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16 August 2004 by nathaniel

it’s a reblog kind of day

I’ve been pretty good lately about trying to put ‘new things’ on my blog, and stick to the SA art scene, but it’s just one of those days where I’ve already found heaps of great links, and I’ll burst if I don’t share them. I’ll see if I can’t get to some more locally orientated stuff a bit later in the day.

Marulelo Times: a list of all the finalists in the Brett Kebble Art Awards. Some VERY impressive names, including artists that are well known abroad, but rarely seen in their home country of South Africa (thanks to franci cronje for the link)

NEWSgrist: Rage Against The Machines: a fantastic re-post questioning the efficacy of mass demonstrations in days when they seem all but ignored.

Spymac: one of many beautiful potential iMac G5 designs by Carlos Agell

Mactimes | Mactime.RU: some hilarious visual puns of Mac Ads

textually.org: SMS and Literature: some great posts about literature and messaging, including cell phone novels and short-hand (thanks to jo-anne green for the link).

Philip K. Dick – How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (Essay)

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14 August 2004 by nathaniel

Why Text? – Charlotte Frost

Why Text? – Charlotte Frost: from furtherfield, a really interesting article on how text has become the dominant medium for expressing, and thinking about, net.art (and perhaps conceptual art at large). I think I like it in how Derridean it actually is – we think in writing, nothing happens outside of text, for we cannot leave the symbolic order of which we are always already a part.

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02 August 2004 by nathaniel

Eyebeam reBlog: Women scientists’ unsung stories in comic-book form

I don’t usually reblog reblog’s blog (anymore), but I couldn’t resist this one: Eyebeam reBlog: Women scientists’ unsung stories in comic-book form, which begins “Rosalind Franklin’s story is one of…”

As some of you may know, double standard (a large light box, and part of serial faces), is a portrait of the aforementioned scientist; it was sold to Sasol about 6 weeks ago, and is currently being displayed in the front of their head offices, Johannesburg.

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24 July 2004 by nathaniel

last blogger post – moving to wordpress!

Boing Boing: Pixelblocks are like a cross between Lego and Lite Brite

Biorhythm 1.0b2 – VersionTracker:: “This Konfabulator widget computes your biorhythm”

iMailist 1.5b – : “iMailist is a software allowing the sending of mails to format HTML to a whole mailing-list from a loaded web page.”

Did I mention that I finally got me an RSS aggregator, and am totally loving it? You bet nathanielstern.com will soon have its own feed. Stay tuned….

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23 July 2004 by nathaniel

friendly nets and other catchers

I was one of the lucky 5 people who got to test Katherine Moriwaki and Jonah Brucker-Cohen’s new net.art project, UMBRELLA.net: Exploring ‘Coincidence of Need’ Networks, yesterday afternoon. Jonah is meant to toss me some images of the interface soon, and I’ll post them then. In the meanwhile, you should know that this ad-hoc networking with layers thing is super cool.

I just got word that double standard, one of my pieces from serial faces is now up in the front of the Sasol offices, Johannesburg, after their purchase two weeks ago. How cool is that?

If you haven’t already, tho I’m sure you have, jib jab.

Finally, for obvious reasons of my long trip, I have not been informing much on the Jozi art tip. Be SURE to check out both of Jo Ractliffe’s shows, which, even tho I am not there, I know are stunning. There also seems to be a beautiful group exhibition of paintings at Gallery Momo at present, if you can make it.

Back home in 5 days!

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26 May 2004 by nathaniel

world at small

Susan Sontag | Regarding the Torture of Others – highly recommended. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and slightly scary. Sontag is swell.

Pension fund for artists – nice idea. “A new company called Mutual Art has created a pension fund for artists, which they fund by ‘investing’ artworks rather than cash.”

Google Bomb List – the most famous ‘Google Bombs,’ which use google’s search technology in order to hack into their top links, and return humor/politics.

Moore Film Is Held Up by Questions About Rights – more Moore; we all need to see this film: Fahrenheit 9/11. It’ll really help do things like this: Bush Poll Numbers On Iraq at New Low.

On the same topic:
Allies dispute post-handover blueprint for Iraq
Oil debate to drive Kerry’s talk here (‘here,’ read as ‘in Seattle’)
Nader Calls for Impeachment of Bush Over the War in Iraq
Campaign Ads Are Under Fire for Inaccuracy
Edwards’s edge on economy

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