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Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism is a bimonthly publication of the Visual Studies Workshop, a non-profit media arts center located in Rochester, New York.
For over 40 years, Afterimage has been an important voice in the media arts. Afterimage features unique, high-quality coverage of the visual arts, photography, independent film and video, new media, and alternative publishing, covering important issues and debates within art history, visual and cultural studies, media studies, and related fields. Each issue is a mix of in-depth feature articles, conference and festival reports, book and exhibition reviews, and dozens of citations on new scholarly titles, artist’s books, and exhibition catalogs.
In this issue:
Reports
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Essays & Features
In and Out of the Biennale: Transfield, Mandatory Detention, and the Biennale of Sydney
A Landscape of Tragedy: New Debates in Alfredo Jaar’s “Politics of Images”
Way West: A Conversation with Rick Dingus
Exhibition Reviews
Millie Chen: Tour
kate hers RHEE
Ruin Lust
Maria Rapicavoli: A Cielo Aperto
Moyra Davey: Burn the Diaries
Lucy Raven: On Location / Lucy Raven: Curtains
Outtakes
Book Reviews
The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order, By Kate Eichhorn
Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs, Photographs by Donna De Cesare
Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation, by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark
Media Noted
Anthony McCall: 1970s Works on Paper
The Chinese American Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema by Gina Marchetti
Online Features
Exhibition Review: kate hers RHEE
Portfolio: Windows From Prison, by Mark Strandquist