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08 February 2006 by nathaniel

do not forget: SAartsEmerging Party!

Don’t forget the SAartsEmerging launch and party!

http://www.saartsemerging.org
9 February 2006
Berlin Bar
18:30ish til whenev
Features detail / site-specific installation by Bronwyn Lace
in Berlin Bar window

SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet been, written about – but who should be. SAartsEmerging lacks any pretense of objectivity, and preference is not only given to Gauteng locals and friends, but also to early-career non-stars working conceptually, and across disciplines. More information on us, or on contributing? Visit the site!

Hope to see you at the party!
Simon Gush, Bronwyn Lace & Nathaniel Stern

http://www.saartsemerging.org
SAartsEmerging features a new producer every third Friday of the month. 17 February will see our next feature, Bronwyn Lace, a Johannesburg based, installation artist, just before her YAP solo show in Durban.

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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

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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