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22 February 2006 by nathaniel

I think that jill ross and richard kilpert are both pretty neat. You do, too, right?

After a morning of various errand – running / personal – admin BS, I began the Real Day with a lunch meeting / brainstorm session starring myself and the ever-inspired and energetic Richie K. He told me a bit about his new iterative photographic – photoshoppy – inkjet process and images, which sound divine, while I shared a bit more on my performative Compressionist prints – and the two seem to work very well together. Kilpert and I are starting to potentially think about two upcoming duo shows (I’d share my Outlet show with him, and he an upcoming exhibition space with me), which would display the complimentary series side by side, maybe include some collaborative efforts as well.

This lead perfectly into our excursion to see Jill Ross at the David Krut gallery and print shop. After being dazzled by Jill’s beautiful work with Wilma Cruise (shown: Jill + Wilma print + Blurry Richard), I attempted to return the dazzle with the Compressionism documentation and some images. We brainstormed through some teamwork possibilities – Jill really is a well of printmaking knowledge, as is Richie, and we’re all pretty excited by the potentials in combining our talents and work.

We ended with all kinds of collaborative printmaking seeds, and I’m hoping to work with Jill and Richie in the near future. Oooooh, I see some New Art coming on…. It’s gonna be H-O-T. Will keep you "posted."

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20 February 2006 by nathaniel

nathaniel is SUPERCOOL

Under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike license; thanks to Cary Peppermint for being so SUPERCOOL. I know I could not have done this without you. I’m on the path, I know it, I can feel it, cuz I don’t care:

^{nathaniel is SUPERCOOL video link, 424kb, 7 seconds}

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19 February 2006 by nathaniel

Happy 3rd b-day, blog!

No sh!t. Tomorrow, the NAN blog is three years old! As I write this, we are at “1,010 posts and 393 comments, contained within 25 categories.” On February 20th, 2003, I started using blogger in a frame on the front page of this (back then, a very different) site, to say, in my very first post:

So, I decided to take a leaf out of the books of josh and jonah and start a weblog on my site. This is the first week of the class I’m lecturing at MCAD, and things are looking good so far. In other news, odys, Nathaniel, hektor, x goes up in Cape Town on Saturday and [odys]elicit has been selected as an exhibition piece for The Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival [note: used to link, but now dead], Thailand. More to come…

Funny, Josh never really updated his blog (like, three times in 3 years) and Jonah, at that point, really just used it for news in a pop-up (and later down the road started the awesome Coin-Op blog, tho this has taken a back seat to his other great writings for more popular web sites). But hey, I didn’t know, and wanted to join (what I perceived to be) the cool club! Art Fag City says that, “2004 saw the rise of blogs in popular mainstream media, but the art community has started to see this medium explode only recently,” and MTAA-RR also only celebrated its 3rd b-day this month, so I am Mos Def an Innovator (early 2003! do I get double points for being in SA, and kind of still being the only art blogger?) and am undoubtedly in good company. (Shout out to Tim – the ‘T’ in MTAA – wazzup?) I win. W00+.

Some highlights of blogging here have been, I think:

Kaganof as a one-year guest, now into his own spin-off: Kagablog
WordPress upgrade (thanks, Jonah!), and I have since designed 3 Open Source – GPL – WordPress 2.0 themes:
- NAN
- stuttering
- artsemerging – UPDATED 30 August 2007, now widget-compatible!
Guest blogging (the very first!) on networked_performance
Ripping off Lawrence Lessig (and him saying he liked it!) on the Blogging the Commons panel at the commons sense conference
More recently, re-blogs at (just some samples) rhizome, networked_performance and rssjockey, features on DVblog
contacts from (and upcoming features in) MacFormat, NYarts, Cimaise Art & Architecture and Metropol
the launches of SAartsEmerging, @Joburg and The Upgrade! Johannesburg
Live Kebble and KKNK coverage
The announcement of my baby – we now know is a girl – due 24 May
And so much more I’m sure I’m missing, so feel free to post your favorites in the comments below. I’m expecting my current guest bloggers – not Kaganof – to feel insulted that they are not mentioned, and am hoping that this may influence them to participate more, and not less….

Not bad for a three year run, and as I said in the very first post, More to come….

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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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11 February 2006 by nathaniel

Daniel Hirschmann @ Upgrade! Joburg

As 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….

^{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: