Will have to blog more about this later in the week (probably weekend), as it was such a commendable show of great work by some of SA’s best, and sometimes underappreciated, artists – but that’s for when my time winds down a bit. In the meanwhile, you heard it here first. Without the Kebbles, this [...]
The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre invites you to join us for a Red Bull and some live online performance: NETWORKED_PERFORMANCEVisitorsStudio performance Joburg-Derby-London, live at The Premises and online at http://www.visitorsstudio.org A live-online collaborative performance by Nathaniel Stern, Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.And open laptop mixing by audiences and invited local artists at [...]
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Motsebetsi ya Motsho “Black Labour” (Supa Market) by Cillie Malan OK I’m a lazy shit who is mostly cutting and pasting a press release; but am crazy with finishing up ‘stuff’ cuz we leave in 8 weeks(!), and I can’t believe how little press there has been on New Signatures! Who is this Cillie Malan, [...]
Joburg’s own Andre SC has developed his first piece of net.art, and it’s definitely a noteworthy feat. Kind of a cross between fridge magnet poetry, geeky guy gluttony, snot flinging, and surrealist games, netVerse’s raining text allows for beautiful poetic formations, zoom-ins and zoom-outs, exports of images and a really big pixel size. Check it. [...]
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Remix. Sample. Mash up. Reconstruct. Reformulate. Remake. Reproduce. Reshuffle. Transform. Recreate. Modify. Reassemble. Revamp. Rejuvenate. These are the words that make corporate copyright protectors shudder and free culture creators grin with glee. The ‘remix’ has become one of the most powerful tools of the digital age. But the legal barriers to taking an established image [...]
Sorry I have not been blogging much lately. Been a little turned off by complaints, busy with a newborn, and planning for a big move. Which brings me to this: So, the rumors are true. I’ve been offered a fellowship to study in Dublin, and will be doing a PhD-by-research/production at Trinity College beginning October. [...]
via site: a digital ceremony for a war photographer Literary cult figure and pioneering digital filmmaker, Aryan Kaganof joins Catherine Henegan, Amsterdam based multi-disciplinary artist, for a gripping performance about a war photographer and an insatiable media machine. Also included in the team is James Webb, internationally renowned electronic sound artist who has created an [...]
Not much more to say about this – except how awesome it is. Intel Macs can now run everybody’s favorite interactive video application in two operating systems…. Downloads here…. PS – I just proposed a free, 5-day workshop on Jitter for The Bag Factory’s ‘for artists by artists’ series; watch this space if you are [...]
Via Rhiz: This year, Rhizome marks our tenth year of leadership in the new media arts community by celebrating the growth, diversity, and strength of the field. Rhizome was initiated in 1996 as an online platform for the global new media art community. Then, our focus was primarily upon Internet art and, ten years later, [...]
There’s some newly updated Compressionist documentation on Compressionism.net. Latest additions to the video reflect, both, some of the performative aspects of the series, and the current hand-made editions; the latter are being created with the help of printmaker Jillian Ross at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg. For those who have not been to the site [...]
And, as suspected, the new Apple Mac Pro desktop premiered and was released this week at the WWDC (World Wide Development Conference). Oh, it’s a beauty (check it out here). We all knew that she’d have to be a quad-core, with speeds at least more than that of a G5; and Apple came through. The [...]
First, check out Cruise @ Krut at noon – I’ve seen many of these beautiful pieces, a year in the making, and believe me you don’t want to miss this. Via site: … While Cruise’s preparation for her sculptures has always included writing, sketching, and reworking thoughts on paper, she never considered these preparations art-making, [...]
via networked performance (who got it from we-make-money-not-art – even tho Cobi actually sent me an email which I accidentally deleted… cobi, could you send me that again?): Skateboard music interface Cobi van Tonder, author of the brilliant Ephemeral Gumboots, has been commissioned a new work for ISEA2006. The project, Skatesonic, uses the motions and [...]
via david krut publishing (posted by Jillian Ross): So….. Nathaniel Stern walked into DKW in March, about five months ago, and things haven’t quite been the same for us. Bursting with energy and excited at the new-found potential of the printmaking medium, he set to work on a grande project. Working towards an exhibition at [...]
His blurb: ‘Promised land’ is a body of work that plays on some of the ‘faultlines’ running through contemporary South Africa – disparities in wealth, contests of ownership over symbols and cultural objects, the threat to stability offered by the dispossessed, new struggles with their conflicted relationship to the old Struggle. Was it land that [...]
