SELECTED ARTISTS
Wayne Reddiar
Wayne Reddiar is a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a practicing multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Pietermaritzburg. He received his Master of Digital Arts Degree in Interactive Media Design at Wits University (Johannesburg) and is currently reading towards a PhD in New Media Art Practice at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His practice often involves a convergence of various media and combination of various disciplines, as well as working in collaboration with other practitioners.
Reddiar has produced work as a composer, filmmaker, writer, and new media artist. He is also a founding member of the Public Arts Collective, Vuka Ndlovu who produces work within areas that intersect with activist media, audience development and site-specific multi-disciplinary art. Reddiar’s practice and research seeks to explore two interrelated conditions evident in contemporary society: the democratization of production and the ubiquitous nature of technology. Here, his primary vision entails modes of production, which negate the notion of an individual genius, in order to explore creative processes, which facilitate human exchange, interaction and participation.