Afterimage articles from September 2008

Afterimage archives from September 2008

Migrations and mediations.(Robert Flaherty Film Seminar)
September 1, 2008... Amidst the paralyzing and polarizing effects of the Cold War, Frances Flaherty inaugurated an annual film seminar in memory of her late husband. Rather than inflame accusations and fuel paranoia, the seminar activated introspection and...

Deus Ex machina.(Conference news)
September 1, 2008... How have technologies and the larger media world altered our experiences of the sacred? This question formed the theme of the ninth annual convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) held at Santa Clara University this past June. The...

Variable Capital: a conversation with common culture.(Interview)
September 1, 2008... Common Culture is a trio of artists based in Northern England. They take their name from the book Modern Art in the Common Culture (1996) by Thomas Crow, and share his assumption that avant-garde art and so-called mass culture have had an...

Pictures of home: the work of Sheila Pree Bright.(Young Americans)
September 1, 2008... In a photograph just larger than life size, a young woman twists toward the camera, looking over her shoulder into the lens. She stands upright in an endless and undefined white space. Framing her round, youthful face are long wispy bangs...

I miss you already: a phenomenological understanding of Ken Jacobs's Circling Zero: We See Absence.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2008... I Never Met You; I'll Never Forget You. I Didn't Know You; I Miss You Already. These words, taken from a poster prominently displayed in Ken Jacob's film Circling Zero: We See Absence (2002), crystallize the amorphous trauma of...

Playing it straight.(Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics)
September 1, 2008... The popularity of documentary photography has exploded in recent years and has become a site for rigorous discourse about the truth content of images. Taking a critical rather than celebratory stance, and using the documentary aesthetic as its...

Stealing a glance.(Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography)
September 1, 2008... So vast in both scale and ambition was "Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography," the latest of Tate Modern's large-scale shows dedicated to photography, I had to take a rest during my visit. As I sat down to better take in Kristleifur...

Toxic slurry and Pond Scum.(Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape)
September 1, 2008... It is not the Berkshires' astonishing beauty readily visible from the windows, nor the region's prominence in Hudson River School paintings, that makes Mass MoCA such a fitting site for "Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape." More poignantly, it...

The taste of crowds.(Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition)
September 1, 2008... Photography has never quite shaken off its reputation as a people's medium. Since 1839, when the French government presented the daguerreotype as a gift "free to the world," inventions from the Kodak Brownie to Flickr have functioned as...

Seized and displayed.
September 1, 2008... "SEIZED" marked the end of a four-year trial by the Justice Department against Steve Kurtz, a Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) founding memeber and State University of NewYork at Buffalo art professor. Kurtz had been accused of "bioterrorism" after...

Breaking the wall of silence.(Infected Landscape: Israel: Broken Promised Land)
September 1, 2008... A few weeks away from the European Publishers Award for Photography--awarded every year during the opening week of the Recontres d'Arles Photography Festival--Dewi Lewis (the British publisher that won this Prize in 2002 with Simon Norfolk's...

Auteurism: true or faux?(Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Barry Keith Grant's Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader presents an arresting, thoughtful procession of ideas about who makes a movie. For any professor pulling together a syllabus on film criticism, this book makes a natural, if inevitably...

I wish to say (the Birthday Project).(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... In Summer 2006, with nifty, old-fashioned typewriter in hand, Brooklyn writer sheryl Oring set out on a cross-country trip. She set up a makeshift office at each stop, and had passersbys dictate birthday cards in honor of President George W....

The Horse Who Drank The Sky: film experience beyond narrative and theory.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... In the twenty-first century, watching a movie, particularly for the first time, can happen through a number of media: on television or computer screens, music players or cell phones. A film experience is not exclusive to a movie theater...

Books.(List)
September 1, 2008... Andrew Bush: Drive, by Andrew Bush. Yale University Press/143 pp./$65.00 (hb). Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future, edited by Nicholas Baume. MIT Press/143 pp./$29.95 (hb). Bonfires, by John Duncan. Belfast Exposed Photography/36...

Exhibitions.(Calendar)
September 1, 2008... ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E, 2nd St. Branded and on Display. Through Sept. 21. www.smoca.org. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography; University of Arizona, 1030 N. Olive Rd. Accommodating Nature:...

Events.(Calendar)
September 1, 2008... ARIZONA Events: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. 2nd St., Activities throughout the year, including classes and workshops, film screening and lectures, www.smoca.org. CALIFORNIA Classes and programs: Palm Springs Art...

Etc.
September 1, 2008... Collaborative effort: L.E. Don invites you to become part of a global artwork aimed at getting people to question a society motivated solely by profit. Artists across the globe are canvassing the globe with gift envelopes containing $20 U.S. or...