http://www.atjoburg.net Inspired by a visit to the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA), joburg local digi-artists decided it was time to start a similar organization in Johannesburg, South Africa. Community leaders worked together with WSOA Digital Arts to launch Art & Technology, johannesburg (AT.joburg). With the similar intentions of promoting, exploring, discussing, and exhibiting art [...]
You are cordially invited to attend a walkabout with nathaniel stern through his exhibition, the storytellers and a seminar/panel discussion conducted by Sean O’Toole (Moderator): Digital media art in South Africa: What’Äôs it doing here? Panellists include Marcus Neustetter, Churchill Madikiba, Marc Edwards, Christo Doherty, Tracey Rose, Kathryn Smith, Thando Mama & Franci Cronje ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ [...]
This is a really nice, well-written article by laurie halsey brown, recently posted to rhizome. Tags: art and tech, re-blog tidbits
rossouw v. d. walt and lionel smit present a beautifully executed show of sculpture, installation and painting, in an attempt to conceal/present the traditional nude. By obscuring the face, and placing emphasis on the body (mostly in comical and interesting ways) they flip this tradition upside down – sometimes literally. If you want to know [...]
OK. Temporarily putting aside any conceptual framework I may or may not know from researching Jeremy’s work, this show is just beautiful. Wafer’s elegant use of the gallery; his textures, use of light and shadow; his play between earth and space; his ‘go’ between mappings of text, of ground, of image; all these add to [...]
Nicky and I went away this weekend, for a bit of alone time and relaxing. Over the next while, you’ll be seeing reviews and rants about a few things I missed. For example: Jeremy Waifer’s opening, measure, at the goodman gallery Something at Vega There had to be something at the JAG this past week, [...]
Remember when I talked about Kaganof’s book? Well, he’s got a show over at that new Muti gallery, in 44 Stanley; a lot of the work I was singing on about. And this clever little number (above) as well. Worth spending a few hours on…. Tags: art, south african art
Cool! The world’s first ever Open Source TV program, and it’s in/from South Africa! Thank you, Marc Shuttleworth. Saturdays at 17h30 on SABC2. Go Open Source – Online SA Open Source Community Tags: art and tech, re-blog tidbits
The first thing I must say is, and I think you’ll all agree, how much Bronwyn [Lace] and Anthea [Moys] should be commended and congratulated for this exhibition. Their use of scale, space and fantasy all add a bit to an uncanny experience of ourselves inside these walls. There’s kind of a playful, and charged, [...]
I’d like to say they spelled that wrong on purpose, but I can’t. Tonight, two honors fine arts students from wits will open their show over @ the Spark! Gallery in Norwood. Yours truly will be opening the show, and I have to say, it’s a beautiful exhibition of large-scale installation that should not be [...]
SO, although some of this goes beyond the boundary of a concise and well-spoken argument, the whole thing is pretty hilarious, and has some great points. The real gems, however, are some of the links this person provides. Follow them… Fuck the South Tags: news and politics, pop culture
Possibly the best use of the space (franchise) I’ve seen yet, Carol-anne spreads her daily rituals – close-ups on the life that makes a life – thinly, throughout the gallery. Her installations and images beg a closer look at the routines our bodies succumb to on a daily basis. Recommended. Tags: art, south african art
Can you believe the Bastards dead? And, by ODB, I of course mean my Shaolin (Staten Island) compadre, and the Wu Tang Clan star talent, Old Dirty Bastard (aka Big Baby Jesus, Osiris and Dirt McGirt). New York Daily News – Home – Rapper ODB collapses, dies in studio Tags: pop culture, re-blog tidbits
Oddly, I was still having trouble getting that authimage thing to work – and it seems that my main spammer has found a way around it already anyway!!!! Sooooooo, I installed the end-all of update-able blacklist plugins: WPblacklist. Stupid holdem texas frikkin …..insert ugly words here…. I find it tiresome that I have spent 5 [...]
Still trying to get that authimage thing to work (see below), so you won’t be able to leave comments for a couple of days (or until I get it working). Sorry for the inconvenience, but I just can’t stand all the ruddy comment spam any more! It’s driving me nuts! Tags: technology
I weaseled my way into the private opening of this show at Alliance Francaise last night – and it was fantastic. We really did get to see work from a lot of names previously unknown, they were actually mostly young (and all emerging), and the show, on the whole, was made up of a diverse [...]
This month’s artthrob is Mos Def one you will not want to give a miss. Aside from the usual array of tidbits, there’s not a bad overview of new media work at the Kebbles, by Charles Maggs; he does more describing and explaining than critical discussion, but that’s still way ahead of the curve, so [...]
I got really tired of all the comment spam I’ve been getting over the past few weeks. So now, if you want to leave a comment, you have to type in a dynamically generated image! It’s a neat hack. If using a wordpress blog, you can download it yourself from here. Click to add a [...]
Sue, Richard and Nick – three of the Digital Arts MA students, from left – pretend to be working on their final exhibition (February, 2005), between actually working on it, and lunch. It’s, no doubt, going to be a great show. The piece we’re looking at is a prototype for an installation that will use [...]
Thanks to my pop for this article: The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Voting Without the Facts I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election’s outcome as values. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University [...]
