SAartsEmerging has its first guest writer this month! Wits Alumnus and Negotiate co-curator Lester Adams takes a look at the work of Hannes Olivier.
Tags: art, re-blog tidbits, reviews, south african art, uncategorical
OK, so The End of that workshop I gave at Stellenbosh went pretty well - I think there are more than a handful of students who will likely carry on and try to produce interactive art. The last two days were spent consulting on work individually, mostly as a crit, but sometimes on how to [...]
For those of you who recall, I did a little write up on Contempo mag - the new Arts/Cutlure/Design SA thinger - when it first came out. More or less, I said I completely support their intentions, despite my occasional skepticism of some of their content (which is mostly applaudable). There’s been some overt aggression [...]
Lazy Susan - an interactive installation
at Bell Roberts gallery
Here’s an action shot of Lazy Susan, an interactive sculpture by Johan van der Schijff (right), at his solo show, which opened at Bell-Roberts gallery last night.
An ironic and explicitly phallic interplay between weaponry, technology, culture and comedy, Johan’s exhibition - his first solo in SA in [...]
Didn’t take any pix, but had a great meal with some of CT’s art stars last night (some, formerly of Durban and Joburg). Let’s see, over at the Royale Kitchen for burgers, we had myself, Ralph Borland, Storm Janse van Renseburg, Jay Pather, Kathryn Smith, Christian Nerf, Bridget Baker, Katherine Bull, Brett Murray and Sanell [...]
physical computing @ Stellenbosch
Ralph Borland and I are giving a two-week workshop in interactive art at Stellenbosch University! Shown here is Ralph working with the Basic Stamp microcontroller (BS2), building some circuits just before we go ahead and try some input/output from and to the “real world”. I’ve been showing them how to interpret that [...]
This weekend my girlfriend and I went to Toronto for her bosses birthday. It was a chance to get out of town and have a bit of a break too.
We were directed to stay at the Gladstone-one of the longest continuously running hotels in Toronto. Its recently been redone and the owner-an artist herself, [...]
YesThe Museum of Bad ArtIts realIt was only a matter of time. Its everywhere. I think they may need to expand their storage rather soon.
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As seems to be becoming routine as of late, I am yet again stealing Colleen Alborough’s bandwidth - this time her MWEB wireless at the Joburg airport, on my way down to Cape Town. Ralph Borland and I will be giving an extended workshop on Interactive Art at Stellenbosh University, him focusing on physical computing [...]
