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About nathaniel
Nathaniel Stern is an artist and writer, Fulbrighter and professor, interventionist and public citizen. His work stages situations where bodies, concepts and matter are felt as relationally performed. http://nathanielstern.com
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 […]
Documentation of several pieces from Night Work, with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, is now live. Night Work, an exhibition featuring Milwaukee-based art professors and instructors at the artist-run Armoury Gallery, premiered my new body of collaborative works with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. Playfully called “Distill Life,†this ongoing series of art objects combines hand-made works on paper […]
Mary Louise Schumacher pens a great piece on Wikipedia Art in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, entitled Deconstructing Wikipedia. Snippet: Two artists staged an art intervention within Wikipedia, turning the “free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit” into an art medium. By making a sort of readymade art object from a Wikipedia page, Nathaniel Stern, of […]
Great article on new directions in the art world – written by Hrag Vartanian, as coverage of a Jerry Saltz lecture – in NYFA. NYFA Current – Art News for artists and all those who support them Moneyquote: The new art world, he conjectured, will be something we won’t recognize, and will be dominated by […]
You probably heard about the threat of a lawsuit from Wikimedia on Wikipedia Art by now, but just in case: Here’s how we went public, on EFF: Wikipedia Threatens Artists for Fair Use Here’s the legal history on our site. And it exploded, of course, when it got slashdotted. I urge readers to make their […]
I’ve still not had much of a chance to document my latest work in video/sculpture/print objects with Jessica, but there’s a brief review of it on Susceptible to Images. I hope to have documentation text and images up in the next week or two, video the following week or two…. UPDATE: lots of great documentation, […]
