From the Upgrade! Joburg site: At their permission, Nathaniel Stern will be presenting the work of MTAA, a Brooklyn based digital art duo, most famous for their extremely provocative and quirky networked art: Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet as a medium for [...]
Brett Kebble merit award winners, Lara Foot Newton and Gerhard Marx of the internationally acclaimed production Tshepang, team up again to present their new play Hear and Now at the Market Theatre. Following the play’s seasons at The State Theatre and Baxter Theatre in 2005, author Lara Foot Newton has made some revisions to the [...]
Bruce Gordon and Ed Young receiving gifts from Christian Nerf’s Stellenbosch students
So I was at Spier last night with some really cool artists. Not all of them made it on the same night, but amongst the ten finalists selected for their hotel art project are myself, Kim Lieberman, Mustafa Maluka, Matt Hindley, Usha Seejarim, Dorothee Kreutzfeld, Jo O’Connor and Nicolas Hlobo. Had a nice dinner among [...]
On a quick visit, running around like a headless chicken! Been hangin’ with Ralph Borland and Toni Oliver, plus got to see Christian Nerf and Kathryn Smith this morning. Good peoples! Battery died so no pix, and only have a few mins left in this internet cafe, so more later / prob when I get home. [...]
LED throwies in the streets of NYC James Powderly is currently a Research & Development fellow at Eyebeam in Chelsea, NYC – a fantastic gallery-space-like residency program for art-geeks that work in new media, "etc". On a more personal note, when we were grad students, James was a huge friend and resource in helping to [...]
The awaited launch of the new SA Art Times: The SA Art Times has evolved from the South African Art Information Directory in fore filling a need to go beyond simply listing and cataloguing the SA Arts community, to actively providing energy, information and news thorough this community. Has anyone seen it? How is it [...]
jill ross and richard kilpert After a morning of various errand – running / personal – admin BS, I began the Real Day with a lunch meeting / brainstorm session starring myself and the ever-inspired and energetic Richie K. He told me a bit about his new iterative photographic – photoshoppy – inkjet process and [...]
Under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike license; thanks to Cary Peppermint for being so SUPERCOOL. I know I could not have done this without you. I’m on the path, I know it, I can feel it, cuz I don’t care: nathaniel is SUPERCOOL video link, 424kb, 7 seconds Tags: art, art and tech, creative [...]
No sh!t. Tomorrow, the NAN blog is three years old! As I write this, we are at “1,010 posts and 393 comments, contained within 25 categories.” On February 20th, 2003, I started using blogger in a frame on the front page of this (back then, a very different) site, to say, in my very first [...]
Mikhael Subotzky, from Die Vier Hoeke and Umjiegwana Hit up the William Kentridge book launch – William Kentridge Prints – at David Krut this morning, and got a fresh start of drinking wine before noon. W00+! A beautiful book, some nice text, and an interesting opening by drama academic Jane Taylor, who William said finally [...]
Bronwyn Lace on SAartsEmerging.org. Nice interview. Edited by Simon Gush and myself…. Tags: art, bronwyn lace, re-blog tidbits, reviews, south african art
Just got this mail courting me for the Net Vision category at Ars. I don’t have any new net.art this year, but did send in some Compressionist stuff as performative/interactive analog/digital art for the obvious category… Would be great to see some South Africans represent – in any category! Here it is: The Prix Ars [...]
from Laure Djourado’s Metaphysique du lien So after my illness, my trip, and all my busy bees of bumbly beginnings in the new year, I’m finally starting to emerge again and cover artwork in Jozi a bit more. My guest bloggers, it seems, have mostly deserted me (I’m still, and always, open for more, if [...]
Glenn Greenwald says, a lot better than I ever could, what I have been trying to say for years: there is nothing Conservative left in the Conservative party; it is based on fear and hate and the blind following of a ‘Good Leader.’ He’s my new best friend. This is so good I nearly wept. [...]
For those of you who have not heard, Art on Paper has moved into 44 Stanley; a newly renovated ex-Franchise is looking fab with all kinds of nooks and crannies for prints and marks… Admittedly, I always thought this space was a bit big, and the art tended to sometimes get lost in it, but [...]
As you can see, our first Upgrade! here in Johannesburg was a huge success! Nice big attendance for a Soiree (upgraded), and there was general excitement around being plugged in to a global network of artists and curators, about MTAA and turbulence.org‘s upcoming virtual and physical visitations to our space, respectively. Hirsch mostly talked about [...]
Don’t forget the SAartsEmerging launch and party!
photo credit: Christo Doherty http://atjoburg.net/upgrade/ Announcing the latest node in the International Upgrade! network: Johannesburg, South Africa. Building on the now-famous Digital Soiree series, we begin this Friday with a presentation by Daniel Hirschmann, 3PM in the "Digital Convent" at Wits School of the Arts’ Digital Arts Program. Map: http://www.wits.ac.za/artworks/contact/map.htm Daniel Hirschmann is an artist, [...]
Claiming himself to have been bashed about from both sides during his career, Paul Craig Roberts, a Republican from the Reagan administration, is fed up with how Bush has placed himself, and his administration, "firmly against the American people." Some key points: Bewitched by neoconservatives and lustful for power… Having eliminated internal opposition, the [...]
