{"id":1703,"date":"2008-11-13T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/christo-doherty-at-the-substation-gallery-johannesburg\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:06:01","slug":"christo-doherty-at-the-substation-gallery-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/christo-doherty-at-the-substation-gallery-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Christo Doherty at The SubStation Gallery, Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. According to the artist, he is using &#8220;macro photography and miniature video cameras to explore the imagined worlds of railway modelers who build recreations of scenes from the heyday of South African railways.&#8221; How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"Christo Doherty at the SubStation Gallery, Johannesburg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christo has an amazing eye and a witty sense of humour and integrity when it comes to approaching South African life &#8211; whether historical or contemporary. I won&#8217;t be able to make the show, but am really looking forward to seeing the work; if in town, you should hit the opening!<\/p>\n<p>Map \/ Directions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/map-1.jpg\" title=\"directions \/ map to substation gallery, johannesburg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/map-1.thumbnail.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"directions \/ map to substation gallery, johannesburg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. According to the artist, he is using &#8220;macro photography and miniature video cameras to explore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6,3,35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-inbox","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-rt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1284,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/ismail-farouk-and-the-parking-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1703,"position":0},"title":"ismail farouk and the parking gallery","author":"nathaniel","date":"30 July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"JHB626GP, on the parking gallery roof. 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There was a a great turnout and a fantastic vibe around the work, what is possible in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1708,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/small-worlds-anthea-buys-reviews-christo-doherty\/","url_meta":{"origin":1703,"position":2},"title":"small worlds: anthea buys reviews christo doherty","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"... Small Worlds is an exhibition of photographs and a video installation that track constructions of a fantasy South Africa through representations of the landscape by railway modellers. The thesis of the exhibition is two-fold, and very neatly reasoned. First, Doherty, who is Head of Digital Art at the Wits\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1273,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/the-storytellers-the-johannesburg-art-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":1703,"position":3},"title":"the storytellers @ the johannesburg art museum","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"the storytellers: works from the non-aggressive narrative So, more than a year and a half after the fact (and thanks to Sean Slemon, who insisted on lo-res versions of all my prints before deciding on a trade for his sculpture), I finally uploaded a photoset of my first major solo\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/23\/digital-arts-in-joburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1703,"position":4},"title":"digital arts in joburg","author":"nathaniel","date":"23 February 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"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.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art and tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1274,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/va-various-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":1703,"position":5},"title":"V\/A (various art)","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Been doing filler (mostly my own stuff) for the past while on the blog, whilst on residence in Brazil, and not getting out much since going gaga over my daughter. 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