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Rear View of a Female Half-Nude with Cloth (Fragment) (1913) by Egon Schiele, at the Leopold Musuem, Wien

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Leda and the Swan (after 1530), after Michelangelo, at The National Gallery

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Hylas and the Nymphs (1896), by John William Waterhouse, at the Manchester Art Gallery

Helen Carmel Benigson: Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat

Helen Carmel Benigson
Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat
Carroll / Fletcher

«...the flatness prescribed by the Internet onto the body» [...MORE...]

«These weight‐loss support group members then became avatars – digitalized versions of themselves within her videos, questioning the dematerialisation of the body through coding and information.» [...MORE...]

Helen Carmel Benigson (b.1985, London) was recently involved in Platform, a residency programme at Sheffield’s Site Gallery and the LUX Associate Artist Program. Recent solo exhibitions include: Performa.13 After Hours, New York; Going to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed, Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham and the Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town; and Palm Trees and Poker Players at UCA, Farnham and Breathe Harder, a site-specific performance at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Recent group exhibitions include: Ericka Beckman: Image games – work in context at Tate Modern, London; Videonale.14 at the Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Lagos and Odessa; Videocracy at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and The House in the Sky at Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London. In 2014, Benigson was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship to support her DPhil at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

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At the National Gallery to see...
Rembrandt: The Late Works

Rembrandt's 1654, A Woman bathing in a Stream
Image content [metadata]: woman, bathing, stream, hem, shift

Rembrandt's c. 1665, Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, known as 'The Jewish Bride'...
Image content [metadata]: man, holds woman bosom, marital, affection, jewish, bride

Rembrandt's 1666, Lucretia...
Image content [metadata]: dagger, breast, white, sleeves, blood

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At the National Gallery to see...

the significance of portable knowledge in creating images and relating and making new connections on alternative archives that have been overcoming the traditional archive and notions of what is a museum.

Titian's 1520-3 Bacchus and Ariadne...
Image content [metadata]: party, stars, animals, music, goddess, wine

Velazquez's 1647-51 The Toilet of Venus...
Image content [metadata]: naked, woman, lying, bed, mirror

Turner's 1844 Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway...
Image content [metadata]: train, speed, colour, steam, bridge

and the latest acquisition
Bellows' 1912 Men of the Docks
Image content [metadata]: man, docks, winter, ny, boat, horses

Call for Proposals: September Issue

Photography on the Internet - the New Hegemony

The advent of the Internet and digitization of the image has brought about what appears to be a debatable democratization of the medium of photography. The “WWW” has expanded what images we experience and the way we experience them. It changed the avenues for the embodiment, dissemination and consumption of images, opening new channels for expression, participation and exchange.

The form and function of more traditional photography gatekeepers such as curators, book editors and publishers, museums and galleries, has been challenged by websites/galleries, blogs, and online publications as open platforms. As a result a serious viewer is now required to look harder and broader through the maze of images online.

The editors of VJIC are accepting proposals manuscript, for Issue #4 (September 2013) that address, but is not limited to, the following topics:

- The challenge to traditional institutions - what role for galleries and museums;
- The democratization of the medium of photography: implications for practice and access;
- The movement of marginalized or ghettoized voices towards visibility;
- Curators of / in the Internet era;
- Bloggers - voice or chaos;
- Erik Kessels - case study;
- Online communities - case studies: e.g. Flickr, Instagram, FlakPhoto;
- Snapshot as Art;
- Image search engines as gatekeepers (ie: Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz ‘Image Atlas’ http://imageatlas.org/)

For proposal information refer to VJIC submissions or email issue editors:
Katarzyna Majak: majak.katarzyna [at] vasa-project.com
Rui G. Cepeda: cepeda.rui [at] vasa-project.com

Issue #4: theme issue
Proposals due June 1
Completed manuscripts September 1, 2013
Publication: September 25, 2013