Friday 23 June 2006, live from the iCommons iSummit: [odys] elicit – a full-body, interactive art installation circa 2001 – is now available under a Creative Commons By Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license, and the source code is available under GPL. It works with almost any standard webcam (requiring a few drivers on PC)! [odys]elicit is [...]
Hell-ish travel and confusion (dropped at the wrong hotel, wrong date for booking), not too bad jet-lag (considering), and awesome peops at the iCommons iSummit in Rio. Am psyched to re-release [odys]elicit under CC / GPL – I added all kinds of easy-to use menus for custom functionality. Mac.app working great, and I’m hoping to [...]
For Contempo’s third issue – please weigh in! "A Posed Question" for Contempo mag – enter into the debate by responding to any of the following questions, via email, to copy [at] Contempo [dot] co [dot] za. You should get this to the editor by end of day 15 July. How do you differentiate between [...]
Solid Light by Sean Slemon at David Krut Arts Resource opens on 22 June at 18:00 @ 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. Lightness and Beingby nathaniel stern Sean Slemon’s latest body of work strikes an almost sublime balance between the frivolous, and the momentous. Both a departure from, and continuation of, his last series – [...]
screen shot from hektor.net hektor.net, my old skool (2000), award-winning and recently archived net.art project (say this ten times fast: The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media, a Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, of the Cornell University Library) has just been (like, uploading as I hit the publish button) re-released under a Creative Commons [...]
Bronwyn Lace, 1.618 @ KZNSA Bronwyn Lace 77/21Opening 22 June 7:30 Until 12 July http://www.parking-gallery.net 149 Pritchard StreetSecure parking available in basement For directions to gallery:http://www.parking-gallery.net/images/map.jpg Viewing by appointment only, For more information contact Bronwyn on 0832844726 or Lester on 0835158704 Tags: art, bronwyn lace, flickr, south african art, stimulus, uncategorical
SAartsEmerging » Ismail Farouk SAarts has an awesome write-up on the artist’s work (by Rat Western). Sampling: Whether it be a film on a continuous animated loop, a structured video installation, a performance work or a still image; there is a dynamism which occurs between Farouk’s geographer’s observations of the unfair logic of exchanges which [...]
From Paddy Johnson (via email): Dear friends and colleagues,This email is sent to announce Geeks in the Gallery, an Interview series between artists Michael Bell-Smith, Tom Moody, and myself which runs on Art Fag City <http://www.artfagcity.blogspot.com> from Monday June 12 (today [er, yesterday]) through Wednesday, June 14. I am particularly pleased with the results of [...]
The closing party this weekend at Outlet went well – aside from the aforementioned NY Arts and MacFormat features on the series, also check out these glowing reviews in Die Beeld (English translation) and Pretoria News; there’s not a bad one on LQF, either. Abrie has decided to let the show run an extra week, [...]
Art Fag City: Make Up Plan for the Worst. Week. Ever. Thanks for the linkage, Paddy – and no worries; I understand those kinds of weeks :) Glad you liked the article and are sending peops over… Hope next week is better. And in case you hadn’t heard, y’all, AFC is "simply the best and [...]
Note that the closing party is tomorrow @ 4pm in pretoria, and that the show has been extended an extra week til next Saturday! See today’s beeld and tomorrow’s pretoria news for reviews/features… Time and Seeingan exhibition of Compressionist prints come have a drink with us, look at art, and celebrate the birth of Sidonie [...]
One hour performance, drinks served. 52 7th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg South Africa the release: On 16 June 2006, South Africa celebrates the 30th anniversary of Youth Day. The act of remembrance is shaped by a multitude of senses ranging from sight, sound, physical touch and smell. This year Gallery MOMO invites you to join [...]
Taking a break from art because nobody is saying the obvious about this story. Here is a short link to it, and here is a video; basically, Coulter accuses the 9/11 Widows who have been outspoken about their political agenda for Homeland Security of "enjoying their husbands deaths," hogging the spotlight, being rich ladies loving [...]
some 40x40x40 works From Gordon Froud’s press release: The concept behind this show is to showcase 40 youngish artists from across the racial and sexual classifications in South Africa in such a way that the works create conversations … [It takes] 10 of each male and female, black and white artists and gets them to [...]
Well, that much delayed bio / feature on my work in NY Arts Magazine is finally out! It’s a great piece, and I’m really pleased with how it looks and reads on their site… It will appear in the July / August print edtiion of the magazine, and my folks will be bringing me a [...]
Via artheat: You are cordially invited to THE LAST BRAAI The launch of Ed Young and Christian Nerf’s NO PROBLEM IN AFRICAIn conjunction with ROUTES… REPORT FROM THE LAND OF DREAMSCurated by Harm LuxIn partnership with TRIENAL DE LUANDASponsored by ART HEATwww.artheat.blogspot.com Apologies to BAREND DE WET L/B’s Lounge222 Long Street (above Jo’burg bar)16:00Bring and [...]
I have a sore throat and a fever and was up most of the night with Sidonie; she was a very unhappy baby last night. I think I might finish my grading tomorrow, and rather order in food and videos today… Tags: me, nathaniel stern
The latest issue of ArtThrob is live ("South Africa’s leading contemporary visual arts publication"), and I have to say how impressed I’ve been with the new Johannesburg editor, Michael Smith, over the last few months. We’ve never met, but his reviews are thoughtful, thorough, descriptive and critically engaged – what more could you ask for [...]
Brenton Maart chatting with Stern about the show, for a review in Art South Africa magazine I was at Outlet yesterday, discussing my Time and Seeing exhibition of Compressionist prints with Brenton Maart. Maart normally does the Gauteng art listings for the Mail & Guardian, but we met about this show for a small review [...]
