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03 July 2008 by nathaniel

When enough people start saying the same thing

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 18:00 Wednesday 16 July 2008 at Art Extra

Exhibition runs 16 July – 16 August 2008

For exhibition MacGarry will be showing a comprehensive body of new work that continues his concern with the ongoing ramifications of imperialism on the African continent, whilst evidencing a move away from the All Theory. No Practice. dogma that has defined his work for the past several years. Working in various media, from sculpture to large-scale photography and editioned bronzes, MacGarry uses temporal compression, fictional narratives, satire and the grotesque to explore current neo-colonial practices, notions of veracity, representational paradigms and the mechanics of political power at a domestic level as well as across the continent.

This exhibition runs concurrently with MacGarry’s commissioned entry for the MTN New Contemporaries 2008 at the University of Johannesburg Arts Centre, opening 10 July 2008.

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27 June 2008 by nathaniel

DATA and the Debate in Dublin

Last night’s DATA, featuring Karl Klomp, Wolf Lieser and Jane Tynan, and part of the Darklight Festival (organized by Caroline Campbell and hosted by yours truly) was extremely rad. Ben’s photos will be up soon, and in the interim, I highly recommend doing a little googling on these three – especially interesting to me were Wolf and his gallery, curatorial projects, online digital art museum and, most of all, his lifetime digital art achievement award. Two amazing winners thus far….  Karl is a hot video circuit bender offering workshops over the weekend, and Jane spoke about some fascinating surveillance art goings-on in London. Great group, nice crowd, good questions.

Uber bonus was to have my good friend and talented South African artist Franci Cronje with me for the whole evening (and most of the week). We got to meet and chat with all three of the above, and the bonus highlight was to spend an after-evening pint of Guinness with NYU Computer Science rock star and Techy Academy Award winner, Ken Perlin. (My supervisor and department would kill me if I did not mention here that our own Anil C. Kokaram has also won one such award…)

Ken blogged about our conversation (more like a debate), and we’ve been emailing a bit about it, too. My RSS reader and blog links list has been updated to include his dailies – recommended!

I’m hoping to chat with Ken more in the near future. Nice to meet ya, and looking forward to more at Darklight over the weekend…

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27 June 2008 by nathaniel

Trespass @ Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg

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, studied at Wits and ITP / NYU, now a resident artist and designer in London, Daniel is an art and techno geek of monumental proportions; a glimpse of the kind of generatively produced and lovely work he’ll be premiering at RG can be seen in this flickr set. These are made through live camera captures that are then run through custom Macromedia Freehand scripts, if memory serves correctly….

Invite to the show, which also features work by Nils Eichberg and Olivier Schildt, below.

Trespass @ Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg: Daniel Hirschmann, Nils Eichberg, Olivier Schildt

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10 June 2008 by nathaniel

dream not of today (UPDATED)

Nice 2-part feature on Haydn Shaugnessy and Fragments on Dream Not of Today coming out, with the first installment now live. A snippet and link:

South of Cork near the very southern tip of Ireland rests the physical storefront of the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery. The corporeal manifestation of this collection of contemporary art would be deceivingly small even were it the size of a Wal-Mart, as the gallery’s reach extends far beyond IRL. Helmed by a collector whose technological savvy is unparalleled in the modern world of art collection, Haydn Shaughnessy also maintains a critically acclaimed space in Second Life called Ten Cubed, an active blog, and the requisite Facebook page rendering a digital footprint nearly without rival in this space.

In this 21st century, art collection remains an offline game for the wealthy; a status quo Haydn Shaughnessy aims to upheave. While the gallery offers works by artists internationally known for their work in bending technology into new forms of expression, the various online manifestations of the effort aim to make that work break through the fish tank of the art collection world to reach the masses. Both online and offline, the Shaughnessy Gallery features contemporary names such as the well-known Second Life limit-pusher Scott Kildall, interactive artist Nathaniel Stern, and Oakland’s own HTML painter Chris Ashley…

Read more.

UPDATE: and now read part 2!

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09 June 2008 by nathaniel

Jillian Ross

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 print, and who I hope to work with many times again in the future. From the front of her site:

Jillian Ross is well-known throughout South Africa not only for producing high quality limited edition prints with emerging and established artists alike – using a large variety of traditional techniques – but also for her unique, collaborative approach to more experimental mark-making with contemporary artists who normally work in other media.

Jill’s drawers of printed work include a range of intaglio techniques from spitbite and sugarlift aquatints, drypoint, engraving and carborundum with international artist William Kentridge, to performative scanner art that has been transformed into pronto prints, experimental aquatints, carborundum, chine colle, and engravings with artist Nathaniel Stern.

jillian ross

Go there to see more prints and read more about Jill’s work – most art is available for purchase.

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