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August 19th: Wikipedia Art performance at Benrimon Contemporary, NYC

August 19th @ Benrimon Contemporary, part of Younger Than Moses: Idle Worship 514 West 24th Street on the 2nd floor An evening of performances & screenings by Ryan V. Brennan, the Wikipedia Art Project, Genevieve White, Adam & Ron Beginning 6:00 PM (come a little early for a Wikipedia Art Remix treat!) For Sean Fletcher [...]

Upgrade! Joburg Remote Lecture Series, Marcelino Stuhmer (reblog)

My worlds collide! No 1: The Choreographed Accident from Digital Arts Remote Lectures …. I’m very excited to announce our very first Remote Lecture for 2010 by Marcelino Stuhmer based at the University of Wisconsin in Milwakee . The Choreographed Accident: How painting survived the accident. In this Remote Lecture Marcelino Struhmer will be speaking [...]

North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition commission

In my inbox: I’m writing from the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition in regards to our latest project, nbAUDIO 2011.  NbPac is currently holding an Open Call for Brooklyn-based sound artists.  We are inviting artists to propose an original sound installation that addresses the historical, social, and political atmosphere of North Brooklyn’s community. Additionally, we [...]

Mary Corrigall on Art and Capitalism

Just tweeted this, but the whole last two paragraphs are too good not to post. Granted, Corrigall is speaking mostly of the South African art scene, but it applies everywhere, I believe. “The growth of the commercial sector of the art market since the advent of democracy has seen a power shift in which national [...]

Balance, Colleen Alborough @ Standard Bank Gallery Johanneburg

Good friend and great artist Colleen Alborough exhibits a new solo of fantastic work in downtown Joburg, downstairs at the Standard Bank Gallery. I’m sad to miss it (in Wisconsin), but if you’re in town, it’s a must see. This opens alongside a Louis Khehla Maqhubela retrospective, the latter in the upstairs gallery. Opening, Tuesday [...]

On Generosity and Making Art

I believe that artists no longer simply make images, they make discourse – they ask us not only to “look,” but to “look again,” to re-examine. Art is always dialogical – I mean, simply, that it is in dialogue: with history, with other art and artists, with current events, with politics and pop culture and [...]

compressionism site updated

Just finished an overhaul of compressionism.net, and uploaded content, including works, press, documentaiton, etc. Look out for upcoming books and shows that feature the new work! In this ongoing series of prints, I strap a desktop scanner, laptop and custom battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence. I might scan in straight, [...]

New Media, New Modes: On “Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media”

My review of Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham’s book (both of CRUMB – the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss), “Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media” (Leonardo books / The MIT Press) is the Rhizome News feature today. Teaser: Humorous and surprising, smart and provocative, Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media (MIT Press, 2010) jumps [...]

Furtherfield seeking writers

Become a reviewer at Futherfield. From Marc Garrett: We receive regular submissions from artists and art-groups from all over the world. Inviting us to feature and review their projects, whether they exist as works on the Internet, physical pieces in spaces and projects outdoors, or cultural events, workshops, conferences and publications. We have an excellent [...]

Chelsea Highlights

Wonderful day yesterday, slowly moseying around Chelsea and surrounds from gallery to gallery, afternoon drinks with good friend and great artist Sean Slemon, dinner with brilliant writer/thinker/academic and all-around fabulous lady Rebecca Schneider (and our respective partners – can’t get enough of that Nicole Ridgway, so it’s a good thing I convinced her to spend [...]

Gift some to the horse

Good friends and artists Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott are building a huge, Second-Life originated Trojan Horse, which will roam the streets of San Jose, then release paper viruses in the San Jose Art Museum. They need your help! Click below to see the video and donate. Tags: Links, art, art and tech, pop culture, [...]

Screening Screens

I penned a book review for Rhizome.org, and another is coming soon. Teaser: Cover of Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art by Kate Mondloch Kate Mondloch’s first book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art, is a welcome study of the cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal and plasma displays, and film, video and data projections that “pervade contemporary [...]

Nathaniel Stern Bad At Sports interview now live

Bad at Sports Episode 244: Nathaniel Stern by Duncan MacKenzie “Bad at Sports is a weekly podcast produced in Chicago that features artists talking about art and the community that makes, reviews and critiques it. Shows are usually posted each weekend and can be listened to on any computer with an internet connection and speakers [...]

@ The Museum of Wisconsin Art, Elaine Erickson Gallery, and more…

Two in Wisconsin, and more! It’s been a busy few months for Nathaniel Stern (me), and there’s more to come. My show with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger at Gallery AOP in Johannesburg has received critical acclaim in the Mail and Guardian and on Rhizome.org (among others), and the exhibition at Greylock Arts (extended for another two weeks [...]

humans, dressed as cats, re-performing their favorite LOLcats

LOLremix – humans, dressed as cats, re-performing their favorite LOLcats. (In my class at UWM…) Original inspiration credit goes to: Tags: art, art and tech, flickr, me, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, uncategorical

Artist talk in Chicago

Reminder: I’m giving an Artist Talk tomorrow in Chicago, at Columbia College. 6PM, Lecture Hall, Room 150, 916 S. Wabash, 1st Floor. Please come! Perhaps drinks and food afterwards?.. Tags: art, art and tech, me, uncategorical

Passing Between on Rhizome

On Nathaniel Stern & Jessica Meuninck-Ganger’s “Passing Between” at AOP Gallery by Christo Doherty “This past month, Johannesburg’s AOP Gallery, a space devoted to works on paper, hosted the exhibition “Passing Between” which showcased the collaborative output between digital artist Nathaniel Stern and printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. At the outset, Stern and Meuninck-Ganger approached the collaboration [...]

Zach Lieberman: Making the invisible visible @ UWM THIS WEDNESDAY, 7PM

Organized by yours truly (Nathaniel, Upgrade! Milwaukee), and sponsored by UWM Visual Art Department Artists Now! Department of Visual Art Guest Lecture Series Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:00pm Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL 120) on the UWM campus 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. Free and Open to the Public In this talk Lieberman will present [...]

UPDATED – Arrested Time: Nathaniel Stern with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger at Greylock Arts, Adams MA

Arrested Time moved a day later due to snow An exhibition of works combining contemporary technologies with traditional drawing and printmaking methods Nathaniel Stern with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger Greylock Arts, 93 Summer St, Adams MA Curated by Jo-Anne Green 27 February 2010 – 3 April 2010 Opening reception Saturday, February 27th 2010, 5:30 – 8:30 pm About the Works [...]

Profundity and plasticity for the greedy

Profundity and plasticity for the greedy This article by Chris Roper appeared in both the online and print editions of the Mail & Guardian. Also see their online video feature. “… The work is funny, pretty and accessible, but it’s also complicated, surprising, exceedingly well crafted and rewards a long-term relationship. That’s your cue to [...]