So, it’s been hektik. I had a performance with the FATC (hoping to get some picks and press online soon-ish – the response was overwhelmingly positive!), have my solo at the KKNK coming up next week, have been working on some stuff for the Grahamstown Festival with Toni Olivier, and am way behind on my grading for teaching…. Did I also mention that at any given moment, I am working on, like, 80 proposals that will never see the light of day?
[insert over-exaggerated sigh that begs you to love me.] sigh. The artist’s life [insert big performative hand gestures that pretend to say something but actually say nothing at all]!
Anyhow, I’m emptying out my images from my camera today, and will get to my phone images sometime in the next few days (and we’ll just forget the shows I’ve seen that I didn’t have a camera for at all).
Here’s Daniel Hirschmann – Wits Fine Arts BA and Masters from ITP – presenting his collaborative nicebots, from, well, Nice (France). He showed some great documentation, and talked about his process and technology for making these cute little bots with a whack of personality.
Coincidentally, I’ll be giving a (as always, free!) presentation on the interactive video landscape at the Wits Digital Soiree this Friday, from 3-5 PM. That’s in the digital convent, across from the school of arts. Be there!
And, trying to stick with brevity here….
Here’s one pic of a duo show at Franchise, the hot, no-so-new-anymore gallery over at 44 Stanley, Millpark. Admittedly, I didn’t give the show its entire due on my time. Some of the images were moving and exciting, but I was freaking out about other shit and so only did a quick squizz. I feel like I’ve seen the projected animation before, and I don’t mean that to be a nice reference to it being uncanny….
The shows I’d like to check out this week:
Steven Cohen: tonight and tomorrow at Wits (probably 50 bucks, but the galleries below are free)
Gallery Momo’s group show (7th ave, parktown north)
Group show at Drill Hall (downtown) – this opens tonight at 6:30 for 7:00
Chat soon!
