africa remix digital discussion
In relation to the exhibition Africa Remix, Africalia was hosting a full day seminar or discussion programme, at JAG, on African art, and I was sort of lucky to enjoy the first half. Ismail Farouk had a piece on his work, including five minutes of infoporn on SowetoUprisings.com.
Ismail was on a panel with a few other South African artists, one of them being Aryan Kaganoff (sic), whom is ‘known’ for shooting a film with a cellphone. Kaganoff (sic) tried to be the enfant terrible of the panel and succeeded in coming across as extremely arrogant.
Also on the panel was a Stacy Hardy who liked to talk about bringing digital social networks to the people and although she said all the right words, I couldn’t deduce whether she was actually any good as far as understanding the technical aspects of digital social networks go.
But the worst addition to the panel, albeit temporarily, was Danielle Roney. Although pleasant to listen to and well spoken, her presentation and idea of putting up a series of internet kiosks which she herself designed (gasp!) to bring into contact people from as far away as Johannesburg and Beijing felt ten years overdue. She even dared to show a video, recorded a week earlier, a picture-in-picture video, of someone in Johannesburg, talking (”about anything”) with someone from Atlanta.
Next, she was going to build on the synergy of the Beijing olympics and take this wonderful technology to China, I’m sure to bring people across the globe closer together.
Seriously, what crap is this? Someone is actually paying her to do this shit? Get a kiosk; install an operating system; install any one of a host of instant messaging or video conferencing tools; put one kiosk in Jo’burg and the other in Atlanta (or Beijing or, wait a minute, both!) and, voila, you’re done.
this article originally appeared on a blog called babakfakhamzadeh
March 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
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