David Trend
1861 Redesdale Ave
Los Angeles, CA
ph: 323/665-3162
dtrend@uci.edu
Essays
These writing appears in a number of types of publications. Listed below are critical essays and journalistic writings only. Not included are book chapters, catalogue essays, or reviews written about works by other.
CRITICAL ESSAYS
“Merchants of Death: Media Violence and American Empire,” Harvard Educational Review (Fall 2003).
“False Promises: Utopian Rhetoric and the Digital Divide,” Camerawork Quarterly (Fall 2000).
“Problem Youth,” exhibition essay for “The Killer in You is the Killer in Me,” by Daniel J. Martinez (Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998)
“Kansallisuus, pedagogia ja media,” Tiedotustutkimus 1/1998 (Finland). Translation of “Nationalities, Pedagogies, and Media.”
Essay Review of Henry A. Giroux, Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence & Youth and Channel Surfing Channel Surfing: Race Talk and The Destruction of Today’s Youth in Social Identities (Spring 1998)
“Locating California Culture,” The Californian, Discussion of migration and cultural mixing in California. (March 1997).
“Representation and Resistance: An Interview with bell hooks, “ Socialist Review, 24, 1/2 (1995).
“Living with Contradictions: Notes Toward a Language of Possibility,” Artpaper(Fall 1995).
“Nacionalidades, pedagogas y medios,” trans., Ins. Dussel. Propuest Educativa (Brazil) 6, no. 12 (July 1995). Translation of “Nationalities, Pedagogies, and Media.”
“The New Politics of Victimization. Artpaper (Summer 1995). Discussion of controversy surrounding choreographer Bill T Jones and New Yorker critic Arlene Croce.
“Representation and Democracy,” Socialist Review, 24, 1/2 (1995).
“The New Politics of Media Literacy,” Review of Communication (Winter 1994).
“The Fine Art of Teaching,” Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies. 24 (Winter 1994). Discussion of recent experimental media education projects.
“Rethinking Media Activism: Why the Left is Losing the Culture War,” Socialist Review 23, 2 (1994). Analysis of relationships between the mass media and media activists.
“Nationalities, Pedagogies, and Media,”Cultural Studies 7(1) (Winter 1993). Discussion of iconography of US identity in recent art, advertising, and entertainment.
“Cultural Workers, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference: Beyond Cultural Conservativism” (with Henry A. Giroux) Cultural Studies 6 (1)(Winter 1992).
“The Politics of the Ordinary: Tradition and Change in Folk Art ,” Art Papers (Nov.-Dec. 1992). Essay on folk art and crafts.
“Look Who's Talking: Contested Narratives of Family.” Afterimage. (February, 1992). Essay review. Discussion of the image of the family in the media; reviews of recent books, exhibitions, and advertisements on the family.
“A Change of Address: Work, Welfare, and the Discourse of Homelessness,” Afterimage. (October 1991). Analysis of media representations of poverty in the US.
“To Tell the Truth: Strategies for Media Literacy,” Afterimage. (April 1991). Review essay about "Teaching TV" video exhibition at Artists Space, New York, NY.
“Introduction” to the "Photography and Education" issue of exposure (Winter 1991).
“Voltrons, Noozles, and Smurfs,” Camerawork Quarterly (1990). Analysis of international developments in media literacy through review of recent literature.
“The Coalition for Freedom of Expression,” Artweek (June 1990).
“Popular Photography, Camerawork Quarterly (1990). Introduction to a special issue of Camerawork Quarterly devoted to cultural studies.
“Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Power: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux,” Afterimage. (November 1990)
“Cultural Struggle and Educational Activism,” Afterimage. (November 1989). The relationship of cultural work and popular education.
“Beyond Resistance: Notes on Community Counter-practice,” Afterimage. (April 1989). Theoretical analysis of activist art projects.
“Changing the Subject: From Reproduction to Resistance in Media Education,” Afterimage. (November 1988). Survey of innovative approaches to film and video education, 1963-1988.
“In There a Class in this Text?” Afterimage. (September 1988) Analysis of education reports from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and the Getty Center for Arts in Education.
“Alcohol Lake," Afterimage. (May 1987). Essay review: The Honour of All: The Alkali Lake Story.
“Birds of Prey,” Afterimage. (November 1986). Essay review survey of books on space and space photography.
“Theories of Relativity: An Interview with Bern Porter,” Afterimage. (November 1987).
“Black and White Photography,” Afterimage. (May 1986). Essay review: "Blacks in America: A Photographic Record," International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
“Letters and Characters,” Afterimage. (January 1986). Essay review: "Letterism and Hypergraphics: The Unknown Avant-Garde, 1945-1985," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.
“Nadine McGann,” Afterimage May/June 2005
“For Art’s Sake: David Trend Offers Some Tips on Appreciating Art,” UCI News. (March 3, 1999)
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“Christine Tamblyn, 1951-1998,” Afterimage, (Mar/Apr. 1998).
“Eye Closed,” Analysis of cultural philanthropy in San Francisco, Afterimage (Summer 1995).
“The Most Dangerous Man in America?” Discussion of media personality Rush Limbaugh. Artpaper (April 1993).
“The Politics of Philanthropy: Cultural Policy and the Public Interest,” Afterimage. (March 1993). Discussion of the history of funding controversies at the National Endowment for the Arts and other agencies.
“Multicultural Tensions in Arts Funding Policies,” National Association of Social Workers Newsletter (July 1992).
“Radice's Revenge,” Analysis of post-election censorship of gay and lesbian media grants. Artpaper (December 1992).
“NEA Watch,” Analysis of recent legislation and court rulings. Artpaper (September 1992).
“The Candidates and the Arts,” Election campaign analysis. Artpaper. (October 1992).
“Burning the Flagged at the NEA,” Afterimage. (March 1992). Discussion of grant rejections by the National Council on the Arts.
“The Coalition for Freedom of Expression,” Artweek (June 1990).
“The Empire Strikes Back,” Afterimage. (September 1989). News commentary, censorship controversies involving the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Your Money or Your Politics,” Afterimage. (March 1989). Report on censorship controversies in public art patronage.
“One Hand Clapping,” Afterimage. (Summer 1988). Report on the National Association of Artists Organizations, Los Angeles, CA.
“Vantage Points: The Society for Photographic Education at 25,” Afterimage. (May 1988). Report of national meeting, Houston, TX.
“Reinventing the Flat Tire,” Afterimage. (January 1988). Report on NYSCA sponsored literary and artists' publishing conference.
“Criticism Unendowed,” Afterimage. (November 1987). Analysis of panel reversals and program redesign at the National Endowment for the Arts.
“The Color of Money,” Afterimage. (January 1987). Report on museum capital campaigns.
“Get the Message?” Afterimage.(September 1987). The annual meeting of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers.
“Progress Versus Utopia,” Afterimage. (December 1987). The Museum of Modern Art's Bill Viola exhibition and the annual meeting of the New York Media Alliance.
“Living on the Fault Line,” Afterimage. (Summer 1987). National conference of the Society for Photographic Education, San Diego, CA.
“Building on the Museum's Ruins,” Afterimage. (April 1987). Report on the redesign of exhibitions at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
“Big Macs and Whoppers,” Afterimage. (March 1987). Analysis of funding by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
“True Stories,” Afterimage. (January 1987). Report on the "Viewpoints : Women, Culture, Media" conference, Hunter College, New York, NY.
“Introduction,” to "The Artists' Organization: Past, Present, Future" (Special Supplement to Afterimage, October 1986).
“Escape from New York,” Afterimage. (December 1986). Annual meeting of the New York Media Alliance.
“The Ministry of Culture?” Afterimage. (October 1986). Analysis of funding procedures at the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Untitled (Article),” Afterimage. (November 1986). Report on the National Association of Artist Organizations.
“It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want...” Afterimage.(October 1985). Report on congressional reauthorization hearings for the National Endowment for the Arts.
“The Politics of Representation,” Afterimage. (May 1985). Annual conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Minneapolis, MN.
“At the Margins: Artists Books in the 80s,” Afterimage. (Summer 1985). Report on national artists' book meeting , Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA.
“Low Interest and Diminishing Returns,” Afterimage. (Summer 1984). Discussion of state arts programs for media.
“Bringing Home the Bacon,” Afterimage. (Summer 1984). Line item funding for cultural projects.
“Media and Society, or What's in a NAMAC?” Afterimage. (November 1984). Semi-annual conference of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Whitesburg, KY.
“Low Interest and Diminishing Returns,” Afterimage. (Summer 1984). Discussion of state arts programs for media.
“From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli.
Afterimage. (May 1984). Analysis of cultural programs sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency.
“Let's Make A Deal,” Afterimage. (May 1984). Appropriation hearings for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the independent sector.
“U.S. Television: Independents Down But Not Out,” Afterimage. (January 1984) Analysis of funding options for independent producers.
“The Power and the Glory,” Afterimage. (October 1983). The "Media Arts in Transition" conference of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Minneapolis, MN.
“The Loaves and the Fishes,” Afterimage. (February 1983). Discussion of implications behind regional funding initiatives at the NEA.
“Affirmative Actions?” Afterimage. (October 1983). Investigation of hiring practices at the New York State Council on the Arts.
“Lost in Space: Apparatoids Gawk,” Afterimage. (May 1983). Annual conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Philadelphia, PA
“Your Money or Your Politics,” Afterimage. (April 1983). Reagan Office of Budget and Management policy changes.
“Minority Broadcasting,” Afterimage. (February 1983). New funding opportunities for film and video producers.
“Take the Money and Run, or, Life After the Photo Boom,” Afterimage. (March 1983). Market analysis of photographic print sales.
“Held Hostage by the New Federalism. Afterimage. (May 1982). Federal Vendor seeks payment for photographic work.
The Crisis is Just Beginning,” Afterimage. (November 1981). Controversy over the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
“Photography Organizations: A Field Report,” Afterimage. (May 1981). National survey of educational and service organizations.
“When Memories Get Returned: Kodak and the Pros,” Afterimage. (January 1981). Legal battles over unstable color materials.
1861 Redesdale Ave
Los Angeles, CA
ph: 323/665-3162
dtrend@uci.edu
