMMERS AT BARTON SPRINGS POOL AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART AUSTIN, TEXAS MAY 19-AUGUST 12, 2007 Barton Springs, located in Austin, Texas, covers three acres in Zilker Park. With a supply of fresh underground...

Revolution or revelation?(Movie review)
September 1, 2007... IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION BY NADER TAKMIL HOMAYOUN 98 MINUTES, 2006 In the documentary film Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution filmmaker Nader Takmil Homayoun tells the story of a national cinema that escaped the clutches...

Making virtual art present.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... FROM TECHNOLOGICAL TO VIRTUAL ART BY FRANK POPPER CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: MIT PRESS, 2007 459 PP./$45.00 (HB) Long in gestation, Frank Popper's study From Technological to Virtual Art appears among a new spate of studies and...

Between stillness and movement.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... THE CINEMATIC EDITED BY DAVID CAMPANY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: MIT PRESS, 2007 208 PP./$22.95 (SB) The title of this anthology of writings on photography and film, The Cinematic, is evocative. More an adjective than a noun,...

The autonomy between US.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... PARTICIPATION EDITED BY CLAIRE BISHOP LONDON/CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: WHITECHAPEL/MIT PRESS, 2006 207 PP./$22.95 (SB) Claire Bishop has emerged as one of the key critics in recent discussions on community public art. One of...

Writing new media.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... META/DATA: A DIGITAL POETICS BY MARK AMERIKA CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: MIT PRESS, 2007 520 PP./$35.95 (HB) Groundbreaking multimedia artist Brion Gysin famously uttered, "Writing is fifty years behind painting. I propose to...

Media noted and received.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Archive Style: Photographs & Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890, by Robin Kelsey. University of California Press/288 pp./$49.95 (hb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Photographs and illustrations of nineteenth-century geologic and...

Notices.
September 1, 2007... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1030 N. Olive Rd. Ralph Gibson and Lustrum Press, 1970-85. Through Sept. 30. www.creativephotography.org. CALIFORNIA Berkeley: Berkeley Art...