As part of Performance Studies international #18 and Ludus Festival Leeds, a small group of international artists from The Sense Lab (Montreal) are asking for participants and collaborators to help in conceptualizing, creating and performing a ‘Sentimental Construction’. These are site-conditioned, publicly performed architectural structures made of rope, fabric, yarn and other local materials, which [...]
Printing Time Kerikeri, New Zealand Nathaniel Stern at Art at Wharepuke 190 Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri Bay of Islands, Northland 0230 New Zealand 18th November – 8th December 2011 +64 9 407 8933 or info@art-at-wharepuke.co.nz – Printing Time is a suite of 18 performative prints, each an edition of 5. It was produced for a solo exhibition [...]
Giverny of the Midwest Johannesburg, South Africa Nathaniel Stern at GALLERY AOP 44 Stanley Avenue Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Johannesburg Saturday 30 July – Saturday 13 August 2011 Opening talk by Jeremy Wafer, 30 July 14h00 Artist talks, 4 – 5 August, Joburg and Pretoria Artist walkabout at AOP, 4 August 18h00 For Nathaniel Stern’s ongoing [...]
Merry Christmakkah! Happy new year! I skipped a year, so it’s been 2 since I posted my surprisingly popular Tops of 2008: A Different Kind of Year in Review. Here, I go with four different Top 5 lists: The Top 5 people I newly met in 2010, The Top 5 people I’d like to meet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m in Bangalore, India with my good friend and collaborator, Scott Kildall (among many others – including my friend Heather Ford!), participating and presenting at the Centre for Internet and Society’s CPOV (Critical Point of View): WikiWars. So far, so interesting. Our paper is tomorrow, entitled Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act. There will be [...]
The amazing folks at turbulence.org have done it again! See below. Networked_Performance — Networked: a networked_book about networked_art Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE: Two years in the making, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is now open for comments, revisions, and translations. You may also submit a chapter for consideration. Please register [...]
My old stomping ground (Wits School of the Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand) in Joburg has a 3D/animation post available. Great, small department in Africa’s coolest city. I’m happy to answer questions for anyone interested. Digital Arts is advertising for a new post in 2010. Please can you forward this to anyone you [...]
Via Art City: Billed as a “haven for our community’s many voices,” a critical arts journal called SNAPMilwaukee will launch Thursday. The online-only journal will cover architecture, visual art, film, music and performing arts. SNAP will be a place for “informed critical discourse in and around the arts through in-depth study, commentary, historical analysis, synthesis [...]
Last night saw the opening of Night Work at The Armoury Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some great responses, surprise guests, new show offers, decent sales – a really great Milwaukee debut for both me and Jessica (my collaborator). Thanks to everyone who helped, came out, etc. For those who didn’t make it, the show was [...]
The art work / page has been deleted from Wikipedia, approximately 12 hours after its birth. But it is not dead, merely transformed – performatively un-uttered and soon to be resurrected in an/other form. Watch this space for upcoming/ongoing press and archives and interventions that are all part of Wikipedia Art as a work. In [...]
Wikipedia Art launch – TODAY! SEE THE INTERVIEW A collaborative project initiated by Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall, Wikipedia Art is art composed on Wikipedia, and thus art that anyone can edit. Since the work itself manifests as a conventional Wikipedia page, would-be art editors are required to follow Wikipedia’s enforced standards of quality and [...]
This is the first in a series of MFA student features from the graduate program I work in at Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. These will be cross-posted on the MyArtSpace.com blog. UW-Milwaukee Grad Student features are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Brandon Bauer is [...]
Merry Christmakkah! Happy new year! The turkey is defrosting (mmmm, bourbon basting), Sidonie stayed up late (for a two year old) last night eating chocolate and playing with her new doll house from her ouma (OMG I have the cutest daughter ever), and I have little bit of morning to pound out a blog on [...]
It only takes a sec, and even a couple of bucks (instead of that cup o’ morning Joe) helps them WAY more than it hurts you. In this time of financial crisis, we NEED to support spaces that support us. Turbulence is one of the few new media art commissioning institutions around, and the only [...]
Come check out grad student and faculty art works at the Kenilworth Square East Open House this Saturday, part of Gallery Night and Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! I’ll be installing a guerrilla version of my award-winning interactive installation, stuttering, to help promote the new Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology program (currently known as DIVAS), and more [...]
Had a great email exchange with Brian Sherwin of myartspace.com over the last few days, which culminated as an interview published on the myartspace blog. There’re bits on my work, dissertation, inspirations, even a question on Creative Commons and a few other little tidbits not published anywhere else to date. Check it out. snip / [...]
