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 the Premises [...]
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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, and [...]
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 or concept [...]
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. My [...]
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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 audio landscape [...]
