{"id":359,"date":"2004-06-20T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:12:55","slug":"johann-van-der-schijff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/20\/johann-van-der-schijff\/","title":{"rendered":"Johann van der Schijff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> So, Johann van der Schijff was visiting us from over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelis.uct.ac.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michaelis School For Fine Art at UCT<\/a> (Cape Town) in order to externally examine our Interactive Media Design students &#8211; everyone agreed that his feedback was constructive and critically sound. We also went out for drinks later in the evening and discussed [inster various here]. At some point, I said something poetic, like, South Africans tend to express &#8220;emotions as physicality&#8221; when speaking aloud, and I promised him that I&#8217;d blog it.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/softlywhisper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angus<\/a> has thrown down the gauntlet. See, but, when I say it&#8217;s his fault for [insert something very distasteful here], more people read it, cuz I been online longer and get more traffic. IT&#8217;S ON!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Johann van der Schijff was visiting us from over at the Michaelis School For Fine Art at UCT (Cape Town) in order to externally examine our Interactive Media Design students &#8211; everyone agreed that his feedback was constructive and critically sound. We also went out for drinks later in the evening and discussed [inster [&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":[3,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-tech","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-5N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1196,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/latest-artthrob\/","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":0},"title":"latest ArtThrob","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest issue of ArtThrob is live (\"South Africa's leading contemporary visual arts publication\"), and I have to say how impressed I've been with the new Johannesburg editor, Michael Smith, over the last few months. 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