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  • William Kentridge -
    ...Event: William KentridgeInstitution: 20 - 21 Visual Arts CentreComment:
  • ...ncisively political and profoundly poetic, William Kentridge's protean artistic investigation continues in his beautiful series of tapestries begun in 2001. The tapestries stem from a series of drawings in which he conjured shadowy figures from ripped construction...
  • ...Combining the political with the poetic, William Kentridge's work has made an indelible mark on the contemporary art scene. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid and colonialism, Kentridge often imbues his art with dreamy, lyrical undertones or comedic bits of...
  • ... address the political and cultural climate of his native South Africa. In Tide Table (recently acquired by The Rose), the artist contemplates for the first time the devastating impact HIV and AIDS has had on South Africa. Characters from previous...
  • ...William Latham's Computer Artworks In 1990 Mark Ayres was commissioned by artist William Latham (then Visiting Fellow at the IBM UK Scientific Centre) to compose a score for his Computer Art film The Evolution of Form. The result was highly successful - winning awards...
  • Wind and Rain -
    A room was densely and completely filled with confetti that was being vigorously blown about by big fans. At one point a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention (because the elephant had a cold) was to paint his belly
  • Wind Map
    ... months when wind was much on our minds. It conveys the movement of the air in the most basic way: with visual motion. As an artwork that reflects the real-world, its emotional meaning changes from day to day. On calm days it can be a soothing meditation on...
  • Windscreen -
    ... much technology was wilfuly discarded, and replaced with a single force - the wind Wind has a checkered history in the arts, Kinetic art and wind-driven "yardart" being well known examples. In the "media arts', it has been intremittenty used, most...
  • Wine
    ... It suggests an inebriate mental state in which foreground and background blend in almost undifferentiated fashion. The poem articulates the fleeting apparitions of the words from within themselves, as if one word would write another. Words will momentarily...
  • Wings -
    ... close-ups of the actors were superimposed over the view of the actors. The script chosen for the experiment was Wings by Arthur Kopit. By equipping the audience with i-glasses! we sought to devise an exciting and innovative method of communicating the...