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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 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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16 April 2007 by nathaniel

the un-prounounce-able

Dani over at iCommons asked me to donate some art to the upcoming bring n braai, which is geared towards CC work in relation to child education in South Africa. I wanted to give something that was fitting and South African, so I went back into my archives and pulled up the performance poem I originally wrote for The Double Room, a multimedia piece about the discourse surrounding HIV, which premiered in Joburg in 2001, and subsequently won 3 FNB Vita awards. I’d never recorded it, so had to brush up a bit, but went ahead and made mp3’s of both the long version of the poem (the un-pronounce-able, 9:42) and a shorter version I edited down for use in the 2002 US National Poetry Slam competition, with Team Ithaca (the story, 3:16). Please distribute and re-mix at will! Info follows:

The title of the work: the un-pronounce-able, 9:42 and the story, 3:16
The name of the creator/copyright holder: nathaniel stern
Webpage or URL of the creator/copyright holder: http://nathanielsternn.com
The year in which the artwork was produced: written 2001 and 2002, respectively; recorded 2007
Contact details of the copyright holder: http://nathanielstern.com/details/contact.html
The question about South African culture that I think it would be useful for kids to explore through this content: How can we “contaminate” or “infect” each other in good ways? Can love, healing, and creativity be “infectious”?

Both under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence

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