{"id":541,"date":"2005-02-08T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2005-02-08T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T09:22:12","slug":"people-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/people-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"people like us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"elmi<\/p>\n

elmi dixon’s roep<\/i> – photo credit: christo doherty<\/div>\n

OK, so I haven’t had time to grab text from others, and since this is time sensitive, I’ve decided to lunge in and praise my students a bit (despite my own involvement). The feedback has been tremendous; the drift between<\/i>, the group, final exhibition of WSOA’s digital arts MA students, has been called an extremely professional show, and a breakthrough for thinking in and around new media art in a South African context. Above is Elmi Dixon’s roep<\/i>, James Sey’s favorite piece, which elicits text from two sides, when blowing on windmills. She is (paraphrasing here) “simplifying the act of speaking… in order to accent the complexities of listening.”<\/p>\n

Other works include handmade aluminium touchpads that create waves in a nearby tank of water – the results being distortions and refractions of light around the installation (Sue van Zyls’ ripple floor<\/i>); Colleen Alborough’s night journey<\/i>, a very poetic piece, with subtle interactions, which explores the liminal spaces between conscious and unconscious dreamscapes; Richard Kilpert’s in camera<\/i>, which mediates, re-mediates and mediates again, the exterior of the gallery – through pinhole, webcam and photographic technologies; I should also mention here that Nick Nesbitt collaborated on every single work in the show.<\/p>\n

Up until Wednesday, it’s a must see. exhibition web site<\/a><\/p>\n

But since I’m already doing a bit of the ole self promo, let me also give the latest links and reviews of getawayexperiment.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n

t.whid of MTAA posts pix and says nice stuff<\/a> about getaway
\ngetaway featured on rhizome’s net.art news<\/a>!
\nRich, at our neighborhood’s jo’blog<\/a>, calls the getaway a “superrad experiment”<\/p>\n

Consider this a public call: please go to getawayexperiment.net<\/a> and upload your pix!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

elmi dixon’s roep – photo credit: christo doherty OK, so I haven’t had time to grab text from others, and since this is time sensitive, I’ve decided to lunge in and praise my students a bit (despite my own involvement). The feedback has been tremendous; the drift between, the group, final exhibition of WSOA’s digital […]<\/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":[6,3,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-me","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-8J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":413,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/26\/physical-computing-in-south-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":541,"position":0},"title":"physical computing in South Africa","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a pic of some of my MA students (Colleen Alborough, Sue Van Zyl and Nick Nesbitt, respectively) from the Wits Digital Media MA. 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