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DIVAS LIVE

DIVAS LIVE
experience the magic…
UWM DIVAS Junior/Senior Project
Peck School of the Arts

WED, DEC 17th 6-9 PM
Kenilworth Square East
1925 E. Kenilworth Pl. @ 4th floor
use west entrance
FREE ADMISSION

DIVAS LIVE is a multimedia exhibition that showcases student work from the DIVAS Junior/Senior Projects class along with work from the Film Department’s Sound As Art and Sound Recording and Digital Audio classes. The show will feature interactive installation, animation, photography, audio and video. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information contact
Contact Person: Brent Coughenour
Title: Course Instructor
E-mail: cokenrc@aol.com

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13 November 2008 by nathaniel

Christo Doherty at The SubStation Gallery, Johannesburg

Good friend, move+shaker and Professor and Head of Digital Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg),Â 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 imagined worlds of railway modelers who build recreations of scenes from the heyday of South African railways.” How cool is that?

Christo Doherty at the SubStation Gallery, Johannesburg

Christo has an amazing eye and a witty sense of humour and integrity when it comes to approaching South African life – whether historical or contemporary. I won’t be able to make the show, but am really looking forward to seeing the work; if in town, you should hit the opening!

Map / Directions:

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17 October 2008 by nathaniel

myartspace competitions

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:

The first is a joint competition with the Bridge Art Fair and the second is a free to enter art scholarship competition for art students. Both are international competitions. Also, add me to your press list if you have one so that I can post about your upcoming exhibits on the blog.

www.myartspace.com/miamibasel/(the $25 entry fee is actually good until 12am on Oct 17^th)

www.myartspace.com/scholarships/

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24 September 2008 by nathaniel

david&GOLIATH: artists versus corporate crime (updated)

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 are hereby invited to attend the david&GOLIATH auction to be held at The Bag Factory in Fordsburg, Johannesburg onThursday, 25 September 2008 at 19h00. Preview and auction registration will be possible from 17h00.

The relationship between the arts and commercial industry is one in which issues of creative ownership and copyright infringement is frequently contested. It is generally financially impossible for the individual artist to address these issues legally when faced with a corporate giant.

The david&GOLIATH initiative is aimed at creating a platform through which the arts can support the arts in protecting creative ownership. Prominent South African artists have generously sponsored artworks to be auctioned off at this fundraising event, which is proudly hosted by The Bag Factory. Funds raised at this event will be used to support the case of Gerhard Marx vs. Ireland Davenport and BMW due to occur in the High Court on the 9th of October 2008

Any further profits from this auction will enable the establishment of the david&GOLIATH trust, which will aim to financially support artists against copyright infringement and commercial exploitation.

Supporting Artists: Wim Botha Jo Ractliffe Penny Siopis Aiden Dom Bronwyn Lace Clive van den Berg Conrad Kemp David Andrew Diane Victor Dorothy Kreutzfeldt Ellen Rose Gerhard Marx Jeremy Wafer Jonah Sack Joni Brenner Kim Lieberman Lehlogonolo Mashaba Liam Lynch Maja Marx Marco Cianfanelli Marcus Neustetter Minette Vari Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi Nhlapo Senzo Nirupa Sing Olaf Bisschoff Penny Siopis Philip Miller Richard Forbes Richard Penn Robyn Penn Sabelo Mlangeni Santu Mofokeng Stefanus Rademeyer Stephan Erasmus Suzanne du Preez Usha Seejarim Walter Oltmann William Kentridge Wim Botha Yvonne Harvey Zander Blom and more.

25 September 2008 from 17h00 onwards. Auction commences at 19h00
The Bag Factory
10 Mahlatini Street
Fordsburg
011 834 9181

update: look at some of the works!

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19 September 2008 by nathaniel

Lumens

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 Voisey, Sean Riley, and Matthew Belanger.

A project of Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses, Lumens is an installation of lamps networked across three spaces: Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery 51, and Turbulence.org. Scores of personal lamps that usually inhabit and illuminate the interiors of homes and shops have been borrowed from the residents of Adams and North Adams, Massachusetts, filling two gallery spaces: Greylock Arts in Adams and MCLA Gallery 51 Annex in North Adams. In addition, their images and stories are represented on turbulence.org, which also serves to connect the two locations telematically.

Clusters of lamps have been outfitted with proximity sensors and arduino microcontrollers. Lamps illuminate in response to a visitorâ€™s presence and simultaneously illuminate lamps in the counterpart spaces. Thus, an individual in Adams can communicate his/her presence to an individual in North Adams, and vice versa. Additionally, as visitors investigate the history of a particular lamp online it will also illuminate in the physical gallery space.

Lumens (re)connects North Adams and Adams â€” originally a single community â€” through an exploration of location, influence, history, and the present.

Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses is a collaboration of Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery51, and Turbulence. Lumens has been made possible through the generous support of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

http://greylockarts.net/lumens.