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Visionary video: the Archive and the National Center for Experiments in Television.
"[T]he work cannot fail to express the Force which underlies it all." --Stephen Beck (1) In "Outside the Archive: The World in Fragments," Lucy Reynolds demonstrates how in the found footage wo . . .

Video rhetoric.
Art of Limina: Gary Hill Slought Foundation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 21-May 1, 2009 Hill's video art does not sit easily within an art historical perspective, nor does it rest wel . . .

Delayed objects.
The Photographic Object The Photographers' Gallery London April 24-June 14, 2009 The Object of Photography The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery University of Leeds Leeds, UK April 7-J . . .

Investigations of the Suburban.
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh October 4, 2008-January 18, 2009 Yale Architecture Gallery New Haven, Connecticut March 2 . . .

Borrowed and reborn.
Mediated California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, California January 31-April 4, 2009 "Mediated" at the California Museum of Photography was a blend of single-ch . . .

American beauty.
Dan Graham: Beyond Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles February 15-May 25, 2009 Dan Graham is one of the artists in the United States that, until comparatively recently, has been least li . . .

Artist as Archivist.
The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy By Sven Spieker MIT Press, 2008 228 pp./$24.95 (hb) In The Big Archive, Sven Spieker explores connections between information science and art-making. Ma . . .

Call for populist public art.
Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism By Cher Krause Knight Blackwell Publishing, 2008 187 pp./$32.95 (sb) From Richard Serra's Tilled Arc (1981) to Jeff Koons's Train (scheduled for 201 . . .

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art.
BY ARNAUD MAILLET/TRANSLATED BY JEFF FORT THE MIT PRESS/2009/295 PP./$21.95 (HB) Translated from the earlier French version, The Claude Glass offers a significant look at western visual culture th . . .

Errata.(Correction notice)
The May/June 2009 issue (36.6) contained two errors. In the feature article "Real-Time Spectacles: Two Artworks and the Representation of Soccer" the two images on pp. 6-7 are from the installation . . .

Disarrayed symmetry.(Photograph)
My work touches upon the subject of how everyday society is busy producing, accumulating & discarding objects in our life. My images consist of an accumulation of shreds of material objects stuffed . . .

Sprawling out in Dallas.(Society for Photographic Education's conference )(Conference notes)
46th annual SPE Conference Dallas March 26-29, 2009 The 46th annual Society for Photographic Education (SPE) conference took place at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas, and while attendanc . . .

Resistance and celebration.(Native American Film and Video Festival)
2009 Native American Film and Video Festival Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian New York City March 26-29, 2009 In celebrating its thirtieth year, the Native Film and Video F . . .

Real-time spectacles: two artworks and the representation of soccer.
Two recent artworks take the soccer stadium as the arena in which to create two radically different representations of the game as a real-time spectacle. Both Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's f . . .

Archival meaning: materiality, digitization, and the nineteenth-century photograph.
Just as the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology was being founded at Harvard in 1866, Alexander Gardner was photographing native American tribal delegations in images that fused portrait wit . . .

Self as other.(Korean Photography)
Identity, Costume, Cliche: Korean Photography Today Photographic Center Northwest Seattle March 2-27, 2009 A true sense of self means a certain amount of liberation from the past. A mesh of . . .

Corporate gloss.(Annenberg Space for Photography)
L8S ANG3LES Annenberg Space for Photography Los Angeles March 27-June 20, 2009 The renowned Annenberg Foundation has created a 10,000-square-foot multimedia photography center in Los Angeles . . .

Book sense.
Matej Kren: Introspective Bratislava City Gallery Bratislava, Slovak Republic November 26, 2008-March 8, 2009 Magazines, newspapers, and especially books supply Matej Kren, a Slovak artist w . . .

The magnification of space.(photograph exhibitions)
Josef Schulz: Form Yossi Milo Gallery New York City December 11, 2008-January 31, 2009 Luisa Lambri: Photographs Luhring Augustine New York City January 10-February 7, 2009 David Hax . . .

His pupils' nature.(John Pfahl's photographic collection)
Natura Rochester Contemporary Art Center Rochester, New York February 6-March 22, 2009 John Pfahl's work is a tireless investigation of our perceptions, encompassing a variety of approaches . . .

Contested space.(Yael Bartana's installations)
Yael Bartana P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Queens, New York October 19, 2008-May 4, 2009 Framed by rising construction, figures work together. Dedicated to their tasks, they survey the lands . . .

Black diamond.(art chronicle of technological era)
From Dust to Gold The Royal Library Copenhagen November 11, 2006-December 31, 2009 As George W, Bush prepared to leave the While House this past January, the National Archives began to fret . . .

Geo topo.(Toshio Shibata's photographs)
Toshio Shibata: Landscape Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo December 13, 2008-February 8, 2009 Toshio Shibata is known for photographs of civil engineering projects in the Japan . . .

Exact seeing.(Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall)
Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall German Embassy London September 17, 2008-January 17, 2009 First shown at Manchester's Cornerhouse in 2007, "Do Not Refreeze: Photography B . . .

On pondering propaganda.(Book review)
Art Power By Boris Groys MIT Press, 2008 224 pp./$22.95 (hb) Boris Groys is well known for his scholarship on state-produced art--a subject that he previously explored in The Total Art of St . . .

A window slammed [begin strikethrough]shut[end strike through] open.(Book review)
Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography Edited by Karen Beckman and Jean Ma Duke University Press, 2008 312 pp./$84.95 (hb), $23.95 (sb) When Tom Gunning took the stage at Princeton Uni . . .

Operating without a license.(Book review)
Appropriation Edited by David Evans Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2009 240 pp./$24.95 (sb) Appropriation (2009) is the latest addition to the series "Documents of Contemporary Art" publ . . .

Barbara crane: private views.(Brief article)(Book review)
APERTURE/2009/128 PP./$40.00 (HB) In the 1980s Barbara Crane attended the many varied and vibrant summer festivals in the Chicago area. Equipped with a Speed Graphic Camera and a lot of Polaroid f . . .

Collective memory.(Brief article)(Book review)
BY DOUG KEYES DECODE, INC/2008/64 PP./$35.00 (HB) In Collective Memory, Doug Keyes masterfully condenses the visual experience of reading into a series of luminous images. Photographing thirty d . . .

On the camera arts and consecutive matters: the writings of Hollis Frampton.(Book review)
EDITED BY BRUCE JENKINS MIT PRESS/2009/331 PP/$39.95 (HB) The theoretical writings of the well-known Structural filmmaker and artist Hollis Frampton's are obscure objects, with his one and only . . .

Books.(Bibliography)
America On Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, Second Ed., by Harry ML Bensholf and Sean Griffin. Wiley-Blackwell/453 pp./$40.00 (sb). ART/WORK: Everything You Nee . . .

Exhibition catalogs.(Industrial Landscape[ing]; Synthetic Times: Media Art China, International Media Art Exhibition)(Brief arti
Industrial Landscape[ing], J Bennett Fitts. Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/unpaginated/$20.00 (sb). Synthetic Times: Media Art China, International Media Art Exhibition, edited by Fan Di'an and . . .

Events.(Calendar)
ARIZONA Events: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary An, 7374 E. 2nd St., Activities throughout the year, including classes and workshops, film screenings and lectures. www.simoca.org. CALIFORNIA . . .

ETC.(art education and grants)
Collaborative effort: L.E. Don invites you to become part of global artwork aimed at getting people to question a society motivated solely by profit. Artists across the globe are canvassing the glob . . .

Artists'' books.(Brief article)(List)
Everybody I Ever Met in L.A., by Jonathan Hollingsworth. Just One Guy Press/64 pp./$35.00 (hb). Intertidal, by Jesse Burke. Decode Books/64 pp./$35.00 (hb). Kunsthalle Zurich, by Wolfgang Tillma . . .

Monographs.(Bibliography)
Counterpoint, by Robert and Shana Parke Harrison. Twin Palms Publishers/60 pp./$65.00 (hb). All the Days and Nights, by Doug Dubois. Aperture/128 pp./$45.00 (hb). Fritz Henle: In Search of Beaut . . .

Exhibitions.(Calendar)
ARIZONA Tucson: Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6,h Ave. Welt Told Tales. Through June 6. Rock Star. June 9-Aug. 29. www.ethertongallery.com. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Rd. . . .

Lucky number?(art exhibitions)
Why Biennials? Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York January 30, 2009 According to research by graduate students of Bruce Ferguson, there are 108 art biennials and 256 art fairs around . . .

Digital territories and states of independence: Jordan's film scenes.
With recent international prize wins by Jordanian films and the perception of Jordan as a desirable filming destination for a growing number of major Hollywood productions, the country has begun to . . .

Art under occupation: documentary, archive, and the radically banal.
Artists are emerging from the atrophied, censorious Saddam years, from the distortions of taste provoked by state patronage and control and the horizons foreshortened by sanctions, and are beginning . . .

Remembering Jo Spence: a conversation with Terry Dennett.(Interview)
Jo Spence was a British photographer, writer, healthcare activist, and phototherapist. For nearly two decades, Spence collaborated with Terry Dennett in co-founding Photography Workshop Ltd. and pro . . .

Documentary and metaphor: the work of Karen Marshall.
Reflecting upon documentary photographer Karen Marshall's work, one cannot help but think about Pieter Breughel's 1565 painting The Harvesters, located in the European Paintings Galleries at the Met . . .

Digital performances.
Lossless: Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts October 2-December 7, 2008 In Jean-Lue Godards's Le Petit Soldat (19 . . .

Referenced by change.(Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence and Coincidence)(Book review)
Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence and Coincidence By Karl Baden Boston Public Library October 8, 2008-January 31, 2009 "Covering Photography: Imitation, influence and Coincidence" w . . .

Drawn in.(Manga, Japanese images' exhibition)
Manga! Japanese images Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek, Denmark October 10, 2008-February 8, 2009 Art museums continue to evolve, expanding their definitions of both art and their r . . .

Why does photography matter?(Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before)(Book review)
Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before By Michael Fried Yale University Press, 2008 410 pp./$55.00 (hb) One indication of a work's significance is the reaction it produces before it . . .

Double projection.(Harun Farocki: one image doesn't take the place of the previous one)(Book review)
Harun Farocki: one image doesn't take the place of the previous one Edited by Michele Theriault Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery/ABC Art Books Canada, 2008 220 pp./$39.95 (sb) The intellectual e . . .

Buffalo heads: media study, media practice, media pioneers, 1973-1990.(Book review)
EDITED BY WOODY VASULKA AND PETER WEIBEL, MIT PRESS, 2008/836 PP./ $59.95 (SB) This heavy volume of 800 pages iterates the history of media art from where it starts, in Buffalo, a city that was, u . . .

Inventing the movies: Hollywood's epic battle between innovation and the status quo, from THOMAS Edison to Steve jobs.(Book revi
BY SCOTT KIRSNER. CREATESPACE/2008/218 PP./$15.95 (SB) In his latest book, Scott Kirsner charts what he calls "Hollywood's epic battle between innovation and the status quo." Film history is full . . .

Milk and melancholy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Who would have thought that so much fuss could be made over spilt milk? That is to say, the recent arrival of a handsome survey-like tome that features the "milk splash discourse" as a key symbolic . . .