{"id":252,"date":"2003-12-01T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:23:48","slug":"being-a-tourist-is-nice-but-making-art-is-nicer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/being-a-tourist-is-nice-but-making-art-is-nicer\/","title":{"rendered":"being a tourist is nice, but making art is nicer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got back from a little extended weekend trip to Cape Town, where I met up
\nwith my Aunt and Uncle, on their first trip to South Africa. Admittedly, it was
\nmore exhausting than relaxing to show them around, but great to see them, do a
\nbit of the wine routes, and also chill with my bro-in-law and his peops (tho catch-up
\n\/ work time is a bit daunting, and there was no turkey on thanksgiving). Only
\ngot to see my NYC buddy Ralph Borland<\/a>
\nbriefly, but that was pretty cool – he’s also attempting to find ways of promoting
\nand lecturing on new media art here in SA. I have to admit, although Wits seems
\nto be much more on the ball with their MA program(s) in Digital Media (thanks,
\nalmost entirely, to Christo Doherty), there seem to be more practicing artists
\naware of, and using, the niche technologies used for interactive art and video
\nover in CT and at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, at UCT, than here in Joburg.
\nPerhaps I should spend more time down there… or maybe talk to Christo about
\ngetting some of them up here?… I was really impressed to chat to an artist experimenting
\nwith Jitter and SoftVNS, as well as hear about a few students engaging with analog-to-digital
\ncommunication for their work – both rarities in this here country (mostly unheard
\nof, to be honest).<\/p>\n

Due to family and exhaustion, I couldn’t make it to the 46664 concert, tho I did
\nspy the masses down in Green Point. I think Madiba and Oprah are gonna do a world
\nof good with this one (will not list all the wonderful artists involved on my
\nblog, but you get the gist).<\/p>\n

I hear that the Kebbles have doubled and that Clive van den Berg, lecturer and
\nartist at WSOA (Wits School Of Arts) has taken over as curator. I wanted to read
\nup, but none of the media links on the
\nsite<\/a> seem to be working… That awards sums up to a lot<\/em> of food.<\/p>\n

At least I get to see Finding Nemo with Angus tomorrow. Off to Newtown now for
\nthe close of the HIV festival… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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