Ann Roberts is an executive producer of creative projects. The first 25 years of her career were focused on television commercial production. While managing her production company, Terraplane, she produced a number of feature films, published a children's book, worked extensively with Die Antwoord and produced “Art in the Dark” a Moving Image Art event.
Since leaving advertising production Ann has shifted her focus to the contemporary visual art world. In 2013 she had her first solo show at ROOM. In 2014 she hosted her first contemporary art pop up shop and has since successfully hosted 6 more with amongst others, The Artists’s Press and David Krut Projects. In 2017 she led the team that produced the critically-acclaimed South African Pavilion for the 57th Biennale Arte in Venice and participated in Seasons 2 and 5 of The Centre for the Less Good Idea.
At present she is doing a research MA at WITS and is co founder and Director of TMRW - The Mixed Reality Workshop, an NPC artxtechnology space at Keyes Art Mile to explore the collaboration between creative technologists and contemporary artists and educate and inform audiences about the work created.
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directorThe Mixed Reality Workshop
Johannesburg, South AfricaFull Time
The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW) is a new space for artistic exploration and hi-tech play located in the Trumpet Building on Keyes Art Mile in Johannesburg. It is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of contemporary visual art, new media, interactive multimedia, and the panorama of hybrid forms of art and technology that constitute our moment in culture.
As a non-profit company, TMRW is an independent platform for artists and art audiences to
access technology through a curated programme of exhibitions, talks, performances, residencies and participatory events. With the understanding that technology is shaping contemporary visual arts and the belief that creativity and technological innovation go hand-in- hand, TMRW collaborates with galleries and artists to facilitate, commission and exhibit key new works by local and international emerging and established artists.
Serving as a resource for critical and educational engagement with Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies, TMRW invites audiences to learn, play and interact with artistic projects that soften the often clinical perception of technology. This generates opportunities for open-ended reflection on our own place in relation to technology.
Mary Sibande’s new installation A Crescendo of Ecstasy, (9 June to 29 July) presented by TMRW Gallery, combines familiar sculptural forms and figures with a Virtual Reality component that brings the work dramatically to life. Based on her use of alter-ego figures made in her own likeness, the piece creates an immersive environment for the viewer that can be accessed both physically and virtually, foregrounding the complex relationship between reality, fantasy and artistic imagination. The project extends Sibande’s preoccupation with these three elements and bridges her use of sculptural technology with the language of virtual reality.
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The current show in the space Old Masters New Realities is an exhibition of works by J.H. Pierneef, Wayne Barker, Gerard Sekoto and Lady Skollie with new digital works created by Eden Labs in collaboration with the contemporary artists. Installed in the recently relocated TMRW space, the exhibition offers a re-imagining of the past, present and future of artistic practice and the role of technology in the prospective forward-moving development of contemporary art.
http://www.tmrw.art
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New Business ManagerConnect TV
- Johannesburg, South AfricaFull Time
• Executive Produced the South African Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2017. Recruited the team, prepared the tender, won the tender and then executed SA’s critically acclaimed iteration in Venice.
• Acquired and maintained the contract between Project Isizwe and Connect to create the WiFi TV platform and manages all aspects the project.
o Instrumental in developing and launching a social enterprise programme called Project ConnectUP which leveraged a community generated content model. It employed and retained local journalists to create short format video that focuses on ‘hyper local stories’ that are carried over the Tshwane free wifi network provided by Project Isziwe and is watched on mobile devices. It now continues independently as https://www.tshwifi.com/tshwi-fi-tv/
o Advertiser funded programming was created to generate revenue for the channel with the goal of replacing funding with revenue.
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Skills
- Creative Direction
- Curating
- Networking
- Arts Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Production Management
- Art Production
- Creative Production
- Budget Planning
- Management