{"id":11,"date":"2003-02-23T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:25:53","slug":"digital-arts-in-joburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/23\/digital-arts-in-joburg\/","title":{"rendered":"digital arts in joburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christo, Rita and Matt (his partner and son) came over for a really nice dinner,
\nand great conversation, last night. Christo
\nDoherty<\/a> is the Head of Digital Media at Witwatersrand
\nUniversity’s<\/a> School
\nof Arts,<\/a> South Africa. You can read more about the new graduate program in
\nDigital Media here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christo, Rita and Matt (his partner and son) came over for a really nice dinner, and great conversation, last night. Christo Doherty is the Head of Digital Media at Witwatersrand University’s School of Arts, South Africa. You can read more about the new graduate program in Digital Media here.<\/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":[3,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-tech","category-south-african-art","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1703,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/christo-doherty-at-the-substation-gallery-johannesburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":0},"title":"Christo Doherty at The SubStation Gallery, Johannesburg","author":"nathaniel","date":"13 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Good friend, move+shaker and Professor and Head of Digital Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg),\u00c2\u00a0 Christo Doherty is having what looks to be a fantastic exhibition of prints and video on campus in a couple of weeks. 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