As a fan and friend of Jonah and Katherine, I’ve been blogging about their work, including umbrella.net, since I first had a blog (my first post ever was actually a link to Jonah! I’s ‘in the know,’ baby!).
However, I would never claim to be as well informed, or as articluate, as Douglas Rushkoff:
TheFeature :: Networks Without the Net
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (of Regime Change, which I just reviewed, and will be on Net.Art News soon) has some interesting things to say: Grand Text Auto » SIGGRAPH 2005: Back in the game?
SIGGRAPH used to be one of the lone outlets for people to exhibit digital art, and has, as of late, gone to sh!t. However, if this guy is into the new game plan, I’d check it out (note: as far as I know, all SIGGRAPH-goers are self-funded, or by their institution; if you, like me, are on a South African budget, then it’s a no-go)
So, I’ve been having major trouble with my database today, and struggled to install various fix-its on my server. I’ve no doubt that there is little interest in my problems or solutions (especially since I’m not sure what I did to fix it, and I lost the few blogs I tried to write about it during said process), but hey, it’s an excuse for your not seeing any writing from me today.
Last night, Willem Bosshoff and his wife, Annelle (sp?), Gerhard & Maja Marx, and Abrie Fourie and Donna (I always forget her surname) came round for dinner. It was lekker – as in tasty. Me and Nicks mades good foods.
Day 1.
Nerf and I spent a little over 1.5 hours in the furtherfield Visitor’s Studio. We were just kinda playing around with uploading animations, flash files, sound, images, whatever. We’re planning on doing one of the famed CITY+SUBURBAN 24-hour residencies in their space (thus, VS24 – Visitor’s Studio 24HResidency), then facilitating a performance around remixing the work (our own, others’, whatever) we upload. The performance will be broadcast, live, in London.
Above is a screenshot of today’s play, live from my home studio.
Tell me if you are in Joburg and game (or if you happen to know the simplest, free way to convert Aif files to MP3 on a mac running OS X).
Yeh, so, this is one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Thanks to Alette Schoon @ Kagiso for the link.