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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

artsemerging 2.3 wordpress theme – customizable, and now widget compatible

Howdy all. If you remember, early last year I developed a new WordPress theme as part of the launch of SAartsEmerging.org – promoting and critiquing emerging South African artists. That site is now maintained by Bronwyn Lace and Rat Western, and you should keep an eye out for upcoming changes. Given the popularity of this [...]

public property: Sean Slemon in Utah

We love Sean Slemon, a South African, award-winning artist, currently living in NYC.

making waves – selections from the SABC collection in Cape Town

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stuttering

Paddy’s favorite piece of mine is now on YouTube. See the work in action, stuttering (also below), or watch a video with voiceover of me telling what it’s all about….

Scenic Route, 2007

Got some pix up on a flickr set of some new friends and their work from the “Organic Motion: Kinetic and Interactive Sculpture” 2-week workshop at the Anderson Ranch out by the Rockies, Colorado. A fun time, and I hope to make it back. Also, click below for a li’l YouTube video of my first [...]

Ellen Papciak-Rose

Good friend and amazing graphic designer, Ellen Papciak-Rose, opened a nearly sold-out exhibition at gordArt this weekend. Awesome and funny, you should head over and check it out – before it’s gone, if you are an art-buyer, while it’s still up if you are not! kicking ass, ellen papciak-rose

Trasi Henen at stellenbosch…

performative digital prints

I went and updated the Compressionism documentation video a bit, and put it up on YouTube. These are performative prints made by strapping on a scanner, computer and battery pack, then traversing the landscape – sometimes printing digitally, other times transforming the images with hand-made / traditional techniques. The video shows some work, and how [...]

organic motion

Am over in Aspen, Colorado at the Anderson Ranch doing a 2-week workshop / residency by the above title (basically kinetic sculpture), with Mark Koven and Anat Pollack (and special guest Jim Campbell next week). Didn’t really know what to expect, but the place is gorgeous and the other workshoppers are amazing (will give links [...]