The Art of Montage.

Review of Montage 93: the international festival of the image,
which was held in Rochester, New York, summer 1993. An ambitious
effort to grapple with and illuminate what the author William J.
Mtchell has dubbed the Post-Photographic Era. Seven years in the
planning and making, this complex, multi-layered event - the
brainchild of Nathan Lyons, founder and director of the Visual
Studies Workshop - aspired to be nothing less than a watershed
in the emerging dialog on the subject of photography in the
electronic age. Coleman synopses brief the following exhibits:
Interior Dialogues - Sherwin Mark's Remembering Forgetting -
Copigraphic Interconnections at the Visual Studies Workshop -
Perspectives, Proximities, Perceptions, a survey of work
produced with current s-D imaging systems - The New Images, at
the International Museum of Photography - Electronic/Mail Art,
at thge Damon City Center - Retratos y Sueños / Portraits and
Dreams: Photographs by Mexican Children, at the IMP, curated by
wendy Ewald and Arthur Ollman - Projects: Within Memory, with
Pedro Meyer, Yasuhira Morimura, and Fontcuberta. Multi media
installations are described as 'the fact of the transformation
of photographic art into an art of monatge in response to mass
media'. Nathan Lyons comments on the local support, needed for
this enterprise. To repeat maybe in 3 years.