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17 June 2007 by nathaniel

Go/diva of the Icommons

Go/diva of the Icommons is an extension of Patrick Lichty’s (re)constructing Cicciolina project in which he, recontextualized as real-life avatar Cicciolina, questions the translations of mythology, culture, normative sociology, gender and IP issues. Here, Lichty stood in the iCommons art gallery for 30 minutes, then rode through the iCommons performance area before exiting. While the double play of Cicciolina asks questions of identity and image in cultural terms, Cicciolina as Go/diva is far more symbolic, asking what cultures we are creating in online communities. Attached is a properly sized texture for a primitive. Thanks for the opportunity, and it’s been an honor.

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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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08 June 2007 by nathaniel

Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment

UCD body conference

Although I leave for Croatia tomorrow, and so can’t make the second day, I’m giving a paper at this UCD Philiosophy Department conference this afternoon:

Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment

Since the investigations of phenomenological theorists such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, the themes of embodiment and situatedness have enjoyed increased popularity over a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, literature, women’s studies among others. Recognition that the body is not merely an appendage to the self, but rather is what opens up the possibility of meaningful subjective existence, has radically shifted the classical philosophical understanding of the body. Within popular culture this shift is reflected with an increased interest in embodiment in realms such as design, architecture, education and business.

This conference aims to explore the themes of the body and embodiment in contemporary discourse inviting papers from a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, performance studies, women’s studies and literature. This unique inter-disciplinary perspective will provide a multi-faceted understanding of how Western thinking has changed with understanding the role of the body in constituting or influencing cognition, subjectivity, identity and discourse.

The schedule looks amazingly great – my own paper is on my dissertation topic – so if you are around, check it out.

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