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11 February 2006 by nathaniel

Daniel Hirschmann @ Upgrade! Joburg

Upgrade! Joburg 1 - the crowdAs you can see, our first Upgrade! here in Johannesburg was a huge success! Nice big attendance for a Soiree (upgraded), and there was general excitement around being plugged in to a global network of artists and curators, about MTAA and turbulence.org‘s upcoming virtual and physical visitations to our space, respectively.

Hirsch mostly talked about his experiences at Benetton’s creative industry venture, Fabrica. It was interesting to hear about the importance of networking, proposal-writing, quality images and representation of not-yet-formed projects… It was comforting to know that creative industry, like the art world, is also largely based on who you know and how you know them.

Of course, Daniel also spoke about his work in Nice, his upcoming show at the Pompidou, and some of the projects he proposed that may one day yet get produced. Mostly, his energy, can-do attitude, excitable charm and technical know-how made the day – a personality that kept us all on our toes….

Upgrade! Joburg 1 - Daniel Hirschmann
Daniel Hisrchmann @ Digital Arts, WSOA. photo credits: me

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08 February 2006 by nathaniel

The Upgrade! Joburg presents: Daniel Hirschmann

Daniel Hirschmann
photo credit: Christo Doherty

http://atjoburg.net/upgrade/

Announcing the latest node in the International Upgrade! network:  Johannesburg, South Africa.

Building on the now-famous Digital Soiree series, we begin this Friday with a presentation by Daniel Hirschmann, 3PM in  the "Digital Convent" at Wits School of the Arts’ Digital Arts  Program. Map: http://www.wits.ac.za/artworks/contact/map.htm

Daniel Hirschmann is an artist, technology enthusiast and Harry  Potter fan. He is passionate about building and playing with  sculptural interfaces between the real and digital worlds. Other  interests include most things geeky, gorgeous or interesting. His  work has been shown at art exhibitions and conferences in New York,  France, England and South Africa. Recent works include a tactile 3D  display surface titled Glowbits (2004), and an exhibition involving a  fleet of personality enhanced robots in Nice, the Nicebots (2004).  His days are currently spent as a researcher in Fabrica, Benetton’s  creativity hub in Italy.

His presentation: an introduction to the Benetton-owned creative hub  known to the world as Fabrica – a space in which the fusion of Art  and Marketing is explored. In the presentation, Daniel will look at  questions of approach and creativity tailored to the retail /  commercial world.

Click poster to see it enlarged:
Upgrade! Joburg poster for Daniel Hirschman

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07 February 2006 by nathaniel

Relational Clothing – collecting fragments

RC2 by Jose Ferreiera
RC2 by Jose Ferreira

As covered by Carine Zaayman on Artthrob, the Very Real Time project launched its second phase at the Drill Hall (Point Blank Gallery, downtown Jozi) this past weekend, hosting, "Two panels of selected speakers… chaired by Gregg Smith and … an intervention by Johannesburg based artist, Jose Ferreira."

Ferreira’s RC2 (courtesy of the artist):

This work consists of a series of journeys and a garment. Appearing to be an ordinary overall, it unfolds and translates into various forms, provoking unusual relationships. It is at once a vessel for shelter, a protective unit, and gatherer of ephemera. … The focal point of the work is to extricate new readings of social interactions in this urban context that may have become accepted, habitual and even suspicious. The work is an exploration of urban survival, self-preservation, and a dreaming of possibilities. … My intention is to make a work that embraces the multiplicity of an urban Johannesburg experience.

 

Read and see more.

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05 February 2006 by nathaniel

latest Compressionist images

Titled: earth, wind and fire, true colors and Johannesburg Boogie Woogie, respectively. Click for larger images, details and sizes.  Note web colors are more than slightly dulled. moCo (mobile Compressionism) is going well…

earth, lambda print metallic paper, 30 x 15 cm
wind, lambda print metallic paper, 30 x 15 cm
fire, lambda print metallic paper, 30 x 15 cm
true colors, lambda print metallic paper, 40 x 20 cm
Johannesburg Boogie Woogie, lambda print metallic paper, 35 x 22 cm

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04 February 2006 by nathaniel

moCo (mobile Compressionism)


moCo (mobile Compressionism)

This just makes me smile: ‘action Jackson’ (Compressionist scanner / appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa (click for larger image).

Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, along varying 3-dimensional paths – literally, I glide, run, hover and swoop across windows, trees, or lilies while the scanner head is in motion. The resulting digital images, which are transfigured down to the size of a small piece of paper, are then re-stretched to their original size, sometimes cropped or colorized. The final prints ask us to ‘look again’ at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.

more at Compressionism.net

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02 February 2006 by nathaniel

PWO (post whites only)


still: dineo bopape

Kagablog, ex-guest blogger Aryan’s own space, writes about a showing of South African art he curated for the Rotterdam Film Festival (obviously, ironically titled – that’s info for my overseas readers who don’t know Aryan, who is, ironically, also ironically titled…):

post whites only digs deeper and provides an encounter with the more disturbing realities of the south african condition. identity is always a concern with artists working in a neo-colonialist context, and it is no surprise that some of the most rigorous and challenging work coming out of south africa today is directly concerned with interrogating issues of identity and self manufacture.

It’s a lucid and long post, detailing all featured artists and their works. He’s also been added to the ‘roll and the ‘reader. We miss him over here, but are also glad to see some consistent text about his other work online! See his daily – I would not call them rants. They are too articulate to be rants.  uuuuuuum – posts. My ‘sentimental deconstruction,’ A Song for The, is a video made sometime mid-last-year, specifically for the festival and at Kaganof’s request. It’s a ‘slammy’ exploration of growth and listening, inspired by conversations with my father, Marshall Blonsky and Edmundo Desnoes. There’s a hot line-up on Kag’s reel, and I hope he considers re-showing it in Joburg etc sometime soon!

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