The E-Waste Land
Future Mythologies: Persephone
forevery
THE WORD AFTER US
Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
The World After Us: Imaging techno-aesthetic futures
Future Mythologies
Imperfect Lovers (Lumen Prize Finalist)
Still Moving
Traversing the landscape
forevery
Body Language
THE WORD AFTER US: An AI Poetry Unreading
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The World After Us: Imaging techno-aesthetic futures
New Book
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– powerful... weird, intriguing, and sometimes beautiful – Leslie Katz, Forbes

– technological, thought-provoking and unexpected – Bonnie North, NPR

– a pensive yet hands-on philosopher, question[ing] what truly holds power in our world – Virginia Valenzuela, 79Au

– our future is confronted [with] power and ingenuity – Arielle Pardes, WIRED

– a daring poet [and] artist – Elisabeth Sweet, theVERSEverse

– your favorite artist's favorite artist – Jordan Lyall, Prohibition.Art

– investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art – Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American


artworks

texts

Press, books, articles, catalogs, and media that feature art and writing by Nathaniel Stern

recent and upcoming

    • Generation to Generation: conversing with kindred technologies, collaborative museum exhibition with Sasha Stiles. Premieres at the Krasl Art Center in St Joseph Michigan, April - July 2025 and travels thereafter. Interested venues contact [email protected].
    • Lit Encounters, Mad Arts Museum, Florida US, 2025
    • Down the Silicon Meadow, Office Impart x Blueshift, Berlin, Germany 2025
    • Lumen Prize Finalist, Imperfect Lovers, 2024
    • A User's Guide to Conversing with Kindred Technologies, a forthcoming companion book to the Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies exhibition; edited by Charlotte Kent, 2025

“a natural polymath and interdisciplinary artist, [Stern’s] passion… enlivens the conversation, steering it down tangential alleyways that enlighten his process with glorious context, while also bringing a cascade of new and interesting insights.” – Ola Kalejaye, Culture3


He “invites us to imagine the world in which technologies and biotic life appear and express to one another in the afterlife of us… a new network of relations” – Amanda Boetzkes, Professor of Contemporary Art History & Theory


“Stern’s artistic explorations work with materials and through bodies, [enabling] spectators to experience the unthinkable: to inhabit a post-human worldview firsthand.” – Kate Mondloch, Prof. of Contemporary Art & Theory


Stern “breaks apart language but also gets closer to the strength and the meaning of language… representing poetry to people in a new way [while] also using poetry as a tool to calm the rhetoric around something that could be quite controversial.” – Johnny Dean Mann, The Tickle Magazine