Good friend, move+shaker and Professor and Head of Digital Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Christo Doherty is having what looks to be a fantastic exhibition of prints and video on campus in a couple of weeks. According to the artist, he is using “macro photography and miniature video cameras to explore the [...]
MyArtSpace is a kind of myspace/facebook-like networked community for artists and arts workers, with online portfolios along the lines of artreview and saatchi, but US-side, and run by young ‘uns. Their best feature is probably their homegrown blog and its interviews with mostly young and emerging artists. They have a few competitions in the works: [...]
Reember this? Gerhard Marx had his art work pretty much stolen by an ad agency for a series of BMW ads. That lawsuit is about to come to a head; many artists want to help – and also don’t want to allow this to happen again. Here’s how the bag factory plans to help: You [...]
The fantabulous Marianne Petit and Matthew Belanger (Greylock Arts), along with the – also great – turbulence.org, launch a new project worth checking out…. An interactive light installation (re)connecting personal artifacts, histories, & communities. Online at: turbulence.org/works/newadams/lumens Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery51, and Turbulence are pleased to announce Lumens, an interactive light installation by artists Ven [...]
A few weeks advance notice, but this is the show Doin’ my part to lighten the load was commissioned for. The JAMC site is also now live, and worth checking out – some great projects by my fellow South Africans! Jozi and the (M)other City 8 September – 26 September Michaelis Gallery, 32 Orange Street, [...]
In the 50s and 60s, my dad used to write songs for Jimmy Radcliffe (who also sang at my folks’ wedding). Anyhow, a few covers of his hits have made it up to youtube, posted by various peops. This is one by none other than Phil Stern. My dad is sooooo cool :) Enjoy! You [...]
Acting on orders is a new project by the likes of South African artists Barend de Wet, Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf. Please note that this opportunity is only open to American citizens. Feel free to email your order today to MuseumOfContemporaryArt@gmail.com Me? I asked them to share a really good cheeseburger. I’m admittedly unsure [...]
I’ve done some work with Jeanette Ginslov in the past, and she often re-uses my CC / open source ware from elicit in her productions – in ways I never imagined or foresaw. Jeanette was an early adopter of new technologies in the dance world, and that goes double for the fact that she is [...]
Looking forward to seeing this show in joburg. MacGarry is also one of the lads behind Avant Car Guard… From my inbox: Michael MacGarry, The Fetish, 2008, Inkjet print on cotton paper, 56 x 86cm, edition of 10 When enough people start saying the same thing. A solo exhibition by Michael MacGarry Opens [...]
Implicit Art friend Daniel Hirschmann shows in his first South African and first print-based exhibition, opening early next month at Resolution Gallery (and I’ll even get to see it while I’m in Joburg! I’m excited to visit the first/only “gallery of digital art” in South Africa, which opened only recently….). Born and raised in Joburg, [...]
DATA @ Darklight Special Event! Event: DATA 2.0 No. 31 Speakers: Karl Klomp, Wolf Lieser, Jane Tynan, Aileen Corkery Date: Thursday June 26, 2008, 8-10pm Venue: Filmbase, Curved Street Building, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Admission: FREE!!! The Dublin Arts and Technology Association is proud to present DATA 2.0 No. 31 in collaboration with the Darklight [...]
Printmaker Jillian Ross, the manager and resident printmaker at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, has a new web site live this week. She’s a great friend and a brilliant printer, thinker, maker and collaborator, who I owe a great debt to when it comes to opening my eyes to the experimental world of [...]
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ESCAPE TO ROBBEN ISLAND (2008) On the 21st of March in 2007 Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf began their collaborative project with the somewhat austere brief ‘Build a boat, grow a beard’. Various exhibitions, events, interventions and intercessions, such as planting an apple tree in Paradise, translating Anton Szandor La Vey’s Satanic Bible into Afrikaans [...]
I’m presenting a bit from my dissertation (some writing and works from chapters 1, 2 and mostly 4 – not that it’s done) at this conference at the University College of Dublin in a few weeks. If last year’s graduate student conference on philosophy and embodiment was any indication, this year’s should be grand. UCD [...]
in two minds, Marcus Neustetter a chat with the artist on Thursday 17 April 2008 at 18:00 – 20:00 Art on Paper Gallery, 44 Stanley Avenue Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Johannesburg South Africa Marcus Neustetter: in two minds, site-specific installation, 2008 Although Marcus Neustetter’s latest exhibition at Art on Paper Gallery invokes processes of mapmaking – [...]
My hard drive died last week, which sucked. I didn’t lose anything important like art or my PhD (thank goodness), but it’s taken days just to get back to running, due to file and email jumbles on various drives, etc (still not quite there, and will have some crazy organizing to do in my spare [...]
Marcus is one of my favorite people and favorite contemporary artist-thinkers in South Africa. This his his first solo exhibition there (as far as I know). GO! in two minds Marcus Neustetter Please join us for the opening on Saturday 5 April 2008 at 14:00 The exhibition is accompanied by an artist’s book Preview by [...]
Event: D.A.T.A. No. 29 Speakers: Dr. Sarah Cook, Rob Costello, Alan Butler, K Bear Koss. Date: Wednesday April 2nd, 2008, 7.30-9pm Venue: Hop House, 160 Parnell St., Dublin 1 Admission: FREE!!! The Dublin Arts and Technology Association is proud to present D.A.T.A. No. 29, taking place at the now legendary Hop House, Korean Bar and [...]
The Figure in Colour Clare Greene, Irish Pop-Art Nudes Opening 6.00pm – 8.00pm Thursday 27th March Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery Clare Greene, one of Ireland’s best known ceramicists returns to her first love, painting, in her show, The Figure in Colour, opening March 27th at the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery in Kinsale. The exhibition comprises 20 pop-art [...]
