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{ Monthly Archives } June 2006

Contour: The Definitive Line

At Schedler Minchin Fine Art- A show that I am currently featured on in Birmingham, Alabama: curated by Jon Coffelt Tags: flickr

2006 06 30 sean slemon flickr Comments (1)

who said artists are having it easy all the time?

Gordon Froud’s first day of installing his mega-mobile at the Department of Science and Technology did not pass without major hiccups.  Both the suppliers of scaffolding and the engineers were late with delivery, which cost the artist a bunch in money and time. Sixteen metres above groundfloor, more problems concerning inadequate drillbits and ceiling specifications [...]

2006 06 30 franci flickr Comments (0)

When new technology is sort of like is a marketing gimmick

You probably know what greenbaiting is, right? Like when they put hybrid engines in an SUV?  Or when they put 20% post-consumer content in paper plates and call them "eco-plates?" Tonight, I think I experienced the same thing in technology and entertainment. I went and saw Superman Returns at the Tuttleman IMAX in Philadelphia. The [...]

2006 06 29 BradyDale art and tech
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the last of it

Last day in Rio, and will probably meet up with some ITPers, then go watch soccer. I’m not sure if it’s the jetlag, the conference, or four weeks with a newborn that have finally caught up with me, but i am exhausted! Looking forward to hanging out with my girls back in Joburg – get [...]

2006 06 27 nathaniel creative commons
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by Judy Breck | in The Education Commons

re-blog from iSummit 2006 <<>> Shown in the picture here is the lovely daughter of iSummit Artist in Residence Nathaniel Stern, four-week-old South African Sidonie.   Her generation will the first to experience fully 21st century education. The Sunday morning Education Commons panel looked at what Sidonie and her contemporaries should expect educationally. Panel chair Neeru [...]

2006 06 26 nathaniel creative commons
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more songs for the

Yes, Colin, maybe I have caught the ccMixter bug. Just uploaded another poetry slam styled vocal track, this time from a video art piece specifically produced for the Netherlands Film Festival, at Aryan Kaganof’s request. a song for the now available for re-mix. Now I wish I had my saxophone with…. Description: a video art [...]

2006 06 25 nathaniel art
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iCommons iSummit Artist in Residence update/review (so far)

Sorry for the delay on posting art, etc – internet was down at the hotel for ages. The conference has been amazing thus far. The generosity of spirit, the sharing, the intellectual rigor, the commitment to the arts and knowledge – even when I disagree with some of the things being said, I understand that [...]

2006 06 25 nathaniel Compressionism
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Using Creative Commons pix from FZero, simenon. iphilipp and Garton on flickr (all tagged for iSummit06), these images were inspired by a collaborative proposal (net distill) I wrote with fellow South African artist and blogger Andre SC (not yet realized). They each use the front page of the Rio iCommons photostream (from yesterday afternoon, Brazil [...]

2006 06 25 nathaniel art
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revver and steven starr

revver is the coolest CC thing around – make work, share work for free, see the tiniest ad at the end that does not interfere with your work, make money… It really accomplishes what I quoted Jenny saying this morning: She calls for new structures of economy, distribution, sharing, and says artists "really will come" [...]

2006 06 25 nathaniel art
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Gilberto’s Beer (updated with hi-res and revver versions below)

So I took footage from Justin Hall and Rihaad Desai at the iCommons iSummit in Rio, of musician / Minister of Culture GIlberto Gil’s speech and beer drinking, and made a li’l drum beat-ish, singy like video and audio track. Trust me, you like it. They licensed their footage under a CC-BY Attribution, meaning it [...]

2006 06 24 nathaniel art
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first AIR re-mix

Already a re-mix of some of the images I produced yesterday, by Andre SC on his flickr… @ Rio iSummit Tags: Compressionism, art, art and tech, creative commons, flickr, me, south african art, stimulus, technology, nathaniel stern

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More from Rio

Over in Rio, things are crazy and wonderful. What an inspired group of artists, educators, coders, lawyers, activists, musicians, etc, etc, and so forth. I think Jenny Toomey said it best just minutes ago (paraphrase): "we don’t complain about the structures that we don’t like, we build structures that we do". I’ve decided that, even [...]

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77/21: Bronwyn Lace @ Parking Gallery

    Check out these fantastic images taken by André SC on his website www.pixelplexus.co.za of my show that opened on Thursday the 22nd. It’s at the Parking Gallery, 149 Pritchard, (www.parking-gallery.net) which is a fantastic new space initiated by Simon Gush and Lester Adams. If you missed the opening you can always call me for [...]

2006 06 24 bronwyn lace art
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EAT it up

Just uploaded my first piece to CCmixter. In late 2004, Christian Nerf took the soundtrack from this video and had some fun with it in the studio (check out a post about it, and download the first re-mix/result, here). I’ve now uploaded the original soundtrack to CCmixter to see if others are into it… Hope [...]

2006 06 23 nathaniel Compressionism
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heather (compressionist image)

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2006 06 23 nathaniel Compressionism
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iSummit (compressionist image)

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2006 06 23 nathaniel Compressionism
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toast (compressionist image)

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2006 06 23 nathaniel Compressionism
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log-in (compressionist image)

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2006 06 23 nathaniel Compressionism
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rio carpet (compressionist image)

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2006 06 23 nathaniel Compressionism
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iCommons iSummit first session

So this is the opening talk I gave as part of a panel of speakers at the iCommons iSummit, alongside the likes of Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture, Brazil, Paulina Urrutia, Minister of Culture, Chile, Larry Lessig, Chairman, Creative Commonsm Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia. WOW! Between being a bit rushed, and just standard performance issues, [...]

2006 06 23 nathaniel art
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