Published in rhizome.org’s digest yesterday, I wrote a Report from Unyazi – the electronic music festival – in joburg last weekend. The full article is also housed here. Tags: art and tech, me, music, pop culture, south african art, nathaniel stern
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Just announced on The Kebble (The Brett Kebble Art Awards) site two days ago, NYC PoMo star, Jeff Koons, is set to be the third judge in the biggest and boldest SA art competition. There’s been rumors around town that the exhibition mightn’t go on, given Brett’s brush with the law as of late (understatement), [...]
Just as I was loving my shuffle, thinking what a great deal it was, saying I did not need a “real iPod,” really, Apple goes and does something like this. Apple – iPod nano Tags: music, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, technology
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Note the Pretoria exhibition post, below, was the first from our new guest blogger, Franci Cronje. Link to her bio and photo is at right – let’s hope we hear more from her! Tags: franci cronje, south african art
perhaps it is time for a serious contemporary art gallery in tshwane to contact motlhabane mashiangwako. he is the last surviving member of the seventies school of engaged artists that included fikile magadledla, winston saodi, gilbert mabale and lefifi tladi. he lives in mamelodi. he produces an enormous amount of work. he has not had [...]
People who have not yet heard about it, we are rejoicing here in Pretoria (Tshwane) because of a new SERIOUS gallery that opened its doors in Brooklyn recently. This promises to be a hub for cutting-edge contemporary art in our area, and we also like the look and feel of the place. Very classy and [...]
I think it may have been yesterday that I posted the available job at artthrob. Admittedly, I’ve already heard a few comments about it (but none online), and just this morning I received an email from sculptor Sean Slemon (now overseas) on the rampage. Like myself – and many other South African artists – Sean [...]
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OK, so the Unyazi Festival was a huge success, I think, and I’ll be writing a report for rhizome sometime in the next few days. Watch their, and this, space for it. Back in webland, nathaniel has gone and changed the flash movie on the front of this site to represent something a little more [...]
halim el-dabh Tags: kaganof, music
REFRESH! Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, this Conference on the Histories of Media Art will discuss for the first time the history of media art within the interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of the histories of art. Banff New Media Institute, the Database for Virtual Art, Leonardo/ISAST and UNESCO DigiArts are [...]
A R T T H R O B seeks johannesburg editor ArtThrob seeks new editor for Johannesburg from October. Responsibilities: listings, news, reviews. Qualities needed: good writing skills, inititiative, ability to be extremely disciplined in meeting deadlines under pressure. Interested? Please send the following to editor@artthrob.co.za by September 22: Introductory letter CV Sample review (need [...]
Well, I started my festival day by attending a workshop called The Expanded Instrument System, with electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros. For a frame of reference? She’s worked with the likes of David Tudor, Philip Glass, and John Cage in her time, and one of her favorite compositions involved 10 water bottle players, and 5 [...]
george lewis & zim ngqawana Tags: kaganof, music, south african art
brendon bussy (mandolin) and etienne moorcroft (trumpet) Tags: kaganof, music, south african art
I personally kicked off the festival a day early, by catching the preview of James Webb and James Sey’s (above, left to right) ‘The Utopia Travelogues ***,’ which premiered at the trendy Tokyo Star in Melville. I have to say that it was beautiful; I understand the complaints by some that the text was a [...]
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