Anders Kreuger

Stephanie Smith

Melissa Gronlund

Pablo Lafuente

Helena Vilalta

Zachary Cahill

Afterall, a journal of contemporary art, provides a forum for analysis of art's context and seeks to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change. Each issue contains in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that discussing the work from various perspectives. The journal also features essays on art history and critical theory. Issue 37 looks at connectivity and the role of the museum in the contemporary age. Artists and projects considered are Boris Charmatz, Juan Downey, Janice Kerbel, Otobong Nkanga, and the Museum of American Art. In contextual essays, Melissa Gronlund looks at the representation of identity in the online age, Anders Kreuger revisits the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and Dieter Roelstraete explores the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago.

Autumn/Winter 2014, Issue 37

Afterall

Nuria Enguita Mayo

Since its launching in 1999, Afterall, a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year, Afterall also features essays on art history and critical theory. Featuring the work of Lene Berg, Lucy McKenzie, Mary Ellen Carroll, Haegue Yang, and Lili Dujourie, Issue 34 examines artistic practices that address notions of cultural tradition while defying essentialist definitions of identity. Sabine Breitwieser reflects on the challenges faced by the museum in adapting to today's experience economy, Valerie Smith discusses Mike Kelley's 1993 exhibition "The Uncanny," and Patrick D. Flores reflects on 1970s social realism in the Philippines, elaborating on the intersection between political painting and post-colonial discourse.

Autumn/Winter 2013, Issue 34

Contemporary Art and Digital Culture analyses the impact of the internet and digital technologies upon art today. Art over the last fifteen years has been deeply inflected by the rise of the internet as a mass cultural and socio-political medium, while also responding to urgent economic and political events, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. This book looks at how contemporary art addresses digitality, circulation, privacy, and globalisation, and suggests how feminism and gender binaries have been shifted by new mediations of identity. It situates current artistic practice both in canonical art history and in technological predecessors such as cybernetics and net.art, and takes stock of how the art-world infrastructure has reacted to the internet’s promises of democratisation. An invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary art – especially those studying history of art and art practice and theory – as well as those working in film, media, curation, or art education. Melissa Gronlund is a writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in the moving image. From 2007–2015, she was co-editor of the journal Afterall, and her writing has appeared there and in Artforum, e-flux journal, frieze, the NewYorker.com, and many other places.

Melissa Gronlund

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