DVblog kicks it old school Stern by featuring the first ever hektor recording (1999) – hektor.net (2000) was recently archived by the Cornell Manuscripts library. Minor props for old school net.art?
Link: DVblog » Passage to Ill – Nathaniel Stern
“Passage to Ill was one of the first pieces I wrote as “hektor“, playing the cynical romantic and trying to get in bed with “Ill” (a punny nickname for a real person). After seeing me perform it at the Nuyorican poet’s café, fellow grad student Alisa Schwartz asked if I’d be keen to make a DV version (for one of our classes at ITP, 1999), and we storyboarded it out. It was thus the very first piece in a series that would later become hektor.net” – Nathaniel Stern.
