I was planning on writing about this, but have been sick in bed all day, and then T.Whid of MTAA did a much better job of reviewing the features than I would have from behind this haze of flu, so here comes a re-blog, via their site: A superb upgrade of the new media community [...]
A continuation from The Wireframe Series: Sentimental Construction #1, performance 2 (passage) is a similarly site-specific, publicly performed architectural structure made of rope. The piece, erected in Joubert Park, Johannesburg South Africa (2007), twists the idea of ‘public space’ by its double activation: first, through the volunteers who stretch its form outward and around them; [...]
holy crap. who knew anyone remembered the dominant seven? somebody just emailed me this link via the cornell alumni magazine. a little snip: … Nat Stern spent most of his time in Ithaca leading the town’s reigning dance band, The Dominant 7, but he also slept in Goldwin Smith with the rest of the protesters [...]
If you haven’t noticed, my main site has had a massive overhaul, with which the royal ‘we’ are very pleased. Besides the new design, some new work and texts have been added in the upgrade process, most notably the digital and traditional prints I did at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium this summer, the [...]
Moved a bunch of stuff around on my servers today, in preparation for the big update on Monday (I hope on Monday!). A simple refresh should give you exactly what you are looking for in most cases (like if images are missing), very close to it in all (like, you may be redirected to the [...]
Sorry, this has little to do with my work or art, but… I’ve been recommending hostgator to students and friends for years – they are fantastic: never down, have a great control panel, huge amounts of space and resources, unlimited domains and traffic, and I’ve never waited more than 1 minute when entering the live [...]
Back in the office today, despite battling a cold. Re-reading Manovich and Paul to see what I can use in chapter 2 of my dissertation, rather than diving right back into the hard-core stuff, like Massumi and Hansen (most of which will go into chapter one, which will be an extended version of this paper). [...]
New UK community for artists and filmakers – some fees involved on parts of the site, other parts are free. Ripple. Tags: inbox
Here. It’s been re-blogged several times already, but I want to re-iterate that Paddy Johnson is really smart. Again. The former link is especially relevant to me, given my recent printmaking adventures, which touch on several kinds of expression and abstraction, through time and performance (among other things)… Tags: Compressionism, art, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, [...]
Video installation, projected on sculptures in the shape of the original furniture (as distorted by the wide angle lens), which is bolted to the wall. Has been exhibited in various South African venues. “video art exploring multiplicity – three characters played by the same artist. installed by projecting onto a table and three chairs of [...]
Now available is a newly exported and less buggy podcast of odys for your ipod, or watch all 6 videos on youtube (these are in reverse chronological order – you can feel free to jump around, or start at the bottom and work your way up): You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view [...]
“shadowalk uses the digitized shadows of passersby to create temporary, 2-dimensional, sculptures on the floor; it’s meant for large groups to play with. by nathaniel stern, henry lam and margot jacobs” more You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Tags: art, art and tech, me, re-blog tidbits, youtube
“elicit is a full body interactive installation that produces projected text in front of wherever the participant moves. Shown here is South African dancer Jeanette Ginslove using the piece” — more This work is under a Creative Commons GPL license, and has been used in several multimedia performances since late 2001. See link above to [...]
Gonna spend the next few hours converting and uploading videos and video documentation to youtube, in preparation for the new web site (probably going up in a week or three). Enjoy! “funny slam poetry about identity as constructed through mass consumerism; eat was a site-specific video installation made for a solo exhibition at the Outlet [...]
After 3 weeks in South Africa – with visits to the Goodman Gallery (and Cape Goodman), William Kentridge’s studio, David Krut, Art on Paper, and many other hot spots (not the least of which being my wonderful friends and family – I’ll try to find time to post more on the art if I can, [...]
