First off, big ups and big welcomes to AJ Venter, the newest guest blogger on this site. You can catch him, and the occasional post from me (from now on) over at silent coder.
So, this week/end I’m going to be missing a lot of great art and openings. I’ll catch them on the flip, but I thought I’d give y’all the heads up for JHB…
- VANSA (Visual Arts Network of South Africa) show opened at The Premises last Saturday
- Ian Waldeck opened at Gordart last Sunday
- Angus Taylor opened at ArtSpace last Sunday
- Tonight, new student piece choreographed by Athena Mazarakis opens at Wits. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Athena is probably the most underrated physical theatre director in South Africa
- Thursday at WITS, Richard Kilpert will be conducting a talk and a slide show of his experience of this year’s IMPACT printmaking conference in Berlin and Poland. (thanks to Jill, over at David Krut, for this) — Appollonia room, Main WSOA, at 12 noon (thanks to Colleen Alborough for further details)
note: latest word on the street is that this talk has been postponed until 20 Oct, 12:30 – will re-post then - Thursday 6 October, 18h00 at Gallery MOMO is a Marco Cianfanelli solo show; he is a beautiful sculptor and fellow major award winner at the Brett Kebble Art Awards, 2004.
- Friday 7 October, 18h00 at Franchise Gallery, 44 Stanley, is SURFACE, a group show with works by Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Dineo Bopape; this is gonna be H-O-T
And why am I missing all of this? Because I’ll be in Grahamstown giving this talk on interactive video:
The Interactive Video Landscape
Three hour lecture/presentation
Fri: 7th Oct 2005. 2:00 – 5:00pm
Fine Art Dept Lecture Theatre (Painting & Sculpture Building, Upper Rhodes Campus)
ALL WELCOMEThis lecture, discussion and demo will survey the interactive video landscape in 2005, and the pioneers who led up to it. We’Äôll take a look at the likes of David Rokeby, Camille Utterback, Golan Levin and others like them over the last 20 years – all artists working with technology and the body. During our time together, we’Äôll also see what kinds of tools are available for potential VJs, artists and musicians who want to produce interactive installations or multimedia performances. Finally, we’Äôll break down, conceptually, how someone might achieve body-tracking, motion tracking or proximity sensing with a simple web cam, and take a quick look at ’Äújitter’Äù (a very popular interactive video development environment for artists), and some projects made with it.
If in GHT, tell your friends. It’ll be followed by a two-day advanced workshop on interactive video (using Jitter), but I’m pretty sure that’s invite only – for members of the Studio for Interactive Sound (yay, Toni Olivier!) and the fine arts department staff (who will hopefully pass it on to students).
next blog (probably) from Grahamstown!
