Written by Tegan Bristow Wednesday, 02 December 2009 12:38
The Digital Arts Division of the Wits School of Arts ended the year with another super successful collaborative projects series. The 3D Animation group and the Interactive Digital Media group joined forces to present “Children of the Lab” a joint evening of performances, installation and screenings.
Written by Tegan Bristow Monday, 14 September 2009 15:45
Why is there Internet Art? The short answer is it’s networked, it’s social and code is beautiful. The Internet is a medium as much as paint or marble and, more significantly, it is a public medium. In April 2009, I curated a collection of Internet Art for the Joburg Art Fair.
Written by Debbie Smit Monday, 30 June 2008 02:00
Some day robots will live among us as carers and lovers. Will humans be capable of accepting their affection?
Written by Debbie Smit Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:00
If you thought global warming was frightening, Web 2.0 now brings us the prospect of collapsing geography. Oh crap.
Written by Debbie Smit Monday, 30 April 2007 02:00
Somewhere, between our vain attempts to feed our endless hunger, rest enough, capture the beauty that surrounds us, illuminate a darkening sky and bring about world peace and the much-larger-than-us reality of an awesome, yet unforgiving matrix of noughts and ones, there lies the possibility of a compromise.
Written by Vincent Maher Monday, 30 April 2007 02:00
The principle of crowd-sourcing is simple: use the law of averages to get something for free from your audience in exchange for recogition and thanks. And it works.
Written by Debbie Smit Saturday, 31 March 2007 02:00
Cory Doctorow is living proof that you can get wealthy from giving things away. The science fiction writer and speaker took the counterintuitive decision in 2003 to post his novel online, free for all to read and download.
Written by Vincent Maher Saturday, 31 March 2007 02:00
Web analytical tools have long been the domain of the anally obsessed – the people
sitting in front of their screens pressing F5 on their hit-counter, or running WebTrends one more time.
Written by Debbie Smit Sunday, 31 December 2006 02:00
Connectivity used to refer exclusively to the property of a device that allows it to be connected to another device. Of late it has come to mean the connecting of people and resources by means of a computer network. But what exactly does it mean?
