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07 June 2007 by nathaniel

on Art Fag City

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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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03 June 2007 by nathaniel

Landscapes, Icons and other tidbits

landscapes and icons
blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque

My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party – drinks, food, 70 or so peops… I even convinced Ralph and a few others to drive out and join, which made for some friendly faces amidst a foreign crowd. I produced a dozen new Compressionist digital prints, which will likely travel to a bit of Europe with Haydn after the summer ends — will post some pics of the opening and more info when my life slows down a bit (may be a while), but click the link above for images, info, etc. Haydn is a rad guy and I hope to be working with him more in the future:

Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery, based in rural Cork, Ireland, specialises in contemporary art created through computing and allied technologies. The gallery’s artists share a common philosophy of using digital technology to encourage us to look again at the world around us.

This week, I’m prepping some new work for the iCommons Summit, residency and exhibition in Croatia and Second Life – which will be a video diptych (a new language lapse) as well as the first in a new site-specific series I’m tentatively calling ‘sentimental constructions.’ Watch this space for more on both of those… Oh, and there will also be reciprocal interviews between me and Paddy Johnson (artfagcity) on the iCommons blog in the coming week or two :) Other Commons artists-in-res include Cao Fei (China), Joy Garnett (USA), Ana Husman (Croatia), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Tim Whidden (representing MTAA, USA) and Jaka Železnikar (Slovenia).

Let’s see, I’m also presenting at a conference this Friday at UCD – ‘perpectives on the body and embodiment’ – in the philosophy department, so things are a bit crazed (can only go to one day of the proceedings, then I leave for Dubrovnik!)… Other exhibitions and residencies go on for the rest of the summer, both exciting and exhausting – plus visits back to both homes in SA and the USA (tho the latter is very brief, on route to a workshop/residency in Colorado) – before I buckle down again and start writing the PhD in Dublin in October. Check out the front page of the site for links to some of my planned hot spots.

More soon, likely from Croatia!

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