DVblog kicks it old school Stern by featuring the first ever hektor recording (1999) – hektor.net (2000) was recently archived by the Cornell Manuscripts library. Minor props for old school net.art? Link: DVblog » Passage to Ill – Nathaniel Stern “Passage to Ill was one of the first pieces I wrote as “hektor“, playing the [...]
Abrie Fourie at the Outlet Gallery in Pretoria Prof Christo Doherty, head of Digital Arts at Wits, pens a piece on the Outlet gallery and experimental art space in Pretoria for this month’s SAartsEmerging feature. The space, intended for both local and international young and emerging artists, has become a stepping stone for many an [...]
family! she is here she is here she is here. and she is the best thing EVER and she loves her daddy. i am exhausted – we do not have the "good pictures" yet, but go ahead and check out nerd to be [dot] net. more soon… update: now more pix between nerdtobe.net and my [...]
daddy tries to figure out this sling thing a few hours before baby comes Daddy tries to figure out this sling thing a few hours before baby comes… Today’s the day! Tags: flickr, me, nathaniel stern
The Whispers of Ovarian Cancer: Spread the word: Spread the word I recently learned that there is a petition going around the internet to create an Ovarian Cancer Awareness Postage Stamp. Please visit this site and sign the petition. I think the OVCA commuity deserves a stamp don’t you??? Dear old friend of mine / [...]
gordon froud, south african artist and gallerist, in his studioNewtown, Johannesburg, South Africa (Forgive the quality of this image – I broke my crap camera and will from now on be taking gallery pix on my even more crap phone…) Spent much of Monday with Gordon Froud and Franci Cronje, both of whom will be [...]
I’ve had my B. Obama fad; I like R Feingold; I could live with M Warner (I guess); NOT ANOTHER (H) CLINTON. But why not give the man who actually won the 2000 election his seat at the White House? No longer listening to pollsters and middle ground advisers, Gore interviews well, believes in something, [...]
You’ll be happy to know that we’ve extended the deadline for the iCommons Summit bag awards to this Thursday, 9pm South African time. Please send an email to your great designer friends – someone gets to go to the iCommons Summit in Rio if they win! that’s an awesome prize – we’re really wanting to [...]
Yes its finally coming togetherAlbeit very slowly, but I’m getting there. Today – only two days before I leave for South Africa, on a trip home to see family and friends and make some new work, I got all the bureaucracy and logistics in line to take out 8 dead street trees. After months of [...]
Apologies for the lack of posts lately, everyone. I’ve been really snowed under with mostly boring freelance work as I try to save up for the imminent baby girl (< 2 weeks til her arrival!). I did write what I think to a be a pretty good catalogue essay on Colleen Alborough’s YAP (Young Artist [...]
A seemingly "in-crowd," jokey, gossipy, opinion and irony-based blog (with a few short, but well-thought out reviews in between – welcome to blog country), Art Heat is the new Cape Town-based group, online-publishing project for fine (and sometimes only relatively fine) art. They’ve been around a week or so and have a few bugs to [...]
Over the last few days, I have been doing research further reading into the current Whitney biennial. There have been a few things I have noticed, from going to the show, reading and figuring out the catalogue and looking at various reviews and interviews with the curators before and after the exhibition. Over all the [...]
My first Biennial What to say. Simply being in New York and keeping an eye on the process of first, the selection of curators, then general banter in bars over what will happen, subsequently leading to the artist selections being released and now finally the show, predictably leading to all sorts of bitchiness, boredom and [...]
William Kentridge’s Chambre Noire / Black Box at the JAG I’ve got some horrible photos of William’s new piece up here. Some of the most poetic and beaitiful uses of technology I’ve ever seen, this short, mechatronic play considers the history of Germany genocide in (what is now) Namibia, and follows the artist’s process of [...]
Climbing the mountain with Mikhael and Eve How come Mikhael Subotzky even takes good pictures with my pice-o-crap and broken camera? Check out the photoset here. Tags: flickr, me, nathaniel stern
OK y’all – as of Tuesday, my wife Nicole will be 38 weeks pregnant. Based on a 40-week schedule, she’s due on 24 May, but anywhere between 38 and 42 weeks is considered normal. Consider this post a baby pool, takin’ gentlemanly-style bets for dates that my daughter decides to join us. Jen Rachman alsready [...]
The press release (click on image for 3MB quicktime promo / feature – Aryan Kaganof’s v. v. fun work!): “SMS Sugar Man”, the world’s first feature film shot on mobile phone cameras, launches its 1st promo. Still: Grace (Leigh Graves) and Selene (Deja Bernhardt) Photo copyright: SMS Movies “… in Johannesburg… on Christmas eve… bad [...]
Time and Seeingan exhibition of Compressionist prints outlet gallery, 1 May – 12 Juneclosing reception on Saturday 10 June, 16:00 earth (2006), metallic lambda print, 50 x 25 cm Time and Seeing exhibits selections from nathaniel stern’s Compressionism – a "digital performance and analog archive.” Stern traverses bodies, spaces and objects with his scanner face, [...]
