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{ Monthly Archives } April 2006

Hannes Olivier

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

2006 04 30 nathaniel art
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CT wrap-up

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 [...]

2006 04 30 nathaniel art
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Intent and Content

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 [...]

2006 04 29 nathaniel art
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Johan van der Schijff at Bell-Roberts

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 [...]

2006 04 26 nathaniel art
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CT crew

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 [...]

2006 04 23 nathaniel art
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Live from Stellenbosch U

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 [...]

2006 04 20 nathaniel Compressionism
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Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

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, [...]

2006 04 19 sean slemon art
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MOBA

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. Tags: news and politics, pop culture, reviews, sean slemon, theory

2006 04 18 sean slemon news and politics
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in transit

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 [...]

2006 04 17 nathaniel art
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bronwyn lace
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Sanell Aggenbach @ art on paper

Sanell Aggenbach @ art on paper, Johannesburg:"North by Northwest" Not sure how many of you read the minimal text I wrote on Sanell Aggenbach from KKNK last year (see more on her here), but even then I was a bit gushy about what I saw. At Art on Paper, in Johannesburg, she’s exhibiting about four [...]

2006 04 15 nathaniel art
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Contempo: SAs new art+culture mag

For those of you who have not heard, Contempo is the new "art + culture + design" magazine for South Africa’s non-elite art appreciators (etc). I was admittedly extremely apprehensive at first – my line being that the art snob in me must be skeptical of any publication touting a regular column called But is [...]

2006 04 14 nathaniel art
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satin bed

Double plate aquatint from yesterday at David Krut Workshop with Jill and Niall. Niall printed our screen (used to lay the hard ground) upside down, so it looks weird to me – as compared to my intended design – but we’re very happy with it (and I’m sure I’ll get used to it). We’re still [...]

2006 04 14 nathaniel Compressionism
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SAartsEmerging is Artthrob website of the month

Carine Zaayman says, on A R T T H R O B _ W E B S I T E S:  ’Providing a free South African alternative to the gallery-driven, Cape Town-based, and mainstream media, SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not [...]

2006 04 13 nathaniel art
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David Smith at the Guggenheim

David Smith, Hudson River Landscape, 1951. Welded steel, 49 1/2 x 75 x 16 3/4 inches. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Purchase. Thought this was worth a quick mention. This show being done when the man should have turned a 100 years old. The work was generally smaller than I expected, but this [...]

2006 04 13 sean slemon art
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Compressionist printmaking: a 500 year old digital performance and analog archive

Compressionism meets engraving, lithography, chine-collé and spit bites…

2006 04 12 nathaniel Compressionism
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Tara Donavan at PaceWildenstein

So this last weekend I finally made it out to Chelsea, with a list of shows to see…

2006 04 12 sean slemon art
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We’re Closed, I’m busy

Writing a chapter for a book (with my wife, on the implicit body), and working loads in the studio, plus showing turbulence around town and prepping for a workshop I am giving with Ralphy at Stellenbosch. Back in a few (days). Tags: art, art and tech, me, uncategorical, nathaniel stern

2006 04 11 nathaniel art
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Turbulence and Gavin Jantjes

helen thorington of turbulence.org @ upgrade! johannesburg showing off net.art commissions: Shape of Song by Martin Wattenberg (that’s Jo Green on the far right, too) Yesterday was probably the most crowded and exciting, diverse and collaborative, Soiree / Upgrade! event Johannesburg has ever seen. There to hear a kind of biased history of net.art from [...]

2006 04 08 nathaniel art
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The Upgrade! Johannesburg proudly presents: Turbulence.org + Gavin Jantjes

Hosted by Wits Digital Arts, University of the Witwatersrand Please circulate widely! This is an amazing opportunity for South Africans to learn about online contemporary art from two of its ongoing pioneers and most noteworthy supporters of commissioned work. Live and in person! The Upgrade! Johannesburg and Wits Digital Arts proudly present: Turbulence.org + Gavin [...]

2006 04 04 nathaniel art
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The Daily Chronicles

OK, so it’s about day 6 of no phone or internet (re: telkom sucks… Given my lifestyle, I feel like my legs have been cut off), and the Gods of Good Fortune have decided that to make up for those losses, they should also cut off my electricity. I sh!t you not. Sigh. The life [...]

2006 04 03 nathaniel Compressionism
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