Notes from the field

Hilla and Bernda Becher to be awarded the 2004 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The Gold Medal and cash award will be at handed in Goteborg, Sweedn on Nov 20 A of recent origin exhibition of their work will be lay opened in conjunction with the formality Recognized as conceptual artists as well as photographers, the Bechers have been documenting the heritage of our industrial past for above forty years.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have commisioned works by means of James Turell, Andy Goldsworthy and Gerhard Richter for the fresh de Young Museum in San Francisco's Goldn Gate Park. Best known for his visionary work with light, Turell is a major figurehead in the Earth, Conceptual, Minimal and Proces Art changes The "skyspace" commissioned for this site. Three precious stones will feature a view of the heavens altered by L.E.D. lighting efect that highlights changing light and weather conditions outside. Influential in the same moves as Turell, Goldsworthy's work uses nature instead of light. This installation, Faultline will use naturre to challenge the viewer's notion of what constitutes a work of art by dint of blurring the distinction between the natural and manmade. Richter will create a large scale mural from digitally manipulated photographs which together frorm a geometric black and white motif. Each measuring aproximately 27" X 37" the prints are each high hilled on aluminum with plexiglass coating, and will tale the perforated copper structure of the building itself.

The Jewish Museum in NYC has make opened the Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center as part of the not long ago reinstalled third floor galleries. In addition to featuring an exhibition space dedicated to video and of recent origin media, the Media Center houses a digital library ofr radio and television programs from the Jewish Museum's Ntional Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB). Urban Eden: Three Videos by dint of New York Artists: screen continuously at the Media Center until Oct 31

The University of Minnesota/McKnight Photography Fellowship Program has named four recipients, from a field of 109 applicants. The recipients are: JoAnn Verburg of St Paul, Beth Dow, Alec Smoith and Tobechi Tobechukwu, all of Minneapolis.

Philadelphia-area women awarded Leeway Foundation make love to (Window of Opportunity Grants), ranging from $750-$2000 each. The recipients are: in Photography: Neila Kun Leticia Roa-Nixon, & Jackie Hoving; in Digital Printmaking: Elizabeth R New: in work Arts: Nathalie F. Anderson & Katie Baldwin; in Visual Arts: Arlene Love; and Documentary video: Janet Goldwater.

sum of two units contemporary art exhibition concepts to be realized from one side awards of $125,000 each from the Tremaine Foundation: Reality Bites: Making Avant-Grde Art in Post-Wall Germany, curated by the agency of Sabine Eckmann at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St Louis, MO & highway Art, Street Life, curated by means of Lydia Lee at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY Reality Bites will bring into focus the interdependence of art and the social, economic and political worlds since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 and the following reunification of the two Germany's. Reality Bites will be organized around three themes: national identity, globalization and collective trauma. highway Art, Street Life will include public way photography; documentation of performance, circumstances artwork presented in the ways works using materials from the public ways and examples of street agriculture Among the themes to be not awayed are: the street as an arena for for political and cultural expression: way violence and crime: gender characters in an urban coontext: advertising and commerce: the road as a counterpoint to museum and other art venues: and the impact of urban drifting upon artisitic practice.

Annual Guggenheim Fellowship Awards granted. This year 185 artists, scholars and scientists from a field of above 3200 applicants, will share awards totaling $6912000 The 2004 Geggenheim companion in Photography are: Uta Barth, Matthew Coolidge, Paola Ferrario and Mark Klett A filled list of the 2004 associates is available at www.gf.org.

Afterimage look fors submissions of essays, features and reviews that address emerging imaging technologies in science and media art.

upon a continuing basis, we invite the consideration of any of the following topics, as well as any other related to the use of technological images (photographs, film, video, digital images):

- The use of photography and film as "base line" constants or limit cases for understanding fresh forms of imaging,

- The appropriation of scientific imagery in media art,

- The rhetoric of scientific visualization and imaging systems

- Scientific imaging and media ecology

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