Here’s me and Lindy, from a meeting we had at Wits the other day (I am the one on the right ;). We’ve decided it’s about time to get Team Madiba (see this post) shaking! Lindy has amazing amounts of events management experience with Daimler Chrysler and at the University of Pretoria, so I know [...]
And here’s Kathryn Smith, sandwiched by James Sey and Jane Taylor, at a WSOA (Wits School of the Arts, University of the Witwatersrand) Research Seminar. James, our fearless leader, read a paper about the network of psychical relations that arises as the experience of time and space becomes statisticalised in order to co-ordinate industrial society [...]
Above is a pic from the tempest opening, Wednesday evening at the Wits Theatre. It was the last in a 5 year run of First National Bank’s funding for Shakespeare plays, and also Malcolm Purkey’s last (at least for now) production at Wits. As Director, and Head of the Drama Department, Malcolm has been a [...]
I’ve just added some new videos (both art and documentation) and images (from prints for my upcoming solo show) to this site! Below are links to the works, and the links on the bottom right of those pages bring up pop-up windows with the new additions/editions. First, my favorite (and probably the coolest), I’ve uploaded [...]
photo credit: richard kilpert Here’s a pic of a patch that two participants hacked together in day 3 of our workshop, which used a wacom tablet – both pressure, and the x/y grid when drawing – as a sensor for making music and images over live video. Other work included a VJ tool that used [...]
Joˆ£o Orrechia, an old buddy of mine who currently lives in Berlin, will be moving to Joburg in November of this year! You must take a listen to some of his beautiful music. You can hear his solo stuff here and some collaborative work here. Tags: music
What a great day yesterday! Above, we’ve got a bunch of my “students” (ranging from PhDs in fine arts, to electronic musicians, video artists, analog VJs and graphic designers – even the Head of the Wits Digital Arts Department himself, Christo Doherty) in the Interactive Video workshop I’m currently offering at the Wits School of [...]
Ah, there is so much going on these days; so much to do, so little time (to blog about it). First off, I’m not sure how many webland folks out there remember a little video installation I did out in Pretoria a few months ago, called eat. It was a video poetry installation, in a [...]
Rhizome.org: Net Art News: Key Strokes for Turbulence Look, ma! I’m in net.art news as something other than the author! Tags: art
Richard Kilpert, one of the Wits MA’s, desperately preparing for the Interactive Video workshop. Tags: art and tech, south african art
Up top we’ve got Marlaine, Director of the bag factory, and below her is Ronan, project manager at the trinity session. Both of their eyes are closed because they are oh so happy to see me ;) The pic is from a li’l braai we had on Sunday. Tags: uncategorical
JohnKerryIsADouchebagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com Actually, this is for real, and not a bad site. Tags: news and politics, pop culture
William Bryk, of the NY Press, says, in short, W is just not conservative. full text Tags: news and politics
In this month’s Artthrob, Carine Zaayman, our new media editor of note, takes on her relatives. Big deal? They happen to be some of those loons that buy into notions like buying pirated DVDs gives money to Al Quaeda. Sigh. If nothing else, it brings some great resources into the fray, putting American Politics up [...]
“I believe that the most dangerous thing about blogs to the status quo is that so many of them exist for reasons other than to make money. A thriving community of people who are engaged for free, to me, have a certain authority that people doing things for money don’t.” full post Tags: pop culture
MTAA-RR [ news/twhid/politics/go_kerry.html ] In this post, we hear Kerry say: The Vice President called me unfit for office last night. Well, I’Äôll leave it up to the voters to decide whether five deferments makes someone more qualified to defend this nation than two tours of duty. Let me tell you what I think makes [...]
For those who have not heard – please post far and wide; sign up if you can! The ad reads: Interactive Video workshop at Wits Digital Arts Dates: 10 – 12 September (beginning Friday late afternoon, full day Saturday and Sunday) Course Leader: nathaniel stern Cost: R600 Who should attend: visual artists, VJs, performance artists, [...]
Last night was intervention. the second opening as part of the negotiate series at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (for a brief on the last opening, intercession, see my entry from 18 august). Here’s a pic of Johan Thom’s performance, Outpost from the Minotaur series, live in front of the JAG – you can’t see the [...]
I finally added some links to my blog (at right). Let me know if I hang out at your place (and you have a link), I read your blog (but, oh, there are so many; I love RSS / XML aggregators!) or I skim your site, and you want your URL to be included. This [...]
Left, there’s a picture of Claire Metais, communication officer from cypres. No, not Cypress, but cypres – Centre Interculturel de Pratiques Recherches et Echanges Transdisciplinaires; or, the Intercultural Centre for Practise, Research and Interdisciplinary Exchanges, which is based in Marseille, France. Claire met with Franci Cronje and I to discuss similar interests, and see what [...]
