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16 June 2007 by nathaniel

the art happened there

Opening went really well last night in Dubrovnik (still open for 2 days if you missed it)! There are a constant stream of pictures on flickr from the iCommons Air stream, as well as write-ups (more coming) on the iCommons site (we love you Paddy). Great turn out and response, and several net stars made the artists giddy (Jimmy Wales, for example, writing “edit this art” in chalk on Joy’s mural).

While this was going on, Sitearm Madonna and Cory (Linden) were finishing up the SL build for that iteration of the exhibition (mostly live now), and M.River, the other half of our AiR team MTAA, is in NYC re-mixing the photo stream, live (check out his copyright story on that here).

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14 June 2007 by nathaniel

*/The Art Happens Here/* Pozivamo Vas na otvorenje izlozbe

The Art Happens Here

Opens 15 June @ 21h30, Croatian time
Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik Croatia

Simulcast to Annenberg Island in SL, 12h30 PDT
Second Life

The Art Happens Here is a contemporary art exhibition and presentation at the iCommons Summit 2007, resulting from an ongoing artist in residence programme. Six international artists and a critic were invited to produce physical and virtual work that engages with fair use, copyright, re-mixing, piracy and/or collaboration on some level – whether directly or indirectly.

Works on show will include, but not be limited to, art books, murals, net.art, sculpture, public performance, video and installation — all conceptually linked by their engagement with the Commons, by the artists’ time spent in Dubrovnik.

Participants include: Joy Garnett (USA), Ana Husman (Croatia), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa), MTAA (USA), Jaka Zeleznikar (Slovenia) and blog-critic Paddy Johnson (of artfagcity, USA). There will also be a special appearance in the SL exhibition by Patrick Lichty, aka Man Michinaga (USA).

Artist Discussion Panel on Creative Commons and its potential uses and effects in professional arts practice will be a part of the iCommons main programme in Dubrovnik, 15h00 Croatian time.

More information: http://iCommons.org

Pozivamo Vas na otvorenje izlozbe */The Art Happens Here/*

Art radionica Lazareti, Galerija Otok
15.06.2007 21:30
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska

Prijenos uzivo na Annenberg Island u SL, 12:30 PDT
Second Life

The Art Happens Here izlozba i prezentacija suvremenih umjetnickih radova rezultat je umjetnickog rezidencijalnog program iCommons Summita 2007.
U programu je sudjelovalo sest medjunarodnih umjetnika i kriticara kako bi proziveli radove u fizickom i virtualnom prostoru koji ukljucuju fair use, remiksiranje, kopirajt, piratstvo, i/ili suradnju na nekoj razini – direktnu ili indirektnu.
Radovi na izlozbi ukljucuju knjige, zidne slike, skulpture, performans, video i instalacije koje su sve konceptualno povezane i angazirane sa Commonsom na neki nacin.

Sudjeluju:Joy Garnett (USA), Ana Husman (Croatia), Kathryn
Smith (South Africa), Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa),  MTAA (USA), Jaka Zeleznikar (Slovenia) i blog-kriticarka
Paddy Johnson (sa artfagcity, USA).Specijalni gost na izlozbi u Second Lifeu Patrick Lichty, aka Man Michinaga (USA).

Diskusija o potencijalinim koristenjima i nacinima na koji Creative Commons utjece na umjetnicku praksu bit ce dio glavnog programa na iCommons Sumitu u subotu 16. 06. 2007. u 15:00.

*iCommons Summit* 2007
Dubrovnik (Revelin i Lazareti), 15.-17.06.2007.
organizirator: iCommons, suorganizator: Multimedijalni institut
vise informacija: http://iCommons.org

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14 June 2007 by nathaniel

The Wireframe Series: Sentimental Construction # 1

More from Croatia soon, but we performed the first “Sentimental Construction” here before guests started arriving, and I’m not sure it could have gone any better. Watch the video!

Sentimental Construction #1, part of The Wireframe Series
site-specific, publicly performed “spaces,” made of rope (2007), support by iCommons

These are ephemeral arrangements that, nonetheless, carve out space and frame their various contexts; they are “sentimental” in the tensions they create between sadness and playfulness, nostalgia and possibility, construction and emergence, the pre-formed and the per-formed.

sentimental construction #1 (beach)

More flickr photos here. Thanks to Joy Garnett for her video space, as well as all the performers / documentarians / collaborators: JC Bukenya, Tomislav Domis, Joy Garnett, Ana Husman, Kathryn Smith, Tim Whidden (MTAA) and Jaka Zeleznikar.

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07 June 2007 by nathaniel

on Art Fag City

art fag city

For those if you still unfamiliar with Paddy Johnson and her fabulous blog, artfagcity – “As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip” – WAKE UP. She’s clever, plugged in, and a great, honest critic with a sometimes snarky and sometimes generous attitude: as a writer should be.

And today, as part of her “Art Intercom” series for iCommons, a 2-part interview I did with Paddy features through her blog to (well, it’s all a little confusing, this whole my re-blogging a cross-blog/re-blog thing, so here’s what she says…):

I was travelling for most of yesterday so I didn’t have a chance to mention that my two part interview with new media artist Nathaniel Stern went up on the icommons blog yesterday. You can read the full discussion here and here, but I’ve included teasers from both interviews below since each part deals with different subject matter. In the first post Stern and I talk about his art work, and in the second, we touch upon how the concerns of the Creative Commons effect artists. Stern speaks with great eloquence on the subject, so our conversation is not to be missed!

Thanks Paddy! See the teasers on Paddy’s blog here (and put her site in your reader), or get the full length interview between here and here (and go ahead and grab the iCommons feed, too).

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04 June 2007 by nathaniel

Broad Cast Response, 2007

Here’s a little preview of one of the pieces I’ve done (produced this week) for the iCommons Summit in two weeks – it’ll simulcast in SL as well…

Broad Cast Response

Conceptualized in collaboration with Nicole Ridgway, for Broad Cast Response, I captured the entirety of the 1990, teen angst, pirate radio movie Pump Up the Volume, then broke it down into a diptych of all the spoken “no”s and all the spoken “yes”s in the film, respectively. The resultant installation, which continuously flows in and out of a synced, monosyllabic debate, is an ironic testament to the poor quality of contemporary broadcast news, a tense tribute to the copyfight and pirate artists, and overall, a playful attempt to highlight the absurdity of the closed dialectic.

Broad Cast Response was produced for the iCommons Summit 2007, a residency, workshop and exhibition programme simultaneously held in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Second Life.

Watch it: http://nathanielstern.com/works/video/broad-cast-response/broad-cast-response.html

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