"MTN DOWNTOWN VIDEO FOCUS"
2000-07-10 until 2000-07-28
Johannesburg Civic Gallery
Johannesburg, , ZA South Africa

Internationally the dialogue between art and technology is growing, with artists now working in collaboration with technical experts and new media professionals, creating multi-media and interactive exhibits. Curated by Rory Doepel and Marcus Neustetter, The MTN Digital and Electronic Art Exhibition promotes the blurring of these boundaries by presenting works of this nature and taking a major step in educating around art and technology in the form of an exhibition in South Africa.

Viewers are encouraged to interact and add to the experience of the exhibition through the process of participation. Supported by the MTN Art Institute, this exhibition also features educational workshops and walk-abouts, in addition to promotion and online education.

CD ROM AND NET ART, Featuring over 60 local and international interactive CD ROM art works, this component of the exhibition profiles the radical shift from static art object to participatory exploration, renegotiating the roles of viewer and artist. (GPG)

ANIMATION, featuring works by a selection of South African and international animators. (JCG) and a selection of stop-frame animation art works by students of the Wits Fine Art Department's animation course in collaboration with the Video Lab (GPG)

VIDEO ART including Jo Ractliffe's Love, Death, Sacrifice and so forth (1999) (GPG) and contemporary South African Video Art selected by Brad Hammond: This selection features recent work by prominent South African artists, including Clive van den Berg, Jose Ferreira, and Leora Farber. International Video Art selected by Bart Rutten (Nederlands Institut Voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts) including Interior Landscape by Alicia Framis (1998), Invisible by Borris Gerrits (1997) Solitario by Carlos Amorales (1998) and Video Violence by Peter Bogers (GPG)

INSTALLATIONS including Yield, an installation by Johan van der Schijff (JCG), I Have a Drum (GPG), and MetaCITY/DATATOWN, based on an extrapolation of Dutch statistics. MetaCITY/DATATOWN is based on the video installation of the same title produced by MVRDV for the Stroom, Centre for the Visual Arts, The Hague(GPG).

Sounds of the Conference: Created by Dutch artist Danielle van Zuijlen, this sound installation will map the audio terrain of the conference, tapping into what people have to say about Johannesburg during the week of July 10 to 14. (GPG) and sounds alive or deadNULL This work by Wayne Barker is about loss and the presence of the artist in the city trying to find peace or harmony. (GPG)

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