technology | implicit art

Kaganof’s Phone Film

The Sunday Times just covered Kaganof’s new project – a film shot entirely with cell phones:

‘Action!’ says the director for at least the 20th time in as many minutes, prompting the two female leads to start doing their thing at the pool table. As the girls hit the balls, chat and flirt, their movements are recorded by the cameras embedded in two of Sony Ericsson’s slick new W900i cellphones. That’s right: once this film, SMS Sugar Man, is completed, it will be the first feature film in the world to be shot entirely on cellphone cameras.

Next Wave Festival March 2006/ Call for work

There’s another great art / curatorial project coming up from Cape Town-based Ralph Borland, and this one is calling for work for him to bring to a big ole festival in Australia:

I am a South African artist looking to document or exhibit your work – artwork, design and technology projects, tools, appliances, activist campaigns, sampled objects, as well as music, games, publications and other media – for my contribution to the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2006. The Next Wave Festival this year is part of the cultural program of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and it takes as its provocative theme the old name for the games – ‘Empire Games’.

I am acting as artist and curator, producing an exhibition and social space called ‘Sideshow’ within and around a shipping container, one of over 30 in a large warehouse space. My focus is on creative tactics for resistance and subversion.

For more information and images around the project, examples of the kind of projects I’m looking for, and information about myself and my work, please consult this link:

http://ralphborland.net/art/nextwave.html

For practical reasons, most projects will be represented through printed and digital documentation, except where the work does not need to be returned – there aren’t sufficient funds available for the transportation of work.

Please contact me at the email address below with information about your work. No large attachments to start with please. I look forward to hearing from you! I would also appreciate you passing this email on to appropriate forums and individuals.

Please contact me as soon as possible, and before the 20 February 2006.

Ralph Borland

His sideshow call for work uses has keywords:
progressive technology. appropriate technology. subversive technology. illegal technology/ political art. resistance art. subversive art. illegal art. brand art/ hacking. modding. sampling. remaking. satirising/ politricks. tricknology/ gallery. workshop. museum. carnival. clubhouse. shebeen. sideshow

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28 January 2006 by nathaniel

yowza stuff

Been busy all day working on the implicit body full chapter with Nicole (yes, world, that’s a new URL!). Wow, although academic writing is exciting and exhilarating, I sometimes forget how draining and exhausting it can be. Bit by bit….

In other news, MacFormat Magazine has decided to do a li’l back-page feature on me and Compressionism, with full color pix and a bit on the series. Major geek points for me! That’ll be in issue number 168 or 169, so out in the UK in about 3 months, 5 months to get to South Africa (that’s a guess). While I’m on the mememe and mymymy press kick, the next NY Arts Magazine, which also as a feature on yours truly, should be out in the next week or so, and apparently Ralph Borland will be writing next month’s Artthrob Artbio on, you guessed it, me.

It’s all fits and starts, and I’m having a good month, but I’m guessing it’s just karma for my blogging and SAartsEmerging efforts, and since nobody wrote about my and Marcus’ last duo show….
Almost forgot! Christo and I have been officially approved to start "The Upgrade! Joburg." More on that, here. Watch this space for when our monthly meetings start.

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26 January 2006 by franci

Successful site visit

A great number of sculptors rocked up, looking at the new site for the DST building. Thanks to everyone. If you could not make it and want to stay in the loop, just leave me a message on the comments page, and i will get back to you!

science and technology site visit

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26 January 2006 by nathaniel

editor monkey

I found this fantastic plugin for WordPress 2.0: editormonkey. She’s a rich text editor with spell check, etc, that is not that buggy for the new WordPress 2.0.

The spell check is a bit of a pain to set up, and I’m having problems to get it to work on the comments form, but other than that, it’s real dream, and much better than the WordPress version. w00+!

editormonkey rich text editor
^{editor monkey rich text editor toolbar}

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25 January 2006 by nathaniel

upgrade in process

Well, all the plug-ins (or at least comparable ones) that I want are finally available for WordPress 2.0, so am upgrading right now. Please forgive if "email to friend" is broken for a li’l bit, and lemme know if you encounter any other bugs. The only thing I’m changing on the front page is that I may add in a print function, other than that it’s all interface stuff on the back end. Know that life will be easier for me and the guest bloggers in a few hours!

We’re all good! Still working on getting the spell checker to work, but that’s not completely urgent… Happy reading!