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16 February 2006 by nathaniel

Prix Ars Electronica

Just got this mail courting me for the Net Vision category at Ars. I don’t have any new net.art this year, but did send in some Compressionist stuff as performative/interactive analog/digital art for the obvious category… Would be great to see some South Africans represent – in any category! Here it is:

The Prix Ars Electronica – International Competition for Cyberarts is being conducted for the 20th time in 2006. In addition to the classic categories – Interactive Art, Net Vision, Computer Animation / Visual Effects and Digital Musics – Digital Communities and [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant competition will be reprised.

Prix Ars Electronica 2006
Start of Online Submissions: January 10, 2006
Online Submission Deadline: March 17, 2006
Details about entering are available online only at http://prixars.aec.at/

A Golden Nica, two Awards of Distinction (cash prizes) and up to 12 Honorary Mentions will be awarded in the Net Vision category in 2006.

Net Vision
The "Net Vision" category singles out for recognition artistic projects in the Internet that display brilliance in how they have been engineered, designed and-especially-conceived, works that are outstanding with respect to innovation, interface design and the originality of their content. The way in which a work of net-based art deals with the online medium is essential in this category.

For further information about Net Vision donÂ’t hesitate to contact us.

Under 27? Mos Def check [the next idea] – great prize!

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14 February 2006 by nathaniel

Gordart and the Project Room

from Laure Djourado, Metaphysique du lien
from Laure Djourado’s Metaphysique du lien

So after my illness, my trip, and all my busy bees  of bumbly beginnings in the new year, I’m finally starting to emerge again and cover artwork in Jozi a bit more. My guest bloggers, it seems, have mostly deserted me (I’m still, and always, open for more, if you want to cover art or the like in your area!), but I’m still trucking…

On Sunday, I hit the Gordart opening of  UPS and DOWNS (Susan Jowell and Ellen Papciak-Rose) in Melville. Lots of red and green stickers on paintings and prints that have a formula like:

(quirky + fun) * ((Kieth Haring – AIDS) || (Cubism + dogs)) * (domestic + mom)2

I had missed Gordon’s opening of his project room the week before – very exciting, this space is for short, 2-week exhibitions of artists who’ve shown little (or not at all) in Johannesburg. He starts with  Laure Djourado’s Metaphysique du lien from Paris. These are also very fun and interesting and sexy and new – a nice juxtaposition with the aforementioned. The G-man and I spoke about a second potential Project Room that can be for on-the-fly art (this one is already booked for the whole year!), and perhaps a connection between it and SAartsEmerging.

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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

artthrob artbio feature

Nathaniel Stern

Ralph Borland writes:

Nathaniel Stern is an artist, a teacher, a technologist, a blogger, a social catalyst and constant networker in the art community. As an artist, his works spans performance, poetry, interactive installation and video, net.art and print. … Nathaniel’s artwork often touches on the mutability of personal identity, as in his assumption of multiple personas through his video performance work. His ideas around the body, a centre in much of his art and his focus in recent academic work around The Implicit Body, speak of the body and person ‘enfolding’ the world around them into themselves, and so constantly transforming….. Read more

It’s a very generous and comprehensive overview of my current work, and most of my arts career. "ArtThrob is South Africa’s leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world." See the full bio.

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04 February 2006 by nathaniel

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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