For years I have been passing by an old, roofless house on my route to work. Despite my hurried scramble to the office, I would always look out for her. Sad, abandoned and enigmatic, she has intrigued me. The romantic in me has, for years, been drawn to the poignant, abandoned beauty of this stoic, red brick structure with pink tibouchina bursting through the front veranda. … [Read more...]
Technology driving young art in new project
When he was 18, the South African artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni sought out his father, whom he had never met, on Facebook. It didn’t go well. They had a terse and awkward online chat. Later, his father blocked him from contacting him on the site. Now 23, Mr. Sekhukhuni is using the experience for a new project: designing robot-generated imagined conversations between fathers and … [Read more...]
