Seminar: Ernest Cole

ERNEST COLE

a seminar @ DAG

http://ernestcoleaward.org/about

“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience” 

Alexander Gregg: Clergyman
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DAG entrance: Google Maps

  

I have been asked to chair the ERNEST COLE seminar @ the Durban Art Gallery [DAG] on 25th July which is supported by an exhibition • to be opened on Sunday 24th July.


The speakers are Omar Badsha and Peter McKenzie, with Jabulani Chen Periera and Nirmi Ziegler as discussants. Mduduzi Xakaza, the director Of DAG wrote in a recent email that he hoped the seminar would be intellectually accessible to everybody, but still have a challenging element about it, so to prompt the audience to think and debate around issues that will be raised by both speakers and discussants. 

" We regard this exercise as a manner of ushering in an important era in the life of the Durban Art Gallery: an art museum that serves as a dynamic educational resource where knowledge is produced and engaged with in for a such as seminars and colloquia." Mduduzi Xakaza

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speakers & discussants:
very very very short bio's

• speakers: Omar Badsha [OB]

OB is a self taught award winning Artist, Political Activist and Trade Unionist. In 1999 OB established  a non-profit online history project, called  South African History Online (SAHO) which has become one of the largest online history projects in Africa. OB will speak about factors that shaped Cole's worldview and how this informed the content of his book "House of Bondage"

• discussant on OB: Nirmi Ziegler [NZ]

NZ lectures Art Theory at the Department of Fine Art and Jewellery Design at DUT and is currently busy with her PhD in online learning. NZ is an artist that focuses on the technique of papermaking, a curator and a self-employed graphic designer.

•  speaker: Peter McKenzie [PMcK]

PMcK is a Photographer, Educationist, Film-maker and a new member of DALA,  a Durban based multi- disciplinary art collective. PMcK will speak on remembering in the present. What is the relevance of Cole's archive today? How do we look at images through the filters of history.

• discussant on PMcK: Jabulani Chen Periera [JCP]

JCP is a Curator, Artist and Film-maker. JCP has volunteered her skills to the Alf Kumalo Museum, with the intention of developing a comprehensive survey and digitized archival system of Mr Kumalo’s collection.

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The Photography Department has made this a compulsory event for all students. I would like to encourage all students to participate in the discussions. What you feel, think and say is important ...

Click here:  another blog post on ERNEST COLE

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the relevant finger

collaborate

make the index finger known

Tyla-Skye & Josh Africa

I was joking to the first years in class today on how we would have to get our right hand index finger strong for clicking on all the hyperlinks whilst we search and browse the wonderful world of cyberspace. This photograph sent by Tyla-Skye from her Blackberry has also inspired my thinking on the relevance of the index finger, the finger that clicks on a mouse and scrolls on a touch pad . 

 Also inspired by these: buka lapha 1

So...

I am inviting you to collaborate on a project called:  
The Relevant Finger 

(click on this hyperlink to take you to the web album) 

I have opened a Picasa Web album where we can create a gallery of index fingers. I encourage you to take photographs of yours/others INDEX finger post them on the web album. Use any digital device to capture the 'character' of the index finger.

Does anybody use any other finger for clicking or is anybody left handed?

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aSd_artSpace

ArtSpace Durban showcasing ex-students works... current show entitled

Shooting Southern Africa

15 February - 05 March 2011

Bwalya & Chillies @ the opening

Jacki Bruniquel and Noxolo Zwane [aka Chillies], are past students who both have their works on display.  

[Click on their names to read other blog entries that speak of their works]

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INVITE for SATURDAY 26th February 

JACKI  will doing a walkabout @ the Gallery  [click to get address and telephone numbers] on Saturday the 26th of February at 11am followed by a short talk on “The digital Revolution –  Processing, Retouching and the Modern Photographer”.

Entrance is free and all are welcome! I am going to be there!

artSpace address

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Can you Ice-skate?

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The entire department is invited to an "ice-breaker" @ the  ice rink on Friday 4/2/2011_ North Beach

> dress warm
>take a change of clothes
> bring your own 'thick' socks [clean/fresh]
> show student card
> pay money: R35= skate & watch/ R10= watch only
> try not to FOA [see pic below]

TIME: 10am to 12am

DRESS CODE: anything appropiate

MUST WEAR: 'crazi' hat & scarf

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MOTTO: if you fall get up and try again_ [please keep tears to a minimum]

RULES: the same ones that apply in the Computer room

DRINKS: non alcholic beverages only

FOOD: will try to organize BUT if we can't_ BYO

BEHAVIOUR: have fun_ get to know each other