Here’s the text, for future reference (the catered event starts at noon, and carries on into the afternoon):<\/p>\n
Art pick of the week<\/p>\n
Public Walkabout and Digital Media Art Seminar Discussion Johannesburg Art Gallery: December 4<\/p>\n
The critical positioning of \u2019\u00c4\u00fanew media” art, which includes video, digital and net.art, and even installation, within the broader economies of fine and contemporary art, is something that is contended and debated the world over, but more particularly in \u2019\u00c4\u00fadeveloping” countries, where the digital divide is most fundamentally obvious.<\/p>\n
In South Africa in particular, access to technology, illiteracy and the legacy of apartheid education systems, and even access to electricity itself are conditions we live with side by side with wireless communication and other state of the art technologies. There is currently a push for scholars to take an interest in science and technology but how does this figure in terms of technology’s relationship to culture?<\/p>\n
As part of an education programme supporting Nathaniel Stern’s current exhibition The Storytellers: Works From the Non-aggressive Narrative, there will a be free, public walkabout of this richly layered and critically informed show at noon on December 4. This is followed by a seminar discussion moderated by writer and editor of Art South Africa Sean O’Toole, and featuring practitioners, curators and artists who work within the field.<\/p>\n
The kinds of topics under discussion will include defining the various practices in new media versus digital media, questioning digital media’s role in relation to traditional media like painting, looking at the developmental and educational potential of digital media, and issues concerning the collecting and curating of these \u2019\u00c4\u00fanew” art forms. Anyone with an informal or professional interest in the digital realm, including artists, designers, writers and composers, should make a point of attending. <\/p>\n
\u2019\u00c4\u00ee Kathryn Smith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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