Tiger release date announced as 29 April – the hot new OS for Apple Macs. Check out the features! Even if you don’t have a G5 (which would be nicer, since Tiger will utilize its architecture for super fast speeds, especially in relation to interactive video), this OS looks well worth it! Check it: Apple – Mac OS X
Designed and led by Ralph Borland (ITP, New York; Michaelis Fine Art, UCT) the workshop was attended by a group of WSOA Digital Arts students and interested Fine Arts students.
Physical computing makes use of sensors, mechanical and electronic devices, and computers to activate objects or environments in the physical world, making interactive artworks, installations and performance devices.
In this 3-day (2 – 4 April) workshop held in the Interactive Media Design Lab at WSOA Digital Arts, the students explored examples of physical computing work by contemporary artists, and learnt some of the possibilities for tracking information from the physical world through various sensors. They also looked at particular software which can be used to manipulate audio and video. A large part of the the workshop was devoted to building simple circuits which could be used towards workshop plans for an artwork, performance tool, or other physical computing project of the students’ own design.
Interesting cat, this guy. Sculpture, performance artist, painter. This show is all wall hangings, with feelings that remind me a bit of Basquiat. Worth seeing….
Have some pix and comments from a few shows, including an MA at Wits, and Dinkies Sithole at Franchise, but have been feeling a bit sick lately, so might only get to them this weekend. Apparently, there is a nasty stomach flu (have managed to avoid) and hard-to-kick head cold (that’s me) floating around Joburg these days.
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THE PRESS RELEASE
This is an opportunity which should not be missed! ¬ÝThere are 6 places available on this ground-breaking workshop; so put your name down early so that you don’Äôt miss out.
Please also feel free to forward this invitation to anyone else who may be interested in the workshop.
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Interactive Video workshop at Wits Digital Arts
Dates: 18 ’Äì 20 March ¬Ý(beginning Friday late afternoon, full day Saturday and Sunday)
Course Leader: Nathaniel Stern
Cost: ¬ÝR650
Who should attend: ¬Ývisual artists, VJs, performance artists video practitioners and anyone interested in real time interactions between images, sound and performance.
NB> Basic computer literacy and an interest in making things are the only requirements.
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Venue: The interactive media design lab at WSOA Digital Arts
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Leading New Media artist nathaniel stern ( http://nathanielstern.com ) was a ¬Ý2004 Kebble award winner with his ground-breaking interactive art installation called ’ÄúStep Inside’Äù.
Nathaniel, who is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and a lecturer on the Wits School of Arts’Äô Digital Arts MA programme, will be leading ¬Ýa ¬Ýtwo and a half day hands-on introductory workshop to Interactive Video.
This discipline combines the use of video cameras and computers in ¬Ýorder to ¬Ýtrack bodies, motion, proximity, light and color for use in ¬Ýinteractive installation, multimedia performance, and VJing. The ¬Ýworkshop will cover a basic intro to all of the above, as well as real-time video mixing, scrubbing and effects, and the use of sound to generate and/or interfere with video.
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The workshop will utilize Max/MSP and Jitter as its development environment. ¬ÝThis application uses a simple, graphical interface (which looks very much like a flow chart) to accomplish the artist’Äôs goals. ¬ÝFor more information, ¬Ýsee http://cycling74.com
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Amongst the various activities, the two and half day workshop will ¬Ýexplore examples of Interactive Video work by contemporary artists, suggest some of ¬Ýthe other possibilities for tracking information from the physical ¬Ýworld through cameras, and also look at other software and hardware available for tracking and manipulating audio and video.
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For more information, or to sign up, contact ¬ÝMrs Natalia Fiandeiro, WSOA Digital Arts, (011) 7174663 or fiandeiron@artworks.wits.ac.za.