I’ve just finished reading my friend Justine’s first trilogy, Magic or Madness – Young Adult Fiction – and it’s great. Mostly intended for teens (without condescending to them), and widely read by adults — her husband, an old friend of my wife’s, Scott, has been on the NYT bestseller list a few times – I’ve [...]
Fantastic interview. Available in Windows Media Player or Quicktime. Tags: news and politics, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, stimulus
Great panel in SL right now… Am there… Link. Click for enlarged image and see SL art stars…. Tags: art, art and tech, pop culture, stimulus, technology
via Joy at NewsGrist, who got it via email: via email: WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS – WE WILL NOT BE SILENT Multiple actions occurred in the early afternoon today inside the Hart Senate Office Building. Eight New York activists were among the 15 plus arrested. TODAY, APRIL 26, 2007, A.R.T.* [...]
There’s the “Body in Quotes” panel at the Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States conference in Second Life. Sponsored by Ars Virtua New Media Center, and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and hosted at the Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds). From stage left to stage right is Xerxes Druart (Stuart Bunt of SymbioticA) , [...]
Nice group show at the Goethe in Joburg; my buddy Christo Doherty (head of digital arts at Wits) in participating. Recommended if you are in the area! Tags: art, art and tech, re-blog tidbits, south african art, stimulus
Not sure when I missed this, but it seems that South Africa’s premiere (and apparently accredited) contemporary art mag (um, only printed contemporary art mag, really, tho there are more and more “lifestyle” mags that do some art and design) now has most of its issues and articles online – including the ability to comment! [...]
The ‘Remains’ panel discussion @ Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States, from letft to right: Rubaiyat Shatner (James Morgan, Ars Virtua), JOE Languish (Laura Jones, anthropologist and archaeologist), Chloe Mahfouz (Renée Ridgway, artist & curator), Kliger Dinkin (Brad Kligerman, artist & architect). Yesterday marked my own first interaction with other avatars in SL, and, unfortunately for [...]
My favorite South African displaced in New York, and an inspired/inspirational sculptor and artist, Sean Slemon, is having his Masters Solo Show at the Pratt Studios in Brooklyn, 30 April – 4 May. If you’re around, do yourself a favor and attend (and tell him I said hi – he’s very nice). More on Sean [...]
via Lessig Blog (they do artist residencies, too!): iCommons Summit 07 – help us increase the number of scholarships iCommons is an entity Creative Commons helped incubate. Its purpose is to enable a platform for commons-related projects from around the world to interact — including A2K, Wikipedia, Free Software, Free Culture Movement and Creative Commons.One [...]
Thursday, Friday and Saturday will see the Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States conference in Second Life. Sponsored by Ars Virtua New Media Center, and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and hosted at the Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds), this series of talks and panel discussions (followed by q&a), “will explore how borders are [...]
This past weekend, Haydn Shaughnessy (blogger and regular columnist for the Irish Times) invited me out to the beautiful countryside of West Cork to make some of my site-specific Compressionist prints; we hit the local pubs, beaches, foliage and his garden in order to produce new images. This new series, which also includes some scans [...]
Dani over at iCommons asked me to donate some art to the upcoming bring n braai, which is geared towards CC work in relation to child education in South Africa. I wanted to give something that was fitting and South African, so I went back into my archives and pulled up the performance poem I [...]
Before the Time (2007) is a limited edition, concertina artist book. It is an exploration of a solitary journey along a melancholic yet painterly stretch of road. The images search into the distance, trying to see beyond the isolation and apparent silence of the passing veld. The work attempts to capture traces of life in [...]
MTAA are funny… Artist collaborative M.River & T.Whid face off in the most brutal performance art smack down of the new millennium… Karaoke Deathmatch 100! This alcohol-fueled blood feud features 50 rounds of sing-along fury (taped live over an 8-hour period with hardly any pee breaks). No Carpenters hit too cheesy, no heavy metal lyric [...]
The Opera world, like any other stage-based area of creativity is constantly battling to reach contemporary audiences in addition to hardcore opera fanatics. It’s caught between whether it should remain true to itself and its original music and scripts, or if it should have the opportunity to adapt and change with the times. It seems [...]
13 April 2007 6pm: MACHFELD – Performance: VED vs JOBURG This evening will consist of visual contributions in the form of text, image, video, and animation collages that will be transformed and subverted as they are fed through Machfeld’s interactive analogue performance in collaboration with The Trinity Session. M18J92T aka MT from mtkidu will [...]
via NYT, Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78: To the sculptor Eva Hesse, [Sol LeWitt] once wrote a letter while she was living in Germany and at a point when her work was at an impasse. “Stop it and just DO,” he advised her. “Try and tickle something inside you, your ‘weird humor.’ [...]
My title for this blog not as clever as I think it is, but I did have a great time in London over the last few days. I’ll leave out the bits about how great my family is, and just illuminate some art highlights: Wednesday. That was the art highlight. It began by meeting up [...]
can you recommend a good guiney, doll? (not in the know? this is south african slang for gynaecologist) Tags: creative commons, me, south african art, stimulus, uncategorical, nathaniel stern
