Night Work / Distill Life sees a couple of blog features, namely on DVblog and Networked Performance. Thanks Jo and Michael! I must quote Michael, as he amuses me so: Documentation of work of surpassing loveliness & smarts both, from Jessica Meuninck-Ganger & Nathaniel Stern*** as they meld digital photo frames, printing and drawing into [...]
Implicit Art gets a thoughtful and good review on Art Connect. It’s rare to see so much time taken to reflect what makes a good blog, or a good art site, and this space does both. Check it. Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, inbox, me, milwaukee art, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, south [...]
I have quite a bit of blog catching up to do – lots going on over here that I’d love to share – but have been a bit snowed under. Here’s one reason why: I JUST SUBMIT MY 286-page PHD DISSERTATION. Like, less than a minute ago. No sh!t. Slightly anti-climactic, and there’s still a [...]
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 newest contemporary art bi-annual of South Africa seems to have skipped a year (a year, not a round), but at least it’s still alive. From Africa Centre » home: The first edition of Spier Contemporary was an unparalleled success. It attracted close to 20 000 visitors in Cape Town and Johannesburg and provided a [...]
More 50-50, keep / delete discussions around Wikipedia Art, but now the debate is on Rhizome, and by the gatekeepers of, and participants in, the art blogosphere. I particularly love Curt Cloninger’s response to Tom Moody on Rhizome. Moody is a kind of anti-Lichty, being just as voiciferous in his dislike of the project, as [...]
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 [...]
That’s right. The co-founder of Wikipedia has joined the Facebook Group for Wikipedia Art. How’s that for some credibility? If only these guys agreed (still marked for deletion). The group. Or click image to see that he is a member – this is for real, people. Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, creative [...]
Lots of cool edits to the page – see the history as well. Huge debate roaring as well. My favorite quote here (followed by mini argument) is by Wikipedia user “shmeck,” aka contemporary artist Shane Mecklenburger: KEEP The Wikipedia Art page is a self-aware example of Wikipedia’s mission of collective epistemology. It enacts and exposes [...]
Wikipedians are not only critical of Wikipedia Art (which has already been marked for deletion, within an hour of launch), but the powers that be are RETALIATING. Make sure Wikipedia Art, and its collaborators, are not punished for their work! * The page on me (Nathaniel Stern) as an artist has been up on Wikipedia [...]
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 [...]
performative digital scan turned into an aquatint etching, engraving and drypoint, 2006 polyptych of four top images each: 59 x 49.3 cm bottom image: 73.8 x 49.3 cm edition 5 Several of the hand-made prints, which were produced as details and iterations from my performative digital image series “Compressionism,” will be exhibited as part of [...]
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 [...]
Tis the season to be giving. Remember: net.art and digital art and interactive art would not be where they are today without turbulence.org. They don’t offer memberships, don’t have a community list-serv, don’t have comments on their site. But every other major community -with memberships or not- is constantly and consistently talking about what they [...]
So I’ve been in Milwaukee for three months now, nearly four, and things are finally starting to settle. My first semester of classes is over, I’m finishing up my dissertation, am all unpacked, and even have a one-night show with one of my art classes opening this Friday (more on that tomorrow). It’s time to [...]
… Small Worlds is an exhibition of photographs and a video installation that track constructions of a fantasy South Africa through representations of the landscape by railway modellers. The thesis of the exhibition is two-fold, and very neatly reasoned. First, Doherty, who is Head of Digital Art at the Wits School of Arts, reminds us [...]
Good friend, move+shaker and Professor and Head of Digital Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Christo Doherty is having what looks to be a fantastic exhibition of prints and video on campus in a couple of weeks. According to the artist, he is using “macro photography and miniature video cameras to explore the [...]
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 [...]
I managed to make it to Kenilworth Studios, UWM‘s Union Gallery, Spackle Gallery and the Armoury Gallery for this Fall’s Gallery Night (and Day) in Milwaukee. Below is a slide show – I recommend full-screen mode, and hit the “info” key to see titles of works and names of artists. My best part was def [...]
[November 7-23 2008] [Borg Ward Collective] [823 W. National Ave, Milwaukee, WI] [Opening Nov 7 6-10pm] [Gallery Talk Nov 7, 7pm, Music to Follow] [Gallery Hours Fridays 4-8pm Saturdays 12-5pm, or by appointment: gridworks1@gmail.com] [http://www.master-list2000.com/sprawl/] [Participating Artists]: Ric Stultz, Annushka Gisella Peck, Gina Rymarcsuk, Brandon Bauer, Bathas TV, Paul Fuchs, A. Bill miller, Lane Hall [...]
