{"id":1067,"date":"2006-02-08T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/the-upgrade-joburg-presents-daniel-hirschmann\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T08:00:00","slug":"the-upgrade-joburg-presents-daniel-hirschmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/the-upgrade-joburg-presents-daniel-hirschmann\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upgrade! Joburg presents: Daniel Hirschmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Daniel
photo credit: Christo Doherty<\/sup><\/p>\n

http:\/\/atjoburg.net\/upgrade\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Announcing the latest node in the International Upgrade! network:  Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Click poster to see it enlarged:
\"Upgrade!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,2,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-hd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1071,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/daniel-hirschmann-upgrade-joburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1067,"position":0},"title":"Daniel Hirschmann @ Upgrade! 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