There’s a brief review of the Jozi and the (M)other City net.art site on Artthrob, by Chad Rossouw. Snip on me: Nathaniel Stern, a natural on the web, produced the most engaging work. He challenged the above-mentioned Sean O’Toole to live without electricity for a day. The documentation of their correspondence is a good insight [...]
In the 50s and 60s, my dad used to write songs for Jimmy Radcliffe (who also sang at my folks’ wedding). Anyhow, a few covers of his hits have made it up to youtube, posted by various peops. This is one by none other than Phil Stern. My dad is sooooo cool :) Enjoy! You [...]
You can tell I’m uber uber busy (who isn’t? But I still used to make time for blogging…) when I am not only posting very infrequently, but also mostly / only in response to comments left here (and it’s not as if my comments section is very forthcoming). Last week it was something on my [...]
I wrote this post on a long lost high school friend and current rock star a while back, and so it seems some Ingrid Michaelson fans (good taste ladies and gents) are winding up on my blog. If you are one of them, you should be aware of a live chat with Ingrid this weekend. [...]
I have been been mostly refraining from posting on politics (compared to how much time I have invested in it personally). But this, I could not resist. Mr.Dippy: Yes We Can. Just beautiful. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video update. The gist: The Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, [...]
I rarely look up a song I’ve heard on television. Maybe on a late night show now and again (I think I found Corinne Bailey Ray thanks to a meta-late night show, Studio 60), or something in a movie, but on TV, not so much. But after the third time I had turned to my [...]
Turbulence.org is one of the most important supporters of new media art and artists of the last decade, and longer. And they need your support (via my inbox, below). Dear Friends, We need your support. If you: – are one of the thousands of people who regularly visit Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, Networked_Music_Review and/or New American Radio [...]
holy crap. who knew anyone remembered the dominant seven? somebody just emailed me this link via the cornell alumni magazine. a little snip: … Nat Stern spent most of his time in Ithaca leading the town’s reigning dance band, The Dominant 7, but he also slept in Goldwin Smith with the rest of the protesters [...]
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The Opera world, like any other stage-based area of creativity is constantly battling to reach contemporary audiences in addition to hardcore opera fanatics. It’s caught between whether it should remain true to itself and its original music and scripts, or if it should have the opportunity to adapt and change with the times. It seems [...]
I have no idea what they sound like, or even if this is real, but don’t you want to buy this album? I do. Someone send me one? AVANT CAR GUARD 19:30 Friday 15 December 2006 at Bell-Roberts Contemporary Skakel oor na die Donkerkant is the launch of the AVANT CAR GUARD limited edition album [...]
2 spots left for a hands-on interactive video workshop this weekend, contact Bronwyn Lace, (083) 284-4726. R600 On Friday, there’s free lecture on the topic, which bleeds into Saturday and Sunday for the paid (but cheap) workshop: This presentation, demo, and discussion ‘over drinks’ will survey the current interactive video landscape, and the pioneers who [...]
The Collision Project is the result of a collaborative exchange between artist / director Gerhard Marx and composer Clare Loveday, lecturers at the Wits School of Arts. It combines the visual and theatrical skills of Marx with the compositional exploration of Loveday to create a haunting work that is both concert performance, theatrical experience and [...]
iTunes now sells movies (mostly widescreen, really nice selections), iPods now support up to 80GBs and 640×480 resolution. There are also new nanos, which support photos, and new shuffles that are just plain snazzy. dude. update: I didn’t realize, the new iTunes also allows you to download games (only for the new iPods, dammit), and, [...]
The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre invites you to join us for a Red Bull and some live online performance: NETWORKED_PERFORMANCEVisitorsStudio performance Joburg-Derby-London, live at The Premises and online at http://www.visitorsstudio.org A live-online collaborative performance by Nathaniel Stern, Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.And open laptop mixing by audiences and invited local artists at [...]
Remix. Sample. Mash up. Reconstruct. Reformulate. Remake. Reproduce. Reshuffle. Transform. Recreate. Modify. Reassemble. Revamp. Rejuvenate. These are the words that make corporate copyright protectors shudder and free culture creators grin with glee. The ‘remix’ has become one of the most powerful tools of the digital age. But the legal barriers to taking an established image [...]
Via Rhiz: This year, Rhizome marks our tenth year of leadership in the new media arts community by celebrating the growth, diversity, and strength of the field. Rhizome was initiated in 1996 as an online platform for the global new media art community. Then, our focus was primarily upon Internet art and, ten years later, [...]
Ha, one of the video re-mixes I did at the iCommons iSummit was on BBC news yesterday (or maybe the day before). Check out the page, and then download the MP3 on the right-hand side (about 10MBs) – the whole thing is about Henrik Moltke’s (along with many others) v. cool free beer project, and, [...]
Another hot re-mix of my slam poem, eat, this time entitled I Consume, and by mcjackinthebox. Check it out. Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, me, music, news and politics, poetry, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, south african art, stimulus, uncategorical, nathaniel stern
One of the most fascinating discussions that emerged from the iCommons iSummit, at least for me, came out of the presentation by Israeli rock stars RHYTHM BEATING SILENCE aka RBS. Their fascinating story is of a band who "made it," but in a small scene driven by virtually one label and one radio station, were [...]
