Fall 2024

“The theme of strata, loosely conceived to include layerings, juxtapositions, superimpositions and palimpsests, runs through this issue, manifesting in a variety of ways: geological, of course, but also formal, conceptual, theoretical, and historical… What emerges from MFJ 80 is the idea of interconnectedness through artistic and political influences, historical resonances and other linkages that attest if not in a direct way to the concept of strata, stress the way things tend unavoidably to intermingle.”

Excerpted from Nicky Hamlyn and Kim Knowles’s Introduction MFJ 80 “Strata” (Fall 2024).

 

 

 

 

 

“The theme of strata, loosely conceived to include layerings, juxtapositions, superimpositions and palimpsests, runs through this issue, manifesting in a variety of ways: geological, of course, but also formal, conceptual, theoretical, and historical… What emerges from MFJ 80 is the idea of interconnectedness through artistic and political influences, historical resonances and other linkages that attest if not in a direct way to the concept of strata, stress the way things tend unavoidably to intermingle.”

Excerpted from Nicky Hamlyn and Kim Knowles’s Introduction MFJ 80 “Strata” (Fall 2024).

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Read Grahame Weinbren’s European Media Art Festival (EMAF) 2022 online review. This is a continuation of a printed review in MFJ 76 “Worlds”.

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Commute

Read Paul Arthur’s journey with Bruce Baillie’s 1995 video portrait “Commute.” This article was published in MFJ No. 29 “Video Installation.”

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Shared Resources

Read Carmine Grimaldi’s in-depth review of Jordan Lord’s 2021 documentary “Shared Resources.” This article was published in MFJ No. 75 “Boundaries.”

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Video Essay: Virtual Horizon or après le feu and the vanishing point of the real

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Painting the Light Fantastic: Carl Brown

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Process and Material plinths: Margaret Honda’s films

Read this conversion between Margaret Honda and Arindam Sen.

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White Women Are a Curse Against Their Sex: A Conversation with Kathryn Ramey

Read this conversation with Kathryn Ramey by Sarah Keller and Yangqiao Lu from MFJ No. 79 “Re:presentation”.

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Through a Lens that Wasn’t My Own: Vernacular Video and the Digital Archive

Read this conversion between writers and filmmakers Liat Berdugo and Peter Snowdon.

Line Describing a Cone installation view at S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, 2023, Copyright: María Meseguer

Between the analytical and the sensorial, Film as conceptual performance: A conversation with Anthony McCall

Read Arindam Sen’s interview with Anthony McCall.

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