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welcoming (art on paper opening)

Sorry for the lack of posts whilst in SA. Just been too hektik on this visit home. It’s been so great, and I miss this place immensely… Old friends and colleagues… great art and passionate community builders… yadda yadda.
Sitting in 44 Stanley making a quick post. Here’s a great photoset of images from the opening, [...]

Collecting Digits - The Upgrade!JHB + Digital Soiree Panel Discussion

As usual a thorough post from Christo on our last Upgrade!Joburg, via the atjoburg site:

The Collecting Digits Panel at Wits Digital Arts. From left to right, Franci Cronje, Warren Siebrits, Nathaniel Stern, and Clive Kellner.
The first Upgrade! Johannesburg panel discussion brought together an exciting group of speakers to deal with the topic of “Collecting [...]

the Upgrade! Johannesburg presents our first Panel Discussion: Collecting Digits

the Upgrade! Johannesburg presents our first Panel Discussion: Collecting Digits
Friday October 6, 2006 @ 3pm:
Panel Discussion: Collecting Digits
WSOA Digital Arts. Map: http://digitalarts.wits.ac.za/artworks/contact/map.htm
This panel and discussion on the possibilities and problems with collecting new media art will include presentations by:

Warren Siebrits - founder of one of Johannesburg’s most prestigious contemporary and modern commercial art galleries
Franci Cronje [...]

Congratulations to Gordon Froud for a monumental work

The Mobile-with-no-name-yet is installed and the scaffolding of sixteen metres taken down. One can now see the total immensity of the task. But no photograph can do justice.. The officials in the Department of Science and Technology are all speculating whether this work hides little webcams to observe stray and lazy workers lurking in ‘corporate [...]

A job well done

Gordon Froud has just completed installation on his ‘mobile’ in the new Department of Science and Technology building in Pretoria. The mobile (it still needs to be named) comprises the product of technology in general, objects ranging from kitchen utensils to scientific tools used in experimentation. Twelve metres in height, the installation was no mean [...]

40×40x40 @ gordart

some 40×40×40 works
From Gordon Froud’s press release:
The concept behind this show is to showcase 40 youngish artists from across the racial and sexual classifications in South Africa in such a way that the works create conversations … [It takes] 10 of each male and female, black and white artists and gets them to make [...]

Compressionism WorldWide

Brenton Maart chatting with Stern about the show, for a review in Art South Africa magazine
I was at Outlet yesterday, discussing my Time and Seeing exhibition of Compressionist prints with Brenton Maart. Maart normally does the Gauteng art listings for the Mail & Guardian, but we met about this show for a small review [...]

Successful site visit

A great number of sculptors rocked up, looking at the new site for the DST building. Thanks to everyone. If you could not make it and want to stay in the loop, just leave me a message on the comments page, and i will get back to you!

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Important site visit!

To everyone interested in this competition, please visit the site next week.

for more info, go to the website: http://www.dst.gov.za/programmes/art%5Fcompetition/art%5Fcompetition.htm
Tags: art, franci cronje, south african art, uncategorical