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09 December 2007 by nathaniel

dvblog feature

somehow missed this feature a few days ago:

 

Sentimental Construction
Sentimental Construction (2007, 25.4MB, 6:31 min)

Nathaniel Stern took a bit of a hammering in various quarters for this piece,
made on a residency in Croatia.
I think there’s an probably an element of you-had-to-be-there about this
although, that said, I think the video is rather magical &
does as good a job of summoning the kind of ephemeral spell this stuff can weave
as any I’ve seen.
Lastly it has to be said the reason Nathaniel is great is because
(1) he has a frightening amount of energy, more indeed, really, than his fair share –
he starts 5 ‘isms’ before breakfast
(2) he is bold, unafraid to risk looking ridiculous & therefore quite often as an artist
he goes to much more interesting places than most…
In general I’ll take a Nathaniel “failure” over quite a lot of folks’ “success”.

Thanks, Michael. Tom Moody came to this piece’s defense a day or two after Paddy’s pan (above), as well. This video has actually since been updated/edited (only had one day to do it in situ in Croatia), available here. Follow-up piece (passage) is here. Not sure what’s next, but it’s growing and changing as I ride it out, or fuck it and go in the opposite direction…

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26 November 2007 by nathaniel

support turbulence

turbulence.org

Turbulence.org is one of the most important supporters of new media art and artists of the last decade, and longer. And they need your support (via my inbox, below).

Dear Friends,

We need your support. If you:

— are one of the thousands of people who regularly visit Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, Networked_Music_Review and/or New American Radio

and/or

— are one of the hundreds of teachers who use Turbulence works in your new media/digital art courses

and/or

— are an artist who has received a Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, and/or New American Radio commission

and/or

— have presented at or attended Upgrade! Boston (Art Interactive or Massachusetts College of Art and Design), Floating Points (Emerson College), or Programmable Media (Pace Digital Gallery)

now is the time to give something back.

We cannot continue without your help. We MUST raise $25,000 by December 31, 2007.

WHAT WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED IN 2007

In addition to an exceptional year of supporting artists through commissions, public events, and our world-renowned resource, Networked_Performance, we started a second blog called
Networked_Music_Review (NMR). On it you will find in-depth interviews with sonic artists and musicians; world-wide events highlighted in real time; a “Weekly” post spotlighting interesting works, artists and conversations; a monthly newsletter which summarizes each month’s activities; and much more.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN 2008

On November 15, NMR began launching fifteen commissioned works, several of which will premiere live at “Programmable Media II: Networked_Music,” a 2-day symposium at Pace University, New York City in April 2008.

In addition to launching 20 new commissioned works, other upcoming highlights include “Mixed Realities,” an exhibition and symposium at Emerson College, winter 2008; and “Re(Connecting) the Adamses,” a major exhibition co-presented with Greylock Arts (Adams, Massachusetts) and MCLA Gallery 51 (North Adams, Massachusetts), summer 2008.

Please make a cash tax-deductible (for US residents) contribution. No amount is too small! Pay via the PayPal button on the Turbulence homepage: http://turbulence.org. Or send a check to New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., 124 Bourne Street, MA 02131.

Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington
Co-Directors

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org

I know, I know; I’m totally broke, too. But if I can throw them a few bucks, so can you.

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25 November 2007 by nathaniel

a war about war

Although I sometimes cringe at his take on liberal things as I see them, I appreciate Andrew Sullivan’s thought process and writing on most things political – he’s a classic ‘conservative’ (not a neo-con) and has the insight to see that his species is endangered…. He has a great article on Obama in The Atlantic right now. Really, really smart ideas about what a candidacy would mean…

At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce.

Nice, long piece, too. Read more.

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15 November 2007 by nathaniel

iCommons benefit auction

The iCommons Auction: Unique Internet Artifacts

iCommons, the global non-profit incubated by Creative Commons, and based in Johannesburg, South Africa is auctioning off paraphernalia donated by some of the world’s leading Internet figures.

The over thirty items on the auction list run the gamut from the historical: the coats worn by Internet activist and Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig while he traveled the world talking about free culture, to the cultural: pre-print copies of books by best selling sci-fi author Cory Doctorow and Internet guru Jonathan Zittrain and the fun and funny: one of the 20 limited-edition, plush Fox-keh dolls, made by Firefox Japan and a selection of Indian intellectual property expert Lawrence Liang’s favourite Bollywood films – not to mention high quality prints of Internet entrepreneur, Joi Ito’s best photographs.

The people who have donated to the iCommons Auction are leading figures in the global movement to make the Internet a powerful tool for change, innovation, sustainability and development. Their donations tell stories of a history that is currently being written about the power of the Internet for change and development.

All the proceeds of the auction, which will take place online between the 19th of November 2007 and the 14th of December 2007, will go to developing and sustaining the iCommons Node programme, which connects global free culture projects around the world.

For more information, visit icommons.org/auction

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