André Clements, fine artist and corporate consultant, has specialised in computational media technology and its application in fields ranging from online gaming to marketing, especially customer relationship management and contemporary aesthetics. André is also the founder-organiser of the Johannesburg Contemporary Arts Discursive, a community-of-interest that facilitates and supports rigorous theoretical and practical discourse around local artistic practice and development.
André has a BA degree in Information Design from the Faculty of Arts, University of Pretoria. André successfully completed a number of modules of a Master of Business Administration from which he withdrew due to a change of vocational direction. He has also studied widely for non-degree-purposes including degree level courses in industrial psychology and computer science including subjects like formal logic and discrete mathematics at UNISA, international courses in disciplines such as symbolic modelling, and a diploma in Assessment from Damelin.
André works in decidedly post-digital paradigm making extensive use of computational technology and digital photography. He also creates works in traditional media, favouring oil colour (though he has not released or exhibited these works to date).
Andre has exhibited in various group shows and his work and writing has been featured in publications including SA ArtTimes, Beeld and ITs Art (France) while his artworks have been acquired by prominent international and local collectors and photographers.
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