Joburg
All welcome, please join us at the Digital Arts Division next week.
Workshop with Fancisco Lopez, James Webb, Joao Orrechia, Lucas Ligeti
Digital Arts Seminar Room, Wits School of the Arts
Thursday 11th August 2011
10:00 - 16:00
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Concert: Fancisco Lopez and James Webb
Alexander Theater, Braamfontien
Friday 12th August
19:00
Remote Lecture No. 5 - The first of our Artists from Africa series as a collaboration with African Digital Art for 2011 and 2012.
In this Remote Lecture:
DATA IS BEAUTY - Haythem Zakaria a 27-year-old
Tunisian artist, living in France for two years. Predominately inspired
by Sufi, Zakaria moved recently towards real time experiments with
generative devices. Operating the intermediality of his discipline, he
offers unique visuals creations and interactive installations. Zakaria will be speaking about his work and practice. Interactive
installation with real time sensor sensory / / single screen / / audio
stereo:
Wednesday 8th June at 18:30 at the Digital Arts Division at Wits University.
For more information on this and other Remote Lectures - as well as the live streaming for the night.
Visit: www.digitalarts.wits.ac.za/remote
by Haythem Zakaria
September and October will be a sound art focus for Digital Arts Remote Lectures Series. And the first of the series will be artist Emeka Ogboh based in Lagos, Nigeria.
“The Lagos Soundscapes is an ongoing sound project that explores Lagos as a vibrant African Mega city. As the name suggests the project is invested in acoustics, however, what is central here is that the accumulated sound defines the character of the city of Lagos. The amalgamation of these sounds and more, defines the city Lagos as the economic, commercial and cultural capital of Nigeria.”
For more information visit the Remote Lectures blog
The Berlin Node of Upgrade International has just announced the start of the Media Facades Festival. This is worth a look as they have broadcast events from 27th August to 12th September.
Physical Computing Workshop for Artists and Designers 
Artist and Creative Developer Daniel Hirshmann
3 Part Workshop: 1 - 6 June 2010
Digital Arts, Wits University, Johannesburg.
“Physical Computing is an approach to design and making that positions the human at the centre of the interaction. Over the course of 3 sessions, participants will learn how to gather sensor information from the real world and use it to effect change within their own projects. We will cover introductions to communication, LED control, programming, motors, and various electronic components - while remaining aware of their creative applications in the real world.”
More of Hirshmann’s work here http://www.plankman.com
Please note:
This workshop will be extended into an open creative workgroup with local creative people and the Hacksaws Group. So if you can, book off two weekends.
This workshop is being hosted by the Hacksaws Art and Technology Support Group and the Digital Arts Division of the WSOA.
If you are interested in attending please contact me at tegan (dot) bristow (at) gmail (dot) com.
Getting to know each other is the first step to collaborative practice.
This Wednesday the 7th of April at 19:00 in the Digital Arts (Convent) Building will be the Hacksaws Show & Tell. Members of the groups will have 5 mins to detail anything from what they are curretly working on; past projects or deep interests in the name of arts and technology.
If you are interested in attending please contact me at teganbristow (at) gmail (dot) com.
Upgrade Joburg is having the first meeting of Joburg based art and technology group this Wednesday at 19:00 in the Seminar Room of the Digital Arts Division. This group is made up of professionals (not necessarily artists) who have an interest in Art and Technology. We hope that the group will be a place to form collaborations for new projects and exhibitions; work towards the generally uplifting and furthering the practice of art and technology in South Africa.
This is an open group, anyone can join, if you are interested please contact me at teganbristow “at” gmail “dot” com
Soft Borders, is this years bi-annual Upgrade International gathering. It will be hosted by the Sao Paulo Node and has just openend it’s call for particpation.
If you are interested in participating from Johannesburg please contact me (the Upgrade Joburg Node organisor) directly.
tegan dot bristow at wits dot ac dot za.
Follow this link for more info on the call.
Laura Nova has been Artist in Residence at the Digital Arts Division of the Wits School of Arts (home to Upgrade Joburg) for the last two months. She will finalise her stay with a very interactive (though not purely digital) exhibition in the Sub-Station Gallery.
This exhibition additionally includes a selection of works from a workshop with students on “UnUseless Inventions”. It looks to be an fun show - please look out for a images soon.
We have billed her for an Upgrade Joburg Event:
She will also be giving a short lecture on her recent work and a walk-about of the exhibition at 13:15 on Wednesday the 26th August.
Andreas Broeckmann will be making a tour of South Africa to better understand the local media arts enviroment. He will be visiting Joburg, Pretoria and Cape Town this month.
On Wednesday the 3rd June at 13:15 Upgrade Joburg will host his talk “Rethinking Media Arts from Transmediale to ISEA2010″ at the Digital Arts Seminar Room at the Wits School of Arts (map).
“Since the 1980s, festivals have been the most important hubs for
the promotion and distribution of media art. The evolution of these
festivals therefore also reflects the way in which conceptions of
media art have changed. First founded in 1988, the Transmediale
festival in Berlin, for instance, was initially a venue only for
video art, and only in the course of the 90s opened its programme for
interactive and multi-media art. Its traditional critical approach,
first articulated by many political documentaries in the programme,
later resulted in major conferences on the social impact of digital
media. Andreas Broeckmann, who was the director of transmediale from
2001 - 2007, will discuss the transformation of media art over the
past 20 years and will offer an outlook onto the preparations for the
ISEA2010 RUHR, the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art,
which he is organising in the German Ruhr region for next year.” Christo Doherty
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