There’s a nice editorial by Andrew Lamprecht in Artthrob this month. Could go a bit further, but nice to see some of the larger institutions acknowledging themselves, and the power of the “press,” in the South African art world, for a change. A R T T H R O B _ GUEST EDITORIAL
koji chiba at the studio for interactive sound, grahamstown
Friday afternoon, thanks to the Studio for Interactive Sound (Toni Olivier) and Rhodes’ Fine art Department (Brent Meistre), I gave a 3-hours (ish) public lecture on the history of interactive video (including some of my own work, cuz I can) and showed some tools one might use to make them — including jitter, which is great for getting started.
Altho we had plans to paint the town red, hang with Rhodents, see the sites(!), etc, everything admittedly went a bit haywire once we started drinking (that seems to happen a lot when I am out of Joburg. And when I am in Joburg.)
It was a great night.
Yesterday, a select few came out to Toni’s place, on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and we learned the basics of Max. W00t. Today we’ll be starting and playing with some art projects. There is no phone signal, but limited interweb – could not resist blogging the Koji; he is awesome and gave me cLoudDead mp3s.
