So I fly down to Cape Town very early tomorrow morning, and stay there until New Year’s day. Anybody wanna hang out? Then, I’m heading up the Garden Route with my folks (visiting from NYC!) and will be back in Jozi on the 5th. Again, lemme know if you’re around those parts then, and wanna [...]
What a year – I am utterly exhausted. I haven’t yet decided if it’s that I get tired more easily, the world is more tiring, or some grand combination (complication?) thereof. Every year I try to take these weeks to refuel, rejuvenate, or at least relearn to pretend that my curiosity about the world has [...]
Wow. I think this is the longest I’ve gone without blogging in yonks. Well, it is holiday time, after all. In the past while, I’ve been critting my Wits students’ amazing show, seeing art at GordArt, MuseumAfrica and Momo, and catching up on sleep. Oh, and I’ve already seen The Incredibles twice. It’s H-O-T. In [...]
OK, so artthrob has been slacking a bit lately, I know; they’ve been late on releases, and this time, are even missing a few of their regular features. And web geeks like me have been giving them a hard time (at least in our heads – and a much harder time than they deserve). But [...]
photo credit: stephen hobbs. photoshop touchup: me,me,me Shown is Portrait M2370, a collaboration between Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, as seen at Artinthedark_ in Melville last Thursday. The event was really brilliant. It had the vibe of a drive-in, but with 90% of the people really paying attention to video art, rather than Hollywood, as [...]
Some very recognizable names asking for simple interactions in order to help… from networked_performance: Thank You – posted by Jo-Anne Greene, but originally from Mary Flanagan on grandtextauto. altruism, interaction and exchange Please visit the exhibition Thank You’Äîan activist art project conceived by Danish/Australian/U.S. group Wooloo Productions (I’Äôm in it!). It launched yesterday on World [...]
the walkabout. photo credit: richard kilpert Yesterday was the above event, organized by myself, AT.joburg and the JAG (johannesburg art gallery), and sponsored by the JAG and the American Consulate of South Africa. There was a a great turnout and a fantastic vibe around the work, what is possible in “the digital revolution” (can you [...]
Yes, dear readers; my humblest apologies for the inaction on this blog as of late – at some point, I just needed to slow down a bit. I know it sounds lame, but my wife actually took our digital camera with her to an academic conference all this week, and you know how I like [...]
…and it shows. (happy birthday, mom) Tags: uncategorical
