15:00
Panel Discussion: Collecting Digits
VENUE: WSOA Digital Arts, Wits University
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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 – curator of several collections & competitions, including Sasol New Signatures
- Nathaniel Stern – digital and interactive artist, in several public & private collections
- Clive Kellner – Director of the Johannesburg Art Museum
18:00 for 18:30
SAartsEmerging 2006 Official opening
VENUE: The Bag Factory
10 Mahlatini Stree, Fordburg, Johannesburg
Take Jeppe past Museum Africa and it becomes Mahlatini
Opening by Nathaniel Stern
The Bag Factory presents SAartsEmerging 2006, an exhibition and series of events based on the website saartsemerging.org, Since January 2006 the website has featured a new artist every third Friday of each month. In celebration of our first year we will be holding an exhibition and a series of related events revolving around the state of emerging arts in South Africa.
The exhibition and events will be featuring the following South African artists, curators and arts personalities. These individuals include Lester Adams, Colleen Alborough, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Christo Doherty, Shane de Lange, Stephan Erasmus, Ismail Farouk, Simon Gush, Dean Henning and Rike Sitas, Bronwyn Lace, Hannes Olivier, Abrie Fourie, Gordon Froud, Vaughn Sadie, Nathaniel Stern, Johan Thom, Rat Western, Storm Janse van Rensburg and Asha Zero.
