Digital Soiree – Michael de Jager
Will Demo and speak about the game zX, which forms part of his practice component for his research Thesis in Digital Arts.
Date: Wednesday 14 March 2012
Time: 13:15 – 14:00
Place: Digital Arts Convent Building, opposite Wits School of the Arts
All Welcome
Nathaniel Stern, returns to the Digital Arts Division, where he used to teach in 2004/5 and is still a regular contributor and collaborator with the Division. Nathaniel will be speaking about is artwork and practice around the exhibition opening at Art on Paper Gallery titled: Giverny of the Midwest.
For more information please contact me (Tegan) at the Digital Arts Division or visit Nathaniel’s Website nathanielstern.com
The first of our Digital 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, from France, 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 and Live Stream.
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
Presenting her work via video Skype, the Munich-based digital artist, Tamiko Thiel, walked her Johannesburg audience through a number of her interactive virtual worlds. Thiel has been described as "a border-crosser and an explorer of virtual space" and the works that she presented took her audience into the worlds of the Berlin Wall, a phantasmagoric Venice, and the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II.
Finally! Remote Lecture No. 4 - the first Remote Lecture for 2011 hosted at the Digital Arts Division of the Wits School of the Arts. Thiel is an internationally renowned media artist working with dynamic and interactive 3D virtual worlds.
In this Remote Lecture:
Tamiko Thiel’s interactive 3D installations are 3D virtual worlds in which users’ own movements and decisions trigger the dramatic structure of the experience. Using examples from these works, Thiel will talk about what she considers to be the unique dramatic characteristics of this medium.
Tuesday 17th at 18:00 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
Still from “Beyond Manzanar” Tamiko Thiel
