If in Joburg, go see a great speaker and artist (and my classmate from ITP, peer in South Africa, and colleague in Dublin), Ralph Borland, next Friday.
Ralph Borland
Photographs by Pieter Hugo
Suited for Subversion, 2002
Nylon-reinforced PVC, denim, padding, speaker, pulse-reader, circuitry
Edition of 3
We are very pleased to kick off the 2008 Digital Soiree series with a
presentation by Ralph Borland entitled “Provocative Technology”.
The Soiree will take place from 13:15 – 14:00 on Friday 25 January in the
Digital Convent Seminar Room, WSOA, Wits University.
Ralph is an South African artist, technologist and DJ who is at the end of
the first year of his PhD with the Disruptive Design Team in the Electronic
and Electrical Engineering Department, Trinity College, Dublin.
He is examining an area of critical technology design practice
undertaken mainly by artists and designers, and proposing its
application to appropriate technology design.
His presentation will be around 30 minutes long, after which he will be
asking for feedback, and hoping for leads to more projects and
histories. He writes: “I’d like to know how the work I’m engaged with may
resonate with practitioners from a variety of fields. Feel free to invite
anyone who may be interested.”
