{"id":1169,"date":"2006-05-07T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/07\/william-kentridges-chambre-noire-black-box-at-the-jag\/"},"modified":"2006-05-07T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:52:19","slug":"william-kentridges-chambre-noire-black-box-at-the-jag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/07\/william-kentridges-chambre-noire-black-box-at-the-jag\/","title":{"rendered":"William Kentridge&#8217;s Chambre Noire \/ Black Box at the JAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 6px; margin-bottom: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/142106862\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/55\/142106862_80e7036e0c_m.jpg?w=850\" \/><\/a> <br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/142106862\/\">William Kentridge&#8217;s Chambre Noire \/ Black Box at the JAG<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some horrible photos of William&#8217;s new piece up <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/sets\/72057594128061353\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Some of the most poetic and beaitiful uses of technology I&#8217;ve ever seen, this short, mechatronic play considers the history of Germany genocide in (what is now) Namibia, and follows the artist&#8217;s process of exploration and production through several media: film, drawing, opera, robots, set design&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Kentridge is so&#8230; good.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Kentridge&#8217;s Chambre Noire \/ Black Box at the JAG I&#8217;ve got some horrible photos of William&#8217;s new piece up here. Some of the most poetic and beaitiful uses of technology I&#8217;ve ever seen, this short, mechatronic play considers the history of Germany genocide in (what is now) Namibia, and follows the artist&#8217;s process of [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,3,24,9,25,2,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-flickr","category-pop-culture","category-reviews","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-iR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":956,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/william-kentridge-on-net-art-news-a-mechanical-masterpiece\/","url_meta":{"origin":1169,"position":0},"title":"William Kentridge on Net Art News: A Mechanical Masterpiece","author":"nathaniel","date":"02 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool to see William Kentridge on Rhizome - I can't wait to see this piece in action! 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