I have no idea what they sound like, or even if this is real, but don’t you want to buy this album? I do. Someone send me one? AVANT CAR GUARD
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19:30 Friday 15 December 2006 at Bell-Roberts Contemporary
Skakel oor na die Donkerkant is the launch of the AVANT CAR GUARD limited edition album – Volume 1. Bell-Roberts Contemporary | 89 Bree Street | Cape Town | 021 422 1100
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2 spots left for a hands-on interactive video workshop this weekend, contact Bronwyn Lace, (083) 284-4726. R600
On Friday, there’s free lecture on the topic, which bleeds into Saturday and Sunday for the paid (but cheap) workshop:
This presentation, demo, and discussion ‘over drinks’ will survey the current interactive video landscape, and the pioneers who shaped the territory. Nathaniel will look at documentation of artworks over the last 20 years by artists like David Rokeby, Camille Utterback, and Golan Levin — all artists working with interactive technologies and the body. He will also present what kinds of tools are available for artists, musicians and VJs who want to produce interactive installations or multimedia performances. Lastly, he will explore how someone might achieve body-tracking, motion-tracking or proximity-sensing with basic tools, and take a quick look at ‘jitter’, an interactive video development environment for artists, as well as some projects that have been produced with it.
This lecture will be followed by a weekend hands-on workshop. The workshop will explore a variety of possibilities for tracking information from the physical world through microphones, cameras and other plug-and-play devices. Workshop participants should be comfortable with their computers before they attend – at least able to perform simple tasks like word processing or email with ease. Before the end of the weekend, they will produce simple works that may use a wide variety of tools to capture and track information from their environment and people in it. For more information on the lecture please contact Bronwyn at bronwyn@bagfactoryart.org.za
VENUE: The Bag Factory
10 Mahlatini Stree, Fordburg, Johannesburg
Take Jeppe past Museum Africa and it becomes Mahlatini
Parking is available on Mahlatini Street. There will be a cash bar with music before and after the lecture.
The Collision Project is the result of a collaborative exchange between artist / director Gerhard Marx and composer Clare Loveday, lecturers at the Wits School of Arts. It combines the visual and theatrical skills of Marx with the compositional exploration of Loveday to create a haunting work that is both concert performance, theatrical experience and installation work.
The Collision Project plays with the principles on which both classical and traditional string instruments function; in this case however, the vibration of strings are transferred into the body of a car wreck through cello and violin fragments grafted onto the car. The strings and musical intervention serves to animate through sound, and to explore in the manner that vibration and consequently hearing is used to ‘see’ that which the eye cannot; scientific vibration based practices to explore the geological structures buried in rock, the child not yet born (sonar), the tapping of train wheels to detect fractures, the car’s past embedded in the rusty folds of its current form. It is a collision between aesthetic disciplines, between makers and approaches. But it is the actual collision; the event in the body of the wreck itself, which Marx and Loveday aims to explore in this piece of ‘forensic music’, by drawing a voice from the hollow body of an abandoned car.
Performed by Vusi Ndebele, Sisekelo Pila and Barry Sherman.
THE SUBSTATION, Wits East Campus, Braamfontein
Thursday 21 to Friday 29 September 2006 at 19h00
Book at Computicket
Enquiries 011.717.1376
pisantic@theatre.wits.ac.za
Limited Seating Available
iTunes now sells movies (mostly widescreen, really nice selections), iPods now support up to 80GBs and 640×480 resolution. There are also new nanos, which support photos, and new shuffles that are just plain snazzy.
dude.
update: I didn’t realize, the new iTunes also allows you to download games (only for the new iPods, dammit), and, more importantly new back-up features for everything, interfaces, and iPod space breakdowns….
I hate that I bought a 30GB iPod last year, and now I want an 80GB new one. That’s how they getchya.
The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre invites you to join us for a Red Bull and some live online performance:
NETWORKED_PERFORMANCE
VisitorsStudio performance Joburg-Derby-London, live at The Premises and online at http://www.visitorsstudio.org
A live-online collaborative performance by Nathaniel Stern, Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.
And open laptop mixing by audiences and invited local artists
at the Premises Gallery (Johannesburg), HTTP (London) and Q Arts (Derby).
EVENT: Saturday 2nd September, 16:30 – 19:00 (SA time)
Getting started and uploading at The Premises: 16h00 (SA time)
Live scheduled performance: 17h00- 17h30 (SA time) and 16h00 – 16h30 (UK time) by Nathaniel Stern, Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow
Open collaborative mix: 17h30 (SA time) and 16h30 (UK time) Everyone welcome to join!
About VisitorsStudio
an online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative creation, many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.
VisitorsStudio is a Furtherfield project @ http://www.visitorsstudio.org
VisitorsStudio is included in the Game/Play networked touring exhibition.
A collaboration between Q-Arts, Derby and HTTP, London.
Please see www.game-play.org.uk for further information.
How to PARTICIPATE
First, get the latest flash player on your computer. South Africans wishing to participate can bring their laptops (with ethernet cables) or content to The Premises a bit early, and upload content on our open network via their own machine or one of ours. Or, upload anywhere, anytime – you can even mix with us from Cape Town. If you want to be part of the VS performance by nathaniel, be sure to name your files beginning with SA_, and then an idea of what it is he would be including in the mix. If you want to play on your own, supply names for your files that you will remember. File types supported are jpg, png, mp3, flv and swf files, as long as they are under 200k.
More info, and to play: http://www.visitorsstudio.org
SPONSORED BY:
http://furtherfield.org
Art & Technology, Johannesburg http://atjoburg.net
Co-directed by nathaniel stern and Prof Christo Doherty
http://nathanielstern.com
Red Bull South Africa
http://onair.ca.za
the trinity session
Loveday Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
+27 (0) 11 877 6859
www.onair.co.za/thepremises
thepremises@onair.co.za
Gallery Hours –
Tuesday – Saturday
10h00 – 17h00
the trinity session
www.onair.co.za
office@onair.co.za
Directors –
Stephen Hobbs
+27 (0) 11 403 8358
sh@onair.co.za
Marcus Neustetter
+27 (0) 11 339 2785
mn@onair.co.za
Remix. Sample. Mash up. Reconstruct. Reformulate. Remake. Reproduce. Reshuffle. Transform. Recreate. Modify. Reassemble. Revamp. Rejuvenate.
These are the words that make corporate copyright protectors shudder and free culture creators grin with glee.
The ‘remix’ has become one of the most powerful tools of the digital age. But the legal barriers to taking an established image or concept and mixing it up for a fresh take have become a hurdle for creativity – leaving those with the most power and wealth the only ones who are able to take the legal risk.
Enter Creative Commons: a set of legal licences developed by those who are willing to share their works and/or have them remixed by creative communities around the world. The result: a pool of some 140 million images, music tracks, samples, and movies that creators can copy and use with legal certainty.
‘Remix Nation’ is the title of the first ccSalon in Jozi. It’s about celebrating cultural pioneers in South Africa who are pushing the boundaries of the digital world and recognising how important legal remixing is to building a vibrant creative industry in South Africa. ccSalons are being held around the world: from San Francisco to Beijing, from Korea to Berlin – and now in Jozi. The salon is a chance for digital artists, free culturists, musicians and creators to get together to chat about what’s new on the digital commons front, where to find material that you can legally remix and share, and to learn about how to incorporate Creative Commons copyright licences into your work.
Presentations at the event include multi-media artist Nathaniel Stern, who will be showing and discussing his remix work from his attendance at the iCommons Summit in Brazil; the dynamic duo, MtKidu, who will be presenting their live beat construct and visual manipulation show; and DJ, producer and sound designer, Richard tha IIIrd, who will be discussing, demonstrating and playing his own brand of South African mashups. Join us for a glass of wine at 6.30pm on Thursday 31 August at Gordart Gallery, 78 3rd Street, Melville and experience some of the sights and sounds of Jozi’s pioneering musicians, digital artists and free culture activists who are making the commons work for them.
For more information about the event please see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Johannesburg_Salon.
Bring your USB Flash Disk along as content will be made available by the presenters to be downloaded for your remixing enjoyment!
About Creative Commons South Africa (ccSA)
http://za.creativecommons.org
The vision of Creative Commons South Africa is of a thriving African internet community using Creative Commons licences to educate our people, grow our markets, share our knowledge and celebrate Africa’s culture and heritage with people around the world.
Creative Commons licences provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
About iCommons
www.icommons.org
Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open content, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. iCommons will incubate projects that cross borders and unite commons communities, acting as a platform for international collaboration towards the growth and enlivening of a global digital commons.
