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{ Monthly Archives } February 2006

Relational Clothing – collecting fragments

Appearing to be an ordinary overall, it unfolds and translates into various forms

latest Compressionist images

Compressionism: digital performance, analog archive; earth, wind, fire, true colors, Johannesburg Boogie Woogie.

artthrob artbio feature

artthrob, the leading contemporary visual arts publication in South Africa, features nathaniel stern this month….

moCo (mobile Compressionism)

moCo (mobile Compressionism) This just makes me smile: ‘action Jackson’ (Compressionist scanner / appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa (click for larger image). Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with [...]

PWO (post whites only)

still: dineo bopape Kagablog, ex-guest blogger Aryan’s own space, writes about a showing of South African art he curated for the Rotterdam Film Festival (obviously, ironically titled – that’s info for my overseas readers who don’t know Aryan, who is, ironically, also ironically titled…): post whites only digs deeper and provides an encounter with the [...]

SAartsEmerging feature

SAsrtsEmerging is featured on liquidfridge this month. Given that they asked me for an image, my guess is that it’ll be on Artthrob this month, too…. I like the unambiguous interplay of the pretense and pretence on the post – bloody Americans; why can’t they speak English?   Tags: art, art and tech, bronwyn lace, [...]

The next generation of piracy – content producers fear ¨the bio-hole¨

¨There is a new form of music piracy running rampant around the world, and your children could be involved placing you at risk of legal persecution¨ – the recording industry association of America (RIAA) warned parents to keep watch of their children´s activities in order to curb this new form of theft, stating ¨we will [...]

Scenes of Provincial Life

still from Kingfisher 0.9MB 10 sec loop Michael Szpakowski, the brilliant artist, writer and personality behind alot of the JoyWar backing a couple of years ago (and a big supporter of Steve Kurtz) – as well as one of the core producers of DVblog – has started Scenes of Provincial Life, a new vlog of [...]