Last night’s DATA, featuring Karl Klomp, Wolf Lieser and Jane Tynan, and part of the Darklight Festival (organized by Caroline Campbell and hosted by yours truly) was extremely rad. Ben’s photos will be up soon, and in the interim, I highly recommend doing a little googling on these three – especially interesting to me were Wolf and his gallery, curatorial projects, online digital art museum and, most of all, his lifetime digital art achievement award. Two amazing winners thus far…. Karl is a hot video circuit bender offering workshops over the weekend, and Jane spoke about some fascinating surveillance art goings-on in London. Great group, nice crowd, good questions.
Uber bonus was to have my good friend and talented South African artist Franci Cronje with me for the whole evening (and most of the week). We got to meet and chat with all three of the above, and the bonus highlight was to spend an after-evening pint of Guinness with NYU Computer Science rock star and Techy Academy Award winner, Ken Perlin. (My supervisor and department would kill me if I did not mention here that our own Anil C. Kokaram has also won one such award…)
Ken blogged about our conversation (more like a debate), and we’ve been emailing a bit about it, too. My RSS reader and blog links list has been updated to include his dailies – recommended!
I’m hoping to chat with Ken more in the near future. Nice to meet ya, and looking forward to more at Darklight over the weekend…
